Storage server

A storage server is typically less powerful than a standard server, but has more storage space, data retrieval and management utilities. It is used to storing and accessing small to large amount of data over shared network.  A storage server generally serves as a central point of access for data storage and access. It can be used for routine or frequently used data storage and access, or it can serve as a backup server for storing backup data. A storage server may also be called a file server. Some of the important storage server servers are Samba, NFS, File Server, Ceph, FreeNAS, Openfiler, ZFS file system, OpenMediaVault, Lustre.