Block vs. File Storage 

This guy is the best, always breaks it down in easy to understand terms and diagrams.

This is how explanations should be when coming from actual experience. Bravo!

Very clear and simple explained and visualized with the right numbers of words. Thank you so much

Great, what about an hour or 2 long only on storage theory? It would be really great to have hour long full coverage lectures. Please try.

you are the best. these explanations are clear and concise.

Well done, please let's more of this.

Thank you! great explaination as always.

Love this explanation. thanks for sharing.

Prepping to take Sec+ exam and this video presented the concepts perfectly. Thank you

What's the difference on the disk/server level? I mean I watch this video and have exactly the same amount of information as before when not knowing anything about block storage... It's unclear where the differences are.. The differences I was able to take in the end is that "block storage" is greast if you have databases or clouds and file based storage let's you have shares and user access control... What about the physical aspects like disk? When I install mysql on my file storage, does it mean my sql database is then used the wrong way, or is there the possibility of using block storage inside file storage??? Is the block storage on special parts of the harddisks as only from block storage can be booted... What's hypervisor, why even mention it? Nothing gets explained here... Your blocks look like dots inside a box, that's what blocks are to me after watching this video

Thanks man, that was awesome explanation. You are the best)

Amazing video fam!

very helpful !! thanks !!

Great video. Thanks

neat and clear explanation. Particularly this guy is awesome . He explain so clearly

I have a stateless cluster with read only NFS-root, and a cachefilesd to reduce the network traffic. The setup works well for 12 nodes. I was thinking replacing the NFS-root with a block device, like iSCSI, but couldn't find anything good for caching. Any suggestion?

Thanks!

Is CDN an object or blob storage? Can you also give some examples in real life, where these storages are used? Also, does BLOCK storage falls under structured data?

Thanks

excellent 🙂

Brilliant explanation/comparison of a topic that's hard to understand! Thank you!

Please make a video of sharing the mounts across the servers.

7:56 block storage is bootable and can be used for file storage as well. What do you mean? Do we build file storage on top of block storage? If so, aren't you comparing apples and oranges?

if I want to work on my .DWG file from Autocad, do I have to copy paste to my computer then work on it and upload it again to my NAS after i finished working? or I can work directly from NAS without having to download and upload it every time I work on it?

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A quick doubt. I see the word "block" being referred in two contexts. Each file when saved is broken into lots of independent parts. I have seen people referring to these small parts of the file as blocks. Secondly you are also using the word block to refer to the storage media i.e. the storage volume that gets mounted. Are both usage correct?

What are some examples of block storage I can format my devices as? I know for FS there is NTFS and FAT BTRFS. But what systems can I go and get for block storage?

NFS, SMB stored in NAS mainly for office files, images used by end users, while block based is for fast access or high IO for Database, clusters or Applications with high transaction where latency is the key .. Network attached vs local/FC/iSCSI will make a big difference in total overall performance, Applications for processing and algorithm where CPU is consumed will reside in local object store side today under SSD . old days in Mirror disks or partitions.. same as OS location

I’m still none the wiser 😂 99 percent went straight over my head

fantastic video but why is the database better suited for block-storage?

Someting I don't get is, is "File Storage" not also mounted on block devices such as spinning disks?

summary : logical hierarchy of data , chunks of block data

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why cannot boot from file storage (physical reason) ?

So in short Blocks are used for some apps and file share is used for something like a DAM. If I am not mistaken 😅

Can I configure a Linux system with multiple keyboards, mouses and monitors so that multiple users can login and share the CPU among themselves? Is it possible to achieve the same in a Windows system?

IS HE WRITING REVERSE SO WE CAN SEE IT CORRECT ??

He needs to dumb this down farther ..