A Networked Attached Storage drive, or NAS, is essentially a hard drive that connects directly to your network instead of being attached through a computer. Because of the risks of network errors compromising database integrity, together with possible performance implications that may result from the use of network file shares to store databases, Microsoft recommends that you store database files either on local disk subsystems or on Storage Area Networks (SANs). Refer to Microsoft's
KB 304261 for more information on this. Because of this recommendation, Amazing Charts does not currently support using a NAS configuration. (If you don't know what we're talking about, you are likely not using a NAS unit, so don't worry.)
