Qualified File Storage - Computer System Validation

Hi, I’ve been doing CSV for almost 20 years. Working on a new project where some coworkers are asking about qualifying storage space - for example, some manufacturing systems dump batch files to a space on a NAS. They’re asking about qualifying that storage location, and I’m not familiar with that practice. The only thing I can think to do is document / control how updates are performed (via change control) and verify periodically limited access to the storage.

Has anyone qualified simple storage space? If so, what did you do? Do you have an example? Thanks!

 

Hmm... interesting. Also never been confronted with that. Just brainstorming... Maybe physical access ? Maybe programmatic access (hacker access prevention)? I would think the software application would be responsible for any encryption (at rest) so that's probably out of scope. Maybe backup and recovery (if not addressed as part of the CSV work)? Capacity? (Geographic) Redundancy? Really digging but reliability (maybe not a concern if good backup / redundancy).

 

Thanks for the ideas. Most of that is either tested out in the qualification of the file serving NAS or as part of the CSV of the application or addressed as part of data center planning. Great ideas though. Hoping that someone who has run into this question can shed some light or tell me it's non-value added and move on

Keep the ideas coming! Thank you!