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A File Server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for the shared storage of information (such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases, et cetera) that can be accessed by the workstations that are attached to the network. As distinguished from Timesharing or a Mainframe (where a central computer provides calculation resources for “dumb” terminals) a File Server is designed primarily to enable the rapid storage and retrieval of data where the heavy computation is provided by the workstations.