The disk drives supporting an I/O intensive mission critical application are continuously 80 percent utilized and spike up to 100 percent throughout the business day. Which of the following options ca

Higher speed server HBAs might improve bandwidth between the server and storage array, but they will not resolve a performance bottleneck that exists at the physical disk level if the disks themselves are the limiting factor.

Using dedicated SATA drives does not inherently offer higher performance than other drive types and are generally slower in I/O intensive scenarios compared to enterprise-grade FC or SAS drives, or SSDs.

Moving the application to Solid State Drives (SSDs) significantly improves I/O performance due to their much faster random read/write speeds and lower latency compared to traditional HDDs, directly addressing the issue of high disk utilization. SSDs eliminate mechanical delays associated with spinning platters and read/write heads.

Adding additional HBAs to the host increases the number of I/O paths and potential bandwidth capacity, but it will not improve performance if the physical disks are already saturated and operating at 100 percent utilization.

Moving the application to short stroke Fibre Channel (FC) drives involves partitioning the disk to use only the faster outer tracks of the platters. This reduces the average seek time and increases the sustained data transfer rates, thereby improving I/O performance for specific workloads on traditional spinning disks.