An administrator is adding NAS-based storage to a server. Which of the following strategies will allow users to see BEST performance with this new NAS storage?

HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) connect servers to Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN storage, not to NAS devices, which use standard Ethernet NICs.

SCSI controllers manage direct-attached storage (DAS) and have no role in connecting a server to NAS storage over an IP network.

NAS devices use file-sharing protocols such as NFS or SMB/CIFS transported over standard TCP/IP Ethernet, meaning network bandwidth directly governs storage throughput. Teaming two 1 Gb NICs aggregates the links to an effective 2 Gbps while also providing failover redundancy, directly improving both throughput and availability. Because NAS is a network-layer solution, increasing NIC bandwidth is the appropriate performance lever.

Fabric switches are Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure components and are not relevant to NAS environments, which rely on standard Ethernet switching.