✔ File-level access
✔ User-friendly web/client portal (backup apps, file browsers)
✔ Simple setup & easy management
✔ Great for collaborative file sharing
✔ Expandable by adding drives (limited at enterprise scale)
SMB / NFS / AFP
NAS volumes appear as network-mounted folders (shared drives).
✔ Block-level access
✔ High performance & low latency
✔ Ideal for databases, virtualization, and video editing
✔ Highly scalable by linking multiple storage devices
Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI — dedicated storage networks
SAN volumes appear as direct-attached drives to servers.