Question: is netapp san or nas?
Answer: So NetApp sells their devices as SAN's. But people here seem to say that it is truly a NAS. ... NAS: File protocols - NFS, AFS, SMB / CIFS, HTTP, FTP, SCP, SFTP, RSYNC, AFP, etc. SAN: Block protocols - ATA, SCSI, FC (and those same protocols over other networking like SAS, SATA, iSCSI, AoE, FCoE, etc.)