An 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN provides approximately 800 MB/s throughput. A sustained ingress rate of 2 TB/hour is roughly 555 MB/s, which might seem feasible, but this doesn't account for peaks, overhead, or concurrent query demands. Furthermore, XSIAM's performance relies heavily on fast I/O. The 5ms latency is also a concern, especially for queries. However, the most significant challenge stated directly related to hardware is the insufficiency of the SAN for the required throughput for both ingestion and query. Upgrading the SAN (A) or migrating to modern high-speed storage networking protocols (NVMe-oF) is the direct solution to address the throughput and latency limitations for a performant XSIAM deployment. While latency (B) is a concern, the 8Gbps throughput is a more fundamental bottleneck for the given ingestion rate and query patterns.