While technically a SAN is networked storage, I read the OP's comment to indicate something more like a SMB share. Our enterprise databases store the data on h

While technically a SAN is networked storage, I read the OP's comment to indicate something more like a SMB share. Our enterprise databases store the data on high-performance SAN devices, and these are not slow. We moved from local spinning-rust drives to SAN SSDs, and our performance improved.