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Link aggregation will increase bandwidth for multiple workstations accessing the same NAS so in your case, so long as you'll have multiple workstations accessing the same box at once then link aggregation will benefit you.
The individual clients will be limited to the slowest speed across the network so if you have a router with 100Mbps ports then anything attached to that will be limited but anything on the switch, if it's gig, will be able to access the nas a gig rates. Of course if the router and switch are all gigabit then you'll be fine. Additionally the clients themselves won't see a boost on a per workstation basis but if multiple people access the NAS at the same time then you'll see the benefit and they don't have to be attached directly to the switch.
You'll need to configure link aggregation on the NAS and the switch but it's pretty simple and then you just plug up the second port and you should be good to go.
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