Question Tracking SSDs for NAS or video storage use?

[strayer27]

Is Tom’s or any other site tracking SSD offerings with a focus on camera, NAS and / or other consumer-level, endurance-focused use?

Not running a datacenter, just looking for drives to use in home NVR and NAS scenarios where absolutely speed is less important than value and reliability. Seems like there must be somebody aiming to serve that market?

I see a handful of reviews like this one from October, but only cursory coverage in the “Best picks” and nada in deal-tracker content. I end up cross-checking TBW ratings and warranties, some of which can be hard to pick out at Amazon and Newegg, etc. My bad if I’ve missed something!

 

[kanewolf]

Is Tom’s or any other site tracking SSD offerings with a focus on camera, NAS and / or other consumer-level, endurance-focused use?

Not running a datacenter, just looking for drives to use in home NVR and NAS scenarios where absolutely speed is less important than value and reliability. Seems like there must be somebody aiming to serve that market?

I see a handful of reviews like this one from October, but only cursory coverage in the “Best picks” and nada in deal-tracker content. I end up cross-checking TBW ratings and warranties, some of which can be hard to pick out at Amazon and Newegg, etc. My bad if I’ve missed something!

Since the cost of spinning disks at the 8TB and above is so much lower than solid state, there is very little justification for solid state in NVRs. Unless you have greater than gigabit network infrastructure you don't benefit from solid state.

 

[USAFRet]

The System drive in my QNAP is a 480GB Seagate IronWolf. SATA III.
(mainly because I got it for free)

Near 24/7 use for over 5 years.

Still reporting 100% Estimated life.

However, the other 11 drives in or attached are spinning. The price per TB just isn't there yet for all SSD.
100TB would be extremely expensive to replace with solid state.

And over a standard gigabit LAN, there is no difference accessing the SSD or any of the HDDs.

 

[strayer27]

Thanks to you both - that makes sense and certainly explains the gap I was finding.

For better or worse my NVR hardware is SSD-only. Seems like the tipping point is still a ways out, so I may be stuck in a niche market for now.