I recently bought my first NAS, the Asustor Flashstor 6 and I’m wondering what SSD’s to put in.
I would like to end with at least 2TB of storage after RAID 5 or 6 (still deciding which to use). I would like to keep my spending under €500 but can stretch the budget to €600 if needed.
Also would you recommend buying heatsinks for the SSD’s?
Here is an official list so far :
Apacer | NVMe | AP1TPP3480-R | 1 TB | NAS | PP3480-R | FS 67 |
Apacer | NVMe | AP512GPP3480-R | 512 GB | NAS | PP3480-R | FS 67 |
Apacer | NVMe | AP256GPP3480-R | 256 GB | NAS | PP3480-R | FS 67 |
Apacer | NVMe | AP128GPP3480-R | 128 GB | NAS | PP3480-R | FS 67 |
Seagate | NVMe | ZP2000NM30002 | 2 TB | NAS | IronWolf 525 | FS 67 |
Seagate | NVMe | ZP2000NM3A002 | 2 TB | NAS | IronWolf 525 | FS 67 |
Seagate | NVMe | ZP1000NM30002 | 1 TB | NAS | IronWolf 525 | FS 67 |
Seagate | NVMe | ZP1000NM3A002 | 1 TB | NAS | IronWolf 525 | FS 67 |
Seagate | NVMe | ZP500NM30002 | 500 GB | NAS | IronWolf 525 | FS 67 |
Seagate | NVMe | ZP500NM3A002 | 500 GB | NAS | IronWolf 525 | FS 67 |
Western Digital | NVMe | WDS400T1R0C – 68BDK0 | 4 TB | NAS | Red SN700 | FS 67 |
Western Digital | NVMe | WDS200T1R0C – 68BDK0 | 2 TB | NAS | Red SN700 | FS 67 |
Western Digital | NVMe | WDS100T1R0C – 68BDK0 | 1 TB | NAS | Red SN700 | FS 67 |
Western Digital | NVMe | WDS500G1R0C – 68BDK0 | 500 GB | NAS | Red SN700 | FS 67 |
Western Digital | NVMe | WDS250G1R0C – 68BDK0 | 250 GB | NAS | Red SN700 | FS 67 |
https://www.asustor.com/service/m2ssd?series_id=&id=m2ssd&brand_id=&type_id=41&size=&class=NAS
You may also use any other NVMe SSD. But keep in mind it comes with PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSD slots. So you can save money compared to gen4 NVMe.
Heatsinks are not essential. But there is nothing wrong with having them.
Regarding storage space. You do not need to fill all NVMe slots. You can go for a 3 SSD in RAID5 (that loos one SSD for redundancy. So you get 2xSSD storage space). Or RAID6 that use 2 SSD for redunacy.
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