If you have a server or a NAS in your home to store all your files and folders, make backup copies, and many other uses that you can give to these devices, we are sure that you need additional storage. Today for Amazon Prime Day, we have outstanding offers on hard drives, 2.5″ SATA3 SSD units and also on NVMe units without a heatsink and with a heatsink, so you can install them on your NAS server and speed up the reading and writing performance of the computer. Below, you have all the offers.
Nowadays the NAS servers Not only do they have bays for hard drivesthey are also compatible with units 2.5′ SATA3 SSD‘ with the aim of using it as a read and write cache, and thus accelerate the overall performance of the equipment. The mid- and high-range models also have M.2 SSD NVMe driveswith the aim of forming a storage pool and storing virtual machines, Docker containers and more.
Hard drive on sale
Today on Amazon we have the Seagate IronWolf 12TB hard drive capacity. Seagate’s IronWolf family is specifically aimed at home servers and NAS and for small and medium-sized businesses, making it perfect for intensive use in reading and writing files. If you need a quiet, reliable and fast hard drive, this model is perfect for you.
There are also other models with higher capacity, it is possible that in specific offers you can get this hard drive quite cheap, since this is not the best price it has had.
2.5” SATA3 SSD
If you need an SSD unit to use as an SSD cache, today we have two very interesting models with 4TB capacity each. Both the Samsung and Crucial models will allow you to read and write at the maximum speed of the SATA3 interface, making it perfect both for use as a storage set and also for SSD read and write cache.
Remember that if you use it as a storage set, it would be advisable to buy two to form a RAID 1 and thus not have data loss if one of the disks breaks, keep that in mind.
The price of these SSD drives is quite good, since they are high capacity, fast and very reliable.
NVMe drives on sale
If you want an M.2 type NVMe SSD, on Amazon Prime Day we have several very interesting offers. The most important thing if you are going to install one of these NVMe SSDs is whether or not it has a heatsink to properly cool the device. NAS servers generally do not fit an M.2 SSD with the heatsinks provided by the manufacturers, so we must resort to models that do not have a heatsink.
The Kinston and Samsung model with 2TB capacity has a really good price, in addition, they are PCIe 4.0 so we will have a great reading and writing speed, perfect for using it as a storage set or as an SSD cache. Remember that you may need two exactly the same drives to form a RAID 1, and thus prevent the failure of one of the two drives from resulting in the loss of all data.
If you need even more storage to form a storage set, then the perfect model is the 4TB Crucial P3 Plus, since it has a price of less than €200, a very good opportunity.
If you have made sure that your NAS fits the manufacturer’s SSD units with a heatsink, then you could opt for the high-end models from both Samsung and Crucial, both brands with the 2TB capacity version.
As you can see, today we have significant discounts to further complete our home NAS server.
