DiskStation DS1821+

The $/GB still favors spinning disks. My Synology 1821+ with 10GigE, NVME cache drives and 100TB of spinning disks still gets 1000MB/s read & write speeds so I can edit uncompressed 4K video.

Crucial X9 is working great for me connected to M2 Mac Studio. Using in concert with Synology 1821+ HDD RAID NAS. That said, it appears you may need more speed than me. I’m totally content with 1,050 MB/s. I believe the X10 is 2,000 MB/s.

Synology DS1821+, 32GB memory, 10GBe card and 8 x 18TB WD Red Pro HDDs. Run dozens of Docker containers on it and haven't felt the need for anything more powerful yet. Worth noting, no transcoding is done.

What are you doing to those poor NAS's? I still use my 13yo DS413j for TimeMachine backups alongside my DS1817 (8yo) and DS1821+ (4yo) which are my primary storage and mirror. The two newer machines have been maxed out with RAM and 10GB cards and the DS1821+ has two M.2 cache drives. They have been

SSDs are wasted on a NAS, don't bother. The bottleneck is your network connection. Its like taking a 5 gallon bucket and dumping it into a drinking straw. Its not going to go through any faster than a regular water bottle. If you have SSDs laying around then use them, but you will get the same speed

Pros and cons honestly. Either you keep it simple and within a budget or you toss the wallet at it like I did and end up with that "WANT" vs what you really "NEED". Assumed I was gonna be sitting at 20w idle, have VMs, AI with dGPU, a all in one solution to get rid of all other systems, and to repla