Stefan Mileschin

The recent drop in flash pricing has resulted in high-performance SSDs at wallet-friendly price points. NAS units currently being introduced also come with tiering support, allowing the flash-based storage devices to act as caches and improve the performance for real-world workloads. SMBs and SMEs are currently using enterprise SSDs for this purpose, while home consumers / prosumers have no qualms about using consumer SSDs for this purpose. The current trends indicate that there is a market for SSDs specifically targeting the NAS market, as long as it is at the right price point.

Seagate is introducing the IronWolf 110 SATA SSD series at CES 2019, with retail availability slated for late January. Available in capacities ranging from 240GB to 3.84TB, the new SSDs are touted to be enterprise-class. They come with DuraWrite technology, pointing to a Seagate controller based on SandForce technology. The SSDs use 3D TLC and have sustained performance numbers of 560 / 535 MBps sequential reads / writes across the 480GB - 3.84TB capacity class. Detailed specs for each capacity are available below.

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