SSD in a NAS ?

Does anyone actually put SSDs in a NAS? Just curious. I am weighing the option. It's not that I have much to store, just prefer better performance. Suggestions / thoughts? Be kind!

Nice for caching, but probably overkill for anything else on the consumer side. If you're just using your NAS as a basic 1GbE file server, you'll get little benefit out of it.

As soon as the capacities get real and it doesn’t cost $10K per disk, I’ll be moving to an all-flash NAS.
Gonna be a while.

Ya I feel you Brah...hahaha

It depends on what to store and what you are working with. I am using HDD drives in my NAS, since it for backups and media. As for my VM server, I am using SSDs for better performance.

Been toying with this for a customer of mine. They only have around 50GB of data (lots of Word/Excel stuff) but they need to share it plus it has to be encrypted (no we don't want to share it off a PC). We currently run an old RAID1 encrypted NAS that gives pathetic performance (its really old and the encryption kills the CPU) and need to upgrade it before SMB1 goes totally.

So to make sure everything is running as fast as possible I get a new dual bay NAS, fit it with some robust 120/250GB SSDs in RAID1 and then we know that latency/access times and Ethernet will be maxed out.

I have several NAS systems deployed on SSDs for VM hosting. These tend to be far more sensitive to IO stalls and latency than capacity, and so the investment is fine for smaller storage requirements. However, if you're just looking for faster file transfers, any reasonably modern NAS box will probably saturate your 1GB link before it runs into issues with being IO starved, particularly in the larger arrays.

A disk has around 50-100 iops and a sequential performance of around 150-250 MB/s
SSDs are at around 5k-80k iops and 500 MB/s sequentially
NVMe like Intel Optane can go up to 500k iops and 2 GB/s sequentially.

So regarding performance disks << SSD << NVMe
but the same goes with costs per GB

another aspect are newest gen filesystems like ZFS with a superiour rambased read/write cache.
With enough RAM such a system can deliver > 80% of all random reads from RAM what makes pure disk performance not so relevant but can additionally deliver superiour data security (sync write behaviour, crash resistent fs, write hole save raid) what is often a more serious aspect than pure perfornance.

With SSDs you may also care of powerloss protection (what happens on a power outage during a write or internal SSD garbage collection)

I've moved all my public\NVR\caching\transcoding\torrent\etc activity to a 1.92TB HK4R I picked up for $340. It's been fantastic to free up the main array and everything works so nicely off the single SSD.

I can't wait for all flash to be feasible. What's the fucking holdup?