Most Sata ssds will work fine, most will saturate sata III standards, firmwares are very mature by now, you can still get higher endurance drives, but really dont matter for your use. With this im just saying buy whatever is cheaper imo, in the past i used be a Samsung fan, today... i really...
I feel the 110mm (22110) will never be adopted heavily due to laptops, it will require better planning by them, and in some cases its already tight as it is. Not saying it cant happen, but i doubt it will.
To me we are going to reach 8/16 TB, where m.2 will no longer be able to grow above, and...
I would avoid Raid 0 if possible, you only doubling your risk of a failure, and while in hard drives raid 0 was a speed boost, in ssds sometimes you introduce latency, and if high sequential is what you after, there u.2 SSDs that will sustain sequential much higher... at a cost of course.
If i...
Blue Iris imo is a better surveillance software than Surveillance station from Synology, much more tweaking and less expensive if you run multiple camaras, but Synology is easier to setup and use, the only thing lacking imo is hardware on Synlogy is on the low end, but they do maximize their dsm...
I'm not completely sure, but the motherboard might not boot if no GPU / iGPU is present to pass the the bios check, i would crosscheck this to avoid needing to use your GPU, personally i would prefer to buy an intel cpu with iGPU, not that much more money and its very efficient, and capable of...
PCIe 3.0 on a 4x port max is 4bg/s (on a perfect world), so that should be the most you able to achieve with your motherboard, but there are 2x ports that will cripple the drive to half of that.
Personally i would just get a 970Evo, likely cheaper than the PCIe 5.0 and will give you the same...
I have 10x 4mp cameras, and give or take a 10tb gives me a month of recording. So with two cameras depending on the setup and camara characteristics maybe you get a month with two cameras.
I do agree to some point, thinner is better, as long as you do have good contact, if not, thicker with better contact will be better. To me thickness of the thermal pads has to be more about following how it was design than always go for thinner.
Most SSDs today will net a good experience for the average user, mostly on pure benchmarks where you see differences, that said, there are lots of good ssds, the 990pro is the second gen of samsung gen4 pcie, that competes with also new iteration of WD 850X and Sk Hynix P41, also lets not forget...
Ok, if you don't want to build your own, and if you are fine departing from the Synology DSM, take a look into QNAP HS-264-8G-US, its a 2bay fanless nas that has 2 sata ports. If you wish to see the interior check
Even if your ssds dont need active cooling, there is the chipset/cpu that will need bigger passive heatsink for a totally fanless NAS, that you can likely can custom build, but since you mention you like synology, i would suggest to investigate on the fan noise on the Synology 6 bay 2.5" NAS...
Laptops were a big part of the development of 2.5 drives, with them moving toward SSDs sata/nvmes, the need or develpment for 2.5 mechanical has stopped. The 5TB was not part of the usual laptop drives as it was a 15mm thick drive, but i dont think we will see a bigger version of those either...
If you think the DriectStorage 1.1 will matter in the future, then invest on a decent m.2, if you dont think it matters, i would go with biggest Sata SSD you can afford.
SSDs are wonderful tech on todays age, specially for people coming from spinning disks, but the difference in gaming between ssds and even sata or nvme is unrecognizable for most, for now M.2 can fulfill most needs 2-4tb versions, i feel we might even see 8tb drives in the next few years, but...
Go for it, there are some gems of ssds on ebay.
I'm already using Micron 5300pro 8tb for my NVR and 5200max 2tb for my torrents. Specially on my NVR is a huge upgrade to search for events, but NxWitness benefits from this.
Most of NVME are cached based that deliver huge burst, manufacturers like this burst to reach as close as they can to the PCIe limit, so users think are getting a fast drive, but their sustain usually is the same, decent drives can deliver 1k mb/s, the good can sustain 1.5k mb/s, the not so good...
Most ssds will net very similar results in games, just faster loading, very little difference between most ssds, so yea, its going to be fine for loading games.
I would go with sata ssd, its cheaper and for gaming... it wont make a difference. Since take time with your upgrades, get the biggest you can afford, and sata is chaper than nvme.
The WD SN850 and Samsung 980Pro were the top contenders of PCIe Gen4, but imo the Seagate Firecuda 520 with the Phison E16 controller and the newer SK Hynix P41 (this would be my pick) are more evolved NVMEs, imo better than two before, weather you will notice how much better... its very unlikely.
IIRC there are no high capacity 5400rpm drives, if you are worried about noise, simply move them to NAS, a Synology 2 bay would be my suggestion. All my Desktop / Laptops, no longer use spinning drives, and all mechanicals were moved to an unraid server that its outside my hearing range.
Some times, windows creates partitions outside the main drive, i have had builds where if i remove a drive (not the OS drive), i still cant boot, until replug the old drive, this is the main reason i never format with 2 drives connected.
Laptop mechanical hdds stop at 2tb, most of the 3/4/5TB are 15mm, very few laptops can fit these drives, even sata is almost gone from laptops, most are on NVMEs now, but if you need the space there are even 8TB NVMEs if you got the money.
The wierd thing for me with sabrent was that i lost 1% of their endurace each week (the drives were never stressed aside from a new install, programs and games install), very wierd but still today the drives display that endurance on any other motherboard that i have placed them, weather its a...
Most consumer NVMEs, even PCIe 4.0, can peak to numbers that you might see as waste because of your limitation but the reality is that most of them barely can sustain 1000 mb/s, so if you have well above that, so i would buy whatever your budget allows, probably not PCIe 4.0 because we already...