Sandisk's 7.68TB NAS-focused SSD is massive, but it costs over $2,000
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Sandisk has introduced two SSD families designed specifically for network-attached storage systems, with capacities reaching 7.68TB.
The company says the NAS 600 SATA and NAS 800 NVMe drives are designed for prosumers, creative professionals, and small businesses.
The NAS 600 reaches 4TB through SATA connectivity, while the NAS 800 uses PCIe 5.0 and extends capacity to 7.68TB.
The NAS 600 uses a 2.5-inch, 7mm SATA design that fits compatible NAS systems supporting 2.5-inch solid-state drives, and comes in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, with sequential read speeds of up to 560 MB/s across the range.
Its endurance ratings range from 350 TBW on the 500GB model to 2,500 TBW on the 4TB version, and Sandisk also rates the NAS 600 at up to 2.25M hours MTTF, based on internal testing and statistical calculations.
On the other hand, the NAS 800 uses an M.2 2280 form factor with PCIe 5.0 connectivity for higher-performance NAS configurations.
Its available capacities are 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, and 7.68TB, with sequential read speeds up to 14,900 MB/s.
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The 3.84TB version reaches 2.3M IOPS for random reads and 2M IOPS for random writes under Sandisk's testing conditions.
Sandisk lists databases, virtualization, content creation, storage tiering, caching, and agentic AI among potential NAS 800 workloads.
The company says both families were engineered for multi-user environments where storage systems can remain active continuously.
“The way users employ NAS has fundamentally changed,” said Anil Moolchandani, vice president, product management at Sandisk, announcing the products.
The endurance figures separate these drives from ordinary consumer SSDs, particularly where NAS systems continuously write and rewrite stored data.
