With most NAS vendors offering support for m.2 in the last two generations and NVMe support in the latest, it was time we stopped using mainstream or even budget SSDs for critical duties such as caching; enter the IronWolf 510 SSD.

The IronWolf goes above and beyond in build quality, with Seagate opting to build this drive ground up for 24/7 high endurance. This starts with the Phison E12DC second-generation datacenter controller that both pushes capacity handling to 3.8TB and performance to 3.2 GB/s. Added features of this controller include PLDP, end-to-end data protection, and AES 256-bit encryption.