WD Blue SA510

Depends on the workload; we don't have a lot of workloads left that call for 2.5" SATA, but (as a business) we'll pay extra now for Kingston DC600 and Solidigm (Intel) D3-series. For actual consumer, WD Blue SA510 is generally okay unless we stumble on an infrequent sale with the WD RED SA500.

kinda been down this road. i ran raid 5 for a while but the seek times for random episodes drove me nuts. what helped me was grabbing a Samsung T7 Shield for my current series and leaving the archive on spinning rust. if your whole library fits on a 2tb drive the WD Blue SA510 is cheap and handles d

This is a 2280 "style" SSD With an M.2 SATA (B+M) key These ones should be a decent upgrade. However due to the ongoing supply-chain issues involving RAM, CPU/GPU Dies, and Storage be prepared to pay a premium. https://shop.sandisk.com/products/ssd/internal-ssd/wd-blue-sa510-sata-m-2-ssd?sku=WDS250G

For sata ssds, they are all basically the same. The only real difference you will come across is if it has dram (technically better) or not. The 870 has dram, I went with one with dram (WD Blue SA510). At max throughout with 16 cameras you're only looking at about 64 mb/s. Well under the max through