Sandisk Unveils Enterprise-Grade NAS 600 and NAS 800 Solid-State Drive Lines

Storage vendor Sandisk has introduced two dedicated solid-state drive product lines engineered explicitly for network-attached storage (NAS) deployments. Dubbed the NAS 600 SATA and the NAS 800 NVMe, the drive families are aimed at small business operations, creative professionals, and power users requiring high endurance across continuously active multi-user systems.

The product rollout comes as business requirements for local networked storage shift from basic data redundancy toward active computational tasks. "The way users employ NAS has fundamentally changed," said Anil Moolchandani, vice president of product management at Sandisk, during the announcement. Sandisk highlighted several demanding workload applications for the hardware, including agentic artificial intelligence, virtualized environments, database systems, content production, caching, and storage tiering.

The flagship release in the announcement is the high-performance NAS 800 line, as first reported by TechRadar Pro. Designed in an M.2 2280 form factor with a PCIe 5.0 connection, the series comes in 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, and 7.68TB capacities while delivering sequential read speeds up to 14,900 MB/s. In internal benchmarks conducted by Sandisk, the 3.84TB drive registered random read performance of 2.3 million IOPS and random write performance of 2 million IOPS.

To handle sustained data modification, the NAS 800 series relies on triple-level cell (TLC) 3D NAND flash storage, though Sandisk has not publicly shared details regarding its controller architecture. The top-capacity 7.68TB drive features a lifetime endurance rating of 14 petabytes written (PBW), or 14,000 terabytes written (TBW). That specification translates to writing roughly 7.67TB of data daily over a five-year period under an evenly spread workload.

For standard drive bay systems, Sandisk also introduced the NAS 600 line, which utilizes a 2.5-inch 7mm SATA interface designed as an entry point or drive replacement option. Offered in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models, the SATA family delivers sequential read speeds up to 560 MB/s across all options. Endurance ratings range from 350 TBW for the 500GB unit to 2,500 TBW for the 4TB capacity, alongside a mean time to failure (MTTF) calculation of up to 2.25 million hours.

Sandisk priced the NAS 600 line at $179.99 for 500GB, $279.99 for 1TB, $499.99 for 2TB, and $999.99 for 4TB. The PCIe 5.0 NAS 800 lineup commands higher price points, starting at $309.99 for 960GB, $559.99 for 1.92TB, $1,099.99 for 3.84TB, and reaching $2,199.99 for the 7.68TB tier. The high-tier pricing reflects the targeted endurance parameters necessary for heavy multi-user write operations compared to standard consumer SSDs.

Both the NAS 600 and NAS 800 product lines are scheduled to go on sale globally in September through Sandisk's online storefront and selected e-commerce vendors. Sandisk cautioned potential buyers that system compatibility may vary depending on individual NAS enclosure designs, drive bay specifications, and M.2 hardware implementations.