Best M.2 NVMe SSDs for the QNAP TS-464 (2026 Guide)

Best NVMe SSDs for the TS-464

Any of these work as cache or an NVMe storage pool in the TS-464's two M.2 slots.

Which should you pick

How NVMe actually works in the TS-464

The TS-464 gives you two M.2 2280 NVMe slots, which QNAP lets you use either as SSD cache for the four HDD bays or as a standalone NVMe storage pool (Basic, RAID0, or RAID1 across the two slots). There is no RAID5 or RAID6 option with only two NVMe slots, so redundancy means mirroring, and capacity means whatever the smaller drive gives you if you mismatch sizes.

Because this is a Celeron N5095 box with 8GB RAM (16GB max), do not expect the NVMe slots to saturate at full Gen4 speeds over the network. The bottleneck is the 2x 2.5GbE ports, so realistically you are looking at up to roughly 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps combined if you bond both ports, well short of what any of these drives can deliver locally. The value of NVMe here is lower latency and better random I/O for things like Plex metadata scanning, Container Station workloads, or a small VM store, not raw sequential throughput to your desktop.

For hardware transcoding in Plex or Jellyfin, the N5095's Quick Sync engine handles that via QNAP's GPU driver package, and it works independently of where your media files sit. NVMe cache will speed up scrubbing and thumbnail generation but will not change transcode performance, which is down to the CPU's iGPU.

A caveat worth knowing before you buy