Best SSDs for the TerraMaster F2-223 (2026 Guide)

Best SATA SSDs for the F2-223

Three sensible tiers depending on how much of the 44TB ceiling you actually need to fill with SSD.

Which should you pick

Why SATA SSDs make sense in this specific NAS

The F2-223's two M.2 NVMe slots are cache-only, not usable for a separate storage pool, so if you want an all-flash NAS the SATA bays are where that storage actually lives. With only 2 bays and no SHR, your RAID options are Basic, JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1, which keeps the maths simple: either you mirror two identical SSDs for safety, or you stripe them for space and speed knowing there's no redundancy.

The Celeron N4505 with hardware transcode support means this box can comfortably serve 1080p and some 4K Plex or Jellyfin streams while sitting on SATA SSDs, since the drives themselves aren't the bottleneck for transcoding, that's down to the CPU. What SSDs buy you here is near-silent operation and lower power draw than spinning disks, which matters more on a small 2-bay unit that might sit in a living room or office rather than a server rack.

With 2x 2.5GbE network ports, you can realistically push higher sustained transfers than a single 1GbE port allows, and SATA SSDs (up to roughly 550 to 560MB/s per drive in this list) comfortably keep pace with that networking, unlike slower 5400rpm hard drives which can become the limiting factor on large sequential transfers.

One honest caveat