Synology NAS Server Scales From Two Bays To Seven

Can your business fill up a 4TB network attached storage (NAS) server? Bring it on, says Synology America Corp.: Its DiskStation DS710+ can scale from two bays to seven with the addition of the DX510 expansion enclosure (shipping in March) for a total of 14TB of capacity.

The DS710+ is a central data hub with built-in file sharing, automatic backup, remote access, Web hosting, e-mail hosting, and media streaming. Equipped with an Intel Atom D410 CPU, one Gigabit Ethernet port, three USB ports, and 1GB of DDR2 RAM, it can read 110MB/sec and write 100MB/sec under RAID 1 in a Windows environment, with wake on LAN, scheduled power off, and hard drive hibernation to ensure optimal energy conservation.

The March release of Synology DiskStation Manager 2.3 software will bring additional features including Synology Hybrid RAID, which automatically builds an optimal RAID volume with data protection when using hard drives of different sizes, and backup to the cloud with Amazon S3 service.