Synology RackStation RS2818RP+ NAS

Synology, Inc. launched RackStation RS2818RP+, a 3U 16-bay NAS providing large storage capacity with affordable TCO for SMBs. 

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RS2818RP+ is company’s first 3U RackStation NAS in the Plus Series product line supporting up to 16 drive bays with up to 192TB raw capacity. The storage capacity can be further expanded up to 336TB when connecting to one RX1217(RP), providing on-the-fly volume expansion. 

“One of the common challenges for modern small- and medium-sized businesses is finding a storage solution that can store large amounts of data while having the flexibility to scale when business grows,” said Jason Fan, product manager, Synology. “RS2818RP+ offers large storage capacity with affordable TCO. It is ideal to serve as a centralized backup target, a file server or a hub-and-spoke backup target for distributed businesses.“

RS2818RP+ is powered by an Intel Atom C3538 quad-core CPU and 4GB DDR4 non-ECC UDIMM RAM, expandable up to 64GB with four 16GB ECC UDIMMs. The four plug-and-play GbE LAN ports can be expanded with higher performance 10GbE NICs, providing over 1,400MB/s sequential read throughput and 26,000 random write IO/s.

RS2818RP+ can be purchased together with Synology’s Extended Warranty (EW202) service, available in select regions worldwide, to provide up to 5 years of hardware warranty coverage.

RS2818RP+ runs on DiskStation Manager, the OS for Synology NAS, with various applications offered to enhance work productivity.