Synology SA3600 12-Bay NAS With Xeon 12-Core Processor Scalable Up to 180 Drives

Synology Inc. announced the availability of the SA3600 storage system, the latest device in the SA family of performance and versatile, petabyte-capable NAS servers.

Built to tackle both existing and future storage requirements, SA3600 provides businesses with access to faster and larger on-premises storage in a cost-effective package.

“In response to the rising demand for on-premises storage, we built the SA series to help businesses reach petabyte-scale storage,” said Michael Wang, product manager, Synology. “SA3600 provides massive storage and high performance to meet the ever-growing compute requirements and to facilitate IT transformation for large-scale businesses.“

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Versatile architecture to accelerate workloads
Powered by a Xeon 12-core processor, the SA3600 is scalable up to 180 drives. It provides petabyte-scale storage capacity, suitable for massive surveillance deployments, video post-production, and other business environments. Support of both 2.5″ and 3.5″ SAS/SATA drives increases flexibility and prevents vendor lock-in, minimizing TCO.

• Performance: Over 5,500MB/s sequential throughput and 176,000 4K random write IO/s ⁽¹⁾

• Scalability: Up to 1,536TB storage capacity with 7 expansion units ⁽²⁾

• 10GbE built-in: Two 10GbE and four 1GbE ports

• PCIe 3.0 expansion: 2 PCIe slots for additional network interface card support

• Virtualization-ready: Certified for vSphere, Hyper-V, Xenserver, and OpenStack Cinder

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Integrated data protection and availability
Easy to deploy by IT departments and simplifies operations with comprehensive tools designed for businesses to safeguard their data.

• VM, SaaS, and endpoint protection
  Centralized backup solution to protect VMware and Windows Server VMs, Windows endpoints, Office 365, and G Suite accounts. Manage all the backup tasks from one single console and restore data instantly with flexible recovery methods. Synology Active Backup

• Prevent data loss with snapshots and replication
  The company Snapshot Manager integrates with VMware and Windows for application-consistent data protection. Snapshot Replication enables Shared Folder and LUN protection for all other workloads. (virtualization)

• Maximize availability
  Add in another SA3600 to combine 2 servers into a single HA cluster. The active/passive structure ensures service transition between clustered servers in the event of hardware failure. (high_availability).

⁽¹⁾ Performance figures may vary depending on environment, usage, and configuration.
⁽²⁾ SA3600 supports up to 7 company’s expansion units RX1217sas/RX2417sas, sold separately.