Synology: RackStation RS816 NAS

Synology, Inc. launched RackStation RS816, a 1U 4-bay rackmount server specially designed for growing businesses and small offices.

The RS816 offers flexible scalability up to eight drives for up to 64TB in total raw storage capacity with firm’s RX415 expansion unit while delivering advanced computing capability and robust application suite.

“In addition to its impressive agility, RS816 is flexible in terms of its compact size and scalability, making the rackmount server able to easily fit into fast growing business environments without taking pains to adjust to changing scenarios and storage demands,” said Jason Fan, product manager, Synology.

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RS816 is equipped with an upgraded dual-core CPU with hardware encryption engine, making it possible to reach 148MB/s reading and 81MB/s writing speeds and presenting an 142% increase in its encrypted writing performance compared to its predecessor. RS816 supports dual 1GbE LAN failover, plus the hot-swappable design for instant drive replacement, ensuring uptime and minimum mean time to repair (MTTR), saving business time and resources on storage management and DR.

RS816 runs on DiskStation Manager (DSM), an OS for NAS devices that offers a range of applications from backup to multimedia for home and personal uses.

RS816 is available worldwide.