Synology's NAS Setup Can Serve You Over 100TB
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Andrea Ferrario, Marcus Yam
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Synology at Computex showed its DS3611xs, the 12-bay NAS DS3611xs that packs a Sandy Bridge processor at 3.1 GHz (we imagine a Core i3-2100), 2 GB of RAM (expandable to 8 GB). Four USB 2.0 ports, two InfiniBand ports and four Gigabit connections (or two 10 GbE).
The bay can accommodate 12 drives, 3 TB each, for a total of 36 terabytes. But if you need more space, you can connect up to two DX1211 expansion units, each with an additional 12 bays in order to reach a total capacity of over 100 terabytes.
These will start shipping in July, but you'd better have your checkbook ready as they're going to cost over $2000.
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Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
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WyomingKnott Next forum member who posts "How can I build a NAS?" will get a link to this page.Reply -
YardstickWHACK Too bad it isn't a standard rack size. I've shipped a few 36TB 2U computers with hot-swappable drives (not even for NAS purposes, but just local video storage).Reply -
GreaseMonkey_62 Looks great for medium size businesses. Except for the people who never delete an email.Reply -
dark_knight33 YardstickWHACKToo bad it isn't a standard rack size. I've shipped a few 36TB 2U computers with hot-swappable drives (not even for NAS purposes, but just local video storage).Reply
There is already a large range of products covering that segment. I think this fits better with businesses that don't want a "mini-data center" look for the office. This is pretty low key, and for the cost in hardware, looks pretty unassuming sitting in a utility closet. -
nekatreven They should write on the box: "The most compact, space efficient way to lose all of your data at once!"Reply
I'm not saying it is a bad product. I'm merely poking fun at the standard way that small companies back up storage like this; as in they don't.