New hi-speed 2-bay NAS from Synology

SCALEWIRELESS storage solutions partner Synology announced the availability of DiskStation DS712+, a high performance and scalable 2-bay NAS server designed for small and medium businesses.

“Synology DS712+ presents tremendous opportunity for SMB owners wishing to have the flexibility of scaling up to a larger storage solution from a smaller form factor. As small businesses grow, so does their data,“ said Chad Chiang, product manager of Synology Inc. „With Synology DX510 expansion unit, the DS712+ offers a unique solution by scaling up a compact 2-bay NAS server into a 7-bay storage on-the-fly, providing up to 21TB of storage capacity,”

Powered by a 1.8GHz dual core processor with Link Aggregation enabled, the read speed of the DS712+ outperforms its predecessor by 60% faster at 180.91 MB/sec and average write speed at 105.59 MB/sec under RAID 1 configuration. To ensure high availability to stored data, the DS712+ features front mount hot swappable drives with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for failover protection to prevent unexpected service downtime.

By introducing fresh external enhancement of two additional side ventilations and a larger 92mm fan, the DS712+ has vastly elevated its overall airflow and minimized the noise level to 19.2dB(A). Power consumption is further reduced to 27.5 watts under full operation and 17.6 watts when hard drives enter hibernation mode.

The DS712+ features comprehensive iSCSI support with a seamless storage solution for major virtualization servers, including VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V. Furthermore, the DS712+ offers flawless integration into ADS and LDAP environments with Windows ACL support for easy account and privilege management.

The DS712+ is running on DiskStation Manager 3.2 (DSM 3.2), the operating system of every Synology NAS Server. DSM makes complicated things simple and hard things possible by providing versatile features on a snappy, intuitive, and multitasking web-based user interface. Acknowledged for its continuous worldwide recognition, Synology received WINMAG Pro’s “2011 SMB Proof Award” for the same series DS411+II.