PRESS RELEASE
Scale up your enterprise data storage effortlessly
MILTON KEYNES, United Kingdom—January 9, 2020—Synology Inc. has announced the availability of the SA3600 storage system, the latest device in the SA family of high-performance and versatile, petabyte-capable network attached storage servers. Built to tackle both existing and future data 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 data storage, we built the SA series to help businesses reach petabyte-scale storage," said Michael Wang, Product Manager at Synology Inc. "SA3600 provides massive storage and high performance to meet the ever-growing compute requirements and to facilitate IT transformation for large-scale businesses."
Versatile architecture to accelerate workloads
Powered by an Intel® Xeon® 12-core processor, the SA3600 is scalable up to 180 drives. SA3600 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, minimising total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Performance: Over 5,500 MB/s sequential throughput and 176,000 4K random write IOPS1
- Scalability: Up to 1,536 TB storage capacity with 7 expansion units2
- 10GbE built-in: 2 x 10GbE and 4 x 1GbE Ethernet ports
- PCIe 3.0 expansion: 2 x PCIe slots for additional network interface card support
- Virtualisation-ready: Certified for VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer™, and OpenStack Cinder
Integrated data protection and availability
Easy to deploy by IT departments and greatly simplifies operations with comprehensive tools designed for businesses to safeguard their data.
- VM, SaaS, and endpoint protection
Centralised backup solution to protect VMware and Windows Server virtual machines, 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.
- Prevent data loss with snapshots and replication
Synology Snapshot Manager integrates with VMware and Windows for application-consistent data protection. Snapshot Replication enables Shared Folder and LUN protection for all other workloads.
- Maximise availability
Add in another SA3600 to combine two servers into a single high-availability cluster. The active/passive structure ensures smooth service transition between clustered servers in the event of hardware failure.
For more information on SA3600, please visit https://www.synology.com/en-uk/products/SA3600
1 Performance figures may vary depending on environment, usage, and configuration.
2 SA3600 supports up to seven Synology expansion units RX1217sas/RX2417sas, sold separately.
