Taiwanese storage specialist Synology has taken the wraps off its latest NAS solution for small and medium-sized businesses.
Dubbed the DiskStation DS1010+, Synology's latest offers scalable storage with five built-in, hot-swappable drive bays offering 10TB of storage and an optional DX510 expansion unit adding another five bays to raise the capacity to a massive 20TB.
Expected to become available in March, Synology's DX510 will attach to today's DX1010+ via an eSATA cable with specially-designed connectors to allow users to easily double the maximum capacity.
In the meantime, SMB users can look forward to generous five-bay performance with Synology quoting DX1010+ read and write speeds of up to 115MB/s and 109MB/s, respectively.
Inside, the NAS server is powered by a 1.67GHz GPU and 1GB of DDR2 memory - with the latter upgradeable to 2GB or 3GB. That should be enough to maintain performance when handling concurrent requests from multiple clients, says Synology, adding that the server takes roughly 30 seconds to handle 1,000 simultaneous requests.
Connectivity options include dual Gigabit Ethernet and four USB ports, and the unit comes armed with Synology's DiskStation Manager 2.2 software - complete with a range of business-specific applications including Windows ADS integration, encrypted FTP server, business mail server, web server and a bevy of backup solutions.
Synology tells us the DS1010+ is now shipping across the globe, but fails to shed any light on pricing.
