Synology 2018 NAS and Wi-Fi Lineup Sneak Peek

Yesterday we published an interview with Alex Wang, CEO of Synology America, and as part of this interview we were able to discover some new NAS and Wi-Fi products that Synology plans to launch the end of. 2018.

Wi-Fi

The company plans to introduce a follow-up RT2600ac released earlier this year. The new MR2200ac comes with mesh features. Similar to other mesh routers from leading providers, the MR2200ac sports the Qualcomm IPQ4019 SoC with integrated dual-band Wi-Fi. The additional PCIe interface allows Synology to add a second 5 GHz radio, turning the MR2200ac into a tri-band router. Like the Netgear Orbi, the MR2200ac plans to use the second 5 GHz radio for backhaul purposes. Synology has developed Qualcomm's Wi-Fi SON features to allow the MR2200ac to connect to the RT2600ac (also based on Qualcomm). The RT1900ac, unfortunately, will not be compatible for networking purposes. Synology plans to incorporate features such as parental control and threat prevention (virus / malware scanning, etc.) to make their routers stand out in the crowded marketplace.

Business

In terms of value-added subscriptions for business users, Synology launches Active Backup for Office 365 as part of its Active Backup suite. The Active Backup for Business service includes virtual machine backup, instant restore, full disk image backups with deduplication, and more.

Storage

Being primarily focused on storage solutions, Synology will naturally offer several new NAS for customers with different requirements later this year. In total, there will be four new NAS products: two in a desktop form factor and two in a rackmount form factor. The four machines will support Synology's typical NAS software with well-known capabilities.

• DS619slim using an Intel Celeron J3355 and sports 6x 2.5 "disk arrays
• DS2419 + using the Intel C3538 Denverton processor and providing 12 arrays in a
• RS1619xs + desktop format using a Xeon CPU in a 1U form factor and providing 4 bays
• RS1219 + using the old Rangeley family CPU with 8 bays in a shallow 2U format

The most basic of the Synology NAS The DS619slim is based on the Celeron J3355 SoC dual-core Intel (Apollo Lake) equipped with 2GB – 8GB RAM The NAS has six 2.5-inch bays for hard drives or SSDs, but it does not seem that it supports caching on an SSD for additional performance (at least Synology's entry-level NAS products do not support this feature.) In the meantime, RAID strip mode will be supported. wri the performance of about ~ 500 MB / s, even with hard drives. Regarding network connectivity, the DS619slim will have two GbE ports.

A more powerful NAS than Synology will have later this year is the DS2419 +. This NAS is powered by the Atom C3538 SoC (Denverton) quad core of Intel, equipped with 4 to 32 GB of RAM as well as four GbE network connectors. The DS2419 + will have 12 bays and will support a PCIe slot for a M.2 SSD cache or a 10 GbE NIC

NAS Gateway Rack for businesses that require higher performance and / or more space storage. The first is the 1U RS1619xs + NAS based on Intel's quad-core Xeon processor clocked at 2.2 GHz and equipped with 8 to 64 GB of DDR4 memory with ECC. This NAS has four bays and two M.2s. SSD slots for high-performance cache drives. By default, the RS1619xs + will be equipped with four GbE LAN ports, but possibly Synology can install two 10 GbE NICs for those with proper networks.

For customers who require a higher capacity, Synology will offer its RS219 + 2U NAS with eight bays and powered by Intel's Atom SoC quad-core and 2 – 16GB of DDR3 memory. The machine will have 4 default GbE controllers or two optional 10 GbE ports for those who can use them.

The price of new NAS units will be announced when Synology starts to market them.

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