14 DAY TRIAL // Synology is definitely hard at work these days, releasing one storage solution after the other, the latest devices to make their appearance from the company being two new rackable NAS servers known as the RackStation RS812 and RS212.
The more basic of the two units, the RS212 was designed to feature a shallow form factor and can pack two 3.5-inch drives in its 12-inches (30.5cm) deep chassis.
This makes it an ideal solution for office environments where space is at a premium, while its replaceable motherboard and front-panel I/O ports streamline the server management process.
As far as the RS812 is concerned, this expands the number of disk bays available to four, while also supporting the Synology RX410 expansion unit which basically transforms it into an 8-bay NAS solution.
According to Synology, under a RAID 5 configuration, the RS812 can reach read speeds of 109.7MB/sec, while writes are estimated at 50.6MB/sec.
Both RackStation RS812 and RS212 NAS servers are powered by a 1.6 GHz processor seconded by 512MB and 256MB of RAM, respectively, and the NAS units also come equipped with two USB ports and one eSATA connector.
Power draw is estimated at 37W for the RS812 and 25.3W for the RS212, while in operation.
Just like most other Synology NAS servers, these two rackable models are also running the DiskStation Manager 3.2 operating system, which is controlled via a multitasking web-based user interface.
"The RS812 and the RS212 both come with dual LAN failover and hot-swappable HDD support to guard against LAN or disk failure, providing reliable solutions at an economical price point," said Wayne An, product manager of Synology Inc.
"Both models are certified by VMWare vSphereTM, Citrix XenServerTM and Microsoft Hyper-VTM to work as storage solutions for virtualization servers," added the company's rep.
Both the Synology RS812 and RS212 rackable NAS servers and the RX410 expansion unit are shipping right now, but no information regarding pricing was made public.