Synology RackStation RS3618XS 12-bay Rackmount NAS for Enterprises (Diskless)

High-speed scalable storage server

Synology RS3618xs is a reliable, superior-performance network-attached storage solution for large-scale enterprises with demanding business applications. It simplifies data management, optimizes virtualization environments, and rapidly expands storage capacity with minimal time investment in setup and maintenance.

Ready for 10GbE and beyond

PCIe 3.0 slots allow for faster networking options as you expand your infrastructure. Together with the built-in quad Gigabit ports, RS3618xs offers comprehensive connectivity options for link aggregation and failover configurations.

5 year warranty

Synology's 5-year limited warranty provides hardware replacement and technical support via email and telephone services, maximizing your enterprises' return on investment.

Synology Replacement Service (SRS)

SRS provides free advance replacement units as early as the next business day in selected regions, maximizing the service uptime for your mission-critical storage and ensuring your business continuity.

Ultimate Backup Solution

RS3618xs integrates various backup applications to safeguard your important data on any device with an intuitive user interface and durable storage technologies.

Active Backup for Server

An agentless backup solution protects data from Windows and Linux servers through SMB and Rsync to minimize deployment and management costs.

Hyper Backup

Comprehensively back up your data to a local shared folder, an external device, another Synology NAS, an rsync server, or a public cloud to ensure data safety.

Desktop Backup

Safeguard your PC with Cloud Station Backup. Effortlessly back up data stored on macOS to Synology NAS with Time Machine.

Active Backup for Office 365/ G Suite

Protect corporate data stored on the cloud. On-premise backup solution with a centralized dashboard. Optimize storage efficiency with single instancing and block-level deduplication technology.

Fully certified storage virtualization solutions

Synology iSCSI storage fully supports most virtualization solutions to enhance work efficiency with easy management interface. VMware vSphere 6 and VAAI integration helps offload storage operations and optimizes computation efficiency. Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) speeds up data transfer and migration rate. OpenStack Cinder support turns your Synology NAS into a block-based storage component.

Next-generation file system for better data protection

The Btrfs file system introduces advanced storage technologies and optimized snapshots to prevent data corruption and reduce maintenance overhead. While ensuring high-level data integrity, it also offers flexible, efficient data protection and recovery tools.

Flexible Shared Folder/User Quota System provides comprehensive quota control on all user accounts and shared folders

Snapshot Replication provides schedulable and storage capacity-saving data protection with 1,024 shared folder backups and 65,000 system-wide snapshots

File or folder level data restoration makes data recovery fast and flexible

Automatic file self-healing detects and recovers corrupted files without user intervention

Specifications

• Mfr Part Number: RS3618XS
• Hardware:
  • CPU: Intel Xeon D-1521 Quad Core 2.4 (base) up to 2.7 (turbo) GHz Hardware Encryption Engine (AES-NI)
  • Memory: 8GB DDR4 ECC UDIMM (expandable up to 64GB)
  • Drive Bays: 12x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD
  • Max Internal raw Capacity: 144 TB (12x 12 TB drive) (Capacity may vary by RAID types)
  • External ports: 2x USB 3.0 Ports, 2x Expansion Ports
  • LAN: 2x RJ-45 1GbE LAN Port (with Link Aggregation / Failover support)
  • PCIe Expansion: 2x 3.0 x8 slots (x8 link) 
  • Fan: 4x (80 x 80mm) Fans
  • Easy Replacement System Fan
  • Power Recovery
  • Noise Level: 50.2 dB(A)
  • Scheduled Power On/Off
  • Wake on LAN/WAN
  • Power Supply Unit/Adapter: 500W
  • AC Input Power Voltage: 100 - 240V AC
  • Power Frequency: 50/60 Hz, Single Phase
• Networking Protocols: CIFS, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, SNMP, VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN)
• File System:
  • Internal Drives: Btrfs, EXT4
  • External Drives: Btrfs, EXT4, EXT3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT
• Storage management:
  • Maximum internal volume: 1024
  • Maximum iSCSI target: 64
  • Maximum iSCSI LUN: 512
• File sharing capability:
  • Maximum user account: 16000
  • Maximum group: 512
  • Maximum shared folder: 512
  • Maximum Shared Folder Sync Tasks: 16
  • Maximum Concurrent CIFS/AFP/FTP Connections: 2048
• Security: Firewall, encrypted shared folder, SMB encryption, FTP over SSL/TLS, SFTP, rsync over SSH, login auto block, Let's Encrypt support, HTTPS  (Customizable cipher suite)
• Utilities: Synology Assistant
• Supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 10 onwards, Safari 10 onwards, Safari (iOS 10 onwards), Chrome (Android 6.0 onwards)
• Applications:
  • File Station: Virtual drive, remote folder, Windows ACL editor, compressing/extracting archived files, bandwidth control for specific users or groups,  creating sharing links, transfer logs
  • Backup solutions: Local backup, network backup, and backup data to public clouds; DSM configuration backup, macOS Time Machine support, Cloud Station Backup Shared folder sync - maximum tasks: 16
  • FTP Server: Bandwidth control for TCP connections, custom FTP passive port range, anonymous FTP, FTP SSL/TLS and SFTP protocol, boot over the  network with TFTP and PXE support, transfer logs
  • High Availability Manager: Reduce service downtime by setting up two identical NAS into one high-availability cluster
  • Security Advisor: Malware detection/removal, user account/password, network, system-related security scan
• Supported Clients: Windows 7 or above, Mac OS X 10.10 or above
• Power Consumption: 142.76 W (Access), 55.05 W (HDD Hibernation)
• Certifications: EAC, VCCI, CCC, RCM, FCC, CE, BSMI
• Dimensions (WxDxH): 430.5 x 692.0 x 88.0 mm
• Weight: 14.5 kg
• Package Contents: Main Unit,  Accessory Pack, AC Power Cord, Quick Installation Guide
• RoHS Compliant