Are you constantly running out of storage space? Are your applications generating ever-increasing amounts of data and are you looking for an infrastructure that can keep up? Here is an opportunity not to be missed! After the FlashStation FS2500 server, whose velocity our readers were able to check last year, today we offer you to take control of another Synology platform: the HD6500. This storage server offers the highest density in Synology’s portfolio, with no less than 60 drives per rack and scalability that can take it up to 300 drives with 4 expansion units. Video publishing company, media, hosts or healthcare establishments, the HD6500 is designed to meet all organizations that measure their data in petabytes.
Large-scale (and high-speed) data processing
Equipped with two 10-core Intel Xeon Silver processors, 64GB of memory expandable up to 512GB, and sequential read/write performance of over 6688/6662MB/s, the HD6500 is a extremely versatile storage, ideal for large-scale backup, video post-production, or large-scale surveillance systems with up to 150 IP cameras connected for example. Its Btrfs file system can support volumes up to 1 PB, for consolidating large archives or building data warehouses on a single volume. The 4U rack can accommodate 3.5″ SAS hard drives or 2.5″ SATA SSD carriers. SSDs can be used as storage volumes or as read/write cache for HDDs to accelerate applications with high random I/O performance. For testing, readers will receive a platform equipped with 12 x 8TB HAS5300 drives. On the connectivity side, our testers will be able to rely on two 10GbE ports and three Gigabit Ethernet ports (including one for management), as well as four PCIe slots.
Hardware redundancy and network isolation
These ever-increasing volumes of data used by companies are increasingly critical to their business. Ensuring their availability is therefore a key issue for IT teams. That is why Synology has designed its solution to avoid any single point of failure, with redundant fan and power systems, support for automatic failover between network ports, and redundant links to expansion units using SAS multipathing. The HD6500 also has an OOB (Out of Band) management port that isolates administrator access from other traffic. Segmentation that provides a secure alternative access method to connect to the NAS without going through DSM and perform certain operations (power on/off, log monitoring, reset, etc.) remotely if the internet connection is not available or a cyberattack paralyzes the network.
A complete protection and collaboration software suite
The loan will also be an opportunity for testers to discover the Synology software environment and the multitude of integrated functions to protect data and simplify collaboration within the company. High availability, monitoring, local or cloud backup, replication, deduplication, restore, integrity check, everything you need to keep your system running 24/7 will be available, with tools like Synology High Availability , Hyper Backup or Active Backup Suite. This latest solution, accessible without a license, allows you to centralize the backup of your PCs or Macs, Linux servers, VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines or even Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments on a single NAS.* The Synology Drive solution will allow you to build a private cloud where your users can securely synchronize their files or share documents.
Your turn to try !
DSI, IT manager, CTO or IT technician, if you wish to receive the Synology HD6500 and test its capabilities in your professional environment, just fill out the questionnaire below. Successful candidates will be contacted by e-mail to confirm their participation, learn about the test protocol and organize the loan of the products. Please note that this is a life-size test and not a competition; the equipment must therefore be returned at the end of the operation.
*If you want to know more about Active Backup, find here the testimony of the Het Streek school which saved €21,000 per year and multiplied by 15 the speed of its backups with Synology solutions.