Synology RackStation RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Ultra-High performance NAS Server Scales up to 100TB for Large Scale Business

Overview:

Synology RackStation RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs offers ultra-high performance, scalable and full-featured network attached storage solution for large scale businesses that require an efficient way to centralize data protection, simplify data management, deploy virtualization solutions, and rapidly expand storage capacity with minimal time spent on setup and management. Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.

Highlights

• Ultra-high performance of 1000+ MB/sec throughput and 100,000+ IOPS¹
• Scale up to 100TB with Synology RX1211/RX1211RP²
• Dual 10GbE ports support (with PCI-E add-on card)
• VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft® Hyper-V® compliance
• CPU Passive Cooling Technology & System Fan Redundancy
• Expandable ECC RAM module (up to 6GB)
• Redundant Power Supply Unit (RS3412RPxs only)
• Running on Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM)

¹With Link Aggregation enabled. The performance figures could vary on different environments.
² Purchase separately.

Features:

Ultra-High Performance

With Link Aggregation, Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs delivers the high performance of over 1000 MB/sec throughput and 100,000 IOPS under RAID 5 configuration1. In addition to the default 4 Gigabit ports, dual 10GbE are supported with the add-on PCI Express x8 Gen2 Network Interface Card to maximize the system bandwidth. RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is able to bring you the ultra-high performance that your data-intensive application demands on the storage system.

High Reliability & Availability

Reliable functioning of commercial systems is of paramount concern to business users that depending on these servers everyday. Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is now introduced with the fanless CPU heatsink to prevent the single point of failure, with the CPU passive cooling technology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs achieves the high reliability system design. When system detects fan failure, the built-in redundancy mechanism will spin up the functional fan(s) to properly ventilate the system, and support continuous operations until the replacement fan arrives. Therefore, potential system damages are minimized and system availability is maximized.

The network ports with failover support combining with hot-swappable drives will ensure continual service uptime during drives replacement or unexpected LAN failure. The ECC RAM module on RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs will detect and correct errors that occur during data transmission. Supporting up to 6GB ECC RAM, RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs provides secure data protection and performance to meet the need of large scale businesses for a strong foundation to face mission-critical tasks.

Robust Scalability Up to 100 TB

Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is also designed to grow with your business and provides the ability to seamlessly expand a single volume up to 100TB on the fly. When the storage capacity of RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is nearing its limits, it can easily be expanded with Synology RX1211/RX1211RP2. It is connected to RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs via an Infiniband cable that carries 12 Gb/s SATA signal to ensure maximum throughput.

Management of the large storage space on RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is simple and flexible. Multiple Volumes on RAID allows users to create more than one volume on a RAID structure, providing a flexible and efficient way to manage the storage across all hard drives. When the need for more space arises, the volume could be easily expanded without any service disruption.

Unified-Architecture and Virtualization Ready

Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs runs on the novel operating system, Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), which integrates file-level and block-level storage in one unified storage system platform providing management simplicity to reduce your total cost of ownership.

Comprehensive network protocol support (CIFS/SMB, AFP and NFS) assures seamless file sharing across Windows®, Mac®, and Linux platforms. iSCSI is also supported as the ideal alternative to SAN solution for business.

Affordable and cost-effective iSCSI allows large scale business to consolidate storage into data center storage arrays while providing hosts with the illusion of locally-attached disks. With the iSCSI support, RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs provides a seamless storage solution for virtualization servers, such as VMware, Citrix, and Hyper-V. RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is also certified with the latest VMware vSphere® 5, supporting VMFS-5 and extended storage migration capability with better flexibility and higher performance in VMware virtualization platform.

Thin Provisioning is available for file-level iSCSI, enabling administrators to oversubscribe provision and then grow storage space as needed in safety. With Thin Provisioning, users are able to maximize the storage utilization to reduce the total cost of ownership for the storage system.

Full-featured Business Applications

The Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs offers applications and features designed specifically for large scale business. Windows ADS and LDAP integration allows RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs to quickly and easily fit in an existing business network environment without recreating user accounts. Windows ACL support on RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs provides much finer-grained access control and efficient privilege settings, allowing IT staffs to set up privileges to files and folders on RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs through their familiar Windows user interface.

The built-in backup application is provided for backing up data in the RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs to another Synology NAS, expansion unit, any rsync server via an encrypted transmission. It is even possible to back up from RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs to the cloud with the Amazon® S3 support. Shared Folder Sync is also available in DSM for implementing disaster recovery plans. With Shared Folder Sync, RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is able to replicate data to another DiskStation within the Intranet or across the Internet, helping to reduce the risk of business interruption.

Energy Efficient Design

Synology RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs is designed and developed with energy efficiency in mind. Compared with the average storage server counterparts, RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs consumes a relatively low amount of power and have the hard drives hibernate when not in use.

All Synology products are produced with RoHS compliant parts and packed with recyclable packing materials. Synology acknowledges the responsibility as a global citizen to continually work to reduce the environmental impact of every product produced.

1. Tested with dual 10GbE connection with Link Aggregation. The performance figures could vary on different environments.
2. DS3612xs supports up to two Synology DX1211, purchased separately.

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Technical Specifications:

Technical Specifications:
Hardware
CPU Frequency : Dual Core 3.1GHz Floating Point Memory : DDR3 2GB ECC RAM (Expandable, up to 6GB)　 Internal HDD/SSD : 3.5" or 2.5" SATA(II) X10 (Hard drive not included) Max Internal Capacity : 30TB (10X 3TB HDD) (Capacity may vary by RAID types) Hot Swappable HDD External HDD Interface : USB 2.0 Port X 4, Expansion Port X 2 Rail Kit: Synology 2U Rail Kit Sliding (optional) Size (HxWxD) : 88 X 445 X 570 mm Weight : 12.77Kg (RS3412xs), 14.87Kg (RS3412RPxs) LAN : Gigabit X4 (optional 10GbE X2 add-on card is supported) Link Aggregation Wake on LAN/WAN	System Fan : 80x80mm x 4 Wireless Support Noise Level : 41 dB(A) (RS3412xs), 41.8 dB(A) (RS3412RPxs) Power Recovery AC Input Power Voltage : 100V to 240V AC Power Frequency : 50 / 60Hz, Single Phase Power Consumption : 115.5W (Access) ; 57.2W (HDD Hibernation) Redundant Power Supply : RS3411RPxs only Operating Temperature : 40 to 95°F (5 to 35°C) Storage Temperature : 15 to 155°F (-10 to 70°C) Relative Humidity : 5% to 95% RH Maximum Operating Altitude : 10,000 feet Certification : FCC Class A, CE Class A, BSMI Class A Warranty : 3 Years
Applications
File Browser File Station FTP Server Bandwidth Control, Custom FTP Passive Port Range, Anonymous FTP, Transfer Log Mail Server Supported Mail Server Protocol : POP3, SMTP, IMAP Web Station Virtual Host (up to 30 websites) PHP/MySQL Alternative HTTP Error Page 3rd-Party Applications Support Surveillance Station MAX IP cam # (Licenses required) : 50 (1 Free License) (See All Supported IP Cameras) Total frame rate (FPS) : 500 FPS @ D1 (NTSC：720x480, PAL：720x576), 360 FPS @ WXGA (1280x800). Recording Modes : Manual, Continuous, Motion Detection, Alarm, Motion Detection and Alarm Event Playback : Sync Mode (4 Channels), Time Slicing Mode Centralized Management Compression Formats : MJPEG, MPEG-4, H.264 Photo Station Supported Image Format : BMP, JPG (jpe, jpeg), GIF, RAW (arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef, mrw, ptx, pef, raf, 3fr, erf, mef, mos, orf, rw2, dng, x3f) Supported Video Format : 3G2, 3GP, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, QT, WMV, XviD, RM, RMVB, VOB, RV30, RV40, AC3, AMR, WMA3 User can click and download the following video formats: RM, RMVB, VOB, RV30, RV40, AC3, AMR, WMA3, but not able to play it in Photo Station as compressed Flash video. Audio Station Supported Audio Format (USB Mode) : AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WMA VBR Supported Audio Format (Streaming Mode) : MP3, M4A, M4B Supported Playlist Format : M3U, WPL Internet Radio : SHOUTcast, Radioio	DLNA/UPnP Media Server PS3/Xbox 360 Support Supported Audio Format : AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, PCM, WAV, WMA, WMA VBR, WMA PRO, WMA Supported Video Format : 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, DVR-MS, ISO, M2T, M2TS, M4V, MKV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MTS, MOV, QT, SWF, TP, TRP, TS, VOB, WMV, XviD, RMVB (The actual playback capabilities may vary depending on the DLNA/UPnP client) Supported Image Format : BMP, JPG (jpe, jpeg), GIF, ICO, PNG, PSD, TIF (tiff), UFO Download Station Supported Download Protocols : BT/HTTP/FTP/NZB/eMule Custom BT Port Range BT / eMule Bandwidth Control iTunes Server Supported Audio Format : MP3, M4A, M4P, WAV, AIF, The music in WAV and AIF format can be streamed, but the metadata (ex: title, album) may not be indexed on the iTunes Supported Video Format : M4V, MOV, MP4 Supported Playlist Format : M3U, WPL Printer Server Max Printer # : 2 Printing Protocols : LPR, CIFS, AppleTalk, AirPrint, Multi Functional Print Server (Only PostScript USB printers are supported in MAC environment) Packages Center Directory Server HASP HiDrive Backup Mail Station2 phpMyAdmin VPN Server Webalizer Squeezebox Server Syslog Server WordPress Time Backup OpenERP iPhone/Android Applications DS photo+ DS audio DS cam DS file  DS finder
General Specifications
Networking Protocols CIFS AFP NFS FTP WebDAV iSCSI Telnet SSH SNMP File System EXT4 EXT3 (External Disk Only) FAT (External Disk Only) NTFS (External Disk Only) Storage Management Max Volume # : 1024 Max File System Size : 108TB Max iSCSI Target # : 64 Max iSCSI LUN # : 512 Supported RAID Type : Synology Hybrid RAID, Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID 6, RAID 10 RAID Migration : Basic to RAID 1, Basic to RAID 5, Basic to RAID 5+Spare, RAID 1 to RAID 5, RAID 1 to RAID 5+Spare, RAID 5 to RAID 5+Spare, RAID 5 to RAID 6 Volume Expansion with Larger HDDs : RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID 6 Volume Expansion by Adding a HDD : RAID 5, RAID 5+Spare, RAID 6 Synology Expansion Unit Support : RX1211, RX1211RP File Sharing Capability Max User Accounts : 4096 Max Groups : 512 Max Shared Folder : 512 Max Concurrent Connections : 1024 Windows Access Control List (ACL) Windows ADS Domain Integration Domain Users login via Samba/AFP/FTP/File Station Backup Solutions Network Backup Local Backup Desktop Backup (using Synology Data Replicator 3 or Apple Time Machine backup application) Shared Folder Sync - Max task number : 16 Time Backup - Max task number : 16 Time Machine Backup (Mac) Security FTP over SSL/TLS IP Auto-Block Firewall Encrypted Network Backup over Rsync HTTPS Connection	Management Auto DSM Upgrade Administrator Group Email Notification SMS Notificatio Customized User Quota DDNS Support IPv6 Support PPPoE Resource Monitor UPS Management Scheduled Power On/Off Custom Management UI HTTP/HTTPS Ports HDD Management HDD Hibernation S.M.A.R.T. Dynamic Bad Sector Mapping Utilities Synology Assistant Synology Data Replicator Supported Clients Windows XP onward Mac OS X 10.5 onward Ubuntu 9.04 onward Supported Browsers Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer : 7, 8, 9 Safari (MAC) : 4, 5 Supported Mobile Devices (Photo Station, File Station) iPhone OS 2.2.1 onward Android OS 1.5 onward Windows Mobile (IE Mobile or Opera 9.0 onward) Symbian OS 9.1, S60 3rd Edition onward Language Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese Brazil, Portuguese European, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
Environment and Packaging
Environment RoHS Compliant Package Content RS3412xs or RS3412RPxs Main Unit Installation CD/DVD Welcome Note Assembling Kit AC Power Cord (RS3412RPxs: X 2)	Optional Accessories Remote Camera License Pack Rail Kit 2GB ECC RAM Module Expansion Unit : RX1211, RX1211RP VS80

Notes:

• Noise Level Testing Environment: Fully loaded with Seagate 1TB ST31000520AS hard drive(s) in idle; Two G.R.A.S. Type 40AE microphones, each set up at 1 meter away from the DiskStation front and rear; Background noise: 17.2 dB(A); Temperature: 23.6˚C; Humidity: 58.2%; More details about dB(A) value, check http://www.memtechacoustical.com/facts.asp
• Power consumption is measured when fully loaded with Western Digital 3TB WD30EZRS hard drive(s).
• Support for Wake on WAN needs switch and routers which recognize Magic Packet.
• Surveillance Station throughput is tested with Axis M1011 (640X480) and Axis M1054 (1280X800); FPS set to 10 at every channel; Compression rate: 30%; Video Codec: MJPEG, MPEG4 (640X480 only), H.264; Recording Type is conducted with Motion Detection Recording and Continuous Recording; Actual performance may vary depending on camera settings and DiskStation loading.

Performance:

XS Server

Sequential Throughput (2 X 10GbE Connection)(1)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPx
Read	1958.76	1676.70
Write	1 086.37	1077.46
Sequential IOPS (2 X 10GbE Connection)(1)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	198321.12	195066.75
Write	117918.89	117624.63
Random IOPS (2 X 10GbE Connection)(1)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3411xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	8120.39	8086.94
Write	3924.82	3498.15
Sequential Throughput (4 X Gigabit Connection)(2)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	445.87	442.63
Write	444.89	443.26
Sequential IOPS (4 X Gigabit Connection)(2)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	105120.42	102110.37
Write	98026.32	96016.58
Random IOPS (4 XGigabit Connection)(2)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	362.51	367.46
Write	281.80	252.68

Windows Upload/Download(3)(4)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs	DS3612xs (4 x Gigabit Link Aggregation)	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs (4 x Gigabit Link Aggregation)
Read	111.43	111.69	427.40	415.95
Write	110.81	111.75	466.62	460.72

Windows Upload/Download(4) (1MB x 5000 Files)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	75.38	74.92
Write	60.94	61.83
AES 256-bit Encrypted File Upload/Download(4) (5GB Single File)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs
Read	112.32	111.01
Write	85.54	86.91

iSCSI Upload/Download(4) (5GB File)
Model	DS3612xs	RS3411xs/RS3412RPxs	DS3612xs (MC/S by 2 x Gigabit)	RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs (MC/S by 2 x Gigabit)
Read	97.13	97.13	170.89	167.88
Write	106.69	105.84	184.46	184.78

(1) 2 x 10GbE Connection Testing Environment:

Server:

• Operating System: DSM 4.0
• Volume Type: RAID 5
• Full loaded with Kingstion SVP100S2 64GB 2.5" SSD
• Add-on Network Interface Card: Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 10Gb
• Network Environment: 10Gbps LAN; MTU 9000; connected to the client PC via Netgear switch XSM7224S with Link Aggregation

Client PC:

• Intel Core i5 2400 3.1GHz; 2GB DDRIII; WD1600AAJS(160GB) x 2, RAID 0; Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter x520-DA2 10Gb; MTU 9000; Windows 7
• IOMeter configuration: Transferring 8GB file continuously to 2 PCs for 3 minutes. Block size: 32KB (Throughput) & 4KB (IOPS)

(2) 4 x Gigabit Connection Testing Environment:

Server:

• Operating System: DSM 4.0
• Volume Type: RAID 5
• Full loaded with Samsung HE103UJ 3.5" 1TB HDD
• Network Environment: 1Gbps LAN; MTU 1500; connected to the client PC via HP switch 2824 with Link Aggregation

Client PC:

• Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz; 2GB DDRIII; SVP200S3 (60GB) SSD x 2, RAID 0; Intel® Gigabit CT; MTU 1500; Windows 7
• IOMeter configuration: Transferring 8GB file continuously to 4 PCs for 3 minutes. Block size: 32KB (Throughput) & 4KB (IOPS)

(3) 4 x Gigabit Link Aggregation Windows Upload/Download Testing Environment:

Server:

• Operating System: DSM 4.0
• Volume Type: RAID 5
• Full loaded with Samsung HE103UJ 3.5" 1TB HDD
• Network Environment: 1Gbps LAN; MTU 1500; connected to 4 client PC via HP switch 2824 with Link Aggregation

Client PC:

• Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz; 4GB DDRIII; WD3000HLFS (300GB) HDD x 2, RAID 0; Intel® Gigabit CT; MTU 1500; Windows 7
• Configuration: Transferring 10GB data to 4 PCs

(4) Other Testing Environment:

Server:

• Operating System: DSM 4.0
• Volume Type: RAID 5
• Full loaded with Samsung HE103UJ 3.5" 1TB HDD
• Network Environment: 1Gbps LAN; MTU 1500; directly connect to the client PC

Client PC:

• Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz; 4GB DDRIII; WD3000HLFS (300GB) HDD x 2, RAID 0; Intel® Gigabit CT; MTU 1500; Windows 7
• Configuration: Transferring 5GB data to 1 PC

Special Note:
The performance figures are achieved in Synology lab by using very powerful client computers with extremely optimized network settings, and could vary on different environments. A regular office desktop/notebook may not be able to achieve this high performance figures.

Documentation:

Download the Synology RackStation RS3412xs/RS3412RPxs Datasheet  (PDF).