Synology has announced the PAS7700 enterprise storage system is now available globally, including Malaysia. The active-active all-flash NVMe platform is designed to support mission-critical workloads requiring continuous uptime, high-speed performance and scalable storage infrastructure.
Synology PAS7700 Enterprise Storage System
The PAS7700 is intended for industries including semiconductor design, healthcare, manufacturing, engineering consulting and game development, where storage performance directly affects operational workflows involving large files, virtual machines, databases and collaborative environments. This system provides centralized storage for virtualized workloads and supports Fibre Channel connectivity alongside active-active architecture to help maintain service continuity during system or network failures.
Inside, the PAS7700 is equipped with dual controllers and 48 NVMe SSD bays within a 4U chassis and can scale up to 1.65PB (petabytes, that’s 1,650TB) of raw storage capacity through seven expansion units. It supports both file and block storage protocols, including NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SMB and NFS. The host system supports up to 2,048GB of memory and 100GbE networking, delivering storage performance of up to 2 million IOPS, latency below one millisecond and sequential throughput of up to 30GB/s.
For redundancy, the system uses an active-active architecture that allows both controllers to operate simultaneously instead of relying on a traditional active-standby configuration. Synology says this design helps minimize service interruptions and downtime by allowing operations to continue if one controller or network component becomes unavailable, instead of waiting for the standby system to take over the operation. Software-wise, it operates on Synology’s proprietary DSM Enterprise operating system.
The PAS7700 also features protection mechanisms including triple-parity RAID, mirrored write cache protection, IP failover and automated failover functionality. Continuous Availability Manager is included to allow IT teams to monitor system health and identify issues. It also supports Self-Encrypting Drives for hardware-level data protection alongside WORM folders and immutable snapshots designed to prevent unauthorized modification or deletion of stored data. For backup and recovery, there’s Snapshot Replication and Hyper Backup functionality as well.
To improve storage efficiency, PAS7700 supports inline and offline deduplication technologies intended to reduce redundant data usage and extend SSD lifespan. Soon, the system will support Synology Tiering feature that allows less frequently accessed data to be automatically moved to higher-capacity, low-bandwidth storage systems, freeing NVMe resources for active workloads.
Pokdepinion: Data is important, data protection even more so.