Synology RS3618xs 12-Bay NAS RackStation Diskless

The Synology RackStation RS3618xs is a 12-bay rackmount NAS engineered for enterprise storage demands. At its core is a quad-core processor with hardware AES-NI encryption acceleration, paired with 8GB of DDR4 ECC UDIMM that can be expanded to 64GB for virtualization and memory-intensive workloads. The unit delivers over 3,900 MB/s in sequential reads and 143,500 iSCSI random read IOPS, making it well suited for large-scale file serving, surveillance recording, database hosting, and virtual machine storage. When 12 bays are not enough, adding Synology RX1217 or RX1217RP expansion units scales total capacity to 36 drives.

On the software side, Synology's DiskStation Manager provides a complete virtualization solution through Virtual Machine Manager, while dynamic iSCSI and NFS storage integration supports VMware, Windows Hyper-V, Citrix, and OpenStack environments. Optional 10GbE and 40GbE network interface cards let administrators eliminate network bottlenecks and fully leverage the RS3618xs's throughput. Sold diskless, the RS3618xs gives IT teams the freedom to select drives that match their specific capacity, performance, and redundancy requirements — a flexibility that enterprise buyers expect from a platform of this caliber.