Synology Challenges Enterprise Giants with PAS7700 NVMe System

SINGAPORE – May 21, 2026 – Synology, a company long dominant in the network-attached storage (NAS) market, has made a decisive move into the high-performance enterprise sector with the global launch of its PAS7700. This marks the company's first active-active, all-flash NVMe storage system, a sophisticated piece of engineering designed to power the most demanding, mission-critical workloads in modern data centers.

The launch signals a significant strategic pivot, positioning Synology to compete directly with established enterprise storage titans like Pure Storage, NetApp, and Dell EMC. By targeting workloads in AI, large-scale data analytics, and virtualization, the PAS7700 is not just an incremental product update; it represents a bold challenge to the status quo, banking on a blend of extreme performance, robust resilience, and long-term cost efficiency.

A Strategic Leap into the Enterprise Arena

For years, Synology has built a formidable reputation for reliable and user-friendly NAS solutions, earning a loyal following among small-to-medium businesses and prosumers. With the PAS7700, the company is leveraging its 25 years of storage expertise to scale that reputation into the far more demanding and lucrative enterprise market. This move comes after what the company describes as a year of extensive real-world validation through a proof-of-concept program with enterprise clients.

"PAS7700 reflects Synology's 25+ years of experience in storage and our close collaboration with enterprise customers to address evolving requirements for high availability, performance, and scalability," said Bie-i Chu, Executive Vice President of the Synology NAS Group, in a statement. "PAS7700 is field-proven to deliver high reliability and performance, while helping customers lower total cost of ownership (TCO)."

While a new entrant in the active-active NVMe space, Synology is not starting from scratch. The company has steadily built its enterprise credentials, achieving significant market penetration in certain regions. This existing foothold provides a foundation of trust and a distribution network that will be critical for introducing a high-end system like the PAS7700 to a market accustomed to legacy vendors.

Under the Hood: Performance and Uninterrupted Resilience

The PAS7700 is engineered from the ground up for environments where downtime is not an option. Its most critical feature is its active-active architecture. Unlike traditional active-standby systems where one controller sits idle, the PAS7700 utilizes two simultaneously operational controllers. This design ensures that if a controller or a critical network component fails, the system continues to deliver services without interruption, providing true high availability for mission-critical applications.

This resilience is backed by formidable performance specifications. The system boasts the ability to deliver up to 2 million IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) and sequential throughput of up to 30 GB/s, all while maintaining latency under one millisecond. These figures are achieved through a powerful hardware configuration within its 4U chassis, which includes dual AMD EPYC 24-core processors, up to 2 terabytes of system memory, and 48 NVMe SSD bays. Connectivity is equally robust, with options for 100GbE networking and support for a broad array of protocols including NVMe-oF, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and standard file-based protocols like SMB and NFS.

Scalability is another cornerstone of the design. A single PAS7700 can be expanded with up to seven additional units, pushing its raw storage capacity to 1.65 PB. Data integrity is protected by multiple layers, including triple-parity RAID, mirrored write cache protection, and support for Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) for hardware-level encryption without a performance penalty. Furthermore, features like immutable snapshots and WORM (Write Once, Read Many) folders provide robust safeguards against ransomware attacks and unauthorized data modification.

The Economic Equation: Performance Meets Efficiency

While the performance and resilience numbers place the PAS7700 in the upper echelon of enterprise storage, Synology's core strategy appears to revolve around delivering this power with a compelling Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). As businesses in Singapore and globally expand their AI workloads and data infrastructure, the escalating cost of high-speed storage has become a major pressure point for IT budgets.

The PAS7700 addresses this challenge head-on with several key technologies. The system employs both inline and offline data deduplication, which intelligently removes redundant data to maximize storage capacity and extend the lifespan of the NVMe SSDs. Synology claims this can result in data reduction ratios of up to 5:1 in typical environments.

Looking ahead, the system is slated to receive support for Synology Tiering. This feature will automatically and policy-based migrate infrequently accessed, or "cold," data to more cost-effective, high-capacity storage systems, such as Synology's own HD series. This ensures that the expensive, high-speed NVMe flash is reserved exclusively for the active applications and hot data that need it most, optimizing the cost-per-gigabyte across the entire data lifecycle.

Running on DSM Enterprise, a specialized version of its acclaimed operating system, the PAS7700 also promises the intuitive management and operational simplicity that have long been hallmarks of the Synology brand. This focus on ease of use, combined with a suite of integrated backup and replication tools like Hyper Backup and Snapshot Replication, aims to reduce administrative overhead and the need for costly third-party software licenses.

With the PAS7700 now available through its global partner network, Synology has officially entered a new weight class. The system is squarely aimed at data-intensive sectors like manufacturing, semiconductor design, healthcare, and game development, where consistent performance and continuous service are paramount. The market will now watch closely to see if the company's proven formula of powerful, user-friendly, and cost-effective solutions can disrupt the highly competitive enterprise storage landscape.