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Synology DS723+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure

Synology DS723+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure

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Synology DS723+ 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (2GB RAM)
Synology DS723+ 2-Bay Network Attached Storage device is a compact and flexible NAS solution.

Synology DS723+ 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (2GB RAM)

Synology DS723+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure

Synology DS723+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure device is a compact and flexible NAS solution that can be adjusted and expanded as your needs change, with optional support for up to seven drives (sold separately), faster networking, and NVMe SSDs (sold separately) for caching or additional storage pools.

Powered by Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), it offers a flexible all-in-one solution for data sharing, synchronisation, backup, and surveillance.

DiskStation DS723+

Key Features



    • Capacity
      Un-populated two (2) bay network attached NAS storage device

    • Dependable Performance
      Up to 471/225 MB/s sequential read/write throughput makes file operations quick and efficient.

    • Versatile Network Storage
      Leverage built-in file and photo management, data protection, virtualization, and surveillance solutions.

    • Fast and Stable Connectivity
      Two 1GbE ports for simple integration into existing environments with optional 10GbE connectivity to tackle more specialized, bandwidth-heavy applications.

    • Easy Capacity Expansion
      Add 5 extra drive bays with one DX517 expansion unit (sold separately) for a maximum of 7 storage drives


Take your data management to the next level

Versatile smart storage that helps you consolidate and store your growing digital data.

    • Stunningly compact
      Powerful functionality in a tiny package, with room for 10GbE and dual NVMe drives.

    • Consolidate and share
      Flexibly store and organise 50 TB of data, then share with anyone.

    • Keep your data safe
      Hardware and software engineered to protect your data — trusted by millions


The performance you need

Reduce transfer times with the DS723+, designed to accelerate your workloads. Easily add faster networking and NVMe drives to further boost performance.

Versatile and flexible storage

Make the most of high-performance networking and file access without taking up unnecessary space. DS723+ comes equipped with 2 bays and can scale up to 7 bays with the DX517 expansion unit as your data needs grow.

Private cloud storage

Access files from all your devices and protect them with smart versioning. Manage, share, and sync your data across locations.

Consolidate data management

    • A private cloud for all your devices
      Powerful functionality to deploy your own personal cloud with Synology’s private cloud solution. Simplify file access and consolidate your data management to benefit from easier file sharing and collaboration.

    • Professional photo management
      Efficiently back up and organise photos and videos with management tools for novice and professional users alike. Automatically organise your content into albums and create secure share links to share files with family, friends, or clients.


Collaborate across sites

    • Sync files and folders between sites
      Site-to-site file syncing allows collaborators to sync individual files or folders between Synology devices, whether at home, another office, or across the world. Combine convenient access with 100% data ownership.

    • Share data with the power of the cloud
      Reduce your on-site storage footprint and benefit from data centre network speeds with hybrid cloud technology. Set up Hybrid Share Folders to efficiently store cold data in the cloud, while keeping frequently accessed files cached locally on your DS723+ and accessible at LAN speeds


Multi-layered backup

Back up files, folders, physical devices, VMs, and SaaS applications with free solutions, and protect your NAS with built-in technologies.

Back up all your devices

    • Centralise your backup and recovery solution
      Consolidate and automate backup tasks for PCs, file servers, VMs, SaaS applications, and more with Active Backup Suite. Administer device backups remotely through a centralised portal and quickly restore specific files or entire devices to keep your business up and running. Take advantage of built-in remote backup solutions designed to protect your data with seamless 3-2-1 backup configurations.


Protect your Synology system

    • Perform full Synology system backups
      Protect all data, applications, and configurations on your Synology systems with comprehensive scheduled backups to local and remote servers, external drives, or cloud storage destinations including Synology C2 Storage.

    • Protect folders and LUNs with snapshots
      Configure efficient point-in-time snapshots of shared folders and LUNs at intervals as short as 5 minutes. Allow users to easily restore previous versions of files unassisted, quickly recover VMs, and copy snapshots to another server to benefit from rapid storage failover.


Smart surveillance

Transform your Synology device into a full-featured video management system for a wide range of compatible IP cameras.

Monitor and protect your business

    • Synology Surveillance Station
      Protecting your business has never been easier with centralised video management, support for over 8,300 IP camera models, and remote monitoring and playback of footage. Synology’s surveillance management system provides all the tools you need for live monitoring, alerts, investigation, management, and backup.


Back up your surveillance footage

    • Dual recording
      C2 Surveillance allows you to keep access to surveillance footage if your recording server is disabled by recording to your local server as well as C2 cloud. End-to-end encryption protects streams against unauthorized access while low latency recording lets you review the crucial last few seconds before the recording server was lost.


Performance backed by Synology drives

Leverage high sustained performance and reliability with enterprise-grade drives with built-in data protection designed for Synology systems.

Get more with DiskStation Manager

Take advantage of a host of native productivity, management, and security solutions available in the web-based Synology DSM operating system.

    • Central Management System
      Conveniently manage your fleet of Synology NAS from a centralised console.

    • Security
      Shield your Synology NAS from the most sophisticated threats with industry-leading security solutions.

    • Synology High Availability
      Seamless transition between clustered servers in the event of a server failure to minimize the impact on applications.


Get extra protection with Extended Warranty Plus

Extend the standard 3-year hardware warranty of your DS723+ with 2 more years (sold separately) of Synology-certified support and premium services that help you recover faster in the event of disaster.

Specifications



Hardware Specifications


CPU

CPU Model

    • AMD Ryzen R1600


CPU Quantity

    • 1


CPU Architecture

    • 64-bit


CPU Frequency

    • 2-core 2.6 (base) / 3.1 (turbo) GHz


Hardware Encryption Engine (AES-NI)

    • Yes


Memory

System Memory

    • 2 GB DDR4 ECC


Memory Module Pre-installed

    • 2 GB (2 GB x 1)


Total Memory Slots

    • 2


Maximum Memory Capacity

    • 32 GB (16 GB x 2)


Notes

    • Synology reserves the right to replace memory modules with the same or higher frequency based on supplier's product life cycle status. Rest assured that the compatibility and stability have been strictly verified with the same benchmark to ensure identical performance.

    • Please select Synology memory modules for optimum compatibility and reliability. Synology will not provide complete product warranty or technical support if non-Synology memory modules are used for memory expansion.


Storage

Drive Bays

    • 2


Maximum Drive Bays with Expansion Unit

    • 7 (DX517 x 1, sold separately)


M.2 Drive Slots

    • 2 (NVMe)


Compatible Drive Type

    • 3.5-inch SATA HDD

    • 2.5-inch SATA SSD

    • M.2 2280 NVMe SSD


Hot Swappable Drive

    • Yes


Notes

    • The hot swappable drive feature is not supported by M.2 SSD slots.

    • "Compatible drive type" indicates drives that have been tested to be compatible with Synology products. This term does not indicate the maximum connection speed of each drive bay.


External Ports

RJ-45 1GbE LAN Port

    • 2 (with Link Aggregation / Failover support)


USB 3.2 Gen 1 Port

    • 1


eSATA Port

    • 1


Notes

    • This device's 1GbE LAN ports have a maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of 1,500 bytes.


PCIe

PCIe Expansion

    • 1 x Gen3 x2 network upgrade slot


File System

Internal Drives

    • Btrfs

    • EXT4


External Drives

    • Btrfs

    • EXT4

    • EXT3

    • FAT

    • NTFS

    • HFS+

    • exFAT


Appearance

Size (Height x Width x Depth)

    • 166 mm x 106 mm x 223 mm


Weight

    • 1.51 kg


Others

System Fan

    • 92 mm x 92 mm x 1 pcs


Fan Speed Mode

    • Full-Speed Mode

    • Cool Mode

    • Quiet Mode


Brightness Adjustable Front LED Indicators

    • Yes


Power Recovery

    • Yes


Noise Level

    • 20.7 dB(A)


Scheduled Power On / Off

    • Yes


Wake on LAN / WAN

    • Yes


Power Supply Unit / Adapter

    • 65 W


AC Input Power Voltage

    • 100V to 240V AC


Power Frequency

    • 50/60 Hz, Single Phase


Power Consumption

    • 21.07 W (Access)

    • 8.62 W (HDD Hibernation)


British Thermal Unit

    • 71.85 BTU/hr (Access)

    • 29.39 BTU/hr (HDD Hibernation)


Notes

    • Noise testing was conducted with the Synology system fully installed with Synology SATA HDDs and in an idle state. Two G.R.A.S. Type 40AE microphones are placed at a 1 m distance from the front and rear of the device. Background noise: 16.49-17.51 dB(A); Temperature: 24.25-25.75°C; Humidity: 58.2-61.8%


Temperature

Operating Temperature

    • 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)


Storage Temperature

    • -20°C to 60°C (-5°F to 140°F)


Relative Humidity

    • 5% to 95% RH


DSM Specifications


Storage Management

Maximum Single Volume Size

    • 108 TB


Maximum Internal Volume Number

    • 64


M.2 SSD Storage Pool Support

    • Yes


SSD Read / Write Cache

    • Yes


SSD TRIM

    • Yes


Supported RAID Type

    • Synology Hybrid RAID

    • Basic

    • JBOD

    • RAID 0

    • RAID 1

    • RAID 5 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 6 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 10 (with Expansion Unit)


RAID Migration

    • Basic to RAID 1

    • Basic to RAID 5 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 1 to RAID 5 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 5 to RAID 6 (with Expansion Unit)


Volume Expansion with Larger HDDs

    • Synology Hybrid RAID

    • RAID 1

    • RAID 5 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 6 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 10 (with Expansion Unit)


Volume Expansion by Adding a HDD

    • Synology Hybrid RAID

    • JBOD (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 5 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 6 (with Expansion Unit)


Global Hot Spare Supported RAID Type

    • Synology Hybrid RAID

    • RAID 1 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 5 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 6 (with Expansion Unit)

    • RAID 10 (with Expansion Unit)


Notes

    • Usable capacity for each volume will be lower than the maximum volume size and is dependent on the filesystem and the amount of system metadata stored.

    • Creating M.2 storage pools requires the use of Synology-verified SSDs, which are rigorously tested under extreme temperature conditions. Thermal parameters for SSDs and NAS units are fine-tuned to ensure optimal management of thermal conditions under I/O-intensive environments.

    • Actual maximum storage pool and volume sizes depend on drive sizes used, the number of drive bays available, and the RAID configuration.

    • Each internal volume (may consist of multiple drives) is expandable up to 108TB.


File Services

File Protocol

    • SMB/AFP/NFS/FTP/WebDAV


Maximum Concurrent SMB/AFP/FTP Connections

    • 500


Maximum Concurrent SMB/AFP/FTP Connections (with RAM expansion)

    • 2,000


Windows Access Control List (ACL) Integration

    • Yes


NFS Kerberos Authentication

    • Yes


Notes

    • Regarding data concerning tests with RAM expansion, all memory slots are installed with the maximum capacity of supported RAM.

    • The testing standard was based on the maximum number of concurrent connections supported by this model. During the testing, 25% of the connections were used to transfer files concurrently. The transfer process guaranteed that the connections were not interrupted; the minimum transfer speed was not guaranteed.


Account & Shared Folder

Maximum Local User Accounts

    • 2,048


Maximum Local Groups

    • 256


Maximum Shared Folder

    • 512


Maximum Shared Folder Sync Tasks

    • 8


Hybrid Share

Hybrid Share Folder Number

    • 10


High Availability

Synology High Availability

    • Yes


Log Centre

Syslog Events per Second

    • 800


Virtualization

VMware vSphere with VAAI

    • Yes


Windows Server 2016

    • Yes


Windows Server 2019

    • Yes


Citrix Ready

    • Yes


OpenStack

    • Yes


General Specifications

Networking Protocols

    • SMB1 (CIFS), SMB2, SMB3, NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1, NFS Kerberized sessions, iSCSI, HTTP, HTTPs, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, CalDAV


Supported Browsers

    • Google Chrome

    • Firefox

    • Microsoft Edge

    • Safari


Supported Language

    • English

    • German

    • French

    • Italian

    • Spanish

    • Danish

    • Norwegian

    • Swedish

    • Dutch

    • Russian

    • Polish

    • Hungarian

    • Brazilian Portuguese

    • European Portuguese

    • Turkish

    • Czech

    • Thai

    • Japanese

    • Korean

    • Traditional Chinese

    • Simplified Chinese


Add-on Packages


Antivirus by McAfee (Trial)

    • Yes


Central Management System

    • Yes


Synology Chat

Maximum Number of Concurrent Users

100

Notes

    • Measured with simulated users, each with an average record of 20,000 messages, emojis, or stickers. The required server response time is below ten seconds.

    • When applicable, systems are tested configured with maximum memory and set to allow the maximum number of connections.


Document Viewer

    • Yes


Download Station

Maximum Concurrent Download Tasks

    • 80


SAN Manager

Maximum iSCSI Target Number

    • 128


Maximum LUN

    • 256


LUN Clone/Snapshot, Windows ODX

    • Yes


Synology MailPlus / MailPlus Server

Free Email Accounts

    • 5 (Licences required for additional accounts)


Maximum Number of Concurrent Users

    • 100


Maximum Server Performance

    • 1,224,000 emails per day, approx. 37GB


Notes

    • Models with 2 bays and dual M.2 drive slots were installed with two SSDs for SSD cache.

    • For tested models with expandable memory, the maximum amount of RAM was installed.

    • The performance of the mail system will slightly decrease in high-availability mode due to data synchronisation between the two servers.

    • Functions that were enabled in all of the tests above: anti-spam, anti-virus, DNSBL, greylist, content scan, full-text search (English only).


Media Server

DLNA Compliance

    • Yes


Synology Photos

Facial Recognition

    • Yes


Snapshot Replication

Maximum Snapshots per Shared Folder

    • 1,024


Maximum of System Snapshots

    • 65,536


Surveillance Station

Maximum IP cam (Licences required)

    • 40 (including 2 Free Licence)


Total FPS (H.264)

    • 1200 FPS @ 720p (1280x720)

    • 800 FPS @ 1080p (1920x1080)

    • 350 FPS @ 3M (2048x1536)

    • 280 FPS @ 5M (2591x1944)

    • 170 FPS @ 4K (3840x2160)


Total FPS (H.265)

    • 1200 FPS @ 720p (1280x720)

    • 1200 FPS @ 1080p (1920x1080)

    • 600 FPS @ 3M (2048x1536)

    • 480 FPS @ 5M (2591x1944)

    • 200 FPS @ 4K (3840x2160)


Notes

    • Maximum IP cameras and FPS figures are tested with the device fully populated with drives and under a continuous recording setup.

    • Actual system capabilities may differ depending on system configuration, drive performance, number of features enabled, and if additional workloads are present.


Synology Drive

Recommended Number of Concurrent Sync Clients

    • 350 (the number of connections that can be maintained when the recommended number of hosted files was reached)


Recommended Number of Hosted Files

    • 5,000,000 (applies to files indexed or hosted by Synology Drive. For file access through other standard protocols, refer to the File Services section above)


Notes

    • Exceeding the recommended numbers above will not block application operations, but may result in longer response time.

    • Utilizing SSD cache can significantly improve performance.

    • For tested models with expandable memory, the maximum amount of RAM was installed.

    • Btrfs file system and non-encrypted shared folders were used during the aforementioned testing.


Synology Office

Maximum Users

    • 1,200


Notes

    • Multiple files were opened for testing and each file was edited by 30 users simultaneously.

    • For tested models with expandable memory, the maximum amount of RAM was installed.

    • Client performance may affect maximum simultaneous editing users. Client PCs used for testing: Intel Core i3-3220 / 8GB RAM


Video Station

    • Yes


Virtual Machine Manager

Recommended Virtual Machine Instances

    • 4


Recommended Virtual DSM Number (Licences required)

    • 4 (including 1 Free Licence)


Notes

    • The specifications vary depending on system configuration and memory size.


VPN Server

Maximum Connections

    • 40


Package Contents

    • 1 x Main Unit

    • 1 x Accessory Pack

    • 1 x AC Power Adapter

    • 1 x AC Power Cord

    • 2 x RJ-45 LAN Cable

    • 1 x Quick Installation Guide



Standard Warranty: 3-Years

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