Synology HD6500 60-Bay Rackmount NAS Enclosure

The Synology HD6500 is a 60-bay rackmount network attached storage enclosure designed for organizations that manage fast-growing datasets and need a platform that expands without disruption. Housed in a 4U chassis, it can be the backbone of a media studio, a surveillance archive, or a multi-site backup target, and it scales to 300 drives when paired with Synology expansion units.

Inside, two Intel Xeon Silver 4210R processors with ten cores each handle simultaneous transfers, encryption, and virtualization workloads. The system ships with 64 GB of ECC DDR4 memory that protects against data corruption and can grow to 512 GB as demands increase. When the network and drives allow, the enclosure delivers sequential read speeds up to 6688 MB/s and write speeds up to 6622 MB/s, so large video projects and full-system backups move quickly.

Connectivity includes two 10 GbE ports for high-throughput production traffic and two additional Gigabit ports for management or secondary links. Built-in RAID options—0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD—let administrators balance performance, capacity, and redundancy to match each workload.

The chassis supports two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports for external copy jobs and two mini-SAS ports that connect to expansion shelves when it is time to add more drives. Dual 1600 W power supplies keep the system online during a power module failure, while out-of-band management allows remote troubleshooting without taking the array offline. Synology includes two 480 GB SATA SSDs, making it easy to set up a cache or dedicated system volume on day one.

The HD6500 integrates smoothly with Windows Server environments, VMware, and Citrix, so it fits into existing data centers and hybrid clouds. Whether you are consolidating file servers, building a private video library, or safeguarding hundreds of endpoint backups, this enclosure provides the capacity and resilience to keep data available and secure.

Highlights:

• 60 drive bays in a 4U rackmount chassis
• Expandable to 300 bays with Synology expansion units
• Two Intel Xeon Silver 4210R processors with ten cores each
• 64 GB ECC DDR4 memory pre-installed, expandable to 512 GB
• Sequential read speed up to 6688 MB/s
• Sequential write speed up to 6622 MB/s
• Two 10 GbE and two Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD
• Two USB 3.2 Gen 1 and two mini-SAS ports
• Dual 1600 W power supplies for redundancy
• Includes two 480 GB SATA SSDs
• Compatible with Windows Server, VMware, and Citrix