FlashStation

FS2500

Efficient All-Flash Highlights

• High Performance
Server for I/O-Intensive Handles intensive I/O efficiently with over
170,000/82,000 4K random read/write IOPS1
Applications • Flexible Virtualization Storage
Certified support for VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft®
Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer™, and OpenStack with
Synology FlashStation FS2500 features 12 Kubernetes CSI driver
• Convenient Networking Options
bays for 2.5” SATA SSDs in a 1U enclosure. Its
Built-in dual 10GbE and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
compact form factor and processing power offer easy integration with existing environments
• Data and Services Protection
make it an ideal solution for I/O-intensive
Back up critical data and cut your recovery time
and latency-sensitive applications such as objective with built-in data protection and high
availability tools
VM storage and email servers in small to
• Long-Term Support
medium-size deployments. Powered by Backed by Synology’s 5-year limited warranty2

Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), the

FS2500 comes with reliable and easy-to-set-
up solutions for uptime and data protection.

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 Solid State Storage for Small to Medium-Sized
Businesses

The FS2500 is a lightning-fast, cost-effective, and space-saving storage

solution for virtual machines, containers, email, and databases.

Next-Generation File System • Up to 172,552/82,917 4K random read/write IOPS and over

Btrfs is a modern file system designed to safeguard 4,700/2,500 MB/s sequential read/write performance support both
data integrity through metadata mirroring, file self-
I/O-intensive applications and large file transfers1
healing, and fast snapshot replication.
• Built-in dual 10GbE and dual 1GbE RJ-45 ports provide fast connectivity
options right out of the box, while 10/25/40GbE NIC support lets you
add additional bandwidth through PCIe 3.0 expansion cards3
• Redundant power supply units and system fans coupled with
network ports that support automatic failover prevent single points
of hardware failure

Certified Virtual Machine and Container Storage

Deploy and facilitate storage operations in virtualization environments

with full certification for VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V®,
Citrix® XenServer™, and OpenStack. A Kubernetes CSI driver provides
integrated volume management.

The FS2500 is ideal as virtual machine storage, but can also serve as an
alternative VM host and run Docker containers.
Upgrade Your Aging SAN
• Manage storage directly from your hypervisor with Synology Storage
Synology systems can integrate with your
virtualization platforms and easily replace aging Console for VMware or Windows platforms
SAN storage arrays in any organization's existing
• Offload storage operations and speed up data transfer using VMware
infrastructure.
VAAI integration and Windows ODX
• Save significant storage space with full flash volume deduplication
when used together with Synology SSDs
• Protect full VMware® vSphere™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V® deployments
with agentless virtual machine backup in Synology Active Backup for
Business

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 Powerful Data and Uptime Protection Tools

Built-in solutions help maintain high system availability and facilitate fast
recovery if a disaster or major outage occurs.

• Synology High Availability provides fast failover between two identical

FS2500 units to keep services online when disaster strikes
• Snapshot Replication provides schedulable, near-instantaneous data
Synology Backup Solutions protection with version control, ensuring that documents in shared
DSM backup solutions are designed to be low- folders and VMs on LUNs remain safe and available
maintenance and efficient, delivering low RPO
• Hyper Backup protects your NAS by backing up data and
and RTO targets and offering a large selection of
backup destinations for a variety of workloads. configurations to multiple destinations with efficiency delivered by
built-in deduplication, integrity checks, compression, and versioning
• C2 Storage for Hyper Backup offers a dedicated and secure public
cloud destination for Synology NAS backup data4

Work and Collaborate From Anywhere

Synology's productivity suite provides a private cloud solution for on-site

and remote workers to concurrently edit documents, share files, manage
emails, send instant messages, and more.

By leveraging private cloud infrastructure, businesses can ensure

complete data ownership and multi-layered security.
Synology Productivity Suite
• Synology Office lets multiple users edit, comment on, and share files
A powerful and secure private cloud solution
that lets teams collaborate, sync files, and
together using Synology Documents, Spreadsheets, and Slides
communicate with others anytime, anywhere. • Synology Drive is a private cloud file management solution that
supports remote data access, synchronization, on-demand file
restoration, and backup
• Synology Chat brings teams together with one-on-one chats, group
chats, and encrypted private channels over multiple platforms
• Synology MailPlus5 provides a secure, reliable, and private email server
• Synology Calendar helps teams keep track of what is most important
with convenient calendar sharing and scheduling
• Synology Hybrid Share combines reliable on-premises storage and
efficient syncing of shared folders in the cloud to enable seamless
cross-site synchronization and local access at LAN speed4

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 Backed by Synology’s 5-Year Limited Warranty

Maximize your return on investment with the comprehensive hardware

replacement and premium technical support services offered under
Synology’s 5-year limited hardware warranty.2

Choose Synology SSDs to populate your FlashStation and deal with a

Synology Has You Covered single vendor for warranty and support. Benefit from stable performance
Keep your business running with the technical
over time and low-latency data access thanks to rigorous testing and
support services included in Synology’s 5-year
limited warranty.2 integration.

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Hardware Overview
Front Rear

1 Power Button and Indicator 2 Status Indicator 3 Alert Indicator 4 Beep Off Button
5 Drive Status Indicators 6 Drive Trays 7 Power Ports 8 PCI Express Expansion Slot
PSU Indicators and Beep Off
9 10 PSU Fans 11 1GbE RJ-45 Ports 12 10GbE RJ-45 Ports
Buttons
13 Console Port 14 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Ports 15 Reset Button

Technical Specifications
Hardware
CPU AMD Ryzen™ V1780B quad-core (8-thread) 3.35 GHz, max boost clock up to 3.6 GHz

Hardware encryption AES-NI

Memory 8 GB DDR4 ECC UDIMM (expandable up to 32 GB)

• 12 x 2.5" SATA SSD (drives not included)

Compatible drive types
• Only drives listed on the compatibility list can be used to create storage pools6

Hot swappable drives Yes

External ports 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports

Form factor Rackmount 1U

• 44 x 437.5 x 521.9 mm
Size (HxWxD)
• 44 x 481.9 x 555.9 mm (with server ears)

Weight 8.3 kg

• 2 x 1GbE RJ-45
LAN ports
• 2 x 10GbE RJ-45

Wake on LAN/WAN Yes (only on 1GbE ports)

• 1 x 8 width slot, Gen 3.0 x4 lanes

PCIe expansion
• Supports network interface cards3

Scheduled power on/off Yes

System fans 4 x (40 x 40 x 28 mm)

AC input power voltage 100 V to 240 V AC

Power frequency 50/60 Hz, single phase

Operating temperature 0°C to 35°C (32°F to 95°F)

Storage temperature -20°C to 60°C (-5°F to 140°F)

Relative humidity 5% to 95% RH

Maximum operating altitude 5,000 m (16,400 ft)

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General DSM Specifications
Networking protocols SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, SNMP, and VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN™, L2TP)

• Internal: Btrfs, ext4

File systems
• External: Btrfs, ext4, ext3, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, exFAT

Supported RAID types Synology RAID F1, Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10

• Maximum single volume size: 108 TB/200 TB7

Storage management • Maximum number of system snapshots: 65,5368
• Maximum number of internal volumes: 256

• Read/write cache support

SSD cache
• 2.5" SATA SSD support

• Maximum local user accounts: 16,000

• Maximum local groups: 512
File sharing capabilities
• Maximum shared folders: 512
• Maximum concurrent SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP connections: 2,000 (8,000 with RAM expansion)9

Privileges Windows® Access Control List (ACL) and application privileges

Connects with Windows® AD/LDAP servers enabling domain users to login via SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP/File Station using their
Directory services
existing credentials

Virtualization VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer™, OpenStack, and Kubernetes

Firewall, shared folder encryption, SMB encryption, FTP over SSL/TLS, SFTP, rsync over SSH, login auto block, Let's Encrypt
Security
support, and HTTPS (customizable cipher suite)

Google Chrome®, Firefox®, Microsoft Edge®, Safari® 13 and later, and Safari (iOS 13.0 and later) on iPad, Chrome (Android™
Supported browsers
11.0 and later) on tablets

English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Dansk, Norsk, Svensk, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Magyar,
Interface languages
Português do Brasil, Português Europeu, Türkçe, Český,

Packages and Applications

File Server & Synchronization
Synchronizes files across Windows®, macOS®, Linux®, Android™ and iOS. The built-in cross-platform portal allows access to
data anytime and anywhere
Drive
• Maximum number of hosted files: 50,000,000
• Maximum number of concurrent connections for PC clients: 900

Provides virtual drives, remote folders, Windows® ACL editor, compression/extraction of archived files, bandwidth control for
File Station
specific users/groups, creation of sharing links, and transfer logs

Efficiently synchronizes files across sites by keeping shared data on Synology C2 Storage and streaming files to Synology NAS
Hybrid Share4
worldwide on request. Frequently requested files are cached at each site for low-latency access

Supports bandwidth control for TCP connections, custom FTP passive port ranges, anonymous FTP, FTP over TLS/SSL and
FTP Server
SFTP protocols, network booting with TFTP and PXE support, and transfer logs

Enables high-speed data transfer over WAN through the exclusive SITA technology between Synology NAS and desktop
Presto File Server10
platforms

Offers one or two-way synchronization with public cloud storage providers including Alibaba Cloud OSS, Backblaze B2, Baidu
Cloud Sync Cloud, Box, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, hubiC, MegaDisk, Microsoft OneDrive, OpenStack Swift-compatible
storage, Tencent COS, WebDAV servers and Yandex Disk

Search through files, metadata, and more on your NAS. Integration with Windows Search and macOS Spotlight makes it easy
Universal Search
to find files

Migrates data, system setting, and applications seamlessly from one Synology NAS to another to ensure maximum service
Migration Assistant
availability

SAN Storage & Virtualization

• Maximum number of iSCSI targets: 256
SAN Manager • Maximum number of LUNs: 512
• LUN Clone/Snapshot, Windows ODX support

Virtual Machine Manager11 Supports running Windows®, Linux®, and Virtual DSM-based virtual machines on Synology NAS

Data Protection & Backup Solution

Hyper Backup Supports local backup, network backup, and data backup to other servers and public clouds, including C2 Storage

• DSM configuration backup, macOS® Time Machine® support, Synology Drive Client desktop application
Backup tools
• Shared folder sync supports a maximum of 32 tasks

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 • Maximum number of snapshots for shared folders: 1,024
Snapshot Replication
• Maximum number of replications: 64

Synology High Availability Reduces service downtime by combining two identical NAS into a high-availability cluster

An all-in-one backup solution designed for heterogeneous business IT environments. It enables IT admins to remotely
Active Backup for Business
manage and protect PCs, servers, and VMs from one centralized console

Active Backup for Google

Supports backup and restoration of Google Workspace My Drive, Team Drive, Gmail, Contacts, and Calendar
Workspace

Active Backup for Microsoft 365 Supports backup and restoration of Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Business, Outlook, Contacts, and Calendar

Productivity & Collaboration

Collaborate with instant messaging service Synology Chat, online documents editor Synology Office, and scheduling assistant
Synology Calendar
Collaboration tools • Maximum users for Chat: 4,000
• Maximum users for Office: 2,900
• Calendar supports CalDAV and access via mobile devices

A note taking platform that supports rich text, note organization and versioning, encryption, sharing, media embedding, and
Note Station
attachments

Synology MailPlus Server5 A secure, reliable, and private mail solution featuring high-availability, load balancing, security, and filtering options

Synology MailPlus An intuitive webmail interface for Synology MailPlus Server with configurable mail labels, filters, and user interface

Surveillance
Surveillance Station12 Maximum IP cameras: 100, for a total of 3,000 FPS at 720p (H.264)

Management & Administration

Synology Directory Server Provides a flexible and cost-effective domain controller solution

Central Management System Provides a single interface to manage and monitor multiple Synology NAS

• Maximum connections: 60
VPN Server
• Supported VPN protocols: PPTP, OpenVPN™, L2TP/IPSec

Gain useful intelligence, including health statistics of all NAS deployments across multiple sites and actionable advice to solve
Active Insight
any issues, on a centralized cloud-hosted management platform

Displays volume and quota usage, total size of files, volume usage and trends based on past usage, size of shared folders,
Storage Analyzer
large files, most recently modified files, and least recently accessed files

Antivirus Essential Provides full system scans, scheduled scans, white list customization, and auto-update of virus definitions

Web Station Enables hosting for up to 30 websites with support for PHP/MariaDB® and 3rd-party applications

Other packages DNS Server, RADIUS Server, and Log Center

Others
Synology Drive, Synology MailPlus, Synology Secure SignIn, Synology Chat, Synology LiveCam, Synology Active Insight, DS
iOS/Android™ applications
cam, DS file, DS finder, and DS note

Other packages Additional 3rd-party packages are available in the Package Center

Environment and Packaging

Environment safety RoHS compliant

• 1 x FS2500 main unit

• 1 x Quick Installation Guide
Package contents
• 1 x Accessory pack
• 2 x AC power cord

• DDR4 ECC UDIMM: D4EU01-8G / D4EU01-16G

• 10GbE Network Interface Cards: E10G21-F2 / E10G18-T2 / E10G18-T1
• 25GbE Network Interface Card: E25G21-F2
• 2.5" SATA SSD: SAT5200 / SAT5210
Optional accessories13
• MailPlus License Pack5
• Surveillance Device License Pack12
• Virtual DSM License Pack11
• Sliding Rail Kit: RKS-01

Warranty 5 years2

Note: Model specifications are subject to change without notice. Please refer to www.synology.com for the latest information.
1. Performance figures are obtained through internal testing by Synology. Actual performance may vary depending on the testing environment, usage, and

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 configuration. See performance charts for more information.
2. The warranty period starts from the date of purchase as stated on your purchase receipt. Visit https://www.synology.com/company/legal/warranty for more
information.
3. For the most up-to-date list of compatible NICs, please check our compatibility list.
4. C2 Storage for Hyper Backup and Hybrid Share requires purchase of an eligible annual or monthly subscription. A free trial is available for each newly
registered device.
5. Five MailPlus email accounts are included. Additional email accounts can be added with the purchase of Synology MailPlus License Packs. Learn more
6. Check our compatibility list for supported drives.
7. Volumes up to 108 TB are supported with the default installed memory. Volumes up to 200 TB can be created if the memory is upgraded to 32 GB. Learn more
about maximum volume sizes.
8. System snapshots include snapshots taken by SAN Manager, Snapshot Replication, and Virtual Machine Manager. Availability of these packages varies by model.
9. Maximum concurrent connections can be increased to 8,000 with maximum installed memory of 32 GB RAM.
10. Presto File Server license can be purchased separately through the application.
11. Certain advanced features require Virtual Machine Manager Pro. One Virtual DSM license is included. Additional Virtual DSM instances require the purchase of
Virtual DSM Licenses.
12. Surveillance Station includes two free licenses. Connecting more cameras and devices requires additional licenses. Learn more
13. Please refer to our compatibility list for the latest optional accessories list.

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