Synology ActiveProtect Appliance DP340 32TB 4-Bay RAID Array (4 x 8TB)

The ActiveProtect Appliance DP340 32TB 4-Bay RAID Array from Synology is a data protection solution that comes pre-configured with hardware that runs the ActiveProtect Manager (APM) operating system, which has been designed specifically for backup purposes. Aside from backups, the DP340 can perform restorations, deduplicate, replicate, and manage, all while ensuring security, thus making it a reliable solution for small and medium endpoints. It seamlessly integrates your current and future workloads across multiple sites into clusters, enabling centralized management through a single platform. With immutability, air-gapped backups, and access control, the DP340 protects against ransomware attacks and secures your data.

The DP340 is driven by a 2.6 GHz AMD Ryzen R1600 Dual-Core processor and 16GB of DDR4 memory. It comes with four 8TB SATA III 3.5" hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration, which provides performance gains and data redundancy, plus two 400GB NVMe M.2 2280 SSDs in a RAID 1 configuration. Other integrated features include a 10GbE RJ45 data transfer port, a 1GbE RJ45 management port, and one USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 port. Synology recommends the backup source be around 14.5TB.

Set up your server in minutes.

Protect VMs, SaaS, databases, physical servers, and more.

Monitor servers, and backup status on a centralized platform.

Verify backups and test your disaster recovery plan in a sandboxed environment.

Perform bare-metal, file-level recovery, or P2V/V2V instant restoration to meet your RTO needs.

Integrate immutability and air-gapped backups with WORM storage against ransomware.

Leverage source-side global deduplication and a specialized backup engine.

Implement least privilege with access controls, firewall, and isolation for a robust architecture.

Essential configuration such as disk partitioning and RAID array setup will be automatically completed, making deployment fast and effortless so that you can start protecting your data immediately.

Safeguard all your workloads, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows, macOS, Linux, NetApp ONTAP, Nutanix Files, Microsoft 365 services, Oracle Database, and Microsoft SQL server. Establish policies for companies to meet SLA requirements, and automate data protection by detecting existing and future workloads, ensuring that the workloads are secured under the appropriate policies. View, modify, and manage policies with ease.

The DP340 supports self-healing functionality with continuous detection of silent data corruption through Btrfs checksum. It ensures zero errors by repairing corrupt data via RAID technology. To verify the recoverability of backup data, disaster recovery drills can be regularly performed in a sandboxed environment without affecting your primary production site. Backup verification is also available, automatically generating recovery drill videos for auditing purposes. In the event of a disaster, data can be flexibly restored based on your Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) via entire machine restoration, file-level recovery, physical-to-virtual (P2V), or virtual-to-virtual (V2V) methods to restore data to the designated location.

To prevent ransomware attacks, the DP340 protects data backups and backup copies with immutability and write-once-read-many (WORM) storage to ensure that no one can modify data that has been backed up during the specified retention period. Additionally, it integrates encryption capabilities, enabling data to be encrypted locally before being backed up to remote destinations. To further enhance security, you can also isolate the remote environment using the air-gap feature.

The DP340 optimizes storage space allocation via hardware and software integration. By optimizing data organization, and consolidating multiple files into a single image, it accelerates data processing. Both backups and backup copies utilize global source-side deduplication, as it compares data at the source and only transmits non-duplicate data to save bandwidth and storage space.

The DP340's security mechanism is based on the principle of least-privilege authentication and network protection architecture. This mechanism only allows authorized personnel to access data, restricts access to specific devices, and limits access to the backup infrastructure during designated times to ensure data security.

• For Authorized Personnel: Active Directory, LDAP, and SAML 2.0 integration enables enterprises to use existing SSO with MFA and granular permissions to enhance access control.
• For Devices: Firewall settings can be configured to only allow access from devices within specified IP ranges and subnets. The built-in management port is an isolated interface dedicated for management purposes. It is separate from data flow to reduce security risks.
• Enhanced Isolation: Secure your remote backup infrastructure via air-gapped solutions to achieve network or physical isolation. Limit network access to specified times or turn your devices on or off.