Synology PAS7700: Active-Active NVMe Enterprise Storage 2026

Enterprise storage teams are under pressure to deliver zero-downtime infrastructure while controlling costs and scaling to petabyte-level capacity. Synology's PAS7700 addresses these demands with a production-ready, active-active all-flash NVMe platform built for the most demanding workloads.

Mission-critical environments cannot afford unplanned downtime, data loss, or storage bottlenecks. As enterprises scale their data operations, the need for a storage system that combines high availability, extreme performance, and operational efficiency in a single platform has become a core infrastructure requirement. Synology PAS7700 was engineered specifically to meet these requirements.

What was announced

On May 21, 2026, Synology officially announced the general availability of the PAS7700, the company's first active-active, all-flash NVMe storage system. The platform is now available globally through Synology's distributor and partner network.

PAS7700 features a dual-controller architecture housed in a 4U chassis with 48 NVMe SSD bays. It scales up to 1.65PB of raw capacity with support for up to seven expansion units. The system supports a broad set of file and block protocols including NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SMB, and NFS.

Key performance specifications include:

• IOPS: up to 2 million at sub-millisecond latency
• Throughput: up to 30 GB/s
• Memory: up to 2,048 GB (upgradable to 1,024 GB per node)
• Networking: 100GbE
• Capacity: up to 1.65PB raw with expansion

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. PAS7700 is field-proven to deliver high reliability and performance, while helping customers lower total cost of ownership.

Why this matters

For CIOs, IT directors, and procurement leaders evaluating enterprise storage, PAS7700 represents a significant shift in what is available from Synology at the high end. The active-active architecture means both controllers are simultaneously serving I/O, eliminating single points of failure at the controller level and enabling non-disruptive failover without performance degradation.

The total cost of ownership (TCO) argument is directly addressed through built-in advanced deduplication and the upcoming Synology Tiering feature, which will automatically migrate cold data to lower-cost storage tiers based on configurable policies. This allows organizations to reserve high-performance NVMe capacity for active workloads while reducing overall storage spend.

For CISOs, PAS7700 arrives with an integrated data protection portfolio — Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs), Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) immutable snapshots, Snapshot Replication, and Hyper Backup — all available out of the box. This reduces the integration effort typically required to meet compliance and data governance requirements.

Technical details

• Architecture: Active-active dual-controller, 4U chassis
• Drive bays: 48 NVMe SSD bays
• Maximum raw capacity: 1.65PB with up to 7 expansion units
• Performance: Up to 2 million IOPS at sub-millisecond latency
• Throughput: Up to 30 GB/s
• Memory: Up to 2,048 GB total (1,024 GB per node, upgradable)
• Networking: 100GbE
• Protocols: NVMe-oF, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SMB, NFS
• Redundancy: RAID triple-parity, synchronized in-memory write protection, IP failover, protocol-level failover
• Data protection: SEDs, WORM, immutable snapshots, Snapshot Replication, Hyper Backup
• Efficiency: Advanced deduplication; Synology Tiering (upcoming)

Softprom and Synology

Softprom is the official distributor of Synology. As a distributor, Softprom provides access to the full Synology portfolio — including the new PAS7700 enterprise NVMe storage system — along with pre-sales technical consulting, licensing support, and procurement services for IT infrastructure projects.

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