DiskStation DS716+II

Fulfill your needs for safe data storage and ultra high definition video sharing with
Synology DiskStation DS716+II. Compact yet powerful, DS716+II features an Intel® quad-core CPU
with AES-NI hardware encryption engine and 2GB RAM, providing outstanding performance and
data encryption acceleration along with real-time transcoding of 4K Ultra HD source content.
Synology DiskStation DS716+II is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.

Highlights Compact Storage Server with Outstanding Performance

Synology DiskStation DS716+II is designed for small offices pursuing a compact yet powerful
●● Quad-core CPU with AES-NI shared storage solution, featuring an Intel® Celeron® quad-core CPU, built-in
hardware encryption engine
AES-NI hardware encryption engine, 2GB DDR3 RAM, and storage scalability up to 7
drives with Synology Expansion Unit DX5132. With Link Aggregation enabled, DS716+II
●● Encryption performance at over delivers up to an average 226.1 MB/s reading and 141.19 MB/s writing speed under RAID 1
226.09 MB/s reading, 138.04 MB/s configuration in a Windows® environment, and an encrypted data transmission at over 226.09
writing1 MB/s reading and 138.04 MB/s writing.1

●● Scale up to 7 drives with Synology DS716+II comes with 3 USB 3.0 ports both on the front and rear panel, providing fast and
convenient data transfer and backup to external storage devices. Dual Gigabit LAN with
DX5132
failover support and hot-swappable drive tray design ensure continual service uptime during
●● Advanced snapshot technology drive replacement or unexpected LAN failure. High Availability Manager ensures seamless
for data protection transition between clustered servers in the event of server failure with minimal impact to
applications to decrease the risk of unexpected interruptions and costly downtime.
●● Introduced Btrfs file system with
built-in data integrity check Btrfs: Next Generation Storage Efficiency
●● Single H.264/H.265 4K or triple Full DS716+II introduces the Btrfs file system, bringing the most advanced storage technologies
HD video transcoding on the fly 3 to meet the management needs of modern businesses:

●● Dual 1GbE LAN with failover and ●● Built-in data integrity check detects data and file system corruption with data and
meta-data checksums and improve overall stability.
Link Aggregation support
●● Flexible Shared Folder/User Quota System provides comprehensive quota control on
●● A versatile storage server for all user accounts and shared folders.
small offices ●● Advanced snapshot technology with customizable backup schedule allows up to 1024
copies of shared folder backups in a minimum 5-minute interval without occupying
huge storage capacity and system resources.
●● File or folder level data restoration brings huge convenience and saves time for users
who wish to restore only a specific single file or folder.
●● Cloud Station with file versioning reduces down to half of storage consumption when
compared with the Ext4 file system.
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Comprehensive Business Applications
Powered by the innovative Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM), DS716+II comes fully-
1 2 3 4 5 equipped with business applications and features:
1 2 3 ●● Easy integration with existing business network environments through Windows® AD
and LDAP directory services without recreating user accounts.
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●● Windows ACL support provides fine-grained access control and efficient privilege
settings, allowing DS716+II to fit seamlessly into current infrastructure.
●● Complete backup applications protect information assets by regularly backing up files
Next Generation Storage Efficiency and iSCSI LUNs locally and remotely.
The Btrfs file system brings storage 4K Ultra HD Multimedia Bank
management to the next level by Synology DiskStation DS716+II features real-time H.264/H.265 1-channel 4K Ultra HD
providing more efficient storage utilization,
or 3-channel Full HD3 video transcoding, bringing more complete support to the latest
scheduled shared folder snapshot, and
multimedia file formats and contents and allowing easy file sharing across Windows, Mac®,
file/folder-level data restoration.
and Linux® platforms. With Video Station, you can organize personal digital video library
with comprehensive media information, watch 4K Ultra HD movies and films, or record TV
programs with a DVB-T/DVB-S stick. Photo Station’s intuitive design allows you to effortlessly
organize photos into customized categories, smart albums and blog posts, and link them to
social networking websites within a few clicks. Audio Station comes with Internet radio and
lossless audio formats support and provides music playback via DLNA, AirPlay®, and Bluetooth
devices (a Bluetooth dongle is required).

Virtualization Ready
With iSCSI support in DSM, DS716+II provides seamless storage solutions for virtualization
environments, including VMware®, Citrix®, and Hyper-V®. With VMware vSphere 5 and VAAI
integration, DS716+II helps offload specific storage operations and optimizes computation
power for unparalleled performance and efficiency in VMware environments. It is the ideal
alternative to SAN solution for businesses. Affordable and cost-effective, iSCSI allows SMB
users to consolidate storage into data center storage arrays while providing hosts with the
illusion of locally-attached disks.
Flexible Scalability
Energy Efficient and Easy Management Design
DS716+II can expand its capacity on-the-fly
and enlarge volumes across its expansion Synology DS716+II is designed and developed with energy efficiency in mind. Compared
unit for storage or backup. with the average storage server counterparts, DS716+II consumes only 19.14W in regular
operation. The support of Wake on LAN/WAN and scheduled power on and off can further
reduce power consumption and operation cost. HDD hibernation can be configured to take
effect automatically when the system has been inactive for a specified period of time. This not
only saves energy but also extends the lifespan of the hard disks.
All Synology products are produced with RoHS compliant parts and packed with recyclable
packing materials. Synology acknowledges the responsibility as a global citizen to continually
work to reduce the environmental impact of every product produced.
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1 LED indicator 2 USB copy button 3 USB 3.0 port 4 Power button
5 Tray lock 6 Drive tray 7 Gigabit (RJ-45) LAN port 8 Power port
9 Reset button 10 Kensington Security Slot 11 USB 3.0 port 12 eSATA port

Technical Specifications
Hardware
CPU Intel Celeron N3160 quad-core 1.6GHz, burst up to 2.24GHz

Floating point unit Yes

Hardware encryption engine Yes (AES-NI)

Hardware transcoding engine Supported codec: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), MPEG-2 and VC-1; maximum resolution: 4K (4096 x 2160); maximum frame rate per second (FPS): 30

RAM size DDR3 2GB

Compatible drive type 3.5”/2.5” SATA III/II x 2 (hard drives not included)

Maximum internal raw capacity 20TB (10TB HDD x 2) (actual capacity dependent on volume types)

External ports USB 3.0 port x 3, eSATA port x 1

Size (HxWxD) 157 mm x 103.5 mm x 232 mm

Weight 1.75 kg

LAN Gigabit (RJ-45) x 2

Wireless support Yes (wireless dongles not included)

Wake on LAN/WAN Yes

Scheduled power on/off Yes

AC input power voltage 100V to 240V

Power frequency 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase

Operating temperature 5°C to 40°C (40°F to 104°F)

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

Relative humidity 5% to 95% RH

General
Networking protocols CIFS, AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, CalDAV, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, SNMP, VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN™ , L2TP)
Internal: Btrfs, ext4
File system
External: Btrfs, ext4, ext3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+
Maximum single volume size: 108TB, Maximum internal volume: 512, Maximum iSCSI Target: 32, Maximum iSCSI LUN: 256,
Storage management
iSCSI LUN clone/snapshot support; SSD read/write cache support
Supported RAID type Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1; with Synology Expansion Unit DX513/DX213: RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10
Maximum user account: 2048, Maximum group: 256, Maximum shared folder: 512,
File sharing capability
Maximum concurrent CIFS/AFP/FTP/File Station connection: 512
Privilege Windows Access Control List (ACL)

Directory service Windows AD Integration: Domain Users login via Samba (CIFS)/AFP/FTP/File Station, LDAP integration

Virtualization VMware vSphere 5, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix ready

Security FTP over SSL/TLS, IP auto-block, firewall, encrypted network backup over Rsync, HTTPS connection
 Synology Web Assistant, Cloud Station Drive, Cloud Station Backup, Cloud Sync Decryption Tool, Evidence Integrity Authenticator, Photo Station Uploader,
Utilities
Snapshot Manager for VMware, Snapshot Manager for Windows, NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI
Supported clients Windows 7 onwards and Mac OS X® 10.10 onwards

Supported browsers Chrome™, Firefox®, Internet Explorer® 8 onwards, Safari® 7 onwards, Safari (iOS® 7 onwards on iPad®), Chrome (Android 4.0 onwards on tablets)
English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Dansk, Norsk, Svensk, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Magyar,
Language Português do Brasil, Português Europeu, Türkçe, Český,

Applications
Virtual drive, remote folder, Windows ACL editor, compress/extract archived files, bandwidth control for specific users or groups, create sharing links, transfer
File Station
logs
Network backup; local backup; desktop backup; configuration backup; OS X Time Machine; backup data to public cloud;
Backup solutions
shared folder sync - maximum task number: 8
Bandwidth control for TCP connections, custom FTP passive port range, anonymous FTP, FTP SSL/TLS and SFTP protocols, boot over the network with TFTP
FTP Server
and PXE support, transfer logs
High Availability Manager Combines two DS716+II into one high-availability cluster
Maximum printer: 2, printing protocols: LPR, CIFS, IPP, iOS printing, Google Cloud Print™, multi functional print server (MFP functions are for Windows PC
Printer Server
only)
Security Advisor Malware detection/removal, user account/password, network, system-related security scan

iOS/Android™ applications DS cloud, DS file, DS finder, DS cam, DS note, DS audio, DS download, DS photo, DS video

Windows Phone® applications DS file, DS finder, DS audio, DS download, DS photo, DS video

Add-on Packages
Antivirus Essential Full system scan, scheduled scan, white list customization, virus definition auto update

Cloud Station Server Maximum concurrent file transfers: 512, retain historical and deleted file versions
One or two-way synchronization with public cloud storage providers including Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon S3-compatible storage, Baiduyun, Box,
Cloud Sync
Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, hubiC, Megafon Disk, Microsoft OneDrive, OpenStack Swift-compatible storage, WebDAV servers, Yandex Disk
DLNA/UPnP® Media Server DLNA certified, PS3®/PS4®/Xbox 360®/Xbox One® support
Supported download protocols: BT/HTTP/FTP/NZB/eMule
Download Station
Maximum concurrent download task: 80
Log Center SSL connection, log rotation: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, email notification

MailPlus Intuitive webmail interface for MailPlus Server; customizable mail labels, filters and user interface
Secure, reliable, and private mail server solution with High-availability, load balancing, security and filtering design
MailPlus Server
(Including free MailPlus licenses for 5 mail accounts. Procurement of additional licenses is required.)
Note Station Rich-text note organization with versioning, encryption, sharing, media embedding and attachments

Storage Analyzer Volume and quota usage, total size of files, volume usage and trends based on past usage, size of shared folders, largest/most/least frequently modified files
Maximum IP camera: 40 (total of 1200 FPS at 720p, H.264)
Surveillance Station
(Including two free camera licenses. Procurement of additional licenses is required.)
VPN Server Maximum connections: 20; supported VPN protocols: PPTP, OpenVPN™, L2TP

Web Station Virtual host (up to 30 websites), PHP/MariaDB®, 3rd-party applications support

Other packages Photo Station, Audio Station, iTunes® Server, 3rd-party packages

Environment and Packaging

Environment RoHS Compliant

Package content DS716+II main unit, Welcome note, accessory pack, AC power adapter, RJ-45 LAN cable x 2

Optional accessories Camera License Pack, VS360HD, Synology Expansion Unit DX513/DX213

Warranty 3 Years

*Model specifications are subject to change without notice. Please refer to www.synology.com for the latest information.
1. Performance figures may vary depending on environment, usage and configuration.
2. DS716+II supports one Synology Expansion Unit DX513/DX213, sold separately.
3. DS716+II can transcode 4K video to 1080p or lower. The concurrent channels of Full HD video transcoding may vary depending on the video codec, resolution, bitrate and FPS.

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