ActiveProtect Appliance
ActiveProtect Appliance
Secure your data and scale your business with a purpose-built backup appliance.
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"The ease of use is fantastic. It works right out of the box with minimal setup and configuration."
Director of IT - Education
"Provides a great solution to the problem, easy to set up, simple to maintain, always up to date, and ensures high IT security."
Engineer - Manufacturing
"Stable products, stable software, software for all IT requirements and, in particular, a very innovative company that has never stopped developing to this day."
Manager of IT Services - IT Services
"This was such an easy deployment. It met our needs quite easily and without complicated licensing."
Assistant Chief Engineer - Media
"We have used Synology products before so have an existing great track record for their reliability and support."
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Redefine cyber resilience with ActiveProtect Immutable by design Lock down your backups with WORM functionality to prevent any modifications or deletions to your data. Enhanced security with native air-gapping Immediately isolate clean copies of your backups via logical or physical isolation for swift recovery, ensuring no gaps in your data protection.
Recover your data with confidence
Secure your backups Immutability is available everywhere by default so that data cannot be tampered and can be stored for a certain period of time.
Automatic backup verification Automatically checks your data during backups to ensure that an accurate copy of your data is preserved.
Data integrity safeguards Implement a proactive maintenance strategy to detect errors or corrupt data and repair data with self-healing capabilities.
Disaster recovery drills Perform disaster recovery drills periodically via a built-in virtual machine without any impact to your production site in order to recover data effectively.
Instant data restoration Instantly restore data via P2V or V2V migration to minimize disruption and maintain business continuity.
Get the backup and recovery performance you deserve Perform backups at record speeds, eliminate duplicate data, maximize storage capacity, and instantly recover your data with ActiveProtect appliance.
2X faster backup speeds Perform ultra-fast backups at record speeds with source-side deduplication and incremental backups.
2X faster restore speeds Accelerate data recovery with SSD cache and instantly retrieve data by authorizing the hypervisor to access and mount the target.
-99% data transmission Minimize data transfer with source-side deduplication to save redundant data transmission traffic.
80% storage size reduction Eliminate redundant data across the cluster with cross-site and global deduplication to maximize storage capacity.
1 2X faster backup speeds Perform ultra-fast backups at record speeds with source-side deduplication and incremental backups.
2 2X faster restore speeds Accelerate data recovery with SSD cache and instantly retrieve data by authorizing the hypervisor to access and mount the target.
3 -99% data transmission Minimize data transfer with source-side deduplication to save redundant data transmission traffic.
4 80% storage size reduction Eliminate redundant data across the cluster with cross-site and global deduplication to maximize storage capacity.
Long-term data retention made simple Flexible storage tiering options Move your data to an on-prem or cloud backup repository of your choice as a way to better manage and store your growing backups. Click here to learn more. Meet regulatory compliance and standards With the ever-changing regulatory landscape, companies are now required by law to store data for a number of years. Store your data securely to meet long-term data retention and compliance needs.
Monitor your backup infrastructure with a single pane Consolidate and manage your backup appliances Create and manage custom protection plans, view up to 150,000 workloads, and perform backups and retrieve data from an offsite location on one platform. Backup monitoring made easy Monitor up to 2,500 sites and view your entire backup infrastructure, including primary backups, backup copies, tiered, and archived data, no matter where your data is located.
Save up to 75% on your backup deployment No hidden fees Forget about purchasing multiple licenses to access specific features or certain licensing editions and focus on building a comprehensive data protection plan with ActiveProtect appliance. Deploy and scale when needed Only budget for the backup servers you currently need and expand your backup infrastructure without worrying about steep upfront costs.
Over 30M workloads have been secured with Synology
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Find out why Unlock enterprise-grade protection today ActiveProtect appliance enterprise buyer guide Centralize workloads by selecting a reliable backup appliance solution to manage, access, and recover data from teams and branch offices via a single platform. Find out more Backup solution guide Streamline your data backup and recovery process with versatile Synology solutions. Find out more Cyber recovery guide Safeguard your data with a powerful cyber recovery solution with Synology ActiveProtect. Find out more ActiveProtect data deduplication white paper Maximize the capacity of your backup appliance with ActiveProtect’s powerful deduplication capabilities. Find out more Get started today Find a reseller Learn more Get in touch Contact us Notes: All trademarks displayed are the property of their respective owners. As of 8 July 2025, Synology Inc. has received an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 in the Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions Market (Transitioning to Backup and Data Protection Platforms), based on 101 client reviews on Gartner® Peer InsightsTM. Click here to learn more. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and PEER INSIGHTS is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Rack
Model Name
DP7400
DP7200
Suggested Backup Source*
83.5 TB 56 TB
Suggested Built-in Restored VM
9* 4*
Cluster Role
Can function as a cluster controller or a managed server in a cluster that supports up to 2,500 servers or 150,000 workloads Can function as a cluster controller or a managed server in a cluster that supports up to 2,500 servers or 150,000 workloads
Form Factor
2U (RU) 2U (RU)
CPU
AMD EPYC 7272 AMD EPYC 7272
Memory
64 GB 32 GB
Storage Configuration
  • 2 x 3840 GB 2.5" SSD (RAID 1)
  • 10 x 20 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 6 + 1 Spare)
  • 2 x 1920 GB 2.5" SSD (RAID 1)
  • 10 x 12 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 6 + 1 Spare)
Network Interface
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 2 x 10GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 2 x 10GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
Rack
Model Name
DP7400
DP7200
Suggested Backup Source* 83.5 TB 56 TB
Suggested Built-in Restored VM 9* 4*
Cluster Role Can function as a cluster controller or a managed server in a cluster that supports up to 2,500 servers or 150,000 workloads Can function as a cluster controller or a managed server in a cluster that supports up to 2,500 servers or 150,000 workloads
Form Factor 2U (RU) 2U (RU)
CPU AMD EPYC 7272 AMD EPYC 7272
Memory 64 GB 32 GB
Storage Configuration
  • 2 x 3840 GB 2.5" SSD (RAID 1)
  • 10 x 20 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 6 + 1 Spare)
  • 2 x 1920 GB 2.5" SSD (RAID 1)
  • 10 x 12 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 6 + 1 Spare)
Network Interface
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 2 x 10GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 2 x 10GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
Tower
Model Name
DP340
DP320
Suggested Backup Source*
14.5 TB 5 TB
Suggested Built-in Restored VM
2 1
Cluster Role
Can function as an individual server or a managed server in a cluster Can function as an individual server or a managed server in a cluster
Form Factor
Desktop Desktop
CPU
AMD Ryzen R1600 AMD Ryzen R1600
Memory
16 GB 8 GB
Storage Configuration
  • 2 x 400 GB M.2 SSD (RAID 1)
  • 4 x 8 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 5)
 2 x 8 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 1)
Network Interface
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 1 x 10GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
Tower
Model Name
DP340
DP320
Suggested Backup Source* 14.5 TB 5 TB
Suggested Built-in Restored VM 2 1
Cluster Role Can function as an individual server or a managed server in a cluster Can function as an individual server or a managed server in a cluster
Form Factor Desktop Desktop
CPU AMD Ryzen R1600 AMD Ryzen R1600
Memory 16 GB 8 GB
Storage Configuration
  • 2 x 400 GB M.2 SSD (RAID 1)
  • 4 x 8 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 5)
 2 x 8 TB 3.5" HDD (RAID 1)
Network Interface
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 1 x 10GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Management)
  • 1 x 1GbE RJ-45 (Data transfer)
Notes: These statistics are based on telemetry data and may vary depending on your company's usage. The suggested concurrent built-in restored VMs of DP7x00 can be increased by adding extra memory modules. Other models have no expansion options. Model specifications are subject to change without prior notice. The figures are based on Synology internal testing. Each performance test is done individually. No other services or applications are processed at the same time.