Synology SA3600: High-Performance On-Premises Storage with Petabyte Scalability
Synology SA3600 and Petabyte-Scale Enterprise Storage in 2025–26
As the amount of data that businesses have grows faster in 2025 and 2026, many are rethinking how much they depend on public cloud storage and moving important workloads back to their own infrastructure. Cost predictability, data sovereignty, and performance control are now the main reasons for this change. The Synology SA3600 was made for these big environments. It has a petabyte-level capacity and works like an enterprise on a centralized, manageable platform.
The SA3600 was first released earlier in the decade, but it still meets the needs of organizations that work with huge datasets, high-throughput workloads, and long-term storage requirements.
Architecture Made for Huge Scale
The SA3600 has a 12-core Intel Xeon processor at its heart, which lets it handle heavy data operations across large storage pools. The system can use both SAS and SATA drives in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch sizes, which gives businesses the freedom to choose the best performance and cost.
One of the platform’s best features is that it can grow. The SA3600 can hold more than a petabyte of raw data because it can add more expansion units. This makes it good for places like media production pipelines, research data repositories, surveillance archives, and enterprise backup vaults.
By putting a lot of data into one place, businesses make management easier and keep performance steady as capacity grows.
A lot of data can be processed quickly
Big storage spaces are only useful if their performance goes up as their capacity does. The SA3600 can handle workloads that require continuous data ingestion and retrieval because it has high sequential throughput and strong random I/O performance.
This level of performance is especially important in 2025–26 when businesses will be working with bigger datasets for analytics, compliance retention, and operational systems. High throughput makes sure that storage doesn’t slow down compute resources, backup windows, or content workflows.
Built-in 10GbE networking gives you high-speed access right away, and PCIe expansion lets businesses increase their network bandwidth even more as needed.
Virtualization and being ready for hybrid workloads
Virtualization is still a key part of business IT strategy. The SA3600 is certified for the most popular hypervisor platforms, so it can be used as shared storage for groups of virtual machines.
This compatibility lets IT teams store virtualized workloads in one place while keeping performance and availability high. As hybrid architectures become more common, with workloads split between on-premises and cloud platforms, it’s important to have a reliable and scalable on-premises storage foundation.
The SA3600 can handle a variety of workloads, such as virtual machines, file services, and backup repositories, all in one storage area.
Integrated Data Protection on a Large Scale
When handling petabyte-scale data, you need built-in protection systems that don’t make things too complicated. The SA3600 has snapshot and replication features that help you quickly recover from accidental deletion, corruption, or ransomware attacks.
Centralized backup tools keep virtual machines, endpoints, and SaaS platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace safe. This unified approach makes backups easier and makes sure that data stored on-premises and in the cloud are both safe under the same plan.
As rules and regulations grow in 2025–26, integrated data protection makes it easier for businesses to meet their goals for keeping and recovering data.
High Availability for Storage That Is Critical to the Mission
The SA3600 supports high-availability configurations by connecting two systems into an active-passive cluster. This is useful for businesses that can’t afford to have any downtime. If a piece of hardware breaks, services automatically switch over to another one, which causes the least amount of disruption to users and applications.
This feature is in line with what businesses expect these days, where availability is closely linked to revenue, customer experience, and operational stability.
The Strategic Role of Modern Business Infrastructure
The SA3600 is the main storage backbone for big companies’ IT systems today. It allows for data consolidation, long-term storage, and high-throughput workloads, and it has predictable costs compared to long-term cloud storage.
But to get the best results, you need to plan carefully. To get the most out of the platform’s features, capacity planning, network architecture, backup scope, and availability requirements must all be in sync from the start.
A little bit about Epis Technology
Epis Technology helps businesses plan, set up, and run large enterprise storage environments on Synology platforms like the SA3600. The company focuses on helping businesses with Synology consulting and support, petabyte-scale storage architecture, backups for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, fully managed PC backups, and planning for business continuity. Epis Technology helps businesses design scalable on-premises storage, connect it to hybrid cloud workflows, and make sure that performance, protection, and availability meet long-term business goals.