This model can be expanded well beyond its own 8 bays: with two compatible DX-series expansion units connected, total capacity grows to 18 bays without any downtime to the running system, making it a genuinely scalable storage platform for a growing business rather than something that needs replacing once its own bays fill up. It runs Synology's DSM operating system for storage pooling, Btrfs snapshot protection, backup jobs, and package-based application/container hosting, the same software layer used across Synology's whole NAS range. This class of 8-bay, expandable, Ryzen-powered NAS is typically aimed at small-to-medium businesses needing serious file storage, backup consolidation, and virtualisation/Docker hosting capacity that genuinely scales as data volumes grow. The Ryzen V1780B's cores are backed by AES-NI hardware encryption acceleration, so full-volume encryption on this NAS carries a much smaller performance penalty than on a system relying on software-only encryption.