Synology or Ugreen NAS!

Matt Goddard

Matt Goddard

Matt Goddard

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OK, hi everyone... i am still on the fence with my NAS replacement. I currently have a DS918+ which is still all good and used all the time. I use Drive, Hyper Backup and Surveillance Station mainly (I use others as well of course) and obviously as a central store for everything. My old Synology died on me recently (DS418+) which was used as a back up only device after i got the 918+. I actually have a new DS925+ with four Synology 16TB drives in it in the box waiting to be opened. I am wondering whether to get the UGreen 4800 PLUS but am concerned about the software.... I know there is nothing (currently) for the cameras (the Synology can still do that), but are the other equivalent apps working and similar.... does the UGreen Sync app behave like Drive (which is probably the most critical to me - syncing files between PCS, desktops and laptops and Mobiles) or am I in for massive headaches? I am reasonably knowledgeable on tech but time is against me running a busy business.... although the hardware of the Synology is not great, I know it will just work out of the box. The HDD lock is annoying, but not the end of the world.... functionality is key and DSM has been a great experience overall.... I'm still on the fence though.... any comments or thoughts greatly appreciated!!. Matt
 
I think a lot of what you are paying for with the Synology is the software. If you are happy with it, I would stick with it. Just my opinion.
 
I have basic NAS needs. The UGREEN don't look exactly cheap to me? ALthough they are decent spec I don't care about that, as the Realtek quad core/2GB of RAM in my Synology is more than enough
 
Synology is a closed system, both the hardware and the software, when it dies, or they end support for your device, you have to buy another one to continue to receive security updates, you pay vastly over the odds for what you get in terms of hardware, and frankly, it can and often is done better by other systems. The Ugreen is OK hardware that's open, the supplied OS is OK, but if you want to run UnRAID or something else for example, you can. If the hardware dies when running something else, you can literally plug the drives into any PC, grab your USB if running UR and move over to new hardware. If your needs change, you can expand, no silly 'you need to use our drives in our systems or we will cry' stupidity.

I can't tell you which one of those solutions is better for you, i'm running 36 bay rack mounts and have a totally different set of requirements, but I know you can do a lot better than Synology if you want to.
 
Following on from @Avalon's comments, you could consider Terramaster as it's easy to pull the USB drive containing the OS and load what you want but I'm not sure about reliability.

My personal favourite is Asustor; I stick with ADM but there are official tutorials on how to load TrueNAS. They're also now making a point about being open to any make of HDD and SSD.
 
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