UGREEN are fairly new to the NAS space and with Synology making some questionable decision, it feels like they're on course to lose some market share to UGREEN, Ubiquiti (supposedly some new NAS solutions due) and other competitors. UGREEN currently offer the following NAS solutions:
UGREEN's OS is still in its early days and still has a lot of catching up compared to DSM but for a noob like me, it looks good and hopefully will improve over time. So I thought it would be good to start a thread and keep tips, guides and resources in one location. I'll update OP/thread in due time - thanks
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Mini review of the 4800+
Impressive bit of kit. I think I managed to get it for ~£430 with TCB. The packaging was well constructed and it came with a couple of Cat7 cables, heatsink pads for nVMEs, screwdriver and screws and some keys to lock your drives - handy. The 4800+ comes with 1x8GB of RAM, upgradeable to 64GB (2 slots in total) - 8GB is fine for most and you only really need to add more if you're really into virtualisation/dockers. Setup was a breeze; plug into my network and use either a phone app or Windows/OSX app and start with the 'find my UGREEN device' setup. You can set your device to be completely local or allow access outside of your network (thus setup a UGREEN account) with a unique link/the app. UGREEN have a handy table explaining what data they collect if you're unsure about setting up an account with them, I believe they do not access or see your data.
Once you're in, you're greeted with a number of setup processed and mini next steps including setting up your storage pool (you have several RAID options, JBOD etc). The OS is really easy to use (Linux based) and has an app centre, control panel etc. So far I've setup a RAID5 array which took around 24 hours to process and optimise, this means if one of my drives fails - no data is lost (4 x 8TB, 8TB is used for redundancy - ending up with a little over 21TB of useable space) and I simply replace the broken drive and all is good. You have the option to add 2 x NVMe drives under the device as additional storage or as a cache drive to speed things up. Now that I have started copying files from my main rig to the NAS, my next steps are to setup an auto sync (1 way so any new RAW files I dump on my PC get backed up to the NAS) and figure out how to run my own version of Google Drive/Photos on it - supposedly done through an app called 'immich'. Overall - I'm very pleased but admittedly, I haven't done a whole lot.
The unit itself is very quiet and I can't hear it next to my UDM-SE, but it does ramp up a fair bit when under load (e.g. setting up my RAID5) but it was only an issue because of its proximity to our bedroom so noticeable at night.
One word of warning when it comes to YouTube videos for UGREEN NAS devices, especially the 4800+ - almost all of them are sponsored videos. I don't necessarily have an issue with them but my God, they're rife and they most all feel the same/surface level. I'll start listing some below with the first one being pretty good and he offers good advice and isn't sponsored.
Video guides/tips
- NASync DXP2800 (2-bay)
- NASync DXP4800 (4-bay)
- NASync DXP4800+ (4-bay)
- NASync DXP76800 Pro (6-bay)
- NASync 8800+ (8-bay)
- NASync DXP480T+ (4-slot)
UGREEN's OS is still in its early days and still has a lot of catching up compared to DSM but for a noob like me, it looks good and hopefully will improve over time. So I thought it would be good to start a thread and keep tips, guides and resources in one location. I'll update OP/thread in due time - thanks
.Mini review of the 4800+
Impressive bit of kit. I think I managed to get it for ~£430 with TCB. The packaging was well constructed and it came with a couple of Cat7 cables, heatsink pads for nVMEs, screwdriver and screws and some keys to lock your drives - handy. The 4800+ comes with 1x8GB of RAM, upgradeable to 64GB (2 slots in total) - 8GB is fine for most and you only really need to add more if you're really into virtualisation/dockers. Setup was a breeze; plug into my network and use either a phone app or Windows/OSX app and start with the 'find my UGREEN device' setup. You can set your device to be completely local or allow access outside of your network (thus setup a UGREEN account) with a unique link/the app. UGREEN have a handy table explaining what data they collect if you're unsure about setting up an account with them, I believe they do not access or see your data.
Once you're in, you're greeted with a number of setup processed and mini next steps including setting up your storage pool (you have several RAID options, JBOD etc). The OS is really easy to use (Linux based) and has an app centre, control panel etc. So far I've setup a RAID5 array which took around 24 hours to process and optimise, this means if one of my drives fails - no data is lost (4 x 8TB, 8TB is used for redundancy - ending up with a little over 21TB of useable space) and I simply replace the broken drive and all is good. You have the option to add 2 x NVMe drives under the device as additional storage or as a cache drive to speed things up. Now that I have started copying files from my main rig to the NAS, my next steps are to setup an auto sync (1 way so any new RAW files I dump on my PC get backed up to the NAS) and figure out how to run my own version of Google Drive/Photos on it - supposedly done through an app called 'immich'. Overall - I'm very pleased but admittedly, I haven't done a whole lot.
The unit itself is very quiet and I can't hear it next to my UDM-SE, but it does ramp up a fair bit when under load (e.g. setting up my RAID5) but it was only an issue because of its proximity to our bedroom so noticeable at night.
One word of warning when it comes to YouTube videos for UGREEN NAS devices, especially the 4800+ - almost all of them are sponsored videos. I don't necessarily have an issue with them but my God, they're rife and they most all feel the same/surface level. I'll start listing some below with the first one being pretty good and he offers good advice and isn't sponsored.
Video guides/tips
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