UGREEN NASync DXP480T Plus

very good product, from the moment of purchase it was fantastic, fast and very well attended, the product itself is super Recommended, for my needs it has met all my expectations, I recommend buying 32 GB more in advance and it is very good, I have only one complaint and that is that the fan is heard minimally but it is heard, do not think that it is like the Mac that cannot be heard, The unit also gets a little hot.

DXP2800

I'm reviewing this as someone that's been in IT for over 25 years and has used similar units from Synology all the way up to huge $100k+ SANs. This is a great little storage tank for use in the home and even to a certain extent some limited usage in the corporate world. For me, I'm using it solely for local machine backups, so I don't really need a ton of features beyond just a bunch of disk space, but this has a lot more than I expected. The ability to install M.2 NVMe drives as read/write caches is great and seems to speed things up considerably. It was super easy to configure and the box itself is well-built and easy to manage. Some of the most clever drive trays I've ever dealt with: no tools required and I had this thing loaded up with test drives and serving files in like ten minutes. I had it set up as a local Time Machine backup in under an hour. (most of that was spent finding a place to hide it) It's reasonably quiet and it has a lot of options to silence beeps and dim lights, which is nice if you're using it at home.

If there's one thing I take from evaluating this: I see a lot of potential in this thing going forward. It really reminds me a lot of older Synology units where they had the essentials needed when they came out, but then they just kept adding more features over time to make them even better. This is missing things that Synology has like iSCSI targets, etc, but I'm sure all that stuff will come as time and market needs dictates.

I should mention that I haven't yet tried the Docker setup, but I do intend to here soon. In that case, I feel like a RAM upgrade would probably be justified.

Great process, lovely piece of machinery/technology.

DXP4800 Plus

When I first saw this on Vine, I wasn't expecting much, but grabbed it. I started doing some research and everyone is raving on this little unit. The price is pretty much right in line with other quality 4 bay NASs from other manufacturers.

The installation was pretty straight forward. I populated with 4 20Tb WD reds. I had 6 in another machine I was messing with and was running TrueNAS. Nothing important was on the drives, so II put them in this unit. Two of the drives, however, would not be recognized and was throwing errors. After moving the drives around to different bays and then swapping trays, it was determined two of the six drives would not work. I haven't subsequently tried these drives in another machine, so at this point I don't know if the drives are bad or this NAS is finicky. I will report back later.

It is obvious that Ugreen is emulating Synology in their OS, as the similarities are striking. However, the OS is not nearly as polished. So far, no bugs or glitching have been found. The setup of the pool and volume has been flawless. I ran the error check test with no errors. I've copied a bunch of files over without issue. I don't have a 10Gb network, so that has not been tested, but will now give me an excuse to spend the money on a switch, some 10Gb cards, and proper cables to at least get my workstation up to speed to transfer files as a sportier rate.

Compared to the Synology 918+ this is a good machine. Plus, everyone is talking about installing alternate OSes on this and I think after a bit I'll install TrueNAS, something you can not do on any other purpose built NAS I can think of.

So far, 100% recommending this NAS.

DXP2800

Took a little bit of setup to get logged in from my PC because I had to reset the system and didn't read the full instructions. After a factory reset the default login is "admin" for user name and the password is blank.

After I got up and running I had consistent transfer speeds from my PC to the NAS at 113Mbps. I migrated all my Plex library onto 1 12tb disk and my backup files onto an 8gb disk. Working great. Time will tell but so far I love it. Would recommend.