Is the Ugreen NAS the Ultimate Homelab Product?
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Published 2024-04-13
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I don't get anything from the link to purchase a Ugreen NAS, btw...it's just a way for you to save money on one of these units.
i don't normally do hardware reviews, as most hardware offers are for hardware that isn't interesting to me, or for hardware that is completely closed source. Today, we have something that is completely the opposite of that. Ugreen has branched out with their new line up of NAS devices, and I was intrigued when they reached out for a review. I toldl them it has to be able to run open source software, and it does. Not only that, but given my last video about migrating my homelab, I thought this was an opportune time to talk about a NAS device.
I have to say, I was not disappointed at all by the Ugreen NASycn DXP4800 Plus. It is very easy to get it put together. Ugreen did an excellent job with the hardware, and getting your drives into it couldn't be easier. the tray system is really impressive.
For clarity, Ugreen did send me this unit for review. My terms are simple for review requests:
1. The product must be open source, or be ablel to run open source software.
2. If I like the product I will publish a review.
3. If I dislike the product I will not blast it to my community, but instead not publish a review, and offer my help in improving the product to make it better.
4. The company requesting the review will not be allowed to view the video, or ask for edits prior to the general release of the video to the public.
Ugreen agreed to my terms, and here we are.
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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Beginning
00:08 Introduction
01:23 Thank you to my Patrons over at Patreon
02:01 Unboxing
04:14 Hardware Overview
13:43 Upper Right Stats for the UGreen NAS
15:25 Storage Manager
24:16 File Management
37:02 Docker on the UGreen NAS
39:46 Third Party OS on UGreen NAS?
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All Comments (21)
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Ugreen must've sent these out to every YouTuber out there
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Looking promising, thanks for the preview!
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Dang... that's a pretty slow transfer speeds and those files aren't even that big. I hope they improve on this before I get mine. They also need to give the option to enable editing the MTU for the 10GbE connection. The GUI looks good though but definitely needs a lot of polishing.
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Very interested to see what comes of ugreen with this unit when its out of the kickstarter.
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Things, I would have liked to have seen in the review. Installation of TrueNAS Scale, the only examples I have seen so far seem to be pretty convoluted with BIOS settings. Can the two SSD slots (which you skipped on the hardware overview) also be used as storage by TrueNAS for fast access with OS installation on the original OS drive. Details on the exact type of memory that is compatible if one wished to expand it to 64GB.
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if one wants to simply play tv shows & movies via plex, is there any reason to get the plus version of the 4 bay instead of the non-plus of the 4 bay? thanks for your reviews!
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One thing these smaller companies aren't doing well is improving their packaging. So much unnecessary plastic! I've picked up some refurb Dell equipment and noticed a lot more thought has been put into the environmental impacts.
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I now have a UnRaid NAS with all SSD's but ordered the DXP2800 to test. I'm going to ditch the Ugreen system on the hardware and install another UnRaid OS and use it as a backup to the main UnRaid using mechanical drives. Seeing this video got me to pull the trigger on Ugreen.
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For an off the shelf NAS, looks good on spec, build quality and importantly, price too. Still got to factor in the hard drives on top that price, which is no small amount, but UGreen has done a reasonable job on this initial effort. Would I buy one? I've a good setup with dirt cheap ex-enterprise gear, but if I was less of a Linux nerd and had deeper pockets, probably would.
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Looked at this, but since the kickstarter did not include the United kingdom, plus they have no track record in NAS market, and they originally said you could only use their OS, I went and bought an Asustor Lockstore 4 Gen 2 which is pure awesome.
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Been following UGREEN since they started development. You donated at least 5 bucks ...the usual crowd funded project. I do have to say that they have been very proactive to feedback and community ideas.
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I would wipe the OS and install TruNas. Don’t want to wait the years for theirs to mature and the backdoors to be found. Glad to have competition in the space.
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Hardware specs looks great compared to the popular NAS out there.
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RAID 5 with 4TB drives is a horrible idea! With 4 drives, RAID 10 would be the only safe bet (not to mention it'll have way better performance, if the controller can handle the bandwidth). If this device is really in use with a lot of data on the drives, the chances of the other 3 drives surviving a rebuild of 4TB of data is too big of a risk. Specially if the 4 drives installed were manufactured at the same time, during the same process. The one drive failed for a reason, chances are the other 3 are right behind.
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Watch your mike position/volume settings. Please.
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Pretty good. 👍
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Interesante productos lo nuevo de Ugreen. Para cuando deseen promocionarlo en el mercado hispano latino aquí estaré dispuesto a recibir una unidad para su análisis y promoción. Gracias por fomentar Open Source Codes
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Can you post a roundup of hardware you dislike? There is value in that as well.
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There is no way I would trust my data to some untested software. Hardware looks decent. Would probably throw Proxmox on it.
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Lets face it.. Synology is the leader when it comes to NAS's and the reason is because of regular updates & great apps... My advice to Ugreen is keep the regular updates flowing and don't be slack once your boxes are sold. Lets come back here in 2 years time and see the status of Ugreen NAS's.... Gee there's bugger all Apps...
