NAS DXP4800 Plus 4-Bay Desktop NASync, Intel Pentium Gold 8505 5-Core CPU, 8GB DDR5 RAM, 128G SSD, 1x 10GbE, 1x 2.5GbE, 2X M.2 NVMe Slots, 4K HDMI, Network Attached Storage (Diskless)

Review: I’ve wanted to dive into the NAS world for a while, and the timing was perfect when I saw Ugreen entering the market. Even though I had some initial reservations about them being "the new kid on the block," after some research, I realized this is the ideal machine for someone who wants powerful hardware without the steep learning curve of more established brands. Pros: Tool-less Installation: Installing hard drives and SSDs was incredibly smooth and straightforward. User-Friendly Interface: The UGOS operating system is very intuitive. It feels modern and easy to navigate for a beginner. Build Quality: The chassis feels premium and solid, exactly what you’d expect from Ugreen’s hardware. Compatibility: I love that it allows you to use any brand of HDD/SSD without restrictions or compatibility warnings. Cons: External Power Brick: It uses an external power supply, which means one more cable/brick to manage behind your desk. App Ecosystem: Since Ugreen is new to the NAS market, their app store isn't as extensive as competitors like Synology or QNAP yet. Software Polish: While the UI is great, I noticed some translations (especially in the Spanish localized version) felt a bit clunky, though they are still perfectly understandable. Final Verdict: If you are a novice looking for a relatively powerful NAS that is easy to set up and looks great on your desk, this is it. It’s a solid investment for home storage and media.

I purchased the UGREEN DXP4800 Plus 4-Bay Desktop NAS because my previous NAS (Drobo 5n2) failed and the manufacturer is no longer in business. What attracted me to the 4800 Plus was the upgradability, especially the RAM. The second factor I considered was price. I have been using the DXP4800 Plus for several months and I have to say I am very, very pleased with it I have a 2.5GPs network and this comes with not only 2.5GPs but also a 10 GPs connection, so belive me when I say file transfers are rapid. In addition, the 4800 Plus has not 1, but 2 slots for M2 drives for file caching purposes (sorry, you can't use the M2 drives as additional storage). The combination of the 4 bays plus the 2 M2 drives (and the 32 GB of RAM I upgraded to over the 8GB it comes with) is really unbeatable for a NAS in this price range. I found setup to be fairly easy, albeit the creation of the share took the better part of a day to configure. The instructions were very clear and the menus were very intuitive. Once I got the share created, I had to migrate multipl TB of data and the machine performed flawlessly. I mainly use this for storing of all of my media for Plex, family photos, movies, etc. and it handles everything I throw with it. The software included to manage the NAS is pretty easy to use, and it has a good variety of apps to enhance your experience. If you've used a NAS before, then you'd see that UGREEN's software functions just like other NAS software, so the learning curve is short. I would remove a 1/2 star for the unintuitive way to have the NAS mapped as a network drive. It took me a few days to figure how to get this accomplished. This is one area Synolgy has UGREEN beat. But once I figured it out (and how to lock the IP address to the 4800 Plus through my internet provider's router), it is now pretty much set and forget. The other big con of this NAS is that for drive sizes of 20TB and above, the number of supported drives is very limited. The final thing I would say is that I like the DXP 4800 Plus so much, I was seriously considering purchasing a second one. I came up with a cheaper, non network option, but I still would buy this again.

I've been a heavy Plex user for almost ten years. Up until now I have put the server on a Windows PC with too many HD's. The constant updates, changes, and such that Microsoft does causes everything to reboot and restart far too often. I've been looking for a real solution for myself, about 8 people I share my libraries with, and about 12TB worth of movies, shows, music, etc. I noticed this NAS a few months ago and started some research and just kept coming back. For the money, you can't get the same performance and hardware/upgrades that this comes with. I upgraded the 8MB RAM to 32MB to be sure it would be quick enough for me. I bought 2x 16TB drives and kept 2x 8TB drives from my previous server. I am not a Linux user or know how to do alot of this type of stuff, but it took me about 2 hours to have the server completely setup and ready for media to be transferred. There is a YT Video out there about 18 minutes long and an English gentlemen walks you through most of it. It worked perfectly the first try out of the box and I started transferring the data. It took about 12-14 hours to transfer everything, but there wasn't one slip or hiccup or problem. Everything went perfectly and Plex immediately started updating everything and gave remote access without issue. The setup of the NAS is easy, the setup of Plex is easy, the Web app is incredibly fast and intuitive and the phone app is awesome and easy to use as well. I know these are relatively new to the market, but I can't wait to see what they bring out going forward. Amazing speed and I am very pleased to finally be done with a giant server PC and go to this nice compact box. Buy with confidence, you won't be disappointed!

Background was I found myself with $1000 in Amazon gift cards and I've been thinking about getting into this stuff on and off for a while now - it's one of the things I told myself I'd look into when I went for 2Gb Fiber internet at the beginning of this year. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. Gear: - UGreen DXP4800 Plus - Upgraded with 32GB 4800MHz DDR5 RAM - 3x 18TB Seagate Exos X18 HDDs, will add a 4th down the line - Added a 2TB 990 Pro NVMe - Opted to get a 10Gb PCIE expansion card for my personal PC Storage Config: - Volume 1: 36TB RAID5 (54GB total from the current 3 x 18TB, but 18TB of that reserved for parity) - Volume 2: 2TB NVMe Didn't do that much upfront research on OS options and decided to stick with whatever UGOS was going to end up being, which is .... okay? Easy to use for the most part but some baffling decisions. For example, it took me a good 15 minutes to figure out how to delete folders in the UGOS UI and now I just do that through Windows. On using an NVMe - looked into it and decided how could I *not* do it. For example, I edit videos fairly often. So one thing I can do is copy raw footage from the HDDs into the NAS nvme and make it so that Adobe Premiere Pro on my pc does everything on that nvme over a 10Gb cable without ever having to move stuff to/from my pc. 8pm rolls around, i export a draft copy of the video to the nvme that takes 10 minutes or so to encode while i cook, then I hop on my phone/pad while i'm eating and view the exported draft video still on that nas nvme. Workflow can't be that smooth with just HDDs. Another thing, if you can tell from my PC, I also game here and there and like to record footage. I don't have good warm and fuzzies recording 4k/60 footage over a 10Gb onto HDDs, so instead Nvidia Overlay points to a "Passthrough" folder on the NAS nvme where throughput is seamless. Then wrote a cron script that executes a mv command to migrate footage on the nvme into the HDD every night at 4:30AM. Other things I got done over the first weekend: - Pihole up and running for network wide DNS-level adblocking. This alone is lifechanging and worth the price of admission if you ask me. I actually had a friend come over at one point over the weekend and he freaked out about his phone browsing feeling so nice at my place. - Set up a homegrown VPN so I can benefit from pihole outside my home. Fun fact: most name-brand subscription VPNs charge extra for enhanced adblocking. With your own home server and a little coding DIY, you can set up your own service for free (outside the hardware costs, obviously) - Took about 18hrs to migrate ~7TB of data I've been slowly accruing since like 2014, and that's WITH numerous cleanups and whatnot over the years. Feels really good to not have to delete stuff anymore just to make room...... for now - Got Plex and Jellyfin up and running - Got an "arr" docker container stack going to automate media acquisition. - Least exciting thing, obviously I got remote phone and automatic pc/data backups going on a reasonable schedule Things I'm looking to work on throughout this next week or two: - Finish up that VPN/reverse proxy project, likely using Tailscale, featuring Pi-hole as the adblock service - Start messing around on a VM or two, plus there are definitely games I've been wanting to host persistently in the background with friends. - Been meaning to host a personal website - Look into Home Assistant - Get a retro game arcade cabinet going that pulls from the NAS I can't remember the last time I was thrilled about getting into a new thing that slots into the rare "lifechanging new hobby" category. Snowboarding maybe? This homelab stuff with the UGreen DXP4800 Plus at the center of it all has been a blast.

I recently migrated from a Synology DS420+ to the DXP 4800 Plus. The setup was a breeze—especially if you’re familiar with NAS systems. The OS is reminiscent of DSM, though it’s missing a few features. I had no trouble getting Docker containers spun up for the apps I need, and Plex hardware transcoding works flawlessly, thanks to my Plex Pass. One odd issue cropped up with the 2.5Gb NIC negotiating down to 1Gb. Fortunately, it was easily resolved by simply unplugging and reconnecting the network cable. My UPS is connected via USB and was immediately recognized by the OS, allowing me to configure power options without any hassle. For storage, I configured a WD Red NVMe as Volume 1 to host apps and Docker containers. My spinning drives are set as Volume 2 to handle mass storage. I can’t quite give it a full five stars, mainly due to the limitations of UGOS’s built-in backup software. While it functions reliably, users coming from Synology HyperBackup may find it lacking. Currently, backups to another NAS over RSYNC are supported, but it can’t perform folder syncs—only backup files in its proprietary format. To its credit, it does support versioning. Packaging was excellent and included everything needed for setup. The NAS itself is impressively built and looks great on the shelf.

I have had this item for a few months now. Initially, I did some upgrades to the unit with no problems. I upgraded the RAM to 32GB (OWC 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 4800 PC5-38400 CL40) and installed 4 Seagate Exos X18 16TB Enterprise HDD's in RAID-5 for a massive 48GB storage capacity. I also installed a samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB NV SSD for caching. I decided to give the UGREEN OS a chance and kept it. So far everything seems very stable and for my use, movies, music and phone backup, this is doing the job really well. I also installed a 22TB external drive to backup my data just in case the NAS failed. All of the built-in software for the backup, moves and music are working very well. The noise level of the unit is very low, especially when the drives go to sleep. There is no noise at all that you can hear from about 5 feet away unless it is reading/writing, then you hear the drives but it is a low rumble that you would expect. The system itself is very easy to setup and once you create the online account, you can access your drive from anywhere. The only tricky part is getting the software installed on the Amazon Firesticks but there are instructions for that. I would definitely say that this is worth the spend. UPDATE: Almost a year in. The unit physically still works flawlessly. I have, however, found a few issues with the two main apps that I use. Theater and Music. First, the apps in general are great but there is a small flaw in teh Theater app where it has trouble detecting movies that have numbers in the beginning or end. The quick fix is the ability to go in and manually detect the movie. The Music app is good as well but has one major flaw that the developers have acknowledged but have not fixed. I have loaded a lot of music in folders (each folder is a CD) and the tracks are numbered. The app will ignore the numbers and only show the songs without it and sort based on that. Any mixed tracks that flow from one track to the next will NOT work since it will sort alphabetically without the numbers in the beginning. Also any tracks that have names that begin with numbers also have them hidden and ignored. I am not sure why this would be a feature, especially when you go to the Folder View tab to view the full name. It makes the app pointless for me. If you are planning on using the NAS for Music or Movies and want to use the UGOS Pro operating system, you should reach out to them to see if this has been resolved. Other than these two issues, the OS itself and the rest of the unit and apps work great.

This product worked fine for about a week and then one of the Ethernet Ports stopped working. I powered down the system and started to troubleshoot. I had a hard time getting the TNAS PC to find the system. I had to check my DHCP server and found the IP address that it had allocated assigned. I had to use the browser to connect to it. I logged in and when I checked the Network, the second port was down. I removed the hard disk and then proceed to do a factory reset. My DHCP server assigned again the two IP addresses. The TNAS PC was able to recognize it. I had back up all my drives that I was concerned about. I placed the hard disks back again into the system and to my surprise, it did not recognized the drives were already full of backup data. It wanted to REINITIALIZE the disks again after I spent 8 hours backing everything up. It was kind of incredible, I got a message while I was in the system "Do not power down the system while in operation, it can damage the hardware." Wow, that is very, very, stupid. I don't have a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) system and it is ridiculous for a home device like this to expect to have a UPS serving it. I can't believe the stupidity of the people doing this. In any case, I immediately returned the system. Back again looking for another NAS and this time I will look for one made in the USA. I think that our tech companies know about ISO 9000 and 9001. Regards, Frustrated User. Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving day. Mine was horrible.

This particular for 800+ model has faster Intel processor and it’s good for people who are planning to stream movies that are downloaded inside this NAS hard drive. However, if you’re only planning to store photos and you don’t need NAS to Transcode videos I recommend getting 4800 that has intel N100 processor. That processor is slower however it also saves 60% energy compared to this. Also, this system supports 10 G network speed and 40 800 only supports 2.5 G which is more than enough. Because if you’re gonna be transferring from NAS to your computer and your computer has old mechanical drive, then you’re gonna be limited to 1G speeds anyway because of your old hard drive. Overall, very clean app interface and pretty decent photo app.