UGREEN NASync DXP2800，2-Bay Desktop NAS, Intel N100 Quad-Core Processor, 8GB DDR5 RAM, 2.5GbE Ethernet, 2 x M.2 NVMe Slots, 4K HDMI, Home & Office Network Storage (Diskless)

This is my first dedicated NAS, but I've been mucking about with hosting stuff on mini PCs etc for a while. Like many people, I've become more interested in having a 'personal cloud' as I'd prefer not to store my whole life on Google or Amazon's servers. That necessitates more storage than my little GMTEC Mini with its 4 nvme bays could offer. First impressions of the box are positive. It looks and feels good. A satin textured mix of pressed aluminium and high quality plastic. The HDD bays are simple to use and feel secure, though I'd like a bit more dampening on them. Like many NAS boxes, the DXP4800 has a Intel N100. Not a particularly fast processor, but fairly low wattage and also offers decent hardware transcoding performance for media. It's sufficient for my needs as I'm not using this machine for compute, just storage and running a media server. Similarly, the 8gb of RAM is close to the bare minimum I'd want. I can run 4 docker containers and only utilise about 33% of the allocation, so it does have a bit of headroom. The machine runs pretty quiet, with a single 120mm fan pushing air through the body. There's a nice magnetic dust cover, too. The two 8TB WD Red Plus drives I have in there at the moment are audible in use, but I'm rarely in the room when they're operational, as I've got a cache setup in unraid (more on that later). Suffice to say, if you've been used to the silence of solid state storage these past few years, you will notice the clunking sound of HDDs in operation. That's the price we pay for cheaper storage, though. There are a plethora of ports and storage expansion options beyond the 4 HDD bays and 2 NVME slots, making it easy to add USB and SD flash storage if necessary. I'm not going to comment on the UGreen OS as I actually immediately installed Unraid on the system because I have a few mismatched drives that Unraid is very good at taking advantage of. Having an SSD cache allows me to have a pool of storage that I can later move over to the HDDs when it fills up, meaning most of the HDD write/read noise happens at 3am when I can't hear it. Anyway, this isn't a review of Unraid, but it's important to note that this is 'just a pc' that happens to have convenient drive bays and a nice form factor. It's very simple to disable the OS EMMC in BIOS and boot into whatever OS/distro you fancy. Recommended.

I am completely new to the world of NAS drives and I was keen to expand the limited storage on my laptop. I didn't want to have to use the laptop with an external drive plugged in, and I have a few nagging doubts about the security of my information on the cloud. These fears may be unfounded, but I'm just cautious. The setting up of this NAS drive was a breeze. The wizard takes you through everything. I found a few useful YouTube videos too, which, combined with the wizard makes things easy. The drive is a nice sturdy construction and feels solid. It is superbly quiet with the Western Digital drives that I bought. The disk trays make installation of the disks very straightforward. It is certainly quick enough in its operation for my needs out of the box, but it offers upgradeability for those who wish to go down that route. The applications included with the drive are simple to use. I hoghly recommend this unit.

Good hardware specifications for the money. Unit is very quiet, although the drive bay caddies can rattle a bit which is rather annoying. Unit seems to stay fairly cool. Build quality is very nice. UGOS is pretty good, certainly not as full featured or as many apps as Synology but works for my needs. Dedicated app makes it easy to use and access from mobile. Using it mainly for photo storage and CCTV recording and transcribing. Also have a couple of other Docker containers running. If I need more storage, I’ll definitely look at the larger models.

Very pleased with this NAS, build quality is much better than Synology DS224+ which had an annoying fan noise. This DXP 2800 turns off the fan at low CPU usage and is silent with SSDs. I use it for Emby (docker) and Home Assistant (VM) with Sonoff Zigbee Dongle. The software is very similar to Synology and was a breeze to setup. I like that fact that you can treat it as a mini PC and install any OS if you prefer like Truenas. 10/10 for my use case, and thought I would be installing something like Truenas but the UGOS does everything I need. It does HW transcoding and everything feels snappy including Home Assistant. It is better that the OS runs on the unit so swapping drives is possible without having to set it up all over again.

What a great little NAS. You get incredible features for the money. 2x 3.5 bays (can also take 2.5inch drives) and 2x NVME slots. Supports Docker absolutely fine. The UGREEN OS is built upon Debian and is still relatively new and devleoping. But I believe the OS can be replaced if you wanted too. RAM can be upgraded to 16GB. Incredibly easy to use, great build quality and certainly beats some of the more well known manufacturers. Highly recommended

I'm pretty happy with it. I like that you can do what you want with it basically there's not any restrictions on features that you have to pay extra for, software is open for your use how you need to use it. You can even change software with an NVME SSD. It's a very nice unit, useful for what I need it for, mainly media and file storage/backup. It is a bit loud but this is not a problem if the device is not in any bedrooms. I like how it is simple to use through the app. I like the price and hardware. My only problem is ugreen does not prioritise features that consumers want added they seem to add irrelevant features with updates before adding useful ones.

This nas is great. Well built, easy to use, software works and has been very reliable since setup. Prior to this purchase I was using a small Synology nas... I wouldn't buy another Synology nas as the UGREEN nas is so much simpler to use. Im using this nas for media (movies, tv shows, music etc) and have had no issues running home media software nor streaming content on my home network.

This thing oozes quality. I was quick and easy to load disks and install on my network, although it did take 14 hours to synchronise two 10TB disks in Raid 1 configuration. On my 1Gb network, it copied files at around 880Mb/s.