UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS, Dual NVMe Slots NAS Server Storage

Brought to replace my aging Synology NAS. This NAS is great, does the standard sharing drives etc as with all NAS's. But it does it so well! The OS is great, fast and responsive and well designed. Loads of great apps, like Jellyfin, video players, bittorrent client, VMs (not found a use for that yet) and Docker containers. The docker containers are brillant, so easy to set up and use. I have installed pihole (takes a bit of work to get it working but thats nothing to be with the NAS, tip - you need to use a docker macvlan to get a external IP address due to port conflicts), mealie (a great recipe database). Noise seems Ok, NAS itself is quiet just the hard drives that make any noise but thats probably the old crappy hard drives I have (when did new hard drives get so expensive?!). Setup, was so easy. When highly recommend, for the price, its amazing!!!

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.

If you have been living with silent SSD drives past few years, beware you're in for a shock at how noisy mechanical drives are again. Desk shaking floor shaking under load. That was my first impression. Although it could be the drives I bought with it as seen in pic but im sure its just mechanical drives in general. Dont put it in your bedroom lol Other than that its a pretty amazing bit of kit. I went Raid 0 with 2 20TB disks so no redundancy but maximum storage (after format its 36TB) Great software and easy to use at setup with loads of potential with additional apps to configure it however you wish. Edit: Since post I added 2 M2 SSD drives for caching and its eliminated much of the noise and sped access up to where it almost feels like an internal SSD now. Highly recommended to pay the extra as it completely changes the performance. Although good luck buying them with price hikes and limited to one per customer ect.

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.

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.

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