UGREEN NAS DXP4800 Plus 4-Bay NAS, Intel Pentium Gold 8505 5-Core CPU,

1) PLEX DOCKER SETUP: Using Docker with the most popular Plex container (linuxserver/plex) on the Ugreen NAS was straightforward. I pulled the container from the built‑in Docker interface, pointed config and media paths to my shared folders, set network mode to host, and left almost all defaults. Even with my custom usernames and permissions, everything just worked. No hacking, no odd workarounds. 2) STORAGE CONFIG: I’m running two Seagate IronWolf Pro 28TB Enterprise NAS drives (ST28000NT000) internally as Drive 1 and Drive 3 in a JBOD‑style setup (data on 1, backup on 3). For future expansion I’ll add Drive 2 as data and Drive 4 as backup. The IronWolf Pros have been flawless so far—quiet, cool enough, and fast for Plex streaming and backup. 3) INTERNAL VS USB BACKUP: I also tested one of the 28TB Seagates in an OWC Mercury Elite Pro external enclosure (USB 3.2 Gen 1, 5Gb/s) as a backup drive connected to the Ugreen. The Seagate fit perfectly, the enclosure worked well, and performance was fine. In the end, though, keeping everything internal (all drives inside the Ugreen) was more efficient and cleaner for my backup scheme. 4) UGREEN VS SYNOLOGY (DS220+): I own a Synology DS220+ and originally used it as my Plex server. I eventually retired it from Plex duty because: (a) Synology was picky about third‑party drives and didn’t officially support large Seagate IronWolf Pro capacities the way I wanted; (b) memory expansion on the DS220+ is very limited; and (c) Docker/Plex on the Ugreen feels faster and less constrained. The Ugreen gives me more flexibility with drives, more headroom for RAM and containers, and overall better performance for a multi‑TB Plex library. 5) OVERALL EXPERIENCE & TIP: The Ugreen NAS has become my main Plex server and backup hub. Docker Plex runs smoothly, transcoding and library scans are snappy, and the hardware has handled large 28TB drives and backups without complaint. FINAL TIP: Use ChatGPT/AI during setup. I used an AI assistant heavily to walk through Docker, rsync backups, SMB mounts, IP changes, and cleaning up old Synology configs—saved a ton of time and guesswork.

I have now had this UGREEN NAS DXP6800 Plus for about six months and it has been rock solid. A quality unit. VERY easy to set up and get up and running. So far I have only installed a couple drives and have not investigated or tried out any of the embedded apps. My original intent was to convert to TrueNAS, but I will leave asis for now as it works well.

Great product and performs very well. Easy to setup. Not noisy and able to have a lot of storage. I would recommend getting the UPS UGREEN sells as I did not at first. After the first power glitch I bought this and now it will shutdown safely and restart again on its own. I don’t have to worry about any data loss or damage to the system.

The NAS is excellent. READ the directions and follow all steps especially if you are new to the OS or NAS's in general. The performance is exceptional, but it seems to go to sleep quickly and takes a bit to wake up making media slow to load - but works flawlessly once in operation. Compiling 12TB drives into RAID 5 was time consuming but far less than I have had in the past. It is being used as a media server so the SSD I installed runs the docker apps and their data pools while the disks store the media. AI functionality works well but is poorly documented but fairly simple to get going. The AI settings are only applicable to a single user. For example each user must curate their own photos to start with. The settings should be for all photos both private and shared, having all users do this is a poor choice.

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'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!

Beautiful hardware. Nearly all of the exterior outer shell is made of grey-painted aluminum, the LED light on the power button gives out a refined light (i believe it can be turned off in settings as well). This looks gorgeous on a desk. When used as centralized external storage/data server only (i.e. not running it as a computer with demanding applications or virtual machine) the fan doesn't come on when in an air conditioned room so it can be entirely silent. My unit is on my desk 3 feet from my ears. I only use it to store data on my home network, a VPN application (NordVPN) is installed on it and I have not heard the fan once. The shell does get warm to the touch. I cannot compare on the speed since my LAN is only 1 GBe which this unit maxes out with ease so does other ugreen nas'es using spinning hard drives. It seems that the RAM is used to cache the SMB file transfers. So as long as your files are smaller than the installed (and free) RAM these units will be faster than a 1 GBe LAN no matter what drives are permanently storing the data. It is a bit pricey but you are getting a great product with very phenomenal hardware (i5 processor, 8 GB of DDR5 RAM, 128 GB boot NVMe drive). If underused as a centralized data storage device, it should last many years working in the background silently. The software is easy to use and beginner-friendly (as someone just merely interested in one's own PC). My only suggestion to UGREEN is to allow a direct option to install programs like NordVPN meshnet or Tailscale to allow personalized remote access. I am running the former by installing it through the Linux terminal (via ssh). Being able to access from anywhere the files stored in my home over a VPN of my choice (instead of the Ugreen app) gives this device a whole new dimension of usabililty: for example NordVPN Meshnet allows other PC and android machines to securely mount shared folders hosted in this NAS like they are on a LAN but from anywhere in the world. This feature is the last piece of the puzzle to replace cloud services. however, the user must have the option to chose their own VPN. So Ugreen, please streamline the installation of VPN such as NordVPN. Configured like this, this NAS is central to my workflow.

Very misleading description for anyone not familiar with NAS systems. "128TB included storage" doesn't really work how you'd think.. out of the box there is no storage. Outside of that, it looks very high quality.

Built like a tank. Incredible quality inside and out. This is as premium as it gets for the prosumer. It's unbelievable what ugreen offers at the same price point as the competition. Fast, reliable, and built to last. Beautiful unit. The OS is intuitive, polished, and has everything you need to get up and running in a home environment. These units from ugreen are the new standard now. There plastic box competition is going to have to up their game, or fall by the wayside. If you're looking for an Nas, look no further. Ugreen holds the crown.

I upgraded to this unit coming off a two-bay Synology. I wanted more room for expansion, a bit more headroom on compute capacity, and I was also interested in experimenting with different operating systems. This delivers. Even though it's advertised as four-bay, I would functionally call it a six-bay, because it has two nVME slots, on top of the four hard drive slots. It has relatively good specs (balancing power and energy efficiency, and keeping in mind that most things a NAS does are not compute intensive), has a premium metal case, and noise mostly isn’t an issue (the exception is the dust filter over the fan at the back, it sometimes rattles. I solved that with some double-sided tape to cushion the metal-on-metal contact). Right off the hop, I installed the TrueNAS operating system on this unit, and it was painless. This unit has an HDMI out (an underrated feature) that displays the boot menu when you plug in a bootable USB, and it comes with a writeable SSD drive to which you can install the OS, and keep it hived off from storage. When running TrueNAS, the HDMI out will display the current IP address of the NAS to access its web UI from another device (handy!), and it also has a terminal interface to run various operations with keyboard input. I can't comment on how TrueNAS compares to the UGreen OS (because I never used it), but comparing it with Synology, and having read up on other alternatives like Unraid, my impression is that they're all functionally very similar. Synology has some first-party apps that you won't get anywhere else, but they're not special, there's popular open source alternatives to all of them. Every OS has its library of stock-configured apps (Synology's is relatively small), but to get full utility out of a NAS, you're going to need to figure out how to use Docker (easy if you know what you're doing, immensely confusing *until* you know what you're doing), and every operating system integrates with Docker images in a similar kind of way.

Definitely a solid NAS. I bought it 6 months ago and used a lot to write a detailed review. Pros: +Good quality hardware. +NVME & HDD storage pool options. +Ultra High speed access/transfers with 10Gbit Ethernet on NVME Storage pools. I think this is the key reason I have chosen this NAS. I can easily reach over 1GBytes/sec. speeds over the 10 GBit network (even can go faster with 2 ethernet link aggregation). I almost stopped using my external NVME drives after having this NAS. (This is really Great!!) Before this NAS I was planning to have Synology DS923+ and 10 Gbps network upgrade. But NVME storage pool is not available unless you don't purchase Synology nvme drives which is even more expensive than MacBook SSD upgrades!!! Besides you cannot find any Synology NVME over 2TB!!! Go to hell Synology!!!! +Silent cooling. +Very fast in general and Very fast startup/shutdown. (Thanks to having a separate NVME drive for operating system) Previously with my old QNAP NAS, it takes ages to boot up so I was never shutting it down and the times I don't it was consuming power for nothing. Now I don't hesitate to Shut down, it boots up less then a minute!! +Compatible with all HDDs I have. +Freedom for using and OS you want. Actually I am using with stock Operation System (UGOS Pro). But I have plans to try TruNAS someday. Cons: -Original Operation System is good, fast and stable, But still needs improvements. For example; manually adjusting the fan speeds, Or conditional adjustments like QNAP has "if X drives goes over 40C increase the fan speed". There few more things that I don't see in the their software, so still there is room for improvement. But still at least faster than QNAP's slow QTS system. -NVME cooling is not efficient. Actually fan doesn't have any effect on SSD cooling. Initially I was using 4TB WD SN850X. Several times I heard the FAN speed up when I was writing on SSD. I checked the system if there is another reason, CPU was cool everything was cool but NVME was over 50 C. And due to fan has no effect on SSD compartment it doesn't cool the SSD down and it blows high for nothing during this write process. So you have to find a cool working SSD with this NAS. But it is kind of hard since it is a NAS and the SSD you choose should have DRAM and TLC Nands. Mostly you can find this combination in higher and drives which are generally get hot. Seagate firecuda 530 and Samsung 990 Pro or any other cooler working SSDs are better options for this NAS. - Similer issue with above SSD compartment is very slim and you cannot use SSDs with original heatsinks. I already had a 8TB WD SN850X (with original heatsink) and I couldn't use it as well. I didn't want to remove the heating cuz I know it will be hell hot. In general finding the perfect SSD for this NAS is really tricky. But there are some 3D print options on the web to make this compartment larger to use heatsink or even to attach another fan for SSD compartment, but in my opinion FAN is unnecessary, if you can install a proper heatsink, I believe all SSD will be fine.

Amazing little NAS. Rock solid, performant, and it looks nice too. Installing and removing drives is very easy. Getting at the m.2 and memory is also reasonably easy. It has lots of CPU and memory (though I added another 8GB to mine). I can't comment on the software, as I installed TrueNAS Scale on it without ever even booting to the provided OS. Right now it's running nicely with 4 drives and several apps (Jellyfin, Immich, Syncthing, etc). No complaints!