This Tiny NAS Has a HUGE Secret - UGREEN NAS Storage Solution Showcase

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When I think NAS, I think big black box and the sound of a bunch of spinning hard drives. But not this. This is the NASync DXP480T Plus, UGREEN’s all NVME 4-bay NAS. Let’s talk about it.

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[Kekeripo]

Man, a 8 x 8TB version of this would be a moist dream. Expensive? Yes! Cool? Yesx2!

[TomaszStachewicz]

Correction: 4x4TB won't give 12TB in RAID1, it will give only 4TB (3 drives used for failover). RAID5 will give 12TB in this setup.

[BrianMarquis]

RAID-0 is a stripe - great performance but no protection
RAID-1 is a mirrored drive set
RAID-5 requires a min of 3 drives, one is parity
RAID-6 requires a min of 4 drives, two parity (great for large capacity HDD)
RAID-10 is a mirrored stripe - benefit of stripe for performance, with mirror for protection
RAID-50 and RAID-60 follow the same principle…

[ABSTRACTMEDIAHIGHDEFINITION]

Hopefully they will replace that barrel jack with a USB C power connection instead

[DmitryT-fs]

You actually can saturate 10Gbit link with SATA SSDs, if you get 4 of them and put them in RAID. That's gonna be about 1000-1100 MB/s. And its much cheaper.
Also, with the current charger situation, this thing is not compact at all. 
It would make perfect sense for UGREEN to power it through USB-C (with their great chargers, imho) and make a power passthrough to one of those Thunderbolt ports. So you could transfer data and charge your laptop with ~30W (maybe more/less), using only one compact charging brick.

[Sumeragy]

I dont understand why PPL are so hungry for nas whit that kind of speed. And then they have 1 Gbit Lan...

[bearxor]

ugreen - give me this NAS with 8 NVME slots and I will buy this.

[hassan_ksu]

I'm happy these guys are challenging Synology slowly. Synology need to set up their game. Only thing they have is amazing Software (DSM). More competition the better

[anthixious]

At 4:00, those write speeds were terrible for an all-SSD setup. What drives were being used in what RAID? Or was it the 10gbps network jack reaching the limit?

[cam_]

Hang off till released, its currently reported you are blocked if you want to install any other OS on this device like TrueNAS, Unraid, Open Media Vault. Also Jimmy doesn't understand that RAID1 is mirror so 16TB = 8TB usable storage space not 12TB, he actually is referring to RAID5 so 16TB = 12TB usable space.

[udanceever]

it's all about software! hardware is such a commodity these days that it's UX of the software that's going to make all the difference esp from an administrative standpoint.

[michaelmanus]

There are a few NVME NAS units out now. This one would be great if there was room to put heat sinks on the NVME drives and more access to air to circulate out the heat. This could be very quiet. It makes for a great multi-media storage device. I can see one of these sitting in an home entertainment system quite nicely.

[ShaneMcGrath.]

Wake me when we have 16TB affordable M.2 drives, Nothing beats spinning rust for price the higher you go up in HDD space.
I'd love to have an 8 bay SSD NAS all full of 16TB drives but unless I win the lotto I'll have to stick with spinning rust 16TB drives.

[eldino]

A device I expected QNAP to do years ago! Good job UGREEN!

The disk-based NAS are too bulky and noisy!
With such a device, one can travel with his own NAS.

[bernt]

How do you get 3 TB from 4x1TB drives in RAID1? Seems more like RAID 5 to me.

[likefunbutnot]

Not to be that guy but most high capacity consumer m.2 drives are crappy QLC NAND, which isn't something I'd care to trust long term, especially for backups. I'll also go ahead and say that right now, it's definitely easier, cheaper and considerably more power efficient to find 10Gb network devices that use SFP/SFP+ ports (e.g. Mellanox cards) rather than twisted pair. This is a weird little box that, to me, has a lot of very real flaws.

[HetmanRecovery]

NAS systems like the Ugreen NASync DXP4800 Plus may support remote accessibility features, enabling users to access their data and manage the system from anywhere with an internet connection, enhancing flexibility and convenience.

[marcfruchtman]

Thanks for this review.
Looks really promising. I don't understand why the write speeds are so slow. That needs to be fixed before I can consider this NAS.

[trblzr]

How would this compare to building your own NVMe-only NAS/server?

[digistructr]

thing like this is almost crying for a PoE-in imo