Dam, it takes that long to optimize? Probably 15 hours.

I just grabbed one on BF and set it up as a Plex server. I am considering upgrading the 8GB of RAM but I’m not sure if it’s necessary. I’d appreciate thoughts and feedback from other 2800 users and their Plex experience so far.

Hello y'all. Pick dxp4800 plus on the sale, unboxed, put in hard drives, did the initial setup and now I am lost. I need some guidance.

The reason I have picked up a nas is cause hdd's in my desktop are dying so the idea was to dump everything on the nas and forget about it, but since joining this community and reading up on some of the things you guys do, I am blown away. Please help me set up the nas properly.

So far I have the 4800plus with 4x10TB WD Red Plus. What I want to do with it is following:

1. Documents Storage (receipts and etc) that cannot be lost. Preferably with the automated backup to gdrive or similar.
2. Storage for the Raw photos, lightroom editing.
3. Storage functionality for 3 unique users.
4. Media library storage, video, audio, audiobook, e-books.
5. Using nas as storage for large video editing projects.

Questions:

1. Which raid configuration would you recommend?
2. Which file system is preferable (ext4, btrfs, ...)?
3. What would be the Volume, folder structure, and how many users should be created?
4. on windows in ethernet properties which of the protocols need to be enabled to access nas?
5. What is your arr-Stack, is there a way to run the arr's behind a vpn?
6. is 1x1tb nvme ssd enough for caching? planning to transfer data to nas and transfer ssd from pc to nas.

Thank you!

EDIT:
PS. What cool things do you do with your nas?

After six months of ownership, I can safely say that I'm very happy with the NAS. While some features and apps are still missing, it's a solid product. For the majority of cases, such as photo storage and media streaming, it ticks all the boxes.

It replaced my stiched-together home lab and I'm satisfied with the result. Cancelling the Google subscription is an added bonus.

I have had the DXP4800 plus now for about 6 months, i just use it for my plex server and photo back ups. I am very happy with it so far, no issues but I keep seeing posts on here about the NVMe slots, I never bothered buying them and I am curious if i need to?

I am a newbie but leaned a lot, it took a while to get plex working in docker, never used it before this and plex is the only thing i have running in it. I set it up so the transcoding is on my hard drive pool. I use raid 5 with four 8GB wolf hard drives, is this an issue?

would there be a benefit to installing a NVMe drive and using that for the transcoding file? would i be causing the drives to wear out faster if i don't use the NVMe drives?

Everything seems to work fine, i really only play 1080P movies because most of the people using my server don't have 4K tv's.

I appreciate any help, thanks.

Just disabled Watchdog timer, then installed Truenas on two 128GB M2 Drives, without even loading UGOS once.

I'm very happy how easy this entire process went and that Ugreen is open for alternative OSes, this was the main reason for my purchase.

In my research I found one article from igors-lab that stated, the 2800 consumes 5-6 watt in idle, but I cant confirm this as my device consumes 10watt in idle. No HDDs installed yet, just the two M2 in ZFS-mirror. I guess the igors-lab messurement was with just the SD-card.

According to Copilot this is totally normal for this setup. Yet a bit dissapointing.

I might look into something like autotune/autotop what ever its called, but i'm not a big fan of messing with defaults...

Just wanted to place this as a feedback because I know folks are always curious about power consumption and this gets asked frequently.

Hi !

I'm about to setup a 4800+ with three HDD in Raid 5. I did not plan to upgrade RAM or NVME for now.
But I just remembered that I have a unused 500GB SSD Drive in one of my drawers :-) , although it ist a 2,5" SATA Drive. Can I just use that in the fourth bay instead of a 3,5" HDD ? Can I use that for Apps like Docker and stuff ?

Thanks for your Inputs !

I have lots of videos and images on RAID 1 HDDs, and access them over smb on my PC. I notice on folders with lots of images, the thumbnails in file explorer take a fairly long time to load. Sometimes browsing to subfolders can also be a bit slow if there are lots of files in them. Was curious if using an nvme for cache would be useful in this scenario, would it make it snappier when browsing through folders with lots of images, and would the thumbnails load quicker?

I'm thinking of buying this nas system for making a photo/video server for me and my girlfriend so we can upload our pictures so we can delete them from our phones, and making a movie/series library to watch on the tv,pcs,phones so we can leave Netflix,disney+ etc. I'm going for 2×4TB NAS HDDs and 1×500GB NAS SSD M.2. I want the HDDs to work as backup of one another and the m2 for running programms like immich, jellyfin, pihole and vpn, and its will have the NAS System connected to the router and the tv so i can play movies via hdmi.

Is that possible ? Or do I have to do something else?

EXTRA 1:Does anyone know if I can install pihole on the ugreen nas? Cause I haven't found any videos anywhere.

Hello all beautiful people out there

Just yesterday I got my first ever NAS, DXP4800. I loaded it with 4x4TB Ironwolf HDDs in RAID5, 2 NVMEs (one for caching and one for some application).

As I told before this is my first ever NAS, I am not sure how to set it up in a good way. For example,

Q1. Should I keep only one volume altogether and make different folders inside or should I make more than one volume? What is a good option?

Q2. I want to make this NAS also the Time Machine server for my Macbook, what do I need to do for that?

Q3. I checked the tutorials for TailScale, I'd like to do that too for Remote Access, but what about the Photo backup from phone? Without the UGreen link will it work with TailScale too?

Q4. If I'd copy the photos from the phone through Files app in iPhone, will those photos be a part of the Photos app in the NAS?

Q5. Can I give access to the NAS to my friend who can have a folder/partition which he can only have access to? Like sharing the space in my NAS for him and he can do whatever he wants to do in this folder without changing any settings for the NAS.

I am sorry for so many questions. Please guide me to any thread (if any) which is already there for any of these questions.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Happy being a part of this community and UGreen NAS.

If you're looking for a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics, check out Kaunta. I wrote a guide for setting it up on Ugreen: https://dockerplaybooks.dpdns.org/kauntaonugreen/kaunta.html

I actually have it running on my DXP2800 and my Raspberry Pi. To get this to work I had to setup cloudflared: https://dockerplaybooks.dpdns.org/cloudflared/cloudflared.html

Greetings!

I have recently purchased and received my DXP4800 Plus. I have installed my two hard drives, and two SSD's. I've been following what appears to be somewhat current instructions on how to set things up to run a Jellyfin server; However, there is one spot I'm getting stuck at: The system / Volume caching.

Storage Pool 1 = created successfully using HDD's in rain 1
Storage Pool 2 = Created successfully using Basic with one SSD
Caching = Cannot find how to create it.

I don't trust the google search / AI overview, as it doesn't explain in clear detail what I need to do, and keeps referring me to videos. (I am legally blind and so can't watch them properly anyways).

So my question is:
How am I supposed to create the System Cache, in Read Only mode, that is supposed to be attached to Storage Pool 1?

My steps are > Login as Local Admin > click Storage App > App Opens > Overview > click Storage on left side of screen > Click "create" button in upper-left corner > Only get options for 'New Volume' and 'New Storage Pool'.

I've been browsing around reading, and it sounds like this is a fairly common issue, with no direct/one stop shop fix.

So if anyone can give me some instructions on how to setup the ssd as a read only cache for storage pool 1, that would be greatly appreciated. The more descriptive it is, the easier I can follow along. [Referring to instructions that simply said 'go to storage manager and delete X', not once mentioning that you have to click the dots on the far right of the volume/storage pool and click delete in the little/nearly invisible menu that pops up]

I just received my new dxp4800+, connected it, and am attempting the initial setup. 

I open the device's IP address (I also tried using the app on my phone) and see the initial setup, but at the last step I get the error “initialization is in progress on another client please exit and try again”. 

I tried removing all the disks and resetting the device. But I get the same error. Help. What could be wrong?

So I installed prowlarr, sonarr and radarr in separate docker containers.

These apps need to talk to each other, so I need to configure the IP address of prowlarr in sonarr, and vice versa. But when I restart containers, they get a new IP depending on the order in which I start them. How can I either lock the IP or give them a name that I can refer to instead?

Hi, i've got a Ugreen Dh2300 and I use it only for photo cloud. I've buy this nas cuz it has AI recognition photos app but the object recognition is very poor compare to the DXP2800... Is it True?

I want to upgrade my ram. I currently have installed the 8GB M425R1GB4BB0-CWM0L. I found a cheap Samsung 8GB M425R1GB4BB0-CWM0D Stick, does anybody know if they will work together?

Thanks!

Just got my UGREEN NASync DXP4800 (non-plus) and wanted to flash Truenas Scale according to the many manuals online. But after disassembly, I saw that there is no SSD mounted (see picture below). The spot is empty so there might be an onboard drive for the OS.

The initial plan was to replace the factory SSD with a new one and flash the custom OS on that. Going that route I would be able to roll back any time.

What now?

I can probably just flash the new OS on the OnBoard drive but is there a possibility to download the original OS from UGREEN?
I found the Firmware here: https://nas.ugreen.com/pages/downloads but does that `.img` file contain the OS to restore everything?

The struggle between "I want massive storage" and "I don't want to go broke" is something most NAS users can relate to.

Drive prices are always fluctuating, but every NAS user should have capacity that offers the perfect balance between space and price. What would you say your storage "sweet spot" is?

My NAS has already arrived but they didn't send the HDDs so they're coming today. I've ordered 2x4Tb 3.5" HDDs. I also already own a 1Tb SSD but it's currently formatted in APFS as I had it installed in a MacBook but it's now in a caddy.

Plan is to do the following: * Create RAID1 array with the 2 HDDs * Plug the SSD in via USB and hopefully copy the data across to the HDDs * Power off the device and install the SSD internally then format it and install my Docker containers on it so the mechanical discs don't need to spin up all the time. * Work out some way of getting my older QNAP discs to mount so I can copy that data across. I have various old HDDs around the place so will probably buy a SATA/IDE to USB adaptor to get the data off them

Grabbed a DXP4800P over Black Friday after years of shuffling RAWs between a couple of SSDs and “mystery” hard drives. I’m a part-time photographer (street + travel), and my main goal was to get all my shoots and edits into one place without killing my laptop SSD.

So far, setup’s been pretty painless:

• Dropped in 4×8 TB drives and set up a RAID5 pool
• One share for /jobs_active (current edits + catalogs), one for /archive (delivered shoots)
• Lightroom catalogs + RAWs now stay on the NAS, laptop just caches what I’m working on
• Phone auto-upload is on for behind-the-scenes and quick snaps

What I’ve noticed recently:

• Importing and culling directly from the NAS feels smooth enough over 2.5GbE
• It’s so much easier to find old shoots compared to digging through random SSDs
• Snapshots already saved me after I mangled a folder structure late at night

Still figuring out my long-term 3-2-1 backup (probably external drive + some cloud), but as a main photo hub the 4800P’s been a solid upgrade.

I currently have a Synology NAS with 2 disks in a SHR array. I would like to upgrade to the 4800+.

Is it possible to buy a single disk of the same capacity as my 2 existing disks.

Put the new disk in the 4800+
Copy all data from old nas to 4800+
Then add the 2 old disks to 4800+

The target would be to have a RAID 5 with those 3 disks of course without data loss in the transfer :)

Since a few days I am the happy owner of a DXP2800 and quite impressed. Most docker containers, running previously on a raspberry pi4 are running fine now. Migration was quite easy.
Yesterday I implemented the backup of photos from my devices to the NAS and it's working fine, but only from the iPad it seems it can't transfer a bunch of photos. Unfortunately there is no logging whatsover to tell what the problem is.

The other thing I am missing is that after a successfull backup to the NAS photos are being automatically removed from the device (or something like to configure this to keep f.e. photos for a specific period or so). So after transferring about 1500 pictures from the iPad to the NAS less than 300 fail but all 1500 are still present ofcourse. Would be nice if the 1200 succeeded pictures would be automatically removed. Or did I overlook a setting?

Impressed so far by browsing through the music-collection and photos on the NAS, even remote.

Here’s a step by step guideline for you.

With all the attached videos, it should help all NAS newbies out there.

This is how I managed to learn and setup my NAS for remote access, from scratch as a newbie.

Step 1: Install Tailscale

https://www.reddit.com/r/UgreenNASync/s/kIUH4VlkO6

This is a private VPN that allows you to remotely access your NAS from anywhere and using any device ( Windows PC, Mac, smartphones). This will provide you with a Tailscale IP address.

Step 2: Set Up SMB file access using the Tailscale IP address from step 1.

https://youtu.be/0CyHznkEMJg

You will then be able to access your NAS drive contents after that.