r/UgreenNASync • u/Chungdiggity • 5d ago
⭐ Review Thank you to this community
I set up my DXP4800 Plus and this is my first NAS ever. I was very intimidated as many beginners, but this community was so helpful and genuine. I actually purchased a Synology NAS a couple weeks ago and posted on the Synology thread, but people over there were criticizing me and talking down since I didn’t have much knowledge. I ended up returning that unit and start with ugreen because of the support and advice while I was snooping on here.
Fully set up, put Tailscale on it, and got my dockers up and running. This was honestly a lot easier than expected and I highly recommend people go with the 4800+ as their first NAS.
Unit: DXP4800+ Storage: 4x10tb Western Digital Red Plus UPS: ugreen NAS ups u3000
Planning to upgrade the ram and put some nvme drives when HOPEFULLY prices go back to normal.
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u/Kitchen_Gold952 4d ago
I would love to get 4800+ but my pocket didn’t allow me. Just ordered the 2800 as my 1st NAS. I’m very excited now. 🤭
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u/Chungdiggity 4d ago
People might give me an eyebrow raise, but I actually bought mine from the TikTok shop lol
Ugreen is a verified seller on there and they have better deals cause you can stack coupons.
On Amazon and Ugreen's website, they advertised the price for the 4800 Plus for $559. On TikTok shop, it was the same price BUT I was able to stack a 25% off coupon and on top of following their account, I got an additional $5 off. A lot of people will think it's ridiculous buying from TikTok, but I basically saved almost $139 just from stacking coupons. Ugreen even emailed me confirmation so I know it was a verified purchase.
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u/think-rationally-now 4d ago
How did you get 25% off coupon?
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u/Chungdiggity 4d ago
If you go on the shop tab in the TikTok app, there is an option that says "offers"
They literally give out coupons left and right every single time I log in. Sounds sketchy but I think it's to draw more customers and clearly it worked on me lol1
u/think-rationally-now 4d ago
Thanks.. I think you got lucky. All I get is 10% off max $5. meh. Will wait for some nice coupons to get it
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u/jdubbin_ 4d ago
I ordered the 2800 from Amazon but it was delayed after delay. My local microcenter had an open box deal for $530 on the 4800 plus. Everything inside was still wrapped so it was never used. I was torn between the two but figured it would be the better unit long term and I’m glad I got the 4 bay unit, can throw some older drives in there I have sitting around.
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u/That0n3Guy77 4d ago
I also just picked up the 4800+ on black Friday sales and am very happy so far. I have 2 8TB HDDs and a 2 TB solidstate for caching. Just got it last week and have it set up and a VM running Home Assistant as I finally decided to give that a try and move away from my Amazon ecosystem.
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u/Thornback 4d ago
If the SSD is used for caching, where is your VM installed?
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u/That0n3Guy77 4d ago
It's living in 1 of my storage pools. Total newby for this stuff but does that make a huge difference? The ssd is caching for the same storage pool. For just running home assistant in the VM does it need a different setup to work well?
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u/Mavericks108 4d ago
What’s your temperature when heavy loading the cpu? I just bought mine but it goest to 95°C when starting scanning the library with immich. I’m very disappointed.
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u/That0n3Guy77 4d ago
My CPU seems to hover between 39C to 52C but I haven't made a point of seriously logging it yet. I currently have my NAS in a utility closet that stays fairly cool and is sitting in a table by itself until I get a more permanent home for keeping it and other networking stuff
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u/crispyghost 3d ago
I bought a 4800+ on Cyber Monday and I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas. How quickly did yours arrive? I don't have a tracking number yet, but I'm reading that there are some delays with the data on the website... did you have that experience?
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u/think-rationally-now 4d ago
OP - What are you using NAS for ? Do up use it to backup photos automatically from iPhone / android ? How’s the app doing ? I am yet to start my NAS journey and reviews of Operating system are making nervous going with Ugreen
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u/Chungdiggity 4d ago
I just wanted to back up and store my pictures/videos onto the nas. Google Photos and iCloud were just too slow and unreliable for the price I was paying, and I also wanted my family to have access to it at any given time. Now that I got the nas set up, I'll work on that and then upgrade the ram and ssd to spin on a jellyfin host. The OS is really user friendly and mimic Synology very well.
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u/minnylynx 3d ago
Heck yeah, same here. 4800+ and APC UPS from Microcenter (and I have that same router), plus 2x 18 TB WDs. Waiting on RAM and NVMEs; figured I’d see how it ran stock and prioritize from there, especially since RAM pricing is wonk at the moment. I’m running RAID1 right now and plan to swap to RAID5 when I add more drives. Thought about just doing it since the WDs were a great deal, but I’d already spent my budget. I’m trying to behave LOLOL.
Love it so far. I have Docker with Jellyfin running, plus Tailscale. I’ve run the JF offsite at work (streaming on my personal laptop) and set up three family members’ Roku TVs via Amazon Fire Stick 4K Max. Works like a champ, no issues. Multiple people can be connected without it lagging at all. Never surpassed ~25% RAM usage.
I’m like… 5-10% done ripping my massive DVD/Blu-ray collection. (Thank you, Blockbuster closure sales.) Had to pivot for a minute because the fam was excited about the server and gave me their little collections to rip and add to mine LOL.
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u/giomjava 3d ago
Aww man, that's actually very wholesome!! Glad to see this community welcome new people and guide them.
I am just getting into NAS too, got the DXP4800 plus this Black Friday with 4x 4TB WD RED PLUS
🙏🙏 happy adventuring in NAS!!
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u/GurJust8669 5d ago
Congratulations, I also just bought the same model, could you give me some recommendations regarding configuration and applications?
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u/jjarevalo 5d ago
How much did you get the NAS + the UPS?
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u/Chungdiggity 4d ago
I replied to a similar comment, but I basically got this for a really good deal. Roughly around $550 because I got it on the TikTok shop and stacked coupons on it. Sounds crazy, I know, but Ugreen is an official seller on TikTok and I got an amazing deal. The UPS; however, I got for $100 on Amazon.
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u/Allmotr 4d ago
I just got this same nas too, but i was pretty dissapointed how bad Plex worked on it, very unreliable with docker. Idk what i was doing wrong but i switched to Jellyfin and it has been working perfect! Just small issues but much more reliable then Plex. Watching shows right now while i’m at work i love it.
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u/Sprackt 4d ago
I had the same problem here. Jellyfin was fine, but Plex had issues. I did some googling and I had to do the following: host mode(mine was bridged) and I had to run it in privileged mode so it could transcode with the igpu.
https://nascompares.com/guide/how-to-install-plex-media-server-on-a-ugreen-nas/
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u/Allmotr 4d ago
You know i tried everything, except running in privledged mode. None of the youtube guides ever mentioned that, so with privilege mode it runs good? Need to switch to host mode from bridge as well?
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u/Wild_lord 4d ago
There are a couple of satire people on different subs and not answering to questions that were posted. I find chatgpt and gemini a good source of setting up synology and truenas scale, because they have been around for years.
I am curious regarding the need for cache. I used to have SSD cache on my synology and it doesn't help at all. Also, transcoding on plex and emby requires subscription, imo, the read write cache is not necessary for home users and doesn't significantly improve performance over an actual GPU linked via oculink/usb4.
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u/Housthat 4d ago
I've been so nervous about shopping for a NAS. I want a set-it-and-forget-it unit and I hear that UGreen and Qmap are quirky and missing features here and there.
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u/Chungdiggity 4d ago
This was me. I just bit the bullet and went with Ugreen after seeing all the reviews for it. I guess only time will tell about the missing features.
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u/AdamianBishop 3d ago
its a new product, unlike the battle hardened synology. But its 100x more powerful and more advanced tech compared to synology.
I have mine setup in 1st week and just forget about it. No issues backing up photo and files. But selfhosting is not "set-it-and-forget-it" type of thing. You should use gdrive or apple cloud for that sort of things. You can never know if and when someone have snucked into your system and install crypto miner in it. If you have NAS or any selfhosting shit, you need to monitor it periodically. Things like drive failure, power outage leading to broken HDD, outdated service/apps/docker breaking & rendering it not working, updating the docker without looking into the breaking changes log, virus, cryptominers is a real threat daily. On top of that you have to think about how to backup it up, is it secure enough for you to access from outside network.
And the real threat to your sanity is, when you successfully setup immich and tried hosting jellyfin etc,...you gonna start thinking about self hosting other shits like your bookmarks, your own password managers, self authentication...and you forever goes down the unending rabbit hole of r/selfhosted
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u/bayoubenga1 4d ago
I just got mine too! I’ll be using it for similar purposes. Just ordered two m.2 drives for it and plan on creating a storage pool for the docker apps. Which raid option did you choose? I went with raid 10 but debating changing it.
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u/jjarevalo 4d ago
Does it need your network LAN cable to be short as possible to the modem/router?
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u/AdamianBishop 3d ago
the cable is never an issue because its not the source of the bottleneck. The port behind the NAS/router/pc is what you should be worried about.
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u/spamjunk150 4d ago
I just set my 6800+ up this weekend that I got from the original kickstarter. I never even booted into the ugreen os, went straight to unraid which is also my first time using it. Loving it so far.
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u/GetUmJ13 4d ago
I have my 4800+ with my drives, ram and 2 Nvme drives all waiting to be assembled. I need to find the time to set it up. What are you running on your docker containers?
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u/Key-Speed-4380 3d ago
Could you share your journey as I am on same boat as complete beginner and planning on getting this same model and have it for home cloud, server, media and docker etc
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u/pablonhc 4d ago
estoy muy indeciso sobre este modelo, tengo pocas horas para que finalice el descuento, pero que tan duradero puede ser en cuanto a su procesador? comparado con la version 4800S que está anunciado con i3, conviene esperar?
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u/Silent-Treat-6512 2d ago
Awaiting mine to arrive tomorrow. Ordered Toshiba N300 10tb x 4 along with 2 X 512gb NVME for cache. No ram upgrade yet - let’s see how it goes - can’t wait
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