DXP8800 Plus

UGREEN DXP8800 Plus. Wipe the OS drive and install TrueNAS. Build quality is very good, though not quite up to UniFi standards. It has a 10-core i5-1235U and you can stick up to 128GB of DDR5 in it if you want.

During the first UGreen NAS Kickstarter I sourced a DXP8800 Plus. It came with an 8GB DDR5 SODIMM and I figured I’d upgrade to 16GB which I did rather cheaply by buying another 8GB SODIMM. The thinking there is that I could always upgrade to 64GB later. That was an error in thinking but hindsight is

Very nice indeed! I have the same UGreen DXP8800 Plus but it was sourced through the original Kickstarter via a pledge a little under ~$1000 USD. I started off with three 14TB and three 16TB WD Red drives that I already had. I also added a couple of NVMe SSD of 512GB capacity that are now 1TB. In ad

QNAP is marginally newer hardware than Synology with worse software. If all you're doing on there is SMB or NFS shares and backup, I'd suggest you get used to an open NAS platform like TrueNAS Scale (based on Linux, unlike TrueNAS Core which is based on BSD). Main difference is you don't have as man

I seriously considered building a TrueNAS around that N305 motherboard. They got them on Amazon for about $300. Very compelling for the price and what you get. 8x sata (via 2x SAS connectors), 2x NVMe, onboard 10Gb + 2x 2.5Gb…even a PCIe 1x slot if you don’t use WiFi. Considered throwing a SATA card

I have a UGreen DXP8800 Plus. I eventually upgraded the RAM by adding another 8GB DDR5 SODIMM for a total of 16GB. Occasionally I run a couple of VM’s and always have at least one docker container running. I’ve also added two 512GB NVMe SSD’s originally for cache but I eventually configured as a sec