DXP8800 Plus

An alternative to consider: a Ugreen NAS, specifically the DXP8800 Plus. Why? it has 8 HDD bays and two NVME drives, which meets your storage needs it’s within your price range it has dual 10Gbe so you can work on files directly off of it, assuming your network supports 10Gbe it also has Thunderbolt

You didn't mention budget but if you are going for new: Have you looked at something like a UGREEN NAS - these come with 6 core 12th gen intel chips whose iGPU supports INtel Quicksync for all your hardware transcoding needs:https://nas.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-nasync-dxp4800-plus-nas-storage?from

That’s a good question. I wasn’t sure since other NAS manufactures with Thunderbolt have this feature or at least QNAP does or did with some models. The DXP8800 Plus and DXP6800 Pro didn’t launch with a this feature but it could have been added in subsequent Firmware releases. If so it would have be

I had used several UGREEN products in the past and was very satisfied with them as a brand. When they moved into the NAS market, it made sense, but I was apprehensive about the newness of UGOS. That said, almost from the start they were very open about letting you installing your own OS, so that is

You might be ok with a DAS but it's a little limited in usefulness, but if you go with a 6 or 8-bay NAS, you can unlock much more utility that you may not have even considered yet. I recommend either a UGreen DXP8800 Plus or a QNAP TS-h1288X, both come with 10GbE ports and robust CPUs.

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’ve only got the UGreen DXP8800 Plus and an early Kickstarter version at that (under ~$1000 USD). So I can’t compare the two first hand. However, to believe their significant design differences that affect quality either way I’d like to see a comparative tear down. As for performance, anyone could

The UGreen Carcasa supports HDD, SSD’s in RAID 0, 1, 3, 10 and 5. A USB 3.0 / 5 Gbps connection is slow. I have a TerraMaster D8 Hybrid (4 SATA + 4 NVMe) connected to my UGreen DXP8800 Plus NAS via USB-C / USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) which is preferable for my use case given that it is faster. A Thunderb

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