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.

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

I have a QNAP TS-431 too. It’s sort of decommissioned now at an offsite location. Same for my old Synology DS1815+ doing some basic tasks. My main NAS units now are a QNAP TS-653D (6 bay) and a UGreen DXP8800 Plus (8 bay). If you’re coming from a QNAP TS-431 and it’s served you well, you might want

I bought an UGreen DXP8800 Plus, I figured I couldn't build an 8 bay pc with that kind of spec and use as little power in a compact form. Yet I can still install any OS I want on it as it's just an x86-64 pc at the end of the day. So it's happily running Proxmox now

Zettlabs has some interesting offerings too but I’m not sure if they are in Kickstarter yet. Anyway, the new UGreen offerings look good IMO. Nice specs. I’ll stick with my UGreen DXP8800 Plus though.

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

if you're looking for a turnkey solution rather then having to install TrueNAS or UnRAID and want something akin to Synology Hybrid RAID SHR / SHR2 then TerraMaster has some NAS models that have this functionality. IIRC, some such models even have similar hardware to the UGreen DXP8800 Plus / DXP 68

DXP8800 plus, w 64gb and 2 nvme added. It’s superb hardware, UGOS is perfect for my needs. It’s also Debian under the hood. Install tmux via dpkg, used rsync to move data from my Synology 1621. Expanded raid to 8 x 18tb from 5 drives to start. Used portalner, deployed stacks for plex, *arr, nignx, p

Here is a Quick Start Guide for native and docker installation: https://www.back-me-up-scotty.com/docs/quick-start-guide-native-mac-win-docker/ The FAQ explains how to backup on a external sd or hd. https://www.back-me-up-scotty.com/faqs/ I have docker running on a very old and outdated Synology 181

Ohhhhhh, so you mean running Xpenology on a UGREEN NASync DXP8800 Plus. That's interesting. It looks like it costs a couple hundred $CAD more than a DS1825+, though the CPU is much better. I'm guessing I would need to set up whatever the current bootloader (Arc?) is, and then install my drives? Woul