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

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

First of all let me say thank you in advance to you r/UgreenNASync for running this contest. Regardless of which winners you select, I think it's extremely generous of you to offer such a wonderful opportunity to those of us who follow your brand and own your products. Thank you for putting a little

I too have used a Synology DS1815+ for a number of years. It was quite stable but its Atom C2000 series SOC was always an underpowered disappointment. I then upgraded to a QNAP TS-653D 6 bay (Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core) which was much more capable. When the UGreen Kickcstarter started I sourced a

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

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

Alas, I only have but one DXP8800 Plus NAS. I sourced my DXP8800 Plus from the original UGreen Kickstarter for under ~$1000 USD and my only regret is that I didn’t get two. Like you I’m using the stock UGreen UGOS Pro OS (for giggles) and find it reasonably serviceable for general use, VM’s, docker

I came from the synology 920+ with the expansion for more drives. I upgraded to the ugreen dxp8800 plus. I have zero complaints, I didn’t try out the ugreen software though I immediately switched to truenas. But what I got from my ugreen was everything working at least 10x better, it is way more pow

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