Is UGREEN NAS Worthy of Your $$$? We Review the UGREEN DXP6800 Pro! 

I hope you do further testing on DXP6800 Pro like the power consumption and more.

Well done review, looking forward to more ;-)

Glad to finally see a 6-bay UGreen NAS review! I backed the 8-bay and would like to see that next! If these UGreen NAS'es performs as expected then I might get this 6-bay too as an off-site backup. The hardware specs of these UGreen NAS'es just puts Synology to shame. This is coming from someone who owns and luvs his Synology NAS'es and have them for years. 😅

Thanks for making this video! Looks like an awesome NAS with great performance and connectivity! It does not support ECC RAM if I understood correctly, right? That would be the only missing feature for me.

Hopefully you guys can shed a light on its energy consumption. First reports looked a bit high.

Great video!

Can you tell me precisely, what 10Gb network controller is build in? And does the PCIe port or one of the NICs share its PCIe lanes with other devices?

Awesome video. Thanks! Have you been able to boot into Linux to look at the wiring on the m.2 slots via lspci? My understanding is that, at least on the 8-bay model that NAS Compares tested (around the 12m8s mark), one of the slots was PCIe 4.0x4, and the other is PCIe 3.0x2. I realize, as a home user, that being stuck with PCIe 3.0x2 in an NVME mirror (assuming the fastest speed is the slowest drive) would still be great. However, given the price of both the six bay and especially the 8 bay, and the complete lack of any sort of warning about this in the marketing materials, it's a bit off-putting. I'm hoping it's some sort of software limitation, but it seems more likely a choice was made to ration the available PCIe lanes on the CPU. Still. The 8-bay is a $1500 MSRP device, and the cheapest discount on the Kickstarter was still $1000, which is a great deal for that much storage with those specs, but not at all cheap. And nothing on the public specs mentions a discrepency in the assigned lanes between the m.2 slots. It's off-putting, and is making me seriously reconsider my current pledge for the 8-bay. Not because it's not realistically enough for my needs, but for $1000 (or $1500), I really feel like I shouldn't be getting less performance than I'd expect from a fully spec'd slot. That's the sort of compromise I'd expect from a cheaper system, and really has me re-evaluating just building my own, or saving my money for an HL15.

Do they have the firmware lockdown to their own OS or have you been able to install something like truenas or proxmox yet?

What dimensions are have the two fans on the back, 120mm or 140mm? Plugged on a standard 4 pin pwm-controlled header or is there a special header for the fans? And which physical length have the internal M.2 UGOS-SSD?

I just added the 6-bay too along with my previous 8-bay I backed after seeing in Amazon that QNAP's & Synology's 6-bay NAS'es I'm looking at are between $700-$1000+ that doesn't even come close to specs UGreen has. 😮‍💨Worse come to worst.... I can just install TrueNAS or unRAID if UGreen's software is not up to par by the time I get it. 😅

I've been looking for a NAS device, was looking into Synology but compared to this synology is really a joke with their not-expandable hardware lol. Definitely gonna buy this!!

I backed up my DXP2800 2 bay from kickstarter perfect for my need

What is the axtual depth of thw unit. Front to back? I cant find dimensions for the 6 drive unit or any for that matter.

First review of the 6 bay I am aware of… it’s a very compelling product, especially if you put unraid or truenas on it.

Amazing hardware and build quality. If UGREEN gets its software sorted. It will be an amazing NAS.

It’s good to finally see the 6 bay version NASync DXP6800 Pro. Hopefully the 8 bay DXP8800 Plus will make an appearance soon too. IMO it might have been better to see fewer models and UGreen seeding the ground with 2.5GbE and 10GbE switches if not a Router. Ambitious either way, I really hope they come through.

I’m also wondering if one can use some of those NVMe to SATA cards in the two NVMe slots to get even more HDDs. Maybe an SFF-8088 card in the PCIe slot for even more HDDs. Certainly a Thunderbolt enclosure could help add more drives.

Nice starting with raid6, I get a lot of hate with recommending raid6 for primary storage when you have 5 or more drives (I agree 4 bays is where I kinda draw the line with raid6 use but if your using above 4tb drives raid6 is recommend) , just wish nas's came with 5 bays as defualt, usually 2, 4 or 8 and sometimes 6 but not 5 (then again if your wanting to use hotspare a 6+ bay is ideal with raid6 or 5 as it supports live replace so it only mirrors the failed drive unsure if ugreen supports this thought) Impressive little box the whole ugreen layout really does look like Synology dsm os dedicated is drive is intresting hopefully replaceable (I would preferred it to be redundant but it's ugreen choice I guess) something you didn't make a big point about is the standard built in dual 10gbe ethernet ports (most nas are 2.5gbe now with stupid Synology still persisting with 1gbe ports in 2022 never mind in 2024 as well) I guess it's because your used to dealing with 25-100gbe on your other toys in that room The gpu in the resource monitor will be the actual igpu on the cpu (things like plex can use it, doesn't need to be a dedicated gpu)

Would have liked to see a test of the ports and the card reader.

Can you guys please find out which network chips are used for the 2x 10G ports? Why I am asking? Because the smaller models have a Marvell AQC 113 10G chip and this is NOT supported by FreeBSD, Illumos or ESXi. Drivers are only available for Linux and Windows.

Could you talk more about the PCIe slot on this one? I ordered this model and would be cool to get a graphics card working.

Any concerns (outside the norm) with utilizing a NAS from a company based in China? Have you noted any newly-open listening ports or conducted network analysis to check if there are any unknown outbound connections from the NAS or any of your other networked-connected devices after connecting the NAS to your home/lab network?

Been fan of 2-Bay NAS , Syn DS720+ has limitations of max 16T , if I know that I not buy it , Austor 6602T n 6702T both exceeded Syn limitations as newer HDD come on market , so DXP6800 Pro , I will utilize IronWolf Pro 24T for the 1st time , I hope to make 3x 2-Drive RAID 0 on this 6-Bay , since ugreen unit close to 459 price a nice investment

Hoping to see if optane cards boot from the pcie slot. As i have backed this vs the all m.2 version

Can you also insert SATA SSDs into those bays? It looked like you could.

Those WD drives are what I run in my Synology, they get the job done.

I'm really interested in the hardware, but have zero interest in the supplied software. Now I did see another reviewer mention that you're able to install something like Truenas quite easily and that Ugreen on the Kickstarter is coming around to the idea of allowing 3rd party systems, so I'm interested what your guys take on that is.

I'm looking forward to a full review - but I am also concerned about the use of a port multiplier instead of multi-port SATA on these drives. The early performance tests by others show that it may be a bit hamstrung by the performance on the 4 bay unit. From a lspci posted on forums, it appears that the same SATA multipler is in place for the 6 bay units, which will handicap total disk writes to the SATA disk to 300mb/s total, rather then 300mb/s per each disk. I think the benchmarks will have to tell the story here. The 10GB/s may be totally wasted unless you are only writing to the SATA disks, or you replace their OS with truenas and set up caching with ZFS on the SSDs.

Any update on the Object First review?

Y’all planning to break it open so we can see insides?

OO. Actually a NAS with built in PSU. That is nice, I hate these external bricks. Unfortunately their 2 and 4 bay model still uses external bricks. Shame. There reason I care about PSU and small bay models, is because it would be a perfect building block for a ceph or k8s cluster. And with bigger models, you sure get a bit cheaper per bay, but still is stuck with same memory, cpu and nic, so that is not great. If I could get 10 of these 2 bay models, that would be way more interesting for me actually.

Any rack ears?

The font in the OS should be changed to a more modern font. I know a strange thing to point out but it would make the OS look much better.

I pre-ordered this NAS but I had no idea how expensive it would be to get enough storage for 4K video files or backups of my media.

I tried to back the 8 bay and it looks like Kickstarter have screwed my cc payment so I may lose out

Can you give the dimensions of the 6-bay NAS?

Actually a rack mount model would have been nice too,…

i backed the 6 bay version for the purpose of Raid 6 and the more powerful cpu over the 4800 plus. ugreen makes good products and i don't see why this would be any different.

It’s a beast but man their software is as stable as Qnap security. Need to wait a couple of months before their software is prime.

from what I know. It require +86 telephone number to login for the first time. Maybe this is a demo version that why it was different.

Seems like a lot of effort to be going to crowd funding to get launched. Maybe start with less skus and show that they are serious.

I understand that they're sending reviewers samples and that's nice but why the heck would they send four terabyte and one TB NVMe. No one would ever use those for a NAS. It's almost like they being super cheap. 😊 Especially rolling this out through Kickstarter. I wonder if they're having financial trouble and hopefully if they did the app would still run😊

Hey, what size are the two fans and can they be replaced without breaching the warranty?

since ugreen is chinese company ; do we have to worry about any of our data like TicTok?? Surprise no one has asked this concern ; have no idea how much their cloud or their OS has been verified to be safe??

Wait....so you got to buy the NAS then buy the drives separately? Tf

amazing looking forward to the full review! But please update the software for that, from other reviewers there have been a lot of changes and performance uplifts! If possible performance with another OS e.g. truenas, unraid et.c would be amazing, here a quick vid explaining how to easily get a different OS on the boot nvme: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cc6tcfn6ukw.html Hope that helps, cheers!

Sure my Synology's can't run Plex, JellyFin, Homarr, VM of Opnsense and a bunch of other things but I got a SFF i7 PC with Unraid for the power. QNAPs always had the power heck one of them that I used had Thunderbolt it was nice but the software is why they were always returned maybe them failing after a year for many others was another reason.

Good afternoon, there are Ukrainian or Russian languages.

Still just a ground funding device so WAY to much risk.

They Dont ship to India Which is a big problem no nas provider other than syno9logy ships to India so we dont have great options like these nas avilable Please put in a rquest for shipping this to India

Be careful the back doors they've installed in that system

G.U.I not gooey. oof, Come on man.