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The UGREEN NAS – SO MUCH POTENTIAL!
The UGREEN NAS – SO MUCH POTENTIAL!
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UGREEN NASync DXP4800 PLUS Review
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Update on the use of 3rd Party OS on UGREEN NAS with hardware, with regard to warranty*: "The Ugreen team confirms that whatever is promised in their warranty policy will not change, which only covers the hardware. They also mention that there is a risk of damage if you install a third-party OS, including data loss and compatibility issues, etc." – Ugreen Representative, 26/3/24
US and DE only? Maaaan….guess I am going the mini-PC + DAS route when Lunarlake dropsπ
I've been burned in crowdfunding too many times. I'll wait until it's widely available before I consider it.
I secured my 40% off rewards on Kickstarter. If they don't announce their software fixes by the close of the campaign, I'm cancelling it.
This NAS is made in China.. Unless you are ok to share your personal photos and privacy with someone in China and let CCP to monitor your daily activities, go ahead π π π
Crowdfunding hasn't just been 'indie' for long long long time. I take it you haven't used kickstarter in a long time, if ever. No idea why you are so worked up about that.
For a first product in an area they have never been the crowdfunding approach allows them long lead up to marketing and not to guess as to what the demand will be and then over or under produce product. It provides them channel for invested user input long before the product ships that they wouldn't have otherwise. And finally, it allows for cash to fund the development ahead of time that they would never get from just listing it anywhere else.
You also seem to be thinking Ugreen is Google or Microsoft as far as resources go. That they can have all the data in the world and all the dev funds they need to do anything. Obviously not the case.
I just bought a Terramaster F403 and I would ABSOLUTELY buy that 4bay model as an upgrade but ONLY if it supported TrueNAS Scale.
U know- id not like to think it but its interesting if the rollout is limited due to privacy concerns in europe and other countries? Or do u think thats unrelated?π€π§π₯°βοΈ
what would a decaffeinated episode look like?
Interesting, but will wait for the AMD version.
Now that it is confirmed we can install 3rd party OS the question is why did you had problems to install one while others said it is possible without any problem?
I just saw another YouTuber "TwoGuyzTech* said if you rename the efi partition and turn off watchdog you can install other OS and it will stop looking for the ugos upon reboot. Robby can you try that and see if it solves the boot issue?? This sounds promising.
ugreen, ugreen, ugreen … everywhere, everytime … I can smell a huge marketing campaign.
Kickstarter won't even let me order it for some reason… not a great start
Just too expensive for me, especially their predicted retail pricing. Why not offer 2-tier pricing – 1) lower bare bones prices for tech enthusiasts who want to install their own storage, ram, and os; (limited hardware warranty); 2) full pricing for complete units with their software suite and full warranty support. Most customers would go with full retail packages once the software is finished. The hobbyists would buy the bare bones units starting NOW, I'd venture, and probably aid Ugreen with debugging hardware and firmware niggles before a full retail launch. Seems like a win for Ugreen, unlike their stupid kickstarter.
"That's what my therapist says"
LOL That explains a lot :o)
Great… Put your data on a pure Chinese NAS…. what can go wrong ππππ
You based in the UK?
I ask because there is a lot of reviews of things we cant get here in the UK or have limited access to such as no shipping from this particular kickstarter. Why support the brands that don't a support your entire audience that ultimately support you? Disappointment in both UGREEN here and sadly a little bit with yourself although i appreciate why you'd cover it. At Kickstarter pricing it looks to be worth it, especially if you can stick your own OS on there. At retail with the shambles of an OS to work around, just no.
Hm, these are really attractively priced right now. I'm torn between one of these or the synology I've been looking at for a while.
I checked preoder page and price is similar to existing nases. Yes it hase more upgradability and potential abilities, byt its still not finished. I will not pay, at a "discount", as well as for an existing product for something that I do not even know how it will turn out.
I don't get why UGREEN tries to create it's own shitty NAS OS, they could just ship them with truenas.
Would cost them less money and software would be so much better.
It rubs really wrong that I'm locked out of 40% discount.
I live in Asia and the discounted price is really good value, plus the hardware design looks modern unlike some NAS.
I think I understand UGREENs strategy and reasoning.
– Choosing Kickstarter for checking how high the interest in the product is because it's a very well known name. My guess is that they didn't fully realise that that is not Kickstarters main use. Probably because their from China.
– Only starting with 2 regions (the USA and Germany) as essentially beta testers of the hardware and software. If anything goes horribly wrong there are not that many units they have to take care of.
– Launching all these different products at the same time is also probably because they want all of them tested on.
– And the 40% discount if for exactly that. As a compensation for buying a not fully finished experience and essentially helping out with finding the leftover bugs.
– Probably chose Germany because it's in the center of Europe and they can then utilize that when they fully release it to the other markets. And as a German myself I think we do tend to overanalyze and give a lot of feedback. So they probably wanted that.
All in all I think their plan is actually pretty solid. But some miscommunication internally and externally led to quite a lot of confusion.
I actually only found out AFTER "buying" the NAS that they only ship to US and Germany. Good that I live in Germany. But I find it really random. Didn't expect Germany to be so high up on the ladder
The crowd-funding scam should be stopped by legislation somehow; the Chinese, in many forms, now abuse this to take people's money upfront to use to pay for tooling costs and marketing. I'd never back this, and the spirit should be for startups, and only then should be a token amount to judge market potential. a NAS is not a new product to the market it's a well established device. I woulnd't touch their NAS if was given free I woulnd't trust their OS Chinese software typically is shite. I really like Ugreen cables and some of their small accessories, they competed against ANKER both trying to landgrab every market segment as they can. Many of their products are not made by themselves but from others and badged up as own brand. This is common practice no company no matter how big can't make everything! I wish them luck they will need it.
CWWK 7840 follow up when?
Awesome YT channel π Nice videos on UGreen NASes.
Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.
P.S. Bad price for NAS hardware if locked; good only if unlocked.
P.P.S. UG-OS and its apps not widely seen in the wild long enough to uncover vulnerabilities via pen testing are scary.
P.P.P.S. Whereas UGreen NASes have been on the market for some time already (including on aliexpress right now for full retail price) but not here in the West. These are not "made-from-scratch a.k.a. clean slate" O/S and hardware builds.
P.P.P.P.S. It matters not about the established branding of UGreen; other diligence is needed. Their branding is Ok for code-free products like their USB cables, GAN chargers, docking stations, etc.
P.P.P.P.P.S. A kickstarter alone unlikely funds BIOS security updates (e.g. spectre, meltdown, logoFail as past examples). More generally, purchasers tend to overlook this requirement when buying cheap, off-brand PCs, laptops, SFF-USFF thin clients/mini PCs, motherboards . . . and NASes.
P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Is this kickstarter really a fire sale in disguise of unsold overstock of UGreen NASes previously retailed unsuccessfully in places other than the West? Down the road, I shall be delighted if UGreen turns out to be a long-term player in NASes.
Which NAS would you guys recommend for photos and videos only? That's all I want to use it for. Ugreen or any other company.
Thanks
I am a video editor. Which SSD's would you suggest adding to this?
Will only buy if it does Plex with transcoding. Trying to consolidate and move away from wifes old gaming PC. An all in one purpose built media server that runs PLEX server and its data is IDEAL. So surprised theres no app for it out the gate.
Totally agree with everything, love your passion on the matter btw.
I need 3rd party os support. Ugreen is Chinese and Iβm not trusting their operating system with my personal stuff. Look at anker with their security camera stuff. These companies are untrustworthy.
The Brits don't deserve good nas.
aChair Leg was able to load another OS successfully onto this NAS, not sure if youβd want to check out his video and see if his steps were any different to yours – he did Pop! OS, but I still really want to see how TrueNAS or unRaid work on this, and if throughput numbers are any different in terms of the 10gig ports.
5:32 Priceless π€£ I completely agree that UGREEN trying to prevent installing other OSes on their box are shooting themselves in the foot. It's simple, UGREEN: don't support, but also don't interfere. It's interesting though that you @nascompares were not able to run any other OS successfully on the device. aChair Leg (PopOS) and TwoGuyzTech reported that it was possible. The key is to disable the Watchdog in the BIOS completely. I've seen Watchdog screen in your video, but I'm not sure whether you tried to disable it. To get to the BIOS (which you did) aChair Leg removed the original SSD from the slot and TwoGuyzTech renamed the EFI folder to sth different, that the UEFI BIOS will not automatically try to boot from.
with all our complaint, these guys have hit $3M in 24hours over their asking $20K… are they gonna listen now or its just "take my money already" crowd will be fine with whatever? lol
They should've sold the thing without the software.
I tried backing this and realised I can't from the UK π