Ugreen NASync DXP4800Plus 4-bay NAS Review

Rating: 7.5.

Newly arrived into the highly competitive NAS market, Ugreen has launched a range of six devices ranging from a 2-bay model up to an eight-bay unit. The four-bay NASync DXP4800Plus sits in the mid-range and uses an interesting choice of hardware.

Powering the DXP4800 Plus is an interesting choice of CPU as Ugreen has opted for an Intel Pentium Gold 8505 as it's a 12th Gen processor compared to the standard DXP4800 which uses a 13th generation Intel Processor N. Although a generation older the 8505 has a better feature set than the N series; 64GB of memory support (as opposed to 16MB), better graphics and perhaps most importantly it supports PCIe Gen 4 and provides 20 PCIe lanes compared to the 9 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 that the N supports.

The NAS comes with 8GB of DDR5 installed and supports up to 64GB via a pair of SO-DIMM slots. Another interesting feature is that the DXP4800 Plus (and the devices above it in the range) don't use a flash memory system disc but instead uses an actual SSD with 128GB capacity. Ugreen also provide the DXP4800 with a pair of NVMe PCIe 4.0 slots for caching or extra storage duties.

The DXP4800 Plus is the only NAS in the current lineup that has a choice of two different speeds of Ethernet connection, 10GbE and 2.5GbE. Ugreen back the NAS with a 2-year warranty.

Physical Specifications

• Processor: Intel Pentium Gold 8505 (4.40 GHz).
  Memory: 8GB DDR5-4800.
• Gigabit Ethernet Ports: 2, 10GbE & 2.5GbE.
• Rear panel connectors:  1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A, 1 x HDMI 2.0b (4K 60Hz).
• Front panel connectors: 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, SD 3.0 Card slot.
• RAID support:  JBOD / Basic / RAID 0, 1, 5. 6. 10.
• Cooling: Active, 1 x 140mm fan.
• Drive Bays Supported: 4
• Maximum hard drive size supported: 22TB
• Maximum Capacity: 88TB.
• NVMe slots: Y, 2 x M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0.
• Internal File System support: Btrfs, ex4.
• Dimensions (D x W x H): 257.5 x 178 x 178mm.
• Weight: 3.9kg (empty).

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