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CES 2024: Ugreen Unveils NASync Network Attached Storage Series

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Ugreen, best known for its charging solutions and accessories, has announced a new partnership with Intel to bring its next-generation NASync series of network attached storage devices to the U.S. market later this year.

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Designed for home or business users, NASync devices use Intel Core i5 control chips to power an AI-driven intelligent data management center where users can store and access data locally and remotely via smartphones, laptops, tablets, and TVs. An all-in-one app facilitates wireless data access for streaming media, and also includes photo recognition for searching pictures by text.

The NASync series come in 2-bay and 4-bay models for home use, and 6-bay and 8-bay models for business, offering up to 184TB of storage capacity and up to 32GB of DDR5 memory. Drive installation is also made easier thanks to what Ugreen calls a unique manual push-pull mechanism, so no additional tools are required.

In addition to the SATA drive bays, all the NASync devices in the range include at least two M.2 SSD drive slots for installing solid-state drives, which can be used for extra storage or as a fast caching space for speeding up read/write performance.

Each NAS is equipped with dual Thunderbolt 4 Ports, an SD slot, USB-A ports and Type-C ports, and HDMI for up to 8K output, allowing NASync to be connected to various storage devices such as SD cards, mobile hard disks, USB flash drives, and disk array cabinets for data back-up and synchronization. In addition, the NASync Series is also equipped with a PCIe 4.0 X4 expansion slot and dual 10GB Ethernet ports that can be aggregated into a 20GB bandwidth, offering up to 2,500MB/s download speeds.

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Ugreen is also launching an "all-flash" compact model for creative and media professionals that features four M.2 SSD drive slots, an 8K HDMI port, and a built-in Wi-Fi chip.

Interested users can follow the campaign for the Intel-powered NASync Series on Kickstarter.com, which launches in mid-March, according to Ugreen.

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Ugreen, best known for its charging solutions and accessories, has announced a new partnership with Intel to bring its next-generation NASync series of network attached storage devices to the U.S. market later this year.

ugreen-nas.jpg

Designed for home or business users, NASync devices use Intel Core i5 control chips to provide an AI-driven intelligent data management center where users can store and access data locally and remotely via smartphones, laptops, tablets, and TVs. An all-in-one app facilitates wireless data access for streaming media, and also includes photo recognition for searching pictures by text.

The NASync series come in 2-bay and 4-bay models for home use, and 6-bay and 8-bay models for business, offering up to 184TB of storage capacity and up to 32GB of DDR5 memory. Drive installation is also made easier thanks to what Ugreen calls a unique manual push-pull mechanism, so no additional tools are required.

In addition to the SATA drive bays, all the NASync devices in the range include at least two M.2 SSD drive slots for installing solid-state drives, which can be used for extra storage or as a fast caching space for speeding up read/write performance.

Each NAS is equipped with dual Thunderbolt 4 Ports, an SD slot, USB-A ports and Type-C ports, NASync can be connected to various storage devices such as SD cards, mobile hard disks, USB flash drives, and disk array cabinets for data back-up and synchronization. In addition, the NASync Series is also equipped with a PCIe 4.0 X4 expansion slot and dual 10GB Ethernet ports that can be aggregated into a 20GB bandwidth, offering up to 2,500MB/s download speeds.

ugreen-nasync.jpg

Ugreen is also launching an "all-flash" compact model for creative and media professionals that features four M.2 SSD drive slots and a built-in Wi-Fi chip.

Interested users can follow the campaign for the Intel-powered NASync Series on Kickstarter.com, which launches in mid-March, according to Ugreen.

Article Link: CES 2024: Ugreen Unveils NASync Network Attached Storage Series
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This is definitely intriguing. I wonder if the big dogs (Synology and Qnap) will follow suit w/ these features.
 
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At least this has decent hardware. I like my 2 bay Synology NAS but I wish they would ditch the 1Gbps port, it's 2024 for god sake, it's not as if 2.5Gbps ports as a minimum are expensive, plus onboard Wi-Fi would be nice. Synology does nice easy to use software but their hardware needs a massive improvement.
 
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Success will come down to software and support. Without both of those being good, these will struggle to sell. Hopefully UGREEN will have both good software and support and provide extra competition for Synology. I know there are other companies putting out consumer-focused NAS machines but Synology is the major player, and for a good reason. I have two of their boxes; both have been flawless in the years I've used them.

I have to say that TrueNAS works well. It requires a little more setup but I had a solid TrueNAS server until I repurposed the case for a gaming PC build.
 
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I have a Syno 5-bay and it’s been mostly good. A hard drive failure triggered a btrfs hiccup which caused data corruption. Since then, I’ve started moving over to UnRaid and xfs has been solid so far.

I’m interested in the competition for Synology but I’m not sure I can be won over by a Kickstarter campaign and flashy specs. At the very least, maybe it’ll convince Synology to up their hardware game.
 
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The AI photo searching thing is kind of nice tbh. I’m just going to stick to iCloud for the convenience, but for those who don’t want to use it I’d imagine it would be useful to keep that feature.

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At least this has decent hardware. I like my 2 bay Synology NAS but I wish they would ditch the 1Gbps port, it's 2024 for god sake, it's not as if 2.5Gbps ports as a minimum are expensive, plus onboard Wi-Fi would be nice. Synology does nice easy to use software but their hardware needs a massive improvement.
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2.5GE is such a pain in the ass, I wish we could just get to 10GE in everything already.
 
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My Drobo is begging me to put it out of its (and my) misery and find a replacement that is not at risk of dying at any moment. Synology's durability frightens me, but friends have warned me against Qnap. Maybe this will be the solution I need? I'm so confused!
 
Kickstarter?! Can’t say my faith in a company increases when they resort to kickstarter. That’s ok for scrappy diy guys in a garage, but otherwise what does it mean? The company is too poor to finance R&D? Why would I want a product from such a poorly performing company? They’re too cheap to finance it? Why would I want a product that the company doesn’t have enough faith in to finance it themselves?

The NAS space needs competition. The demand is there. So I’m happy when a new entrant throws in their hat. But it can’t be a half @$$ed effort.

And the time to check it out is when there’s actually a price announced. Until then, it’s just more vaporware waste of time.
 
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I have a DS923+ and a QNAP TS-453BT3. The QNAP comes with Thunderbolt (for IP over TB, so maximum of 10Gbe) and an optional 10GBe interface that I bought....Problem is, it doesn't have the bandwidth to drive 10Gbe. It maxed out at approaching 200MB/s. The DS923 on the other hand gets very close to 10Gbe. I did not have a positive experience with the two QNAPs I had (I got rid of one, kept the 453 as a backup store). Just never really performed how I'd like.

The Synology though has been ace. Fast, and compatible with everything. Somebody above makes a very important point though - the DS923 doesn't support QuickSync so PLEX encoding struggles to the point that I don't use that at all now.

Synology can be irritating too. Irritants include:

  • 1Gbe interfaces by default. In 2023/24 this is rubbish. Had to buy a custom 10Gbe interface.
  • Non-Synology approved drives/RAM give you a warning but work just fine.
  • You can't configure the two M2 slots as a volume, only for caching.
    • (hint: You can if you do this from the command line...which is what I've done).
 
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neuropsychguy said:
Success will come down to software and support. Without both of those being good, these will struggle to sell. Hopefully UGREEN will have both good software and support and provide extra competition for Synology.
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IMHO it is almost a certainty that at some point a compromised firmware update or whatever will result in multiple data breaches/ransomware for this.
 
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My Drobo is begging me to put it out of its (and my) misery and find a replacement that is not at risk of dying at any moment. Synology's durability frightens me, but friends have warned me against Qnap. Maybe this will be the solution I need? I'm so confused!
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Take it for what it is, I have had zero issues with three Synology's and one QNAP. All are going strong and all are working as intended. I have had the QNAP the longest at over seven years. My Synology coming in at just under six years. With the exception of the QNAP, all are running on the latest's versions of the software and upgrades have been breeze. I have had a few disk failures which resulted in zero data loss and zero issues with any of my data.

Having said that... I know lots of of folks in the forums and on reddit have had some issues.
 
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My Drobo is begging me to put it out of its (and my) misery and find a replacement that is not at risk of dying at any moment. Synology's durability frightens me, but friends have warned me against Qnap. Maybe this will be the solution I need? I'm so confused!
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Asus has a line of NAS devices of varying price points under their Asuster brand which have gotten really good reviews, and many of them have features like 2.5 Gbe ethernet standard. I looked at those before deciding on simply building a Linux-based mini-PC for my NAS needs.
 
Synology is well-refined software with many features. This is pre-startup (products) looking for funding to even make them. These specs are dazzling and competition is good... so hopefully this gets its funding and gives the big dogs some pressure to step up their games in some of the ways described.

I have 10+ years with Synology and am quite pleased with them. But competition is always welcomed to perhaps get more for the money in the NEXT purchase. I'll hope these make it to market with all of the stated functionality targets and great pricing. And I hope Synology responds.
 
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I wonder what the OS will be, or whether it will be open to users installing any OS.
 
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