Does it have an app to automatically backup photos and documents from an Android or iOS phone by chance? I know I can use syncthing, but in my experience a tool like Synology Drive works more reliably.
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moeman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ha, of course “self-hosted” is the community I comment on for the first time after lurking for years, but …
UGREEN NASync. I own a DXP4800 Plus, and it fits your descriptions. Its OS is Debian (custom-built; but you can throw your own distribution on it and won’t even lose your warranty, though!), but it has a decent frontend, a mobile app even, 4 SATA3 + 2 NVMe bays, gets regular updates, is accessible via pretty much any protocol under the sun, can be backed up automatically to a lot of cloud storage providers, and I run a bunch of containers on it (which I used docker-compose for), since it ships with first-class support for it.
Overall, a huge value for its money so far (been running it for a few months), and can definitely recommend it, especially as an alternative to the incumbents like Synology or QNAP, and it’s a lot less power hungry and quieter than just getting a server rack off eBay.
thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
moeman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I only have an iOS device, but its app is great and yes, it offers that functionality. So I reckon they wouldn’t have done this just for iOS 😄
akilou@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Are there any security concerns that this is a Chinese company?
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).
moeman@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Personally, I’ve considered this, and there a few shoddy scripts running on it (the networking setup is terrible; and the script even has variable names in Chinese), but that aside I’m not sure whether that’s of any more of a concern than with any other proprietary manufacturer‘s OS (eg Cisco et al).
And as other people have said, you can literally throw any other distribution on it and it’s just “dumb” hardware… so I would consider the risk fairly low
SphericalCow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Guess I need to write my first ever comment now as well haha
Can second this! Recently got a DXP6800 Plus and the hardware is great. Though I didn’t really bother with the UGREEN OS and installed TrueNAS on it fresh out of the box.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Does it do RAID?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 21 hours ago
Well, TrueNAS is a RAID system, and pretty much any Linux distro can run ZFS.
SphericalCow@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The hardware is good enough to to run TrueNAS with RAID yeah 😄 I have mine using raidz2 and it doesn’t break a sweat. Though I forgot to mention that I also upgraded the RAM to 32GB. The 8GB it comes with are on the lower end of TrueNASs recommendations.
comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 day ago
Same here, I have the 4800 Plus and immediately installed TrueNAS when I got it. Has been running flawlessly since March.