UGREEN GROUP LIMITED via Amazon has
4-Bay UGREEN NASync DH4300 Plus Desktop NAS (Diskless, up to 120TB) on sale for
$339.99.
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4-Bay UGREEN NASync DH4300 Plus Desktop NAS (Diskless, up to 120TB) on sale for
$339.99.
Shipping is free.
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About this Item:
- 4 x 2.5"/3.5" SATA III Drive Bays
- Rockchip RK3588C 8-Core SoC
- 8GB LPDDR4x RAM | 32GB eMMC Storage
- 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Port
- 1 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 1
- 2 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 | 1 x HDMI
- RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD, and Basic
- Quiet Cooling
- UGOS Pro OS
Top Comments
I started with 2 4TB drives and quickly found out that it works best with 4, and that's a 24+ hour transfer.
So i'd recommend TWO drives of a huge capacity and going raid 1 (meaning one drive is redundant), or getting 4 drives of equal capacity and going raid 5. That's what I'm at and now I'm wishing I had done bigger than 4 4TB drives, but that's a good 10ish TB of usable space.
UGREEN has a great os and app, and that's huge. It backs up all my phone photos and serves as a Plex server. I've used about 5TB so far
In July of this year, this was listed at $429.99 with a drop to $386.99 in August.
There have been two lightning deals for a brand new on September 10 and again on September 30th for $364.98 each time.
Then the price shot back up to $429.99 and it's been like that since October 12th until now, on sale at $339.99 for brand new.
Community Reviews
UGREEN's 4 bay DH4300 Plus looks like a solid starter NAS for basic backup, phone photo syncing, and Plex, with a decent app and enough room for a simple RAID setup. The main appeal is flexibility if you start with matching drives, since RAID 1 or RAID 5 works best with equal capacities and the usable space lands around 10 terabytes with four 4 terabyte drives. The Rockchip processor is considered too weak for Docker or heavier workloads, and the RAID setup does not offer Synology style mixed capacity convenience. It is a diskless unit, so drives must be supplied separately, making it a better fit for straightforward storage than advanced tinkering.
Common Questions (5)
No. RAID capacity is limited by the smallest drive, so mixing different sizes wastes space and can bottleneck performance. It does not have Synology-style SHR flexibility for combining mismatched capacities.
The Rockchip CPU is weak for Docker and similar workloads, so it is better suited to basic backup and media serving than demanding containers. It can still handle phone photo backup and Plex.
Yes. The firmware has reportedly been updated to accept third-party hard drives again.
Diskless means the enclosure does not include any hard drives. You need to supply your own drives before you can use it.
Two large drives in RAID 1 or four equal drives in RAID 5 are the practical setups mentioned. Four 4TB drives yield about 10TB usable space, but the initial transfer can take 24+ hours.
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I started with 2 4TB drives and quickly found out that it works best with 4, and that's a 24+ hour transfer.
So i'd recommend TWO drives of a huge capacity and going raid 1 (meaning one drive is redundant), or getting 4 drives of equal capacity and going raid 5. That's what I'm at and now I'm wishing I had done bigger than 4 4TB drives, but that's a good 10ish TB of usable space.
UGREEN has a great os and app, and that's huge. It backs up all my phone photos and serves as a Plex server. I've used about 5TB so far
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You shouldn't use different-sized drives in a NAS primarily because
it leads to wasted space and potential performance bottlenecks. In a traditional RAID configuration, the usable capacity is limited to the size of the smallest drive, making the extra space on larger drives unusable. Additionally, the entire array will operate at the speed of the slowest drive, creating a performance bottleneck that negates the benefits of having faster drives
In July of this year, this was listed at $429.99 with a drop to $386.99 in August.
There have been two lightning deals for a brand new on September 10 and again on September 30th for $364.98 each time.
Then the price shot back up to $429.99 and it's been like that since October 12th until now, on sale at $339.99 for brand new.
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