The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/an_angry_Moose on 2025-07-27 13:25:38+00:00.
Been eyeballing NAS systems for half a decade (maybe longer) and as my data piles up on regular old 8tb CMR Seagate drives and Apple iCloud, I think this year is when I’m finally going to do it. It seems like ugreen does post Black Friday sales, and I’m not in a mega rush, so I think I will wait for that.
I’m looking at a DXP 6800 Pro or potentially a 4800 Plus. I would like the option to expand to 6 drives eventually, even if my initial setup will likely only include 3-4 (something like 8-16gb NAS drives). I’ve ruled synology out as their hardware is old even in brand new products, but I also don’t like the direction they’ve gone in terms of drive options.
My uses:
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Primarily, I want a way to download my entire apple photos library from multiple phones (multiple users) and store them in a NAS based “cloud” so that I’m not paying for ever-increasing apple icloud storage. It seems like UGREEN’s photo solution is actually pretty decent and improving. Is there an automated process for migrating your iCloud library to it? Lots of family video also.
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Secondary, I rip blurays in UHD quality, and it would be nice to do the entire plex library including hardware transcoding on-NAS. We use plex to stream to multiple devices including iPads with odd resolutions. I’d like to be able to stream 4K HDR content to these without a hitch. If this isn’t possible on-NAS, I can maintain my PC’s plex server and just point the library to NAS storage as well.
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Finally, I’d like to move assorted-semi-important file storage for typical NAS type redundancy.
I don’t think any of the above is truly critical to back up more than double redundancy (likelihood of 2 quality NAS drives failing at once?), but I currently only have the most important ones in apple’s iCloud.
Does this all make sense or is there a better option I should be considering? I’ve put the most research into Synology and UGREEN. It seems like Terramaster makes a 6 bay F6-424 Max that also ticks the boxes comparably (good hardware, maybe good photo software?), but QNAP and ASUSTOR offerings appear to be going towards Synology in terms of pricing, which seems to be less bang for the buck.
Thanks very much for your input!