Earlier this month PC and cellular accent maker UGREEN introduced plans to enter the network-attached storage (NAS) area with a formidable wanting line of merchandise that look fairly aggressive on the subject of processing energy and storage capabilities.
Now the corporate has revealed {that a} Kickstarter crowdfunding marketing campaign for the UGREEN NASync line of gadgets will start March 12, with deep reductions off the urged retail costs. There can be six completely different members of the NASync household at launch, and costs will begin as little as $240 throughout crowdfunding.
All fashions ship with 8GB of DDR5 reminiscence, processors primarily based on Intel’s Twelfth-gen structure, and a couple of.5 GbE or sooner wired networking capabilities. All of them function metallic our bodies and ship with UGREEN’s UGOS Professional software program and help storage configurations together with JBOD, Fundamental, and RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10.
The $240 beginning worth is for a UGREEN NASync DXP2800 with an Intel N100 processor, 8GB of DDR5 reminiscence, two bays for 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch arduous drives or SSDs, and two M.2 slots for SSDs. The identical mannequin is anticipated to promote for $400 as soon as crowdfunding ends.
Need extra storage? UGREEN will supply fashions with as much as 8 HDD bays and a couple of M.2 slots, permitting you to cram as a lot as 184TB of storage right into a single system.
Want a sooner system? Some fashions have Intel Pentium Gold 8505 or Core i5-1235U chips, which must be considerably speedier than the N100 processor. All fashions with Intel Core i5 chips additionally function Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Need a small, silent system? The UGREEN DX480T Plus is without doubt one of the most attention-grabbing choices, with a Core i5-1235U chip and 4 M.2 slots for strong state drives, however no arduous drive bays.
Right here’s an outline of the NASync household:
| DXP480T Plus | DXP2800 | DXP4800 | DXP4800 Plus | DXP6800 Professional | DXP8800 Plus | |
| Kickstarter worth | $480 | $240 | $360 | $420 | $600 | $900 |
| Retail worth | $780 | $400 | $560 | $700 | $1000 | $1500 |
| SATA Drive Bays | N/A | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | |
| M.2 SSD slots | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Max storage | (4 x 4TB M.2 SSD) | 2 x 22TB HDD 2 x 4TB M.2 SSD |
4 x 22TB HDD 2 x 4TB M.2 SSD |
6 x 22TB HDD 2 x 4TB M.2 SSD |
8 x 22TB HDD 2 x 4TB M.2 SSD |
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| Processor | Intel Core i5-1235U | Intel N100 | Intel Pentium Gold 8505 | Intel Core i5-1235U | ||
| RAM | 8GB DDR5-4800 (included) 64GB (max) |
8GB DDR5-4800 (included) 16GB (max) |
8GB DDR5-4800 (included) 64GB (max) |
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| System disk | 128GB SSD | 32GB eMMC | 128GB SSD | |||
| PCIe Growth | N/A | 1 x PCIe 4.0 x4 slot | ||||
| LAN | 1 x 10 GbE | 1 x 2.5 GbE | 2 x 2.5 GbE | 1 x 10 GbE 1 x 2.5 GbE |
2 x 10 GbE | |
| Different ports | 2 x Thunderbolt 4 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 1 x HDMI |
1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-C 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-A 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-A 2 x USB 2.0 Kind-A 1 x HDMI (4K) |
2 x Thunderbolt 4 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-A 2 x USB 2.0 Kind-A 1 x HDMI (8K) |
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| SD Card Reader | N/A | SD 3.0 | SD 4.0 | |||
| WiFi | Sure | N/A | ||||
| OS | UGOS Professional | |||||
One factor to remember is that these costs don’t embody storage: you’ll want to produce your individual. One other is that UGREEN is a brand new participant within the network-attached space for storing, so it’s unclear how the corporate’s UGOS Professional software program will stack up in opposition to business options like Synology’s DiskStation Supervisor, QNAP’s QTS, or Asustor’s ADM.
You could find extra particulars on the UGREEN web site.
