UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro

The UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro is a six-bay NAS for a video or photo studio, a small office, or a home lab that wants to run virtual machines next to its storage. It is UGREEN’s six-bay pick in the UGREEN vs Synology comparison. Two 10GbE ports and two Thunderbolt 4 ports come on the board, so an editing Mac or PC can plug in directly without a 10GbE switch or an add-in card. A 12th-generation Intel Core i5-1235U runs UGOS Pro, which is easy to set up but has fewer apps and storage features than Synology’s DSM. NotebookCheck called its idle power draw very high, and NotebookCheck, Android Police, and Dong Knows Tech all found its fans audible in a quiet room, so it suits an office or a closet better than a living room. It launched through Kickstarter in March 2024 at a $1,199.99 list price.

Pros and Cons

UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro Comparison Chart

	UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro
Price	List Price: $1099.99 Amazon Prices: Loading prices...
Version	8GB, diskless
Drive Bays	6 x 3.5-inch SATA (2.5-inch compatible) Hot-swap, tool-less trays
M.2 Slots	2 x M.2 NVMe, cache or storage pool M.2 2280 NVMe
Max Raw Capacity	192 TB
Included Drives	None (diskless)
System Drive	128GB SSD
Processor	Deca-core 3.30 Ghz (max 4.40 Ghz) Intel Core i5-1235U
Hardware Transcoding	Yes (Intel Quick Sync)
RAM	8 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM Max 64 GB, 2 slots DDR5-4800; on-die ECC only
ECC Memory	No (DDR5's built-in on-die ECC only)
Network Ports	2 x 10GbE RJ45
PCIe Slot	Yes (PCIe 4.0 x4, low-profile; case must come off)
Expansion Unit	None
Operating System	UGOS Pro
Third-Party OS	Yes (TrueNAS, Unraid, and Proxmox VE install; UGREEN allows it)
File Systems	Btrfs, ext4
USB Ports	2 USB 3, 2 USB-C Front: 2x Thunderbolt 4, USB-A 10Gbps. Rear: USB-A 10Gbps, 2x USB 2.0
Thunderbolt Ports	2
HDMI	1
WiFi	No
Idle Power	22.4 W (No drives installed, idle (36.6 to 41.9W idle with 4x 4TB IronWolf))
Load Power	43.07 W (Drives in access, maker spec)
Power Supply	250W internal
Noise	34.61 dB (4 HDDs idle, NotebookCheck; up to 43 dB under heavier work)
Dimensions width x length x thickness	10.2 x 11.5 x 7.9 inches (259.08 x 292.1 x 200.66 mm)
Weight	13.9 lbs (6.32 kg)
Released	March 2024 at $1,199.99
In the Box	Main unit, power cord, 2 Cat7 LAN cables, SSD thermal pads, tray keys, screws, screwdriver.
Expandability	RAM to 64GB (2x SO-DIMM). 2x M.2 NVMe for cache or a pool. PCIe 4.0 x4 low-profile slot.

Drive bays, memory, and ports

The DXP6800 Pro measures about 11.5 x 10.2 x 7.9 inches and weighs about 14 pounds without drives, in a gray aluminum case with a built-in 250W power supply, so there is no external power brick. The six SATA bays take 3.5-inch drives without tools and 2.5-inch drives with the included screws, and each numbered tray has a lock with two keys in the box. UGREEN rates the bays for 32TB drives, or 192TB raw; its 208TB figure adds two 8TB M.2 SSDs. There is no drive compatibility lock, so standard Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba drives work, and any NVMe SSD fits the M.2 slots.

The OS lives on a separate 128GB SSD, so the box boots without any data drives installed. The two M.2 2280 slots sit with the RAM behind a cover on the base and work either as an SSD cache for the hard drive pool or as their own storage pool. Memory is one 8GB DDR5-4800 SO-DIMM, and the second slot takes the total to 64GB. The “ODECC” on UGREEN’s spec sheet is the on-die error correction inside every DDR5 chip. It does not protect data on its way between memory and the CPU the way ECC modules do.

The front panel has two Thunderbolt 4 ports at 40Gb/s, a 10Gbps USB-A port, and an SD 4.0 card reader, which lets a photographer copy a card straight to the NAS. The back has the two 10GbE ports, a second 10Gbps USB-A port, two USB 2.0 ports, an 8K-capable HDMI output, and the PCIe 4.0 x4 slot for a low-profile card. There is no Wi-Fi and no SFP+ port. The two 10GbE ports can be aggregated for 20Gb/s in total, but a single client still tops out at 10GbE. The eight-bay DXP8800 Plus shares this hardware and adds two bays.

Core i5-1235U performance, power, and noise

The Core i5-1235U is a 15W Alder Lake laptop chip from early 2022 with two performance cores and eight efficiency cores, 12 threads in total, and a 4.4GHz boost clock. Its PassMark CPU Mark is about 12,500, roughly 40 percent above the Pentium Gold 8505 in the four-bay DXP4800 Plus. That is enough for file serving to a small team, several Docker containers, a few virtual machines, and Plex or Jellyfin transcoding through Quick Sync. It is well behind current Core Ultra and Ryzen AI chips, so buyers planning a heavy virtualization host should compare it with newer boxes.

NotebookCheck measured 22.4W at idle with no drives installed and 36.6 to 41.9W at idle with four 4TB Seagate IronWolf drives, which the review called very high. UGREEN’s own figures are 24.91W with the drives in hibernation and 43.07W during drive access. Switched off, the unit draws 0.05W, or 2.39W with Wake-on-LAN enabled, and UGOS Pro can power it on and off on a schedule to cut the bill. Over a day of real use, Dong Knows Tech measured about 785Wh.

NotebookCheck called it clearly audible at 34.61 dB(A) with the hard drives idling and up to 43 dB(A) under heavier work. ITPro found the two rear 90mm fans quiet in its lab, while Android Police and Dong Knows Tech both heard them in a quiet room, and Dong Knows Tech saw them rev up for a few minutes at a time without a clear reason. The rear fans sit behind a magnetic dust filter.

Reviewer Insights

ITPro

“The DXP6800 Pro is extremely well built and for an anticipated MSRP of around £810, offers an incredible hardware specification,” wrote Dave Mitchell in his April 2024 ITPro review. Over 10GbE with four 4TB WD Red Pro drives in RAID 5, Iometer returned sequential reads of 8.9Gbit/s and writes of 6Gbit/s, and a mirrored NVMe cache raised sequential writes by 20.5 percent. To reach the PCIe slot he had to remove the feet, the rear panel, and the outer shell, and a Broadcom dual-port 10GbE card then worked without problems. He also judged it good value against Qnap: “If you want a NAS with dual integrated Thunderbolt 4 ports, the DXP6800 Pro is an absolute bargain as Qnap’s 6-bay Core i5-12400 powered TVS-h674T costs nearly three times as much.” His caution was the software of that time: “This hardware package lays a very solid foundation but the UGOS software is clearly a work in progress and has a long journey ahead of it before it can match the features offered by Qnap and Synology.”

StorageReview

For its April 2024 review, StorageReview ran the unit with six 4TB WD Red Plus drives in RAID 6. Lyle Smith wrote that “The i5 1235U chip features ten cores and 12 threads and is more akin to what one would find in a high-end workstation rather than a traditional NAS.” He praised the tool-less trays, the numbered bays, the magnetic fan filter, and the spring-assisted cover over the M.2 and RAM slots. At that time several apps were still marked coming soon, and he wrote that “UGREEN will need to quickly get these core functions released and will need to partner with other application providers to get their systems competitive with other NAS vendors who have been in the market much longer.”

Dong Knows Tech

After more than two weeks of testing, Dong Ngo gave it 7.9 out of 10 at Dong Knows Tech and wrote: “Hardware-wise, the DXP6800 Pro outperforms any Synology DiskStation server by a considerable margin.” He found it among the fastest servers he had tested over 10GbE, but a RAID 0 pair of NVMe SSDs copied more slowly than on Synology’s DS923+. A RAID 5 build took over an hour per TB of protected space. His cons were the app library (“The currently available apps are generally shallow or lacking in depth.”), no Plex package or flexible RAID, the hard-to-reach PCIe slot, and fans that rev up now and then.

Android Police

The build won over Cody Toombs, who gave it 8.5 out of 10 at Android Police in November 2024: “The shell feels like sturdy metal, and there’s a magnetic filter on the back to cover the intake fans.” He counted about twenty apps in the App Center, none from third parties, so software such as Plex has to run in Docker or a virtual machine. He also noted that UGREEN allows third-party operating systems without voiding the warranty, and he found the fans loud enough to stand out in an otherwise quiet room, which could be annoying in a home office.

NotebookCheck

The most recent review is from NotebookCheck in July 2026, on UGOS Pro 1.16, more than two years after launch. Daniel Schmidt measured a steady 9.5Gbit/s each way over 10GbE in iPerf3, and his verdict reads: “The Ugreen NASync DXP6800 Pro impresses with its powerful i5 hardware, fast dual Ethernet, and Thunderbolt 4, but lags behind established competitors in terms of software maturity and RAID features.” He found UGOS Pro much improved since launch, with an IP SAN manager and virus scanning added, but push notifications for faults did not work reliably. He also wrote: “Another positive aspect is that the device isn’t limited to UGOS Pro: Users can also install TrueNAS Scale, Unraid, Proxmox VE, or other operating systems if they wish.”

Customer Reviews

On Amazon, the DXP6800 Pro holds 4.6 out of 5 stars from 89 ratings, with 79 percent five-star and 2 percent one-star. Clintre replaced an older Synology with it for a home lab and wrote that “it runs quiet even at full load”, with UGOS Pro “easy to use, but limited in certain areas, as it is just not mature yet.” Clintre stayed on UGOS Pro and runs missing features in Docker.

Another buyer, MP, reached full 10GbE line rate with six Seagate drives but reported “significant audible vibration generated by the 6-bay chassis”, fixed with foam strips on the drive sleds. Chris Yates noted that “Power consumption is decent not negligible, and can add up over the years with 24 hours operations.” One buyer, Pw, returned the unit after days of setup trouble and wrote that the Thunderbolt connection did not show up on a Mac.

Who the DXP6800 Pro suits

The DXP6800 Pro fits a creator or small office that wants six drives, a fast direct link to one or two workstations over Thunderbolt 4 or 10GbE, and room for Docker containers and virtual machines. Because the OS sits on its own SSD and UGREEN allows other operating systems, TrueNAS, Unraid, or Proxmox can take over the whole box. An office that depends on Synology’s app catalog and SHR is better served by a DiskStation. UGREEN now also sells the DXP6800 Ultra, which keeps the six bays, dual 10GbE, and Thunderbolt 4, moves to an Intel Core 5 120U, raises the memory limit to 96GB, and costs more.

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