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Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 vs UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus

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Key differences between Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 and UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus

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Feature differences among your selected devices
  • Ai Photo Recognition (apps): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — No; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — Yes (Local AI photo tools cover people, object and scene recognition, duplicate detection and custom learning, without uploading photos to the cloud).
  • Docker (apps): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — No; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — Yes (Docker is installed from the UGOS Pro App Center and runs containerized apps and services on the NAS).
  • Plex Media Server (apps): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — No; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — Yes (UGREEN documents Plex Media Server running through Docker on all DXP series models, with Intel Quick Sync hardware transcoding inside the container; UGOS Pro ships no separate App Center package for it).
  • Surveillance App (apps): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — No; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — Yes (Surveillance Center handles live view, playback and event detection for IP cameras).
Specifications to check side by side
  • Operating System (apps): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — UniFi Drive; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — UGOS Pro.
  • Capacity (memory): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — 16 GB; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — 8 GB.
  • Maximum Capacity (memory): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — 16 GB; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — 64 GB (Two DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM slots, shipped with 8GB and expandable to 64GB per UGREEN's spec table).
  • 2 5 Gbe Ports (network): Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 — 0; UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus — 1.
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Apps

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

Local AI photo tools cover people, object and scene recognition, duplicate detection and custom learning, without uploading photos to the cloud

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

Docker is installed from the UGOS Pro App Center and runs containerized apps and services on the NAS

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
UniFi Drive
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
UGOS Pro
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents Plex Media Server running through Docker on all DXP series models, with Intel Quick Sync hardware transcoding inside the container; UGOS Pro ships no separate App Center package for it

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

Surveillance Center handles live view, playback and event detection for IP cameras

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro ships a Virtual Machine Manager, and UGREEN lists virtual machines among the workloads the DXP series runs

Backup

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

The Cloud Drives app syncs NAS storage with cloud services for an offsite copy

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

Sync & Backup backs up Windows and Mac folders to the NAS through the desktop client, and UGOS Pro provides a dedicated Time Machine destination over SMB and Bonjour

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
No
Catalog note

UGOS Pro documents no one-touch USB copy app or front-panel button; an attached drive is mounted in Storage Manager and copied by a Sync & Backup task

Features

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro sets boot and shutdown schedules from Control Panel > Hardware & Power > Scheduled startup and shutdown

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

A UPS is connected from Control Panel > Hardware & Power > UPS so the NAS enters standby or shuts down safely; the DXP6800 series works with standard AC UPS units tested by UGREEN, not the US3000 DC model

File Services

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
Catalog note

Only SMB and NFS are listed as supported file protocols

UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

SAN Manager turns NAS storage into block storage that connected devices mount like a local drive

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
Catalog note

Supported file protocols: SMB and NFS

UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro supports SMB, FTP, NFS, rsync and WebDAV file protocol services from Control Panel

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro lists rsync among its file protocol services, and UGREEN documents backing up to a second NAS or remote server over rsync or WebDAV

Memory

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
16 GB
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
8 GB
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN's spec table lists ODECC (on-die ECC) as supported, which protects the memory chip internally rather than reporting errors to the system

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
16 GB
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
64 GB
Catalog note

Two DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM slots, shipped with 8GB and expandable to 64GB per UGREEN's spec table

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
DDR5

Network

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
0
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
0
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
1
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
1
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
0
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
1
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN states the 10GbE and 2.5GbE ports can be bonded through link aggregation or SMB multichannel to stack their transfer rates

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
2
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
0
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents Wake on LAN on its NAS, woken from the desktop client or mobile app over the local network

Ports

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
YES (4K 60Hz)
Catalog note

HDMI 2.1 output, listed by UGREEN as up to 4K at 60Hz

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
YES (SD 4.0)
Catalog note

Front SD 4.0 card reader

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
YES (10 Gbps)
Catalog note

Two front USB-C 3.2 Gen2 ports at up to 10Gb/s

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
0
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
4
Catalog note

One front USB-A 3.2 Gen2 at 10Gb/s, one rear USB-A 3.2 Gen2 and two rear USB 2.0, alongside the two front USB-C Gen2 ports

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
No
Catalog note

UGREEN's spec table lists no Thunderbolt port on the DXP6800 Plus; Thunderbolt 4 is reserved for the Pro and Ultra trims

Power

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Not recorded
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
250W
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Not recorded

Processor

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
ARM
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
x86-64
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
4
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
6
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

Intel AES New Instructions are listed as supported on the i3-1215U

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

The i3-1215U carries Intel UHD Graphics for 12th Gen processors with Intel Quick Sync Video, which is what drives the 4K HDMI output and Plex transcoding

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
ARM Cortex-A57 quad-core
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Intel Core i3-1215U
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not applicable / unspecified
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Not applicable / unspecified
Catalog note

The i3-1215U is an Alder Lake-U part with no AI Boost NPU; the local AI photo tools run on the CPU and integrated graphics

Raid

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro offers Btrfs or EXT4 when a volume is created, and snapshot-based recovery requires Btrfs

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
No
Catalog note

The published storage modes are JBOD, Basic and RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10, with no flexible mixed-drive mode

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro ships a Snapshot app that captures point-in-time versions of files for quick recovery

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
No
Catalog note

UGOS Pro offers only Btrfs and EXT4 at volume creation

Remote Access

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents DDNS as the advanced alternative to UGREENlink, reaching the NAS through your own domain with router-side port forwarding

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
YES (UniFi Cloud)
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
YES (UGREENlink)
Catalog note

UGREENlink is the built-in remote access feature, enabled from Control Panel > Device Connection > Remote access and reached through a custom ug.link address without port forwarding

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents enabling SSH from Control Panel > Terminal, with root privileges through sudo

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
No
Catalog note

The published UGOS Pro app list carries no VPN server, and UGREEN's own remote access guide covers UGREENlink, DDNS and Tailscale, with Tailscale running in Docker and WireGuard left to the user to operate

Storage

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
No
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
No
Catalog note

UGREEN publishes no expansion enclosure for the NASync range; extra hardware goes through the PCIe 4.0 x4 slot instead

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Yes
Catalog note

Hot spare support and hot-swappable power modules

UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN states that its NAS support hot-swapping hard drives, while recommending a shutdown first for data safety

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
2
Manufacturer source

Two M.2 NVMe slots are provided for SSD caching.

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 manufacturer product page →
Source section
Model overview
Model
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Region
US Ubiquiti store
Firmware
Not specified by this source
Checked

Drive-bay counts do not imply disks are included. Cache slots do not establish SSD storage-pool support.

Document check only; not a hands-on test or verification of every regional or firmware variant.

UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
2
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro can build a separate M.2 SSD storage pool on the DXP models that carry M.2 slots, instead of using them only as cache

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Not recorded
UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
196 TB
Catalog note

UGREEN states 196TB across six 30TB SATA drives and two 8TB M.2 SSDs

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
8
Manufacturer source

The chassis has 8 SATA drive bays for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives.

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 manufacturer product page →
Source section
Model overview
Model
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Region
US Ubiquiti store
Firmware
Not specified by this source
Checked

Drive-bay counts do not imply disks are included. Cache slots do not establish SSD storage-pool support.

Document check only; not a hands-on test or verification of every regional or firmware variant.

UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
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Specifications for Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 versus UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
SpecificationUbiquiti UNAS Pro 8UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Plus
Apps
NoYes
Catalog note

Local AI photo tools cover people, object and scene recognition, duplicate detection and custom learning, without uploading photos to the cloud

NoYes
Catalog note

Docker is installed from the UGOS Pro App Center and runs containerized apps and services on the NAS

UniFi DriveUGOS Pro
NoYes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents Plex Media Server running through Docker on all DXP series models, with Intel Quick Sync hardware transcoding inside the container; UGOS Pro ships no separate App Center package for it

NoYes
Catalog note

Surveillance Center handles live view, playback and event detection for IP cameras

NoYes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro ships a Virtual Machine Manager, and UGREEN lists virtual machines among the workloads the DXP series runs

Backup
YesYes
Catalog note

The Cloud Drives app syncs NAS storage with cloud services for an offsite copy

Not recordedYes
Catalog note

Sync & Backup backs up Windows and Mac folders to the NAS through the desktop client, and UGOS Pro provides a dedicated Time Machine destination over SMB and Bonjour

Not recordedNo
Catalog note

UGOS Pro documents no one-touch USB copy app or front-panel button; an attached drive is mounted in Storage Manager and copied by a Sync & Backup task

Features
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro sets boot and shutdown schedules from Control Panel > Hardware & Power > Scheduled startup and shutdown

Not recordedYes
Catalog note

A UPS is connected from Control Panel > Hardware & Power > UPS so the NAS enters standby or shuts down safely; the DXP6800 series works with standard AC UPS units tested by UGREEN, not the US3000 DC model

File Services
No
Catalog note

Only SMB and NFS are listed as supported file protocols

Yes
Catalog note

SAN Manager turns NAS storage into block storage that connected devices mount like a local drive

Yes
Catalog note

Supported file protocols: SMB and NFS

Yes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro supports SMB, FTP, NFS, rsync and WebDAV file protocol services from Control Panel

YesYes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro lists rsync among its file protocol services, and UGREEN documents backing up to a second NAS or remote server over rsync or WebDAV

Memory
16 GB8 GB
NoYes
Catalog note

UGREEN's spec table lists ODECC (on-die ECC) as supported, which protects the memory chip internally rather than reporting errors to the system

16 GB64 GB
Catalog note

Two DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM slots, shipped with 8GB and expandable to 64GB per UGREEN's spec table

Not recordedDDR5
Network
00
11
01
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGREEN states the 10GbE and 2.5GbE ports can be bonded through link aggregation or SMB multichannel to stack their transfer rates

20
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents Wake on LAN on its NAS, woken from the desktop client or mobile app over the local network

Ports
NoYES (4K 60Hz)
Catalog note

HDMI 2.1 output, listed by UGREEN as up to 4K at 60Hz

NoYES (SD 4.0)
Catalog note

Front SD 4.0 card reader

NoYES (10 Gbps)
Catalog note

Two front USB-C 3.2 Gen2 ports at up to 10Gb/s

04
Catalog note

One front USB-A 3.2 Gen2 at 10Gb/s, one rear USB-A 3.2 Gen2 and two rear USB 2.0, alongside the two front USB-C Gen2 ports

NoNo
Catalog note

UGREEN's spec table lists no Thunderbolt port on the DXP6800 Plus; Thunderbolt 4 is reserved for the Pro and Ultra trims

Power
Not recordedNot recorded
250WNot recorded
Processor
ARMx86-64
46
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

Intel AES New Instructions are listed as supported on the i3-1215U

NoYes
Catalog note

The i3-1215U carries Intel UHD Graphics for 12th Gen processors with Intel Quick Sync Video, which is what drives the 4K HDMI output and Plex transcoding

ARM Cortex-A57 quad-coreIntel Core i3-1215U
Not applicable / unspecifiedNot applicable / unspecified
Catalog note

The i3-1215U is an Alder Lake-U part with no AI Boost NPU; the local AI photo tools run on the CPU and integrated graphics

Raid
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro offers Btrfs or EXT4 when a volume is created, and snapshot-based recovery requires Btrfs

NoNo
Catalog note

The published storage modes are JBOD, Basic and RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10, with no flexible mixed-drive mode

YesYes
YesYes
YesYes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro ships a Snapshot app that captures point-in-time versions of files for quick recovery

NoNo
Catalog note

UGOS Pro offers only Btrfs and EXT4 at volume creation

Remote Access
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents DDNS as the advanced alternative to UGREENlink, reaching the NAS through your own domain with router-side port forwarding

YES (UniFi Cloud)YES (UGREENlink)
Catalog note

UGREENlink is the built-in remote access feature, enabled from Control Panel > Device Connection > Remote access and reached through a custom ug.link address without port forwarding

Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGREEN documents enabling SSH from Control Panel > Terminal, with root privileges through sudo

Not recordedNo
Catalog note

The published UGOS Pro app list carries no VPN server, and UGREEN's own remote access guide covers UGREENlink, DDNS and Tailscale, with Tailscale running in Docker and WireGuard left to the user to operate

Storage
NoNo
Catalog note

UGREEN publishes no expansion enclosure for the NASync range; extra hardware goes through the PCIe 4.0 x4 slot instead

Yes
Catalog note

Hot spare support and hot-swappable power modules

Yes
Catalog note

UGREEN states that its NAS support hot-swapping hard drives, while recommending a shutdown first for data safety

2
Manufacturer source

Two M.2 NVMe slots are provided for SSD caching.

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 manufacturer product page →
Source section
Model overview
Model
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Region
US Ubiquiti store
Firmware
Not specified by this source
Checked

Drive-bay counts do not imply disks are included. Cache slots do not establish SSD storage-pool support.

Document check only; not a hands-on test or verification of every regional or firmware variant.

2
Not recordedYes
Catalog note

UGOS Pro can build a separate M.2 SSD storage pool on the DXP models that carry M.2 slots, instead of using them only as cache

Not recorded196 TB
Catalog note

UGREEN states 196TB across six 30TB SATA drives and two 8TB M.2 SSDs

8
Manufacturer source

The chassis has 8 SATA drive bays for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives.

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8 manufacturer product page →
Source section
Model overview
Model
Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 8
Region
US Ubiquiti store
Firmware
Not specified by this source
Checked

Drive-bay counts do not imply disks are included. Cache slots do not establish SSD storage-pool support.

Document check only; not a hands-on test or verification of every regional or firmware variant.

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