Synology DS225+ vs UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus

Synology DS225+ is the safer overall recommendation, thanks to the mature DSM operating system, a 3 year warranty, quieter operation and a lower price, while still running Docker, virtual machines and hardware transcoding. UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus is the better choice purely on hardware.

Bays and headroom versus software. Synology DS225+ is a two-bay machine with a 6 GB memory ceiling and no RAID 5, while UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus offers four hot swappable bays, RAID 5 and RAID 6, 64 GB of memory headroom, two M.2 NVMe slots and 144 TB of raw capacity.

UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus. Four bays with RAID 5 or RAID 6 give both more capacity and single or dual drive fault tolerance, up to 144 TB raw. Synology DS225+ tops out at two bays and 40 TB raw, with SHR or RAID 1 as the only redundancy options.

Synology DS225+, rated at 19.6 dB and 16.98 W. UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus reaches up to 34 dB with four drives, so it is better suited to an office, closet or rack space than a bedroom shelf.

Synology DSM on the DS225+ is the more proven platform, with years of package development, Btrfs snapshot tooling and Surveillance Station. UGOS Pro on UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus is much newer, so it moves fast but has a shorter track record.

Anyone who wants a quiet, dependable two-bay NAS that runs containers and a virtual machine, transcodes Plex, covers up to 25 cameras and comes with 3 years of warranty and the most refined NAS software available.

Users who need four bays with RAID 5 or RAID 6, large memory headroom for virtual machines, NVMe storage pools, 10 GbE networking, 4K HDMI output or an SD card slot for offloading camera cards directly.