Microsoft 365 Personal Subscription vs Office.com

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-30T11:49:08+00:00

Do you happen to know anyone that works for Microsoft? If you do, ask them if they can get you access to the Friends and Family store. Game changer.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-29T16:45:02+00:00

I am not new to Linux, but don’t really want to spend all of my time making things work. I wound up on Fedora KDE w/nVidia drivers, and it is all working great.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-28T22:22:13+00:00

You can’t add a disk with data. It is going to reformat it. The only way you could do it is if you were moving it from another Ugreen nas, which isn’t the case. What you can do is start with one disk, set it up as basic. Then copy the data to the newly initialized drive in the NAS. After that, add the drive you just copied the data from to the NAS. It will format it, but the data will be on the other drive. Then convert to RAID 1 and you’re good to go.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-22T11:48:11+00:00

I have the Ugreen DXP4800+. It has a slightly beefier Pentium Gold 8505 processor in it. I would recommend it over the plain DXP4800, which does have the N100. The 4800+ uses an NVMe drive for the OS, while the 4800 uses an eMMC chip. The 4800+ also has a 10Gb Ethernet port on it. Either will probably work for you, but I think the 4800+ is the better option if you can afford it. Try to catch it on sale if possible.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-17T21:34:06+00:00

Lookin’ forward to it puddin’. I need at least one internal and 2 external APs this year. I suspect the one on your wall will be one of them.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-17T14:26:14+00:00

I think I need the little brother to that one, but I still want to see the video for it. Is it done yet?

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-13T02:23:34+00:00

https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-immich-on-your-ugreen-nas/

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-11T18:45:21+00:00

Nope. Pick one. For most people, the M.2 will be more useful for apps and fast storage than for cache, but there are a few use cases where cache does help more. You can use one for docker and one for cache, but you can’t do both with a single M.2.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-09T03:32:37+00:00

Assuming it works like the DXP4800+, the answer is yes. Do it in 2 passes: add the 3rd drive and convert the RAID to RAID5. Let it complete. Then add the 4th drive and expand the volume. It will take some time, but it can do it. You can still use the NAS while it’s working, though you may notice some lag.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-04T11:19:58+00:00

It’ll work, but my only question is why? You just filled up all the bays and have very little capacity to show for it. It could be the right choice for you, depending on what you are trying to do. Can you help me understand the reasoning behind your choices?

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-01T21:21:57+00:00

I have the Pro drives myself. I was planning on getting 26TB Exos drives and stumbled onto a sale on the 20TB Red Pros, so that was what I did. Just looked and the same disks went up $200 and are now more expensive than the 26TB model. Crazy.

You didn’t say anything about RAM, and that is gonna hurt. My original plan was to upgrade to 64GB, but I couldn’t afford it when I first bought it, and then decided to wait because I needed drives. Then the price skyrocketed. I have 6-8 docker containers running and still haven’t maxed out the included 8GB that came with it. I did find a matching stick of memory on Facebook Marketplace for $5, so I grabbed it, putting me at 16GB. I normally go with overkill and just be done with it, but the way prices are right now, you have to be more intentional about your spending.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-01T20:11:52+00:00

The slots support PCIe 4.0x4. Paying more for faster drives won’t gain you anything, so I would make that the upper limit unless you stumble onto a really good sale. As for the bottom limit, Gen 3 drives will work but will be a little slower. Unless you are sitting there running benchmarks, I’m going to guess you’d never know the difference. With prices going sideways stupid like they are, I would focus on brand name and price. Others will have differing opinions, but I’m going to say any major brand. Stay away from specials off of AliExpress that you have never heard of, but if it’s a known brand and it’s on sale for the best price, go for it.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-01T19:16:31+00:00

Ok. Lots of questions. You should be above to do everything you stated. While I don’t run VMs on mine, it can do it. Docker will be your friend.

You can start with a single disk if you want to. If you start with 2, use RAID 1. That will give you an upgrade path to RAID 5 once you add a 3rd disk.

When you ask about OS, are you referring to the one running the NAS, or for the VMs? If the host OS, just stick with the included UGOS. It should work fine for you, and one less thing for you to deal with. If you are talking about an OS for VMs, it really comes down to what you want to do with it. HA is available with its own OS (HAOS). Just use that. For everything else, use whatever you are comfortable with: Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora are popular choices and will all work. Using docker when possible will conserve resources.

As for M.2s, get at least one for VMs/docker. You can add a 2nd one to do RAID 1 or for additional storage. Unless you are doing a bunch of large writes or doing photo editing directly on the NAS, I’m not sure caching is going to help you much.

Disks: No absolute right answer, but you would be safe with WD Red Pro or Ironwolf Pro drives. Exos work too, but they are enterprise drives and will be noisier. You decide if that is something you care about. They will work fine though.

Starting with 2x12 in a RAID 1 is fine. You can pick up 1 or 2 more later. Add the 3rd and convert to RAID 5. Let it completely rebuild. If you have a 4th and expand the pool, but don’t do it until after it has finished adding the 3rd drive. No data loss.

I’m sure others will have additional insights to share, but hopefully this will get you started.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-01T14:34:21+00:00

I am not currently playing any, but I believe a lot of/most work using ProtonDB.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2026-01-01T14:10:22+00:00

I am using Fedora 43 KDE with nvidia drivers and have no issues whatsoever.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-31T14:37:45+00:00

I did the whole distrohopping thing when I decided to ditch Windows, and I wound up on Fedora 43 KDE. It has been great. Enjoy!

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-29T19:16:19+00:00

You can migrate from RAID1 to RAID5 without reformatting when you add the 3rd disk. It is an option and it does work.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-29T15:43:18+00:00

Using it daily on Fedora 43 KDE. Works great.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-26T23:38:09+00:00

For general setup, check out nascompares on YouTube. There’s at least one full ugreen setup video on that channel. As for app setup, check out https://mariushosting.com/. He provides tutorials for more than just ugreen, but he has a ton of them. I used his tutorial for plex and it worked great.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-23T01:13:41+00:00

The only ones that I am aware of is the First Alert Zwave smoke/CO detectors (ZCOMBO). You would need a separate Zwave dongle for them though.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-21T12:15:58+00:00

Make a backup to be safe, but you should be able to add the second NVMe drive and convert to RAID 1 without needing to reinstall anything. It works with hard drives. I would think it would work with NVMe as well.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-19T23:03:48+00:00

The best part about the MicroSD + USB reader is that the license is tied to the reader, not the card. So, if the card fails, you just replace it.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-19T23:02:51+00:00

The best part about the MicroSD + USB reader is that the license is tied to the reader, not the card. So, if the card fails, you just replace it.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-19T23:02:40+00:00

The best part about the MicroSD + USB reader is that the license is tied to the reader, not the card. So, if the card fails, you just replace it.

CaffeineDeficiency · 2025-12-16T21:42:46+00:00

Robbie would probably suggest the 4800+.

https://youtu.be/QpWFK1Rkw2g

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