Network Storage

Your footage deserves better than one hard drive

It's 11 p.m. You've just wrapped a two-day wedding — 1.8 terabytes of 4K footage and 60 gigabytes of RAW stills, the kind of work you can never re-shoot. You drag it all onto the same external drive you've used for three years, close the laptop, and sleep. The next morning the drive clicks twice and never mounts again. The first dance, the father's speech, the golden-hour portraits — gone. No second take. No apology that fixes it.

Every photographer and videographer has either lived that night, or is one failed drive away from it.

One drive is a time bomb

Cards fail. External drives fail. Laptops get stolen, or fill up in the middle of an edit. A single copy is not a backup — it's a single point of failure sitting between you and your client. And for a shooter, the loss isn't just data. It's a moment that can't be repeated and a client you can't face.

What a NAS actually is — no jargon

A NAS (Network Attached Storage) is your own private cloud: a small box that sits on your desk, holds several drives, and is reachable from your laptop, your phone, or the edit suite — at home or over the internet. The word that matters is RAID. Put two or more drives in a mirror, and if one dies you lose nothing — you slot in a fresh drive and carry on. No monthly cloud fees, and you never hand your RAW files to someone else's server.

Which UGREEN NASync is for you

• DH2300 (2-bay) — your first step out of cloud subscriptions. Beginner-friendly app setup in about 15 minutes, AI photo organization, up to 64TB across two drives, quiet 1GbE networking. For the solo shooter who just wants their photos and projects safe and reachable.
• DXP2800 (2-bay) — for the working creator. Intel N100, 8GB DDR5, faster 2.5GbE transfers, two M.2 NVMe slots for a speed cache, and Docker for Plex/Jellyfin. The one to pick when you edit straight off the NAS and want it snappy.
• DXP4800 Plus (4-bay) — the studio and media-house workhorse. Intel Pentium Gold 8505, 10GbE networking (up to ~1250 MB/s), four drive bays plus two M.2, and up to 96TB. Built for teams cutting 4K together and archiving years of shoots.

How you actually use it — in four steps

• Slot in your drives. Tool-free trays — line up the drive, push it in.
• Open the UGREEN app and connect. Tap to pair (NFC on some models) and follow the wizard. Most people are done in 15 minutes.
• Choose your protection. RAID is optional — but if your budget allows, we recommend running two drives as a mirror (RAID 1) so a failed drive costs you nothing. After that, set up shared folders for your clients and projects.
• Work, and forget it's there. Point your camera offloads and your phone's auto-backup at it, and reach your whole library from the edit suite or on the road.

The drives that go inside — in stock now

Drives are sold separately so you pick your own capacity. Currently on the shelf at SkyOrbits:

• Seagate IronWolf 8TB — a purpose-built NAS drive, the safe default.
• WD Ultrastar 10TB / 16TB / 22TB — enterprise data-center drives for large libraries.
• M.2 NVMe speed cache (DXP models): Crucial 250GB, WD Blue 500GB, WD Green 500GB.

Build your kit and see the total

Pick your NAS, add the drives that fit its bays, and watch the capacity and the VAT-inclusive total update as you go — then add the whole kit to your cart in one tap.

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