The Ugreen NASyncs are great for Openmediavault

If you do not want to tamper with the eMMC you can disable the eMMC controller in the BIOS. After that you can install OMV on a SSD. If you would like to return to Ugos you will only have to enable the controller and set the boot order to match.

Are there any experiences with OMV on the eMMC?

Doesn't it make more sense to create a small root and efi partition on a NVME because of the eMMC's lifespan?

With normal hard drives, I want to avoid having data and OS on the same drive so that the drive can go into sleep mode while the OS continues to work.

Doesn't that matter with an SSD?

I followed Ugreens activities and the UDX2800 and especially the UDX4800 (Plus). They are really big steps in NAS market, and if I had not get a bad UDX4800 - that did not work not at all - I probably would be a fan of Ugreen NAS, too. As I'm a fan of other Ugreen devices, nevertheless.

Only, after my trial with Ugreen NAS did not work, I looked around a bit more and found a Qnap NAS family, that Ugreen obviously tried to shift to the next level: the TS-x53D family. That are some years older already and still based on a J4125, but have already 2.5GbE and are fully open for 3rd party OSses, even without the need to overwrite the original eMMC. Maybe the smallest device TS-253D is too small for this, but the TS-453D and -653D are noteworthy. As one can let them boot from one of their bays without changing any bit of their eMMC.

For details please search for "Qnap TS-x53D - nice 2.5GbE hardware to run OMV" in the forum. I admit, that I was quite sure, that Ugreen was the first with 2.5GbE for their NAS. Until I realized, that Qnap had it already some 5 years before.,,

So well, let's run OMV this speed nativly. While others still run (1)GbE.

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I installed OMV on the eMMC because I don't intend to use UGOS anyway. On the eMMC I just installed OMV. Docker data files with more dynamic file changes are being stored on a dedicated SSD. So I think the lifespan of the eMMC shouldn't be an issue.

I can understand that, you have to think a bit more about the configuration then.

Since I want to install an NVME SSD for Docker applications anyway, I'll probably take a few GB from it and also install OMV there and boot from it. I don't think I'll have any disadvantages. I don't want to use the UGOS either.

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... I looked around a bit more and found a Qnap NAS family, that Ugreen obviously tried to shift to the next level: the TS-x53D family. That are some years older already and still based on a J4125, but have already 2.5GbE and are fully open for 3rd party OSses, even without the need to overwrite the original eMMC. Maybe the smallest device TS-253D is too small for this, but the TS-453D and -653D are noteworthy. As one can let them boot from one of their bays without changing any bit of their eMMC.

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I am currently running OMV on a QNAP 251D. It's a lot of fun. Apart from the LEDs, everything fits.

But here I also boot from an NVME and have left the EMMC as it was, it's too small for OMV anyway. OMV, swap and docker applications are then on the NVME, , each on different partitions.

I think I'll do the same with the ugreen. Unless someone explains to me that there are disadvantages to having everything on one physical SSD.

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I am currently running OMV on a QNAP 251D. It's a lot of fun. Apart from the LEDs, everything fits.

But here I also boot from an NVME and have left the EMMC as it was, it's too small for OMV anyway. OMV, swap and docker applications are then on the NVME, , each on different partitions.

I think I'll do the same with the ugreen. Unless someone explains to me that there are disadvantages to having everything on one physical SSD.

I read about this, and about fan control not working. But with the 653D I had neither the LEDs nor the fan control issue.

I'm looking forward to try an NVME attached at the expansion PCIe. Still need a suitable adapter card. If Qnap BIOS allows boot from there, then I can use all 6 bays for HDDs.

Don't know, what disadvantages there could be with one physical SSD. Ok, any drive, regardless what type, allways may fail, and then you need to copy your backup to a new device, before you can go on. A RAID1 for system is more comfortable, of course, but for a private NAS I don't think it vital. In the past I used 32GB SLC-SSDs for all my DIY NAS setups (OMV, TrueNAS, XigmaNAS), and none of them ever failed. Not sure, what NVME I'll use for my Qnap, if possible, yet.

Hello...

I am curious...i am looking at that nas myself...and was wondering if you could provide some internal pics and how it performs and how loud/hot it gets and so on...

thx for any info...and somany times i read, install omv on an ssd...does it have space inside for a third drive besides the 2 main data drives to actually do so?

I wouldn’t overwrite the eMMC—I chose to disable it from the BIOS and install everything on a cheap 128 GB NVMe SSD. I’ll also deploy various containers and a couple of virtual machines on the NVMe. If UGOS is needed in the future, I can simply remove the NVMe and that’s it!