{"id":52439,"date":"2026-03-21T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/?p=52439"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:08:47","slug":"ugreen-nas-basic-jbod-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/ugreen-nas-basic-jbod-setup.html","title":{"rendered":"UGREEN NAS &#8211; Basic &#038; JBOD Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UGREEN NAS - Basic &amp; JBOD Setup\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KEidnZdMpGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With hard drives getting\u00a0<em>really<\/em> expensive, I wanted to make a beginner-focused video on how to use <em>any<\/em> random drives you might have lying around in <em>any<\/em> UGREEN NAS; I mostly show the 2-bay one I previously did a video on, but this will work with ANY of the NAS devices UGREEN sells.\u00a0 No matching drives needed, as instead of RAID, I&#8217;ll be showing you how to use &#8220;basic&#8221; and JBOD setups to add drives individually, or combine all their storage into one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Inexpensive 2-Bay:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/retrorgb.link\/DH2300\">https:\/\/retrorgb.link\/DH2300<\/a><br \/>\nAll UGREEN NAS&#8217;:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/retrorgb.link\/ugreennas\">https:\/\/retrorgb.link\/ugreennas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, this is supposed to be a video to help people use a small, quiet and cheap NAS device to just share whatever drives they have lying around&#8230;or invest in a larger, more powerful NAS now, with the ability to add RAID or just more drives later.\u00a0 I made sure to include clear disclaimers about the risks of using random drives, as well as why it might be an advantage even to experts.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll also show DIY ways to do this soon, using any old PC or laptop you might have lying around, however that&#8217;s much more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen my original video, you might want to check that out first.\u00a0 Even if you&#8217;re a fellow IT nerd who already knows how these things work, it might make life easier to know exactly what to expect and see it in action first:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UGREEN NAS DH2300:  Budget NAS for PC backup &amp; MiSTer FPGA\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uBM2ZM5QSno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hard drives getting\u00a0really expensive, I wanted to make a beginner-focused video on how to use any random drives you might have lying around in any UGREEN NAS; I mostly show the 2-bay one I previously did a video on, but this will work with ANY of the NAS devices UGREEN sells.\u00a0 No matching drives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"ad-script":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retrorgb","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52518,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52439\/revisions\/52518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrorgb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}