A Closer Look at UGOS Pro

As Ugreen is starting from scratch with its UGOS Pro OS, it's pretty feature light at launch. That said, most features you'd expect to find in a modern NAS are present in UGOS Pro, and we'll go over the various features briefly below, since this is our first encounter with the UGOS Pro NAS OS. We should mention that Ugreen has a version of its OS called UGOS for the Chinese market as well, but from what we've managed to find out, it's not exactly the same, and although we don't know what UGOS is based on, it does have a different UX/UI compared to UGOS Pro. In other words, Ugreen has put in an effort in differentiating its international products from those it offers in China. One advantage the Chinese version of UGOS has is support for a lot more native software, but this is hopefully something Ugreen will be able to bring to its international platform over time.


As you'd expect there's a control panel where you'll find all the settings. The user management is pretty basic, but you can easily add users and user groups and this is also where you set up the user and user group permissions, as well as any user or user group storage space limitations. A nice touch is the invite user feature which allows the user to set up their username and password on their own and there's also a means of adding multiple users at once by using a spreadsheet which is then uploaded to the NAS.


File services are where you enable things like Samba (SMB), FTP, NFS etc. Rsync and WebDAV are also supported, as well as Bonjour for Apple users, and it's possible to set up a Time Machine folder on the NAS. Overall it's pretty basic for now, but it also makes it easier to use UGOS Pro compared to some older NAS operating systems that have a plethora of options that most people would never touch.


Under device connection you can change the name of your NAS and interestingly UGOS Pro can use .local as a means of accessing the NAS if this is preferred to typing in an IP address. This is also where you can configure the Ugreen remote access service as well as DDNS services. Finally, you can change the desktop background image as well as the web ports used to access the NAS here.

For those that run a domain or LDAP server there's also a means of configuring this.

The terminal setting allows you to enable telnet or SSH access to the NAS.


Various hardware configuration options can be found under hardware and power, for example the buzzer can be turned off, the fan can be set to various profiles and the LEDs on the front of the unit can be controlled here, albeit only by a schedule which is a bit odd. This is also where you find things like wake on LAN (WOL) and power loss settings, as well as the UPS settings. As of the time of writing, Ugreen only supported a handful of UPS models, but a full list can be found on the Ugreen knowledge center.

Under time and language you can change the time zone, set up timeserver syncing and choose between English, German or Simplified Chinese as the UI language of the NAS.


The network settings allow you to change things like default gateway and the DNS server, as well as manage the network connections and implement port based traffic control rules. It's possible to bridge the network interfaces, which allows you to use the NAS as a network switch, which can come in handy for some.

When it comes to securing your NAS, Ugreen has implemented the most basic features you'd expect like a timed automatic logout option, DDOS protection and auto blocking of IP addresses after a set amount of failed logins. However, there is also a built-in firewall and a couple of additional security features to prevent some basic hacking attacks. This is also where you can add security certificates, but as pointed out earlier, Ugreen's own certificates aren't picked up as valid by web browsers when HTTPS support is enabled, it's unclear as to why this is the case.

Under indexing services you can rebuild the file index on the NAS and regenerate thumbnails of pictures you've uploaded.


The about section provides detailed information regarding the system hardware, storage drives and which services are currently running. Here you can also opt out of sending data to Ugreen as well as the device finding service on the LAN.

Finally, the update and restore option allows you to update the software on the NAS, reset the network settings, do a factory reset of the NAS itself as well as back up the configuration data and create a system restore configuration file.