Wedding photographers in Nairobi, videographers covering events in Nakuru and Kisumu, architects handling large CAD sets, accountants keeping seven years of client records, church media teams archiving service recordings and university researchers guarding thesis data all face the same problem. Files scatter across phones, laptops and a drawer of external drives, and one dropped disk erases years of work. The UGREEN NASync DH2300 pulls everything into one place on your own premises, backs up phones and computers automatically, and hands access back to you instead of a cloud provider billing every month.

Unlike traditional electronics retailers in Kenya who stock storage devices without explaining drive compatibility or RAID choices, Mascom International walks you through matching NAS-rated drives to the UGREEN NASync DH2300 before you pay. Users consistently report that setup takes under thirty minutes from unboxing to first phone backup. At Mascom International, we're witnessing steady demand from small studios and family households moving off recurring cloud bills. Visit our Kimathi Street store to see the UGREEN NASync DH2300 running on a television over HDMI, or order for countrywide pay-on-arrival delivery.

The UGREEN NASync DH2300 is an entry-level two-bay network attached storage unit built for first-time NAS owners rather than server administrators. It holds your files on drives you fit yourself, then serves them to phones, laptops, tablets and televisions across your network and over the internet. It suits families archiving photos, freelancers protecting client work and small offices sharing documents between four or five staff. Buyers who need Docker containers, virtual machines or RAID 5 should look at UGREEN's DXP range instead.

No. The DH2300 ships diskless, so hard drives are bought separately and fitted before first use. Each of the two SATA bays takes a 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch drive of up to 32TB, giving 64TB of raw capacity when both bays are filled with 32TB units. Use matched CMR NAS-rated drives such as WD Red Plus or Seagate IronWolf, and avoid SMR drives. Mascom International stocks NAS-rated drives and helps you size the pair correctly at purchase.

UGREEN's own figures put 64TB at roughly 22 million photos at 3MB each, around 43,000 films at 1.5GB each, or about two million songs at 30MB each. Most Kenyan households never approach that ceiling. A realistic starting point is two 4TB drives in RAID 1, giving about 4TB of mirrored space, enough for a decade of phone photos plus a full video library. Remember that formatting reduces the displayed figure slightly below the raw number.

No, and this matters before you buy. UGREEN states plainly that the DH2300 has no official Docker support and no virtual machine support, which rules out Plex Server, Home Assistant and most self-hosted applications. What it does handle is direct playback: the 4K 60Hz HDMI port connects straight to a television, and DLNA streams video to devices already on your network. If containerised apps are essential to you, the DXP series is the correct choice.

The photo album sorts your library automatically by faces, places and scenes, then flags duplicate shots for one-tap clearing. OCR text recognition reads words inside screenshots, scanned receipts and document photos, so searching for a name or invoice number finds the right image. Live Photos from iPhone back up with motion intact. Sharing runs through a QR code or link, which suits sending an entire wedding gallery to relatives without WhatsApp compression flattening the quality.

Yes. UGREENlink handles remote access, so the mobile and desktop apps reach the DH2300 from any Safaricom, Airtel or Telkom connection without you configuring port forwarding on your router. Speed away from home depends on your home line's upload rate rather than the DH2300 itself, so a fibre package with a decent upload figure makes remote viewing noticeably quicker. Transfers stay encrypted between your device and the unit.

The single 1GbE port moves data at up to 125MB/s on a wired connection, which copies a 1GB video file in roughly eight seconds. That is far quicker than uploading the same file to a cloud account over a typical Kenyan home line. Wi-Fi speeds depend entirely on your router, so plug laptops into the switch when moving large project folders. The DH2300 has no built-in Wi-Fi radio and connects to your router by cable.

Very little. UGREEN's lab measured 13.72W while drives are being accessed and 3.304W once drives hibernate. Left on around the clock, that works out to roughly ten electricity units per month, under KSh 300 at common domestic tariff rates. Drive hibernation cuts consumption further during hours nobody touches the files. For households on frequent Kenya Power interruptions, UGREEN's DC backup supply keeps the unit running long enough for a clean shutdown.

It depends on how much you store and for how long. A cloud plan bills every month forever; the DH2300 is paid once and then costs only electricity. Against a drawer of external drives, it adds automatic backup, RAID 1 mirroring, multi-user permissions and remote access that portable disks cannot match. Budget for drives on top of the KSh 39,000. For anyone holding more than 2TB long term, the arithmetic favours owning the hardware.

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Every unit is backed by the 12-month warranty above, with claims coordinated from our Nairobi CBD service desk. Buyers across Kenya rely on Mascom International for accurate specifications, current market pricing and honest guidance on every storage device we stock.