NAS + IA locale + security: the UGREEN announcements at CES 2026, from the iDX6011 Pro to the SynCare D500

UGREEN arrived at CES 2026 with a simple idea: to stop stacking separate gadgets and offer a coherent ecosystem around a local “brain.” The manufacturer announces three pillars to discover at its booth: new NAS NASync boosted with local AI, a first security range called SynCare, and a large 300W desktop charger designed for multi-device homes and offices.

NASync iDX6011 and iDX6011 Pro: a NAS that keeps AI at home

The heart of the announcements is the NASync iDX6011 and iDX6011 Pro. UGREEN positions them as a new generation of “AI-native” NAS, with a very clear promise: intelligence stays on the device, without sending your photos, documents, or audio recordings to a public cloud. For a media entity, a studio, a small structure, or even a family that centralizes everything (photos, scans, videos, backups), the idea is appealing: searching, sorting, and understanding content, all locally!

UGREEN highlights a “Local AI Engine” and a series of usage-oriented functions:

• Universal Search: search “as you think.” Instead of remembering a file name, you describe a scene, an idea, a context, and the NAS retrieves associated photos, videos, documents, or application content.
• Uliya AI Chat: an embedded AI chat (LLM) to ask questions about your files, summarize a PDF, generate notes, or build a private knowledge base… offline. Typically, “summarize this contract,” “what are the key points of this report,” or “find the passage where warranty is mentioned.”
• AI Album: face, animal, object, scene, and text recognition, with classification and natural search (“Dad on a bike,” and it pulls up the right photos).
• Voice Memos: import of audio with transcription, translation, and summary directly to the NAS. Useful for interviews, a meeting, or voice notes on site (and yes, it avoids “I have an important memo somewhere…”).
• AI File Organization: automatic sorting upon import (type, date, name), to limit the notorious “Downloads” folder that becomes a digital attic.

The hardware side: Intel Core Ultra, 10GbE, 196 To, and a “workstation” option on the Pro version

On the hardware side, UGREEN emphasizes a significant performance leap: Intel Core Ultra processors, LPDDR5/x memory, dual 10GbE networking, and a storage architecture announced up to 196 To (6 SATA bays + 2 NVMe slots). The objective is dual: to accelerate transfers and provide resources for local AI, while maintaining an “enterprise-grade” security level according to the brand.

Key difference: the iDX6011 Pro adds an OCuLink port, presented as a high-speed/low-latency gateway to connect an external GPU or ultra-fast storage. Concretely, UGREEN aims to transform the Pro into a hybrid NAS + workstation, useful for heavy workflows (creation, rendering, more powerful AI).

UGREEN also provides a fairly clear target reading: iDX6011 for creators, families, prosumers; iDX6011 Pro for studios, production teams, and intensive AI users.

The broader NASync range: from “all-flash” NAS to media server

Alongside the iDX, UGREEN promotes the entire NASync family showcased at CES, with several models oriented towards different needs.

The manufacturer notably mentions the DXP480T Plus (positioned as “all-flash,” stated capacity of 32 To), the DXP8800 Plus (up to 256 To), the DXP6800 Pro (up to 196 To), and the DXP4800 Plus (up to 136 To). It also talks about a DXP2800 (76 To) and more accessible models DH4300 Plus and DH2300 to start with a first NAS.

The interest is that UGREEN no longer speaks only of “storage,” but of home usage: photo/video library, multimedia server, PC/Mac backup, document centralization, and now “local AI” as you move up the range.

Pricing, pre-order, and schedule: deposit, pre-order, Kickstarter in March

UGREEN announces the opening of pre-orders on its NAS site, with a deposit mechanism of 30 dollars giving right to a stated savings of 1040 dollars.

Regarding the announced prices for the iDX:

• iDX6011 Pro (64 Go): $1,599 (MSRP $2,599)
• iDX6011 (64 Go): $1,119 (MSRP $1,999)
• iDX6011 (32 Go): $999 (MSRP $1,699)

UGREEN also indicates a Kickstarter campaign planned for March, with even more aggressive “early-bird” offers.

SynCare: UGREEN’s first foray into home security (and without announced cloud dependence)

The second big announcement: SynCare, the first “real” UGREEN home security range. The idea is not just to record videos, but to understand what is happening and act contextually, with a promise of enhanced privacy through encrypted local storage on UGREEN NAS (and thus, in theory, lower cloud fees and less data exposure).

In the SynCare sheet, UGREEN highlights several building blocks:

• UltraColor Night Vision: night vision announced to be closer to a “daylight” rendering thanks to the optics and sensor.
• AI multimodal identity recognition: facial recognition, person re-identification, and behavior analysis to distinguish a household member from a stranger or to understand a situation rather than triggering a dumb alert.
• Detection of baby crying, and package protection (detection/notification): very “real-life” use cases, not just “intrusion.”
• Cross-camera awareness: a multi-camera logic where detection can “pass the baton” to another camera.
• Event descriptions: AI summaries of recorded events to quickly understand what matters, without having to watch everything.
• Smart alerts: alerts with risk levels, and graduated responses (light, siren/alarm, capture, notification).

On the products seen, we find the Indoor Cam ID500 Plus and ID500 Pro, the Outdoor Cam OD600 Pro, the Video Doorbell DB600 Pro, and a central hub SynCare Smart Display D500 to control everything.

UGREEN indicates a commercial launch of SynCare in the second half of 2026.

Nexode Pro 300W: an 8-port desktop charger designed for “multi-devices”

The third component: Nexode Pro 300W, a GaN desktop charger with eight ports. The pitch fits well with current uses: laptops, tablets, smartphones, accessories, and everyone wants to charge at the same time, without playing Tetris with the adapters.

UGREEN announces intelligent power distribution, three USB-C PD 3.1 ports up to 140 W, a dedicated DC port up to 240 W (mostly aimed at gaming laptops/stations), a 3.02-inch TFT screen to see the charge in real time, five charging modes, control via the UGREEN app, and a “ThermalGuard” thermal protection in 13 layers.

The Nexode Pro series is announced around March.

In summary

In the end, UGREEN arrives at CES 2026 with a much more coherent proposal than just a simple “new product line.” There’s a real strategy: to make the NAS the nerve center of the home and small office, adding a layer of local AI to retrieve, classify, and exploit files without depending on the cloud, and then extending this logic to security with SynCare and, more broadly, to the everyday ecosystem.

It remains to be seen, of course, the quality of the results, the responsiveness of the AI under real conditions, the software ergonomics, and the integration between NAS and cameras. But on paper, the approach “useful AI + local storage + privacy” is very much in tune with the times. If UGREEN keeps its promises, we could well witness the arrival of a serious new player in the NAS + security duo, with the added bonus of “practical” products like the Nexode Pro 300W to accompany this avalanche of devices to power.