Is Ubiquiti Launching a UniFi NAS in 2024?
YES THEY ARE – Update, the UniFi UNAS Pro is now LIVE, and I have made my review HERE on YOuTube and HERE on the NASCompares website.
Alternatively, you can find more resources and comparisons on the UniFi UNAS Pro in the links below:
- Official UniFi UNAS Pro Page – HERE
- The UniFi UNAS Pro NAS Review HERE
- UNAS Pro NAS. SHOULD YOU BUY? HERE
- Synology vs UniFi UNAS Pro Comparison HERE
- QNAP vs UniFi UNAS Pro HERE
- UniFi UNAS Pro. FIRST TIME SETUP GUIDE HERE
UniFI UNAS Pro Videos Coming Soon:
- Synology vs UniFi UNAS Pro HERE
- UniFi UNAS Pro, PROS and CONS HERE
- UniFi UNAS Pro VS QNAP NAS HERE
- UniFi UNAS Pro NAS – BIG REVIEW HERE
- UniFi UNAS Pro. COMPLETE SETUP GUIDE HERE
- The PROs and CONs of UniFi Networking (in 2024/2025) HERE
Back to the Original Article:
*clicks fingers* And JUST like that, it looks like we might FINALLY be seeing a UniFi NAS system! I have been in and around the world of storage for well close to 2 decades and in that time I say seen a lot of things. One consistent name in network technology that has been a mainstay of the prosumer and business landscape that want pure ‘Easy to Setup and Forget’ tech that you can trust has been Ubiquiti and their UniFi series of devices. Yet, with such an extensive range of network hardware and software solutions, the brand has never pushed forward with their own 1st party NAS server… until now it appears! UniFi has always supported the likes of Synology and QNAP NAS systems in their network architecture, but many of those deep in the UniFi landscape have requested something proprietary, something uniform and ultimately something streamlined in a way that is largely the USP of UniFi. Numerously pieces of information (ranging from compatibility listings, to product docs and references on companion media) have bubbled to the surface in the last month or so that seem to indicate that not only that a UniFi NAS is ‘a thing’, but also that the brand is jumping in with both feet – launching 10GbE equipped, quad-core, desktop and rackmount solutions which are truly native to the UniFi ecosystem. So, let’s discuss everything we have learnt, whether this is all legit, how it compares with the current NAS status quo and ultimately – would a UniFi NAS be a good idea?
What is UniFi and Who Are Ubiquiti (just in case you want to be up to speed)?
As massively unlikely as it is that anyone reading this is unaware of what UniFi is, just to play it safe, here goes! UniFi is a range of network equipment and related solutions developed by Ubiquiti, which targets large businesses, but has nonetheless become popular with prosumers and home users, as they offer enterprise-grade products with no licensing fees. The UniFi range includes high-performance Wi-Fi access points, switches, firewalls, and routers which are formulated to offer a strong and flexible networking solution. These devices come with features such as network routing, firewall capabilities and network VPN to allow for efficient network operations. Furthermore, UniFi provides Network Video Recorder (NVR) and high definition cameras for UniFi Protect video surveillance systems to offer all-round security and surveillance management. The UniFi Dream Machine Pro and Max are both standalone, massively fully-featured solutions offering the capability of traditional routing, as well as diverse security and networking management tools in the UniFi application ecosystem inside one machine, useful for homes or businesses.
The UniFi software platform is considered as the core element of this system since it allows managing and configuring all UniFi devices through a single interface – it’s kinda their whole appeal! This software can be run locally hosted or via a cloud-based computing service provided by Ubiquiti which makes it easier to expand. UniFi also offers products in the range of switch aggregators and data center solutions that can handle heavy demands of high-density deployment. Able to deliver considerable connectivity with minimal hassle and offering an enhanced range of features, UniFi appliances and devices are popular in a variety of applications, from home use to complex company networks. They provide a single and technical interface for managing all network devices, hence conducting operations on the networks of different types of devices is easily done. So, given the popularity of NAS systems in the last few years (as cloud providers increase base prices and large scale data download pricing for businesses) you can see what introducing a native UniFi NAS product into an existing UniFi ecosystem would be appealing. NAS systems CAN be intimidating for the less data/networking technically and therefore a modular and seamless deployment of a central data system has enormous promise! But is the UniFi U-NAS series real?
What Evidence is there of a UniFi NAS in development?
There is a surprisingly larger amount of data circulating online about a possible UniFi NAS system, referring to devices/SKUs that include the ‘U-NAS Pro’ and ‘U-NAS Professional’. One of the clearest and most obvious indications comes from an official UI.COM outlet, with a 10GbE 5 Port switch that, in it’s diagrams of deployment, show a new tower system connected via 10GbE (as well as a workstation). I will touch on this later with a leaked datasheet that appeared on reddit, but there are plenty of indications that this is a UniFi NAS.
Source (Official eShop) HERE
But you do not even need to dig that hard after these product deployment images, as you literally click the deployment tab and a similar product layout appears on a new image that clearly labels this white tower system as a NAS server. Even if you wanted to play devils advocate and speculate that this is a 3rd party server, the system carries the familiar U logo on the top. Plus, Ubiquiti/UniFi/UI.com VERY rarely show 3rd party hardware on their product pages (for understandable reasons).
Source (Official eShop) HERE
Then, then via the same outlet, we find that an add on is available on the UI pages that listed an 8TB and 16TB UI labelled HDD that is listed as ‘ideal for storage-intensive UniFi systems’. Under this drive are numerous part numbers that relate to the brand’s Dream Machine Pro and Dream Machine Pro MAX systems. So, maybe these are just drives for cross-purpose and dedicated surveillance systems, right? Well, maybe, but the workload ranging heavily indicates enterprise storage use (i.e an ENT or PRO class server drive) which really does seem overkill for some of those systems that are highlighted that are 1-2 SATA/SAS slot systems. I KNOW how tenuous this sounds, but…
Source (Official UniFi Outlet) HERE
The fact that the ‘Enterprise Class’ media seems separate from that of the surveillance media is quite telling too. Could easily be nothing, but surveillance storage media is typically much more focused/geared towards ‘heavy write’ activity – as surveillance is often 95% write and very irregular read (when you need to check those past feeds!), whereas a NAS, especially a Prosumer/Business/Enterprise focused system will be at it’s best with drives that deliver peak on BOTH! Or shift gears entirely and switch to SSD. These enterprise drives definitely link with Surveillance systems that scale up considerably from UniFi, but having this division in their media is slightly overkill for just surveillance deployment alone.
Source (Official UniFi Outlet) HERE
Still not enough for you? Well, luckily an enterprising soul on reddit snuck what looks like a product datasheet for a new rackmount system that appears similar to some of the UNVR-PRO systems, but is clearly defined as a NAS server solution in the UniFi Drive series. If this is fake, it’s an impressive bit of work! Definding everything from the internal hardware specifications and system hardware feature set, right the way down to system PSU and projective power requirements!
Source (Reddit) HERE
Base on this document, the UniFi NAS would come in an rackmount steel chassis with optional brackets and would feature a Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A57 processor running at 1. 7 GHz, 4 GB DDR4 system memory and 32 GB eMMC on-board flash storage. With a power budget of 135W for drives and a maximum power consumption of 160W, it is powered by a 200W internal AC/DC power supply. Connectivity options include a 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ45 port and a 1/10GbE SFP+ port and Bluetooth v4. 1 for RF interface. It also has a 1. 3” touchscreen LCM display for system status and firmware updates via Ethernet in-band interface.
Also, the 87mm height confirms that this system is a 2U rackmount, as well as not being full depth either (a little over half depth infact). Here are the rest of the specifications that were on the doc found on reddit:
| Category | Specification |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 442 x 325 x 87 mm (17.4 x 12.8 x 3.4″) |
| Weight | Without rackmount brackets: 9.2 kg (20.28 lbs) |
| With rackmount brackets: 9.45 kg (20.83 lbs) | |
| Enclosure material | SGCC steel |
| Mount material | SGCC steel |
| Hardware | |
| Processor | Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A57 at 1.7 GHz |
| System memory | 4 GB DDR4 |
| On-board Flash storage | 32 GB eMMC |
| Max. power consumption | 160W |
| Max. power budget for drives | 135W |
| Power method | (1) Universal AC input 100-240V AC, 3A Max, 50/60 Hz |
| (1) UPS-Battery DC input 11.5V DC, 13.91A | |
| Power supply | AC/DC, internal 200W |
| Network interface | (1) 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ45 port |
| (1) 1/10GbE SFP+ port | |
| RF Interface | (1) Bluetooth v4.1 |
| LCM display | (1) 1.3″ touchscreen |
| Bootup animation: bootup in progress | |
| Firmware upgrade icon: firmware upgrading | |
| Steady white: factory defaults, awaiting adoption | |
| Steady blue: device is adopted | |
| Management interface | Ethernet in-band |
| ESD/EMP protection | Air: 12kV |
| Contact: 6kV | |
| Operating temperature | -5 to 40°C (23 to 104°F) |
| Operating humidity | 5 to 95% non-condensing |
| Certifications | FCC, CE, IC |
| LEDs | |
| Ethernet | Green: 1Gbps |
| Amber: 10/100 Mbps | |
| SFP+ | White: 10Gbps |
| Green: 1Gbps | |
| HDD | Amber: disk error |
| White: disk detected | |
| Battery | Blue: ready |
Some details, such as the LCM Control panel are quite unique in the NAS server market (with many other brands out there largely retiring LCD panels, despite end users still wanting it). Others are a little more common but still very desirable, such as the confirmation of 10GbE (fiber / SFP+). That said, the CPU choice, if true, is going to divide opinion slightly. ARM processors are designed to be incredibly power efficient – something that is understandably desireable in a 24×7 NAS server of course. That said, even a 64bit ARM processor is going to be a little lean on the hardware capabilities.
This would indicate that, if real, the U-NAS system is going to be very fixed in it’s feature set, as ARM processors in NAS are much MUCH better at rigidly sticking to a handful of services and tasks (fixed defaults, allowing the software development to be a great deal more targetted and resulting in greater system efficiency). That would not make the system ‘weak’ – one look at how the likes of Synology can run DSM 7.2 on the ARM Realtek RTD1619b 64but ARM would show you just how much you can do with a dedication to efficiency in hardware, but it would be interesting to see how Ubiquiti/UI/UniFi approach the software and feature of this system. Will it be a wholly dedicated GUI or an extensive of the existing software platform that users UniFi users already have at their fingertips? Another photo also went on to appear on a reddit thread indicating a product stamp/label, but there wasn’t a huge amount of backing for this one.
Source (Reddit) HERE
Then there was a scree that was highlighting in an official UI video that was picked up by YouTube Channel ‘MacTelecom’ that raised queries about a product that was featured in a promo video. It would be easy to just assume that it is just a surveillance system, but…
Source #1 (Mactelecom) HERE and Source #2 (Official UniFi Channel) HERE
Obviously, the most compelling thing here is the product datasheet and the direct references to a 10GbE ‘NAS Server’ on the official product pages for the USW-Flex-XG, but we have to also take all this with a pinch of salt. plenty of times we have observed products alluded to online or even revealed at official event’s by brands that do not cross the technological finishing line! Still, it’s still tremendously hard to argue with that Ubiquiti/UI and by extensive the UniFi series, are dabbling with NAS systems. What about Synology and QNAP NAS systems? Arent they already an option?
Can You Use a Synology or QNAP NAS with UniFi?
Yes. Adding a NAS to an existing UniFi network is not new, and even now you can connect an external NAS (a QNAP or a Synology, for instance) to a network that is operated using the UniFi devices and increase its storage and data-organization-related capabilities multiple times. This integration means that the NAS will now act as part of the UniFi system as in that it can contain multiple services within a single NAS device. For example, the NAS can be used to store recorded video from the UniFi Protect system, using RTSP streams to guarantee that any footage that is recorded is either in the NAS or is used to send video data to the NAS as well. Furthermore, the NAS can be leveraged for backup for network devices; this is basically used to store the critical configurations and data that can be lost in the devices in question. It is also possible to configure SMB or NFS on the NAS storage in order to offer dedicated shared network storage for the network users to simplify the file sharing procedure.
In addition, this configuration should be supported by UniFi networking capabilities in order to make the workflow even more productive. The NAS is also capable of interfacing with security gateways as well as UniFi Switches and Access Points to offer a highly functional network solution. This integration also enhances the process of management and back up of data besides supporting other utilities such as the Time Machine for Mac users and enhance the use of the community network. Thus, using the offered functions of the QNAP/Synology NAS in the UniFi network allows to organize a powerful system with a potent scalability and capable of fulfilling a wide spectrum of tasks in both business and home environments. So why would a user care about a UniFi Official NAS device?
Why Would a Ubiquiti Launched UniFi NAS Be a BIG DEAL?
If Ubiquiti were to launch their own first-party NAS device, users would likely be happy and excited for several reasons:
1. Seamless Integration: If they launched a NAS, it would no doubt be created to ease the workload for the company regarding supporting all its network devices and storage devices within the existing UniFi system. It would make it easier for those who are already using UniFi devices to plan their set-up and maintenance, centralizing that data, as well as potentially facilitating further backups from there (3-2-1 etc)
2. Unified Management Interface: Let’s face it, UniFi is all about central management and a potential UniFi NAS product would continue to be managed through the UniFi software platform and the central management features will be carried over to managing the storage resource pool. This shortens both the time and the effort used in managing the network and this is widely considered to be very efficient.
3. Enhanced Features: Another appeal of a possible 1st party UniFi NAS would mean that it would open the door to Ubiquiti establishing features that are tailored to its network hardware. Such as optimization for UniFi Protect’s video surveillance storage, optimizing backups, and build photo sharing capabilities within the Ubiquiti network. Matching this functionality specifically for the product could offer a better user’s experience when compared to third party NAS solutions.
4. Consistent Updates and Support: For those that have already integrated a Synology/QNAP NAS into their ecosystem, they are well aware that this means allowing for the system to access updates whilst 24×7. A potential UniFi NAS would require this also, BUT would benefit from that seamless 1st party management and services, like any other Unifi product in the environment, This would be beneficial to users because the NAS could get supported firmware updates as regular AND also open the door to technical support from Ubiquiti to make sure that it is safe, operating, and up-to-date. This could make deployment easier and faster in the case that any issue arises to do with the issue deterring from having a flexible integration in the UniFi ecosystem.
5. Aesthetics and Form Factor: Though Ubiquiti is 20 years old, the UniFi series is much newer by comparison, but stands out with it’s is very popular for its modern design. It might sound fantastically shallow, but if UI launched a NAS device, they would definitely want to maintain this house/brand style and would target the look and feel of the rest of the equipment from the UniFi ecosystem – there would definitely be an audience for this!
6. Vendor Trust and Loyalty: A number of users are brand loyal: data security in 2024 is MASSIVE! People like using services by a particular brand that they trust and prefer to stay with this brand. Many consumers who are pleased with the functionality offered by Ubiquiti in the areas of networking would be much more likely to comfortably integrate a NAS device constructed and certified by that brand compared with a 3rd party, thus easing their lives of an additional device and learning a new GUI and UX. Not everyone of course, some will look at the product history of established NAS vendors and that will be enough – but that ‘if it ain’t broke, don;t fix it’ attitude is definitely out there!
The popularity and interest that would come from the idea that storage will be ‘in house’ in a reliable and simplified form that fully integrates and supports the expanded features provided by Ubiquiti and it’s UniFi series would be popular, there’s no debate there. However we have to also acknowledge that Ubiquiti and UniFi (if real!) would be a relatively new player in this field, with a narrower and very specific history in network data management, that is perhaps a little more specific than the more open storage utilization of network-attached storage. If a NAS is coming from UniFi – we have to wonder what new take that might bring to the table beyond the uniformity of UniFi devices and that ecosystem (arguably their USP!).
If it IS Real, When would the UniFi U-NAS Series Be Released?
That’s the BIG question really, as demands for a UniFi ‘in house’ NAS have been long-running for years. That said, the evidence discussed is pretty conclusive to say the least. Additionally, we are not discussing small mis-shared text or off-hand remarks at a tradeshow – we are seeing product images, direct references to two NAS products on official pages and even system add-ons that are listed on the brand’s eRetail outlets. Then there is the fact that the bulk of these references and documents are all within the last month, which seemingly indicates the revving up of a launch on the horizon. This all adds up to a product that is far along in development and one that is nearing release – Q3/Q4 2024 at the latest. However, without official confirmation, this still needs to be treated as speculation! Watch this space.
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The lack of a professional cloud backup with „time travel“ and restore options are stopping me from using this device
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What a long way to say what a disappointment this is.
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wish i could actually buy one lol
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I just need a nas for file and picture storage
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Hi! I get that the hardware is ”underwhelming” BUT it is designed to store and share data. No apps docker or other stuff. If you want a server. Get a server. For what it is supposed to do hardware isn’t lacking.
One storage pool. Again. Use case. I understand that you might want different storage pools for different uses on the same system BUT this system ONLY serve files. So there is no need for more than one storage pool here. Folders and accounts are enough separation. Come ON. A $499 device with tiers of disks? Not really realistic.
Yes. Converging UNVR pro and UNAS Pro is a no brainer. It’s basically the same device purposed differently. But now when Protext can use NAS for archiving you could use an UDMP UNVR / Pro for protext and archive to UNAS which kind of makes sense.
NO. Apps aren’t missing. This is NOT that kind of device. We use QNAP NAS for backups at work. We NEVER use apps on them. That is just bloat. For workloads we use virtualized clustered Linux servers windows servers and SAN drives or HCI clusters. NAS devices are great as slower tier backup storage or SMB file shares. That is the audience for this NAS. Not hobbyist home labs running pinhole in docker. That market belongs to QNAP and Synology
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Am I the only one who thinks it’s silly we can backup to other services but we can’t use the UNAS to be the backup for said services? (Would love to have the UNAS hold everything so I can just offload everything and keep using drive as the easy upload access but trying SMB)
Thanks for the guide! Very in depth and makes this easy!
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Without a USB port, what is the solution for monthly-full and daily-incremental LOCAL backup?
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Great review! Thank you.
Just to clarify… I cannot have 2x 16TB disk in here without RAID, together with 4x 4TB disks in RAID10 right? Because the two 16TB ones would be consumed by the RAID as well (as 4TB disks).
Is that correct?
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Unifi has a few great lines: wifi, switching, maybe power.
Then they have some weird stuff:
– Security cameras, where users can’t add cameras in the phone app unless they are given admin rights.
– Signage product that plays content on a TV. Nice idea, lousy software. Transitions between pictures are not suitable for public use.
I didn’t try access control yet.
I wonder how will the NAS turn out.
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Can I use this without Unifi Router?
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im curious why you seem to say that the rps port on the back is for ups, not the redundant psu port plug-in it actually is, unless i misunderstand what your saying here. at 6:23, it shows that rps port that allows an effective power supply backup/redundancy for your box when you plug into the unifi power backup
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Can’t wait to get mine! keep missing the alert when they go on sale. but anyways are you planning on doing a video like the one you did for “Backup a QNAP NAS to a Synology NAS with RSync” about 5year ago? I would love to see that process for backing up the Unas Pro to a QNAP or a Synology. @NASCompares
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this is to much of a first gen product, i think the Pro Max or SE will be the true version you will want.
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Is it only me and my users who can’t use identity endpoint to download files, videos and pictures from the app? Everything works perfectly except that
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My other brand nas come with only single psu, 2 or 4 1gbe ports and cost more, so this is still way better value.
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can someone explain to me what is “failover”?
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Cant compare the 2.
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What’s the disk and storage structure? LVM with BTRFS on top? If it was ZFS, they’d be singing it from the rooftops, so it isn’t that.
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No mixed drives is a disaster. Wish this was made possible so I can add extra large disks later on. Currently have 2x 4TB.
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This is perfect for me… I have other servers for Virtual stuff.. I just wanted a NAS. They have a another system for cams . I will be picking one of these up for sure!
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If you start with 3 drives in Raid 5 can you add additional drives to expand the capacity without starting over?
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Unifi need to focus more on their core products.
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I do not see ability to make groups and assign users to groups. Missing also is subfolder access permissions which allows you to connect to share within windows as an admin and set the file permissions using the groups created within the NAS. I just setup a Buffalo Terastation which allows subfolder permissions, QNAP has Advanced Folder Permissions and I think Synology does it also can use its own UI. TrueNAS too! This is missing in UniFi NAS it seems… please clarify.
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Synology stands as a prominent player in the NAS industry for the time being, but it’s nothing more than a “Blackberry of the future.” While Synology has maintained a relaxed and overconfident demeanor, its competitors have gradually introduced innovative and high-quality products. In the next decade, it is plausible that Synology will be acquired at a significantly reduced valuation compared to its current market worth.
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Say you had an Android phone and wanted to transfer videos to your NAS.
Is the software robust enough to simply ‘send to NAS’ with a couple taps on your phone?
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I actually really like the system, but i really do want separate storage pools so j can have a local on machine backup of a faster and smaller SSD array onto HDDs.
Im also hoping they give us an AI enabled photo storage system so i can atop using google photos as much or at all. But aside from that i think this thing just being a NAS and not much else is not a weakness in my eyes.
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Waiting for Raid 6 and more then one storage pool.
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Hi! have tried integrating it with a microsoft account yet?
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I still don’t think focusing on the NA_S_ (S is for Storage) part of the equation is as problematic as some make it out to be. There are tons of small computers out there for super cheap that can be container hosts that will run circles around Synology, if containers and server features are concerned. But if what you want is centralized (network) STORAGE, nothing can touch this 7-bay beast, for the money.
I keep seeing people (and reviewers) complaining about the lack of dual PSUs, as well. I’m split on this one: One the one hand, for hardcore business work, I 100% agree: We only buy storage with dual hot swap PSUs, at work. But on the other hand… which Synology and QNAP and TerraMaster NASes actually have that feature? Complaining that this doesn’t have the container features the others have, and then simultaneously complaining that it lacks the thing the others on the market lack, seems a bit much. Again, for HIGH END business use, I agree completely. But when was a $500 NAS a serious contender in the Enterprise NAS market?
The single storage pool thing bothers me the most, for my personal use. But that’s also the thing most likely to be addressed in future software updates. Well, that, and no M2 slots for Caching, which obviously won’t be addressed until the next round of hardware updates… perhaps a UNAS Pro? (throw in a second SPF+ port, too)
Adding Protect is an interesting idea that I’d love to see. I wonder if the processor and hardware can manage a ton of cameras AND heavy network storage access, at the same time? Again, that may need to wait for future hardware upgrades (or a Pro/”Enterprise” version).
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UNAS arrived about 30 minutes ago. She’s already up and running, and I was pleasantly surprised to find NFS shares are already an available service! That was my main gripe when I purchased. Taking notes for you now, will keep on it and am happy to provide updates as I go.
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Is there a way to access the SMB from external networks IE over internet? Not looking to VPN if possible.
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Hey, thanks for the video! I have a question about the backup feature with two NAS setups. If I set one up at home and the other at my business, will I still be able to use the home NAS for personal data while also having it back up the business NAS? Or will the business backup limit my home NAS to only serving that purpose? Thanks!
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Hey, thanks for the video! I have a question about the backup feature with two NAS setups. If I set one up at home and the other at my business, will I still be able to use the home NAS for personal data while also having it back up the business NAS? Or will the business backup limit my home NAS to only serving that purpose? Thanks!
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Have you been able to discover if the 8GB of RAM are ECC?
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Brill! Pity my NAS just keeps going as this would be great if it had 2 storage pools and was 4 bay. A migration assistant would be nice too
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Thank you. Since the UNAS does not have its own usb port: is it possible to shutdown the UNAS via ethernet if the UNAS is directly connected to a battery UPS? Or do I need the Unifi UPS-RSP in addition as a sort of “power supply controller”. If so, does the UPS-RSP communicates with a battery UPS?
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umh … on the UDM-PRO, the SFP+ port you showed has number 10 because it’s the 10th port, the globe indicates it accepts a WAN (WAN_2) connection like port 9 (WAN_1)
port 10 can be switched from WAN to LAN interface
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Awesome video. Many thanks for this as I’m just waiting for the UNAS to come back into stock before I buy one.
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Finally I got an answer, can UNAS run with just one hard drive. YES It can. Thank you.
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I have a Synology 920+ already and have a bunch of Unifi cameras, switches, and Dream Machine Pro SE and I’ll be picking up the UNAS Pro when it comes back into stock. I have 6 8TB drives in an old computer I used for a NAS before I got my Synology that I’ll use for the UNAS Pro (thankfully unlike Synology, you can use pretty much any drive without it complaining). I like the 10GB port, which the best my 920+ can do is bonded 1GB links.
I’ll run 3rd party apps on the 920+ and to start with, use the UNAS to backup my 920+ in a NAS to NAS backup system. I hope they will be updating the features quickly. The one I would love to have multiple storage pools. That should be able to be added at a later date though. Might have to reformat all the drives, but should be doable.
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I assume you can connect the Apple TV through SMB and use the UNAS as media streamer?
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This is great! Thanks for the video! Like I mentioned on the previous video, would be awesome to see a step by step on 2 things:
1) Migrating data from my Synology to the UNAS Pro (assume a simple drag and drop with both NAS’s running)
2) Build out a mini PC (beelink, etc) for synology pointing back to the UNAS pro. Would love docker containers with Plex, etc etc
Regardless, amazing stuff!
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Great video. I already have the UDM-SE, but was looking for a really good NAS that meets my specific requirements. I think that RAID6 suits me best but good to know that the UNAS can use a single disk
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Now I can afford a cheeky ol’ NAS in the Trump economy lets gooooooo
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perfect timing, thats my job tonight! 😀 Thanks for the great content!
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Is it possible to use as standalone, like other brand Nas or I do need to have a cloud key or gateway as well?
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These videos are great. I used your affiliate link to buy a UNAS Pro, so much sure UI gives you a commission!
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Don’t use “SFP” (100 Mbit/s) cables with this NAS.
Only use “SFP+” (10 Gbit/s) cables.
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YES! Just got mine today, i’m waiting for 2 ironwolf pros coming next week. This video will keep me going til can set it up
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is there any info on the storage system they are using? like is it hardware raid, software raid, a type of ZFS, or did they make something from scratch?
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I wish they implement the hibernate option for hdds in a future update
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Ubiquiti has its own protect system to handle cameras and it does it well. Just let folks run actual piHole and call it a day. Great storage unit.
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Not being able to stack these or expand to more bays is such a deal breaker 🙁
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Thanks for the review! I buy storage, for storage. I have servers, I don’t need (or want docker/containers). It has to hold hard drives, and put them into a RAID. I would appreciate finer grained controls over the RAID level and stripe width and size, as well as performant expansion options. m.2 Cache would be a good thing for 10 Gb networks as well. But all in all, I think this is a solid firt offering from Unifi. I just hope that that they add RAID6 to the feature set soon.
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That is good for homelab – you have storage, and you can add whatever standalone proxmox that will work with that. No point in having 128core cpu in nas, and to be able to make everyone happy. They got storage, you can diy whatever you want to work with that but data is perfectly safe. I might switch feom synology at some point for great form factor- i like rack mount. In Synology its absolutely crazy priced
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Wow, I saw many videos about, but I had no idea you can have only one storage pool until I saw this video. This is huge problem for many people and it just kills it for me. That’s a shame, because it would be otherwise a perfect NAS for me. Hopefully they will fix it in software update.
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Great info! Very nice to see some real world installations. Can’t lie, we’ve been a little hesitant to go full UniFi on very large installations. Thanks again for the candidate info.
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I likely won’t buy it because it lacks all the stuff that my Synology can do – Plex and a pretty good security system.
But for the price, 7 bays and 10gb Ethernet and rack mountable, it’s a pretty amazing value. For a $499 server, you shouldn’t expect redundant power supplies, and dual 10gbe. If the ARM processor makes it consume less power, that’s great for most people. If I were doing a ton of video production, a 7 bay raid would be fast enough for 4k prores work. I think it’s an amazing solution for most people.
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@nascompares, have you managed to try installing protect and talk using SSH yet? I just tried installing drive on a CK2+ – that was fun (and non functional, rofl)
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The Unifi lineup is full of devices that are simple, and do their tasks simply. So I doubt very much that they are going to allow any third party software to run on them. The reason that the hardware is fairly anemic in comparison to other NAS hardware is that the Unifi UNAS is only a NAS. It has only enough hardware to do what it is designed to do. Which makes it more price and energy efficient in the process.
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Does it work with active directory? We have q separate server for managing pur windows clients via active directory. Would this nas work in conjunction with that?
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Can you tell me if it has the option to put the HDDs into hibernation after a certain period of inactivity?
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How is the raid10 speed with 6 disks?
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Can someone who has the NAS tell the power consumption of the NAS? And how many hard drives does he use? I would be interested
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As someone who has a slow internet connection, little money and takes lots of videos and photos. The 4 bay UNVR is a better device for me to be running as a sharable file server for my clients to view content
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the question is which target group Unifi wants to serve with this NAS. For the price, it is certainly a nice storage solution for small companies that easily fits into the budget.
As a private user, I am not really the target group. I essentially agree with your criticisms:
a. why only 1 GBIT Ethernet? Unifi seems to be slowly switching to 2.5 GBit (see Cloud Gatewy Max and 2.5 GBit Switch)
b. No support for virtualization solutions (Proxmox, Plex, etc.)
The last point in particular puts the “inexpensive” thing in a different light. If I put a little more money on the table, I can get competitive systems from QNAP or Synology or Terramaster. that better meet my needs as a private user. An alternative would be to run a small home server alongside the Unifi NAS and use the NAS as a data repository. This solution would result in more administrative effort and higher power consumption and would not bring me any personal benefits.
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I work in a school with two block, on the main one we have servers in a rackmount 1m depth, on the small one we have a small rack with switch and unifi dream machine, we use a VPN to share user files with the remote lab, but is slow. I’ve made a replica of our DC … and now I think I’ll di the same for data. UNAS pro is definitively what we need.
Does’t care much about the “UNIFI system” is just form factor, depth, cost. No virtual machine No docker … we need NAS.
Is just my scenario.
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ok, so for me, give me double the height, 14 bays, 12 for my spinners, 2 for my SSD caching, give me snapshotting, 3rd party apps like plex, hybrid raid and an even semi decent CPU to cover encryption overhead and i will pay 4x-6x this price without even thinking possibly more
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At the moment, if it can’t predict elections, it’s useless to me.
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Tbh at that price it does exactly what I need
Cheap nas that I connect to a mini pc to run all my apps
And buying those 2 things is still cheaper than a comparable synology
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i guess you recommend synology.
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Managed to buy the UNAS this morning. Cannot wait to get it loaded with drives, move everything from my annoying ASUSTOR over, and setup a headless Mac mini M4. Admittedly the Mac mini is overkill for Plex, but I’d rather have the headroom and flexibility. Thank you for this vid validating my reasons for getting the UNAS Pro.
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I love how you just get to the point.. TY for the Video. From one I.T. guy to another.
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If they add the option to backup workstations and restore them directly to the machine, or do bare metal backups from an ISO, I’d be all over this thing. I’d pay more for it too
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I bought mine at 2:30 pm eastern time zone. I had to justify buying it.
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I ordered one as well. I’ve used Unraid for years, and while it is a good solution, the idea of a simple fileserve baked into the Unifi ecosystem is ideal; especially for simple, secure, offsite file access through “Unifi Verify.” I’d love a version with more drive bays, but other than that I think this will fit a lot of people’s needs.
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I’d love to see this do iscsi. I can see myself using this as a shared storage for my proxmox cluster at home.
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It is literally a 7 bay rackmount system that doesn’t do Raid 6 ….. I mean that’s about as fundamental as it gets …FAIL
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The functionality of this is probably comparable to my Thecus N5200 from way back in 2006……and that was already crappy back then. The rather decent price though suggests it is actually an alpha test at the customers expense. You gotta start somewhere…..ARM NAS are just not versatile enough when it comes to the things you mentioned like containers, VMs (especially Windows Server VMs)…and soldered the memory to the board? come on…….Ubiquiti, you can do better. And the performance is just meh…..but then again for the price, it’s probably not that bad.
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Does it support nfs
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They restocked today. I ordered one
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I ordered one, would be happy to provide usage and input and how it slots into my setup over the next couple months.
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Im a major UniFi fan.. hell I even have my garage door opening with a tap of my mobile phone!! I have a sizeable Synology NAS but actually dont love DSM.. BUT using Synology Drive like a local OneDrive feature is difficult to give up for simple SMB shares and Active Backup for Business automatically backing up the entire family set of computers has saved my bacon in more than one occasion… as much as I think the UNAS Pro looks great and fits with my rest of my network, I’m more likely to end up buying another Synology to backup my NAS than the UNAS Pro.
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Was looking to add this as a backup tool for my current nas and server, at the price and 7 bays to me its seems to be a no brainer
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I like the fact that it’s a NAS, and nothing else. I see the addition of 3rd party apps just adding potential attack vectors. For the price savings, one can add a couple of Raspberry PIs, and configure how you want.
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And now I’m really looking forward to you highlighting the (assuredly) upcoming NAS hard drive sales around cybermonday/etc.
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Maybe it’s just me but I love it. I love the single NAS idea, the way is made to be an Unifi NAS and nothing more. I own a synology nas but since the day one I separated the file storage part from the server applications. My point is, if you want a rackable NAS, dedicated to begin a NAS and nothing else..this is for you. If not, maybe take a look at other brands.
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Guy sounds like a paid Synology reviewer. Synology is decent but when things go wrong, boy do they go wrong.
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I like the idea of this NAS and I’m tempted to pick one up today, but I’m not a fan of being the first in line for a new product like I used to be.
This machine is exactly what I’ve wanted for ages. A good, solid name brand rack mount NAS without the gold plating I’ll never use.
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Would it be possible to see what happens when you swap drives from one unit to another unit? How do you restore your data? With a single PS, you would need to swap out chassis, thus having to move your drives.
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My main criticism is its only got one 10gb nic and one psu not ideal for a “pro” device . Other than that i really like it. Something that cant be fixed by sw update. My other critisms.are mostly sw based so can easily be fixed. I dont really care about apps as i run xcp-ng /XO pool(cluster), i have apps coming out of my ears .
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Are there any drive restrictions when using this NAS, like Synology with certain models?
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Nice addition to the Unifi collection. It is network storage only with a 10gb connection. No need to compare to Synology or QNAP can be used a backup to Synology or QNAP.
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Ok but can it run Metal Gear Solid 1 via emulator
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If they could allow installation of the OS in other devices would be amazing, Would love to use this OS just because of the eco system
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you dont need docker and bloat on a NAS – it is a dedicated NAS as in Network Attached Storage
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Interested but…unless my DS920+ dies and until the offer something like Active Backup for Google, I will have to wait.
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I think that this is a underwhelming device that is getting too much attention
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Rack mount device with singlenpower supply missing one ?
For the price tag probably you can buy two device instead of one when spending same budget for “proper” turkey rack mount storage soultion
And the software solution from this company looks more promising in stability and security compare to synology and qnap
Plus they have a own ecosystem ( although a bit pricy compare to consumer/ home use product)
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Whoa! Your new office is extremely bright!
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*REQUEST* Hi. I have a request for anyone who ends up buying a UNAS Pro NAS system. I need your help with a video I want to work on in the new year about the “UNAS Pro 3 Months Later” (maybe 6 months, will see how UI approach the updates and roadmap). I know I have hit the ‘content button’ hard on this device, but as a new entry into the server space from such a well-known player in networking tech, I want to 1) obviously cover as many angles on what users want to know as possible, but also 2) keep the pressure on UI/Ubiquiti to develop this system more and more (and more!), as I think this thing nails the fundamentals very well, but could be more. So, here’s my request. If you end up getting this device (or maybe you are a fellow reviewer who will be continuing to work with the system), I want to slot in a video early next year – kind of a “what has happened since launch” piece. A big, big part of that should be what real-world users think of it, did it meet expectations and did you stick with it, or abandon it as ‘a fun play thing’ and little else? If you can provide your input below in the comments or directly to me on robbie (at) nascompares , that would be awesome and of course, all those individually featured will be credited and linked appropriately. No worries otherwise, and cheers for reading! Have a bloody great week.
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I tend to think that this is a test or research device. It’s as basic as one can get but discussions on it will bring about information on what people really want. I really considered this purchase but several things told me to wait.
I’d love a device that is simple. But… it needs a processor that will be able to obtain a 10gb transfer rate. My synology’s can do that with just the spinning drives. I can see this device choking under a heavy load.
Second, user management is too simplistic. I’d like to see the ability to create user groups to make assignments for folder access easier.
Third, like you said, it needs to have the ability to expand storage beyond its own case and I would add the ability to provide iscsi service.
And fourth, I’d like the ability to add memory.
Thanks.
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Do you know when it will be in stock on the UK store?
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What I don’t understand is, that most people criticise the fact that it can’t run apps (through docker, etc.). Its a network attached storage solution, not a server. Sure, other brands offer that functionality, but it’s not really what a nas is for. If you have the money to buy a NAS, then you most certainly also have the money to buy a raspberry pi and run containers on there. I think that the UNAS Pro is something a small business would use in conjunction with an actual server.
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I bought that baby right at 7am when the page refreshed. No regrets. Cant wait.
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it really looks more like a backend device, set and forget, backups only, maybe appealing to Synology/QNAP/Proxmox users that may migrate to SSD-only “server” build and looking for just backup bulk storage “elsewhere”
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To me, this video shows me 10 reasons to BUY an UNAS-PRO. ????
As soon as RAID6 is added to the features, my aging WD EX4100 is going to the IT Heaven. My 10G Link Aggregation switch is eagerly awaiting his new UNAS-PRO brother.
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Great review and viedos on Unifi’s new NAS. Tempting but no, not at this point. I’ll keep using my Synology NAS systems. I know what they can do and have to offer.
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Really looking forward to software updates when this becomes more promising. But for now it’s still compelling.
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For 499 or the cost a couple of medium size drives a business can pull the drives and put them into the enterprise NAS when it comes out. So that’s not a big con.
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Still no batman’s car videos… ????
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To expensive that stuff :/
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I like this video, I think it’s a cool breakdown. However, I think there are two major points I want to see considered when looking at the two ecosystems. 1) 99.9% of folks considering a UNAS already own a UDM, the two together should be part of the baseline comparison. 2) The size and sound should be a bit more clear, my understanding is the UNAS is half depth, the equivalent synology rack mount 8 bay item is full depth and VERY loud. I think that, overall, Synology seems like the winner for a closet or desktop mounted 4-8 bay for folks looking for heavy storage in their home with the all-in-one ease of use with the ability to run a lot of third party applications. The UNAS seems ideal for folks who JUST need to add mass storage to their existing Unifi network.
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How easy is it to backup Synology to Unas?
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It really seems like Synology and UniFi Unas pro are really aimed at different markets. Synology is really seems more for home users. The UniFi is really for integration with a UniFi based network. I have seen a lot of UniFi at small business and this would be a simple way to integrate with their existing UniFi hardware and services. I can see this see this being adopted because over time cloud storage starts getting very expensive as companies data storage needs grow. A lot of companies will not use most of the software apps on Synology.
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Fantastic in depth review man! I just got the Minisforum MS-01 to replace my DS918+ in terms of server needs, so my Synology is just acting as storage now, so this would be the perfect unit for me to upgrade to 10Gbe to go with the rest of my UniFi stuff besides that it doesn’t have NFS yet :/ quick question, when you say reactive storage, do you mean you can add drives to the pool without wiping and just increase pool size?
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Wouldn’t touch a UniFi NAS at all. Synology All the Way!
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As a video editor, what’s your recommendation? Would I get fast enough write/read speeds on this?
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Thanks for the review!
If it had NFS, I’d be down. Without, not so much. Possibly also a radius server or something reliant for auth.
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How does this unit handle drive expansion? Say I have all 7 bays filled and I need more storage…Can I swap a drive or two with higher capacities in place and it dynamically adjust the array to make that space available?
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The Synology backup software for vm’s makes it a no brainer for our company…
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Good stuff thanks for making this video
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Your comparing apples and oranges there no data center using qnap
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I think if you are use to the way Synology DSM works, it makes it easier. If you are use to Unifi then that is easier. I find I get lost in Synology DSM, where as I don’t get so lost in Unifi as I find it more intuitive. This really comes down to what you are use to and I feel people who have used Synology for a long time tend to know where things are in DSM, where as a newer user will not know which app to use for what to the same extent. That makes long term Synology DSM users leaning toward finding DSM easier, like you have done as you are a long term Synology user. 🙂
On the processor side, the 923 may be an x86 processor, but it is a very low power x86 processor, and only dual core.
Synology may have the edge on the app ecosystem though, but I don’t think Ubiquiti are aiming to make their NAS into a small home server. It does what it says on the box really well. It’s a NAS. ????
If you want a home server, UI’s UNAS is not the device you seek. ????
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Would be awesome if they released the nas SW as an app for the NVR lineup.
Can’t hurt to dream…
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I’m definitely interested in the UNAS to replace my Synology but I’m not willing to risk my data on a v1 product. I’ll give it a year or two then switch
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16 bay version will be here soon and it’s also already at a cheaper price than Synology. They do have stacking but I would assume that’s also possible
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You give UI too much of a pass for being an ecosystem and as such they don’t have to play nice with others. You also mention the word “Enterprise” numerous times. So does UI whenever it can. These two add up to missing one big fundamental, as you put it, which is directory integration and I’d argue licensing bc it’s a huge part of the marketing. Everything “Enterprise” must have directory integration, that’s what pretty much the term really means. UI in its AzureAD/Keycloak/Okta/ADFS/etc knockoff — none of which ALSO requires specialized branded hardware BTW — put LDAP/AD integration behind a per-user per-month subscription, despite the fact that unlike the aforementioned, they aren’t providing any service at all, only the permission to connect your own hardware to your own systems, AKA: licensing.
This storage thingy is worthless is you need to keep separate accounts for it. It opens doors for so many problems. If you want to use the Enterprise moniker you need to integrate or have a system so well thought out that you can cover any need, absolutely any need even if it’s convoluted, perhaps egregious, like Cisco’s. This ecosystem thing is cute until it starts being a headache, the pretty dashboards in day-to-day are rarely useful, and the push for a cloud dependency, the fact that your network devices tasked to guard your data are exfiltrating it from your network, the fact that UI relentlessly pushed for mobile app-based mgmt revokable at any point leaving gear unmanageable (like UniFi Video did) are headaches waiting to happen.
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It’s underpowered, given that it has a 10gb interface , fully saturated with ssd would generate 3500 mbs yet the controller I will be only half the hd capacity transfer rate
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Bye Synology and Helllooo Teramaster i5-1235U (10c -12trd).. TOS 6.. Nice ..
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All I need is a dumb bullet proof NAS with a good UI. Unifi seems to fit that bill.
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Its not equivalent to a QNAP or Synology YET, its a brand new product, and it will get better over time with software updates and future iterations of it.
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I’m curious if the RAM it does have is even ECC. For me, ECC is a requirement for a NAS.
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When it comes to NAS, the fewer apps, the better . Be good at the one thing. That said, the Unifi NAS is lacking in several areas. I’ll buy one once they add in the missing features (NFS & iSCSI).
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UniFi’s equipment is designed to be accessible, and this new NAS seems aimed at fulfilling a specific purpose: providing network storage at a competitive price point. Whereas Synology’s product line seems to blur the line between providing a networked storage solution and a home server. Let’s face it, if you have a server rack at home, you likely already have a dedicated machine running various network services and if you’re planning on running a bunch of VMs or containers on bare metal, wouldn’t you prefer to have a dedicated machine for that? I think UniFi are doing the right thing here by focusing their efforts on solving one problem; and solving it well (even if it doesn’t have redundant power supplies, additional networking ports for link aggregation & no SSD caching, I imagine those features will come later).
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I think you will really like the 16-bay Enterprise NAS when it comes out.
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I was going to get another Synology NAS and have decided to go with an Ubiquiti UNAS instead as it is much easier to set up files and file shares with the Ubiquiti software. I prefer the UniFi way of showing the information over the Synology interface. Looking forward to getting the new UNAS next month when it finally ships.
I am looking for purely a NAS not something that runs a bunch of apps and Docker containers. I will run that stuff on a server.
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Unable to have a phone app for backup pictures and videos is a deal breaker for me on the Ubiquity side. I will just go with 2 20TB HDD and DS224+. 2Gb/S data transfer(SMB3). Phone backup app, UPS USB battery management support, and Docker. Black Friday shopping for $250(hopping) for Synology. 2 years later we will see what happens.
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Hi there, thanks for the video.
I am looking to see the following:
1. iPhone and Android Applications to backup the pictures from the phone into the UNAS.
2. something similar to google documents to create office documents directly on the UNAS.
3. backup up one entire windows computer to the UNAS, similar to synology backup for business. .
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As someone who was about to pull the trigger on a RS1221+, I am now feeling more confused than ever. I am deeply invested in Unifi equipment in my home so I am interested in this and I also keep hearing that it’s a good idea to separate your NAS from your media server box if possible so you can scale them individually. However, this Unifi NAS doesn’t really seem to offer any hardware upgrade paths so in this case it doesn’t seem to be a good argument.
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People, people. We are buying Synology not for the hardware, but because of the software.
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UniFi’s UI is terrific, but their equipment is garbage, as is their support, as is their security. I wouldn’t let an enemy use UniFi’s trashy products.
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I will get one because I have a ton of UNIFI in my house (Personally, I would not use Ubiquiti at work. Not Ent enough for that). But what I love about Synology is all the apps you have access to, and the more significant benefit to me is upgradability. On my 1821+, I tossed in a 10G card, two 2TB NVME caches, and 32 GB RAM.
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Thanks.. good review. I have converted all my networking to Unifi and am considering while building a new house whether I want to use Unifi cameras. If this could have replaced the UDM it would have been a no brainer, but as a satisfied UnRaid user of 20 years, the lack of some networking and apparent inability to mix/match drive sizes may make me just get a UDM and keep my existing UnRaid. Definitely something to keep my eyes on though.
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So now that their lineup is available at retail (at retail pricing), and their OS has had time to mature, maybe it’s time to revisit UGREEN. A comparison between UGREEN’s NAS OS and Ubiquiti’s would be interesting. UGREEN had to create a NAS OS from scratch in a space where there’s a lot of competition. They didn’t get much of a pass, as I recall, at the time of their initial release. So, now that UGREEN is no longer the new kid on the block, let’s see that comparison.
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I disagree that this is not an exciting product. I think it is exciting to see such an intuitive user interface, a focus on the basics, and very capable hardware for such an unheard of low price. I don’t use the snazzy bits of my Synology NAS and would prefer the 10Gb/s connection and the intuitive interface of the UniFi NAS. UniFi don’t unecessarily prescribe any UniFi-branded hardware and are yet to remove features that one paid for, like Synology. Can’t wait to see RAID 6 support and perhaps a future model with support for media-transcoding and a USB port.
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for me at thos time That NAS is only for hosting backup of my data and config of Synology nas becouse I need runn all my services from nas. I actuaky run old websites on my nas and run docker on my main Synology. But Synology pice me of when I see deleted apps – webstation plugin deleted from DSM 7.2 – old PHP (Update php code for that sites is not cost effective in terms of time or money to rewrite them to the latest php) and I mast be on DSM 7.1 – deleting support too apps fron old dsm on new version pice me of but I intrested to have uptodate nas.
UNAS for me is also to big and have too big energy consumption and 7 HDDs is not form me.
If UNAS will be based on 4 HDDs UNVR and have webstation like on Synology and docker support (to install DNS Server on difrent docker apps).
About Unifi apps for me will be good Use UNAS as unifi backup target storage for auto backup network or protect or UnifiOS on UNAS – If I see that things on Unifi devices as UNAS I probably will swich from Synology.. – I’m a homrlaber have a unifi network on my home.
I think UNAS Pro ss for me for a bog misness or enterprise where data access tiime or suoort alot users too data on drives, on home is too big and bare additional functions as for energy consumption.
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no advertised hardware specs can fuck off
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I personally think it’s like comparing apples and pears
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Ummm what is a ‘knicker’ ?
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The Unify NAS would be a highly viable solution if Unify were to consider upgrading the internal hardware to incorporate a SAS backplane by default. This would maintain compatibility with both SATA and SAS drives, offering the best price-to-performance ratio in refurbished enterprise HDDs per terabyte, including warranty. Whilst understanding that USB ports would introduce security risks, a third 5Gb LAN port would be beneficial, as it would be sufficient for speeds under 500MB/sec. I wouldn’t object if they were to replace the 10Gb connection, which can hardly reach its full capacity without an internal SSD cache
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Have they changed shipping date; I saw Oct 25th. Now it says Nov 4th!
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7bay rack mountable for $500 is a good price
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I wish this had docker support, it would make it an amazing deal.
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With the limited amount of drives we need stacking
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Does it come with any sync app for windows?
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They could do the same Nas with unifi ‘s 4 bay NVR. Instead of their 7 bay unit.
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So the probleem with the UNAS is that it’s a NAS? I have a Mac Mini as server that can do way more and better than the synology al-in-one closed system. The UNAS will be a great addition to my network. At one point in time UniFi will introduce al-in-one system that will be more expensive and with faster hardware like they did with the gateways->UDM. But this is a NAS, please compare it with an NAS.
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I’m currently running a UDM SE, so the Unifi NAS is a no brainer. especially at that price point.
I’ve been on the fence for a long while about a NAS solution, Thankfully Ubiquiti has come to the rescue.
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can you run duel network/gateways with the two nics?
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You keep harping on about the unas ” requiering” aditional unify gear for functionality, sorry but duh thst is the whole point of unify, it’s a complete stack and now thay have added a nas offering. On the the fact the unas doesn’t run docker, well I know synology does thst, by my question is is that really the job of a nas, or js that mor a combination of a virualisation/container hist and a nas in a box? I know that containers an vm guests need storrage but isn’t it better to have less powerhungry storrahe and have the compure separatøt thst cabån be scaled accordibg to need, you might nedd massive compute an modest storrage, or the situation may be reversr. You might want an nvr or not. Stuffing irvall in one nox just intruduces a singel point of faliyr. Ok containers die idåf storrage goes avsy, but the nas does not go down if the cpu in a dedicated nvr koes down
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For refence before someone picks the below apart…. I have been a Synology user for the last 12 years and only a Unifi user for the last 1… these are my own opinions and as my home network grows (CCTV, Media room, IOT integration).
There have been no major improvements to the Synology OS for a while, the GUI interface is stale (iOS 6 or Android 5.0 vibes) clunky and just lacking compared to other OS, then you throw into the mix them taking features away, locking the OS to either their own devices (why USB Wi-Fi was taken away I don’t know, it was a handy feature when you can’t use CAT and the NAS is in another room) or just lack of any real apps (Docker the exception), its just lacking flexibility compared to others.
As for backups (time machine for want of a better phrase) don’t get me started on how complicated this is and how many times it falls over, then there is surveillance station costs….. hold on I have just spent $$$$$$ on a NAS, had to pay yet more for the 10GbE NIC and now you want me to spend more on licences…. no ta!
However that being said, I’m not going to be ditching them just yet besides the cost, the DS1821+ in the media room and the RS422+ do the job, BUT will be replaced once Ubiquiti fix the following short falls, minimum, (1 x 2.5GbE minimum / 2 x 10GbE / Nvme cache) once these are standard, then i’ll be one of the first to ditch Synology.
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Currently a Synology user leveraging surveillance station. Looking to move my network to unifi, including my cameras as well. I’ve seen you can only effectively move your protect footage to the synology with a third party solution (git). I understand the unas doesnt come with protect natively – dies this literally mean you csnt take Unifi camera footage and store it on the UNAS? I know that is a dense question… but if thats really the case, thats dumb as hell!
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I will use my synology as my front line trooper. It will carry my plex and photos and use the Unifi NAS as the back up to it and all the files, like a solid home base
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I haven’t looked at the hardware I think ubi will have much nicer and capable software.
I have qnap but it seems to be completely overwhelmed by the software and just screwed
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LOL I’m currently getting away from Unifi. Sick of their “ecosystem.” Sick of their crap. Having to use HTTPS and 2FA for my UDM that’s local.
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The Mac of NAS. Ecosystem is Apple-like
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I really like Synology but their recent business decisions around ignoring home users, being way behind in hardware for many devices and downgrading their software especially around codecs is not a good look and doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in recommending them to new users trying to get into the home “cloud” space.
It was only a matter a time before Unifi did this. Their NVR is basically already a NAS they just needed to make a more NAS focused software. This new NAS is a great addition to their portfolio and will be good for anyone already in the Unifi space. However, I don’t think it will attract many people from the outside. Especially those who are less techy. Most people just want a desktop unit like the classic Synology.
Then there is there is the app support and functionality. Synology is still way ahead in that when it comes to providing a cloud at home experience. Especially things like Synology Drive, Synology Photos, Docker and VM support, backup solutions amongst a lot of other things.
In conclusion the Unifi NAS is a great start. It is definitely targeted at current Unifi users and people that need literally only a NAS and nothing more. (Which is fine). They probably smell some blood in the water with all the miss steps Synology has been making and want to try and capitalize on it a little.
Unifi, if you are listening… I need a 5 bay m.2 1U NAS with dual 10G Ethernet for $699….
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Not fully through the video but if the UNAS Pro supports SSH, can’t you install docker on it?
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To me the UniFi NAS is targeting different people than Synology. The Synology obviously has better software and hardware. But it is not just a NAS, but an all-in-one solution that a lot of people use for other applications as well (docker, vms, etc). The UniFi UNAS is what it’s name implies: A network attached storage. As long as the UNAS Pro serves as a reliable easy to use storage solution than that’s fine for me as well.
Maybe sometimes the “less is more” mindset, as in purpose built machines (just storage, just computation etc) might be better if things are developed properly. But we have to see how Ubiquiti will develop the UNAS in the coming months and years.
I will probably buy the UNAS Pro because my DS420+ died right after warranty ended and I lost all of my data (around 25TB). I will probably look for a power efficient 1U server for other applications like docker/plex etc.
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To me the UniFi NAS is targeting different people than Synology. The Synology obviously has better software and hardware. But it is not just a NAS, but an all-in-one solution that a lot of people use for other applications as well (docker, vms, etc). The UniFi UNAS is what it’s name implies: A network attached storage. As long as the UNAS Pro serves as a reliable easy to use storage solution than that’s fine for me as well.
Maybe sometimes the “less is more” mindset, as in purpose built machines (just storage, just computation etc) might be better if things are developed properly. But we have to see how Ubiquiti will develop the UNAS in the coming months and years.
I will probably buy the UNAS Pro because my DS420+ died right after warranty ended and I lost all of my data (around 25TB). I will probably look for a power efficient 1U server for other applications like docker/plex etc.
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To me the UniFi NAS is targeting different people than Synology. The Synology obviously has better software and hardware. But it is not just a NAS, but an all-in-one solution that a lot of people use for other applications as well (docker, vms, etc). The UniFi UNAS is what it’s name implies: A network attached storage. As long as the UNAS Pro serves as a reliable easy to use storage solution than that’s fine for me as well.
Maybe sometimes the “less is more” mindset, as in purpose built machines (just storage, just computation etc) might be better if things are developed properly. But we have to see how Ubiquiti will develop the UNAS in the coming months and years.
I will probably buy the UNAS Pro because my DS420+ died right after warranty ended and I lost all of my data (around 25TB). I will probably look for a power efficient 1U server for other applications like docker/plex etc.
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Great comparison but not sure you should compare them as they are for very different people . I doubt unifi will ever put user apps like plex on their nas
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Great comparison but not sure you should compare them as they are for very different people . I doubt unifi will ever put user apps like plex on their nas
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Great comparison but not sure you should compare them as they are for very different people . I doubt unifi will ever put user apps like plex on their nas
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Great comparison but not sure you should compare them as they are for very different people . I doubt unifi will ever put user apps like plex on their nas
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It’s Ubiquiti. You know their NAS will be a toy for years to come. It’s based on the NVR hardware which I already have for Protect and I find it quite disappointing both hardware and software.
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It’s Ubiquiti. You know their NAS will be a toy for years to come. It’s based on the NVR hardware which I already have for Protect and I find it quite disappointing both hardware and software.
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It’s Ubiquiti. You know their NAS will be a toy for years to come. It’s based on the NVR hardware which I already have for Protect and I find it quite disappointing both hardware and software.
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It’s Ubiquiti. You know their NAS will be a toy for years to come. It’s based on the NVR hardware which I already have for Protect and I find it quite disappointing both hardware and software.
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It’s Ubiquiti. You know their NAS will be a toy for years to come. It’s based on the NVR hardware which I already have for Protect and I find it quite disappointing both hardware and software.
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Well, Synology got what it deserved. I have 923+ for backups (spinning rust HDDs), my SSD grade NAS will be UNIFI, as soon as they release PRO MAX or Enterprise grade model.
I want 2x 25G SFP28, more CPU cores, and at least NFS service. iSCSI would be also great. I absolutely don’t care about docker and VMs in the NAS (I have the server for that).
But I expect to see much more settings there to fine tune everything.
@NASCompares – please test all SSD array, how it performs?
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tbh Unifi NAS is kinda trashy at the moment. Using almost the same hardware as NVR, but without supporting NVR feature lol.. money grabbing stuff.. no?
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the Unify is a beginners low end NAS, in a fancy wrapper
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Unifi Nas
Hot swap drives?
add new disk when system is live?
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I am confused if those backups are incremental or not, and what the retention period is if they are?
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could you try “apt update && apt install unfi-protect unifi-talk” from SSH to see if you can install protect and talk?
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Iam pretty much a noob when it comes to networks and stuff. My parents wanted a mesh network and from there on out Iam building a surveillance system (camera, already have a separat system for locks and windows) on unifi gear atm. So far that worked great. However, Iam not sure when it comes to a NAS. So far, they “had” a QNAP desktop 4 bay, but it was basicly never used. I convinced them to get a NAS, so in case of harddrive failure, the family fotos and videos wont be lost.
I guess the unifi nas does just that. But there are two questions still open for me:
1. How can I get phone back ups on there, even if its just the media stuff. My idea was google drive and then have that somehow downloaded to the nas. But I didnt look into it much further.
2. How can I display pictures and videos from the nas to a potential smart tv (say sony bravia 9, we would buy one) on the network. we could just hook up a laptop every xmas, but if there can be a more elegant solution, ill take it.
the budget isnt that much of an issue. we would like to populate the nas with 24 or 26TB WD ultrastar. i just want something that works with more than 4 bays if possible. I was looking into the QNAP TS-855eU, as it will be rack mounted (short rack). Or the Synology RS 1221+. But most of the stuff these NAS can do seems… not to be for my use case? I dont like to connect to that system like its a remote pc. Just upload and display media, like its a better external hard drive. What would you suggest?
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Unifi absolutely lets you use 3rd party authentication app. be that google authenticator app (or other authenticator app) or Azure Entra. Synology also allows this. so, they are pretty much equal.
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Question. You told me to wait until today. Underpromised and overdelivered! Always appreciate your work. I couldn’t live without Tailscale on that UniFi. For now I’m sticking with my DS920+ w/4 2TB Crucial MX500 HDDs in SHR1. Need an online backup solution using Hyper Backup. Considering C2 Storage. I have a 1.2 TB data cap on my US broadband plan. Any sense how much traffic (data) would be used during an integrity check of a 1 TB backup with average file size of say 1 MB?
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I bit off a stupid comparison as your not comparing apples for apples with UniFi
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exposing the NAS to the internet is a really bad idea, ether it being Synology, Ubi or whatever
the best way is to use VPN or some reverse proxy setup
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My network is Unifi and my NAS and backup NAS is Synology. No need to upgrade now but I do like the idea of integrating my NAS in to my Unifi network once feature set expands. Right now I’m a fan of SHR and Hyper Backup. The price is right. Just waiting for the feature set to evolve.
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I haven’t had a “modern” NAS, I have a bit of a basic question. Can I buy this NAS, throw in two 20TB drives in RAID5, and then expand and switch it over to RAID6?
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after seeing this im glad i havent got one , qnap and Synology are just the gold
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We have multiple NAS in our company.
And we don’t use any further functions/ apps then iscsi or smb shares maybe the UniFi aims at this kind of usecase
Yes i know iscsi isn‘t available yet
What I want to say on a semi-professional level these apps aren’t used very much.
The same here at home I have my NAS and only use it as a storage.
If I want apps I would prefer a server or raspi
And I think file backups on a second device would be able over the smb-shares
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Everyone needs to consider that unifi is dipping it’s toes in nas. Using the UNVR Pro chassis allows them to gauge the appetite before committing to creating further chassis types. Personally, I am holding off for a 12 bay device, and then I will go all in. I love their other kit and ui. I only hope this is the beginning of a great journey.
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I own a Synology 4 Bay. They are spectacular all-in-one boxes!
After watching the bombardment of Tech-Youtuber UNAS reviews, I have decided to buy a UNAS to supplement the Synology. I have never liked the “File Server” NAS aspect of my Synology. Synology File Station is not intuitive and the Home/Homes folder and Sharing of Photos logic is difficult to explain to a layperson.
The UNAS seems to be designed to move files easily from A to B.
Apples to Apples -Value
The 4 Bay RS422+ that you compared the UNAS Pro can ONLY have 2GB with an extra $100 for a 10GB card.
I think from a hardware perspective
$1300 Synology 8 Bay RackStation RS1221+ (4 GB, no 10GB)
$499 UNAS Pro 7 Bay 8GB w10GB
Does the Synology software platform cost $800? If you want it sure. As others have said, there is definitely a place for a well designed INEXPENSIVE Network Attached Storage device that just moves files.
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All Synology needs to do is release a few new products with MODERN processing power and there would be no point in comparing them to anything else…
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this isn’t a serious question, the UNAS Pro is a toy as of right now
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Insane that this isn’t capable of running Protect.
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The best NAS is the quietest NAS. 😉
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Thanks, been following all your UNAS videos. I’ll gonna buy one this side of Christmas and will definitely use your links.
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I like the UniFi software presentation a lot more as so many companies including Synology go for a “Modern aesthetic” last time I checked looking like a knock off Android 4.0 isn’t modern. At least UniFi realises what works and sticks with the basics.
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Personally UniFi is to expensive, but on the otherhand i use 2 DELL PowerValt md3220i and a DELL R630 with a 4 sfp+ 10gbit ports and a h730 mini raid controller and 2 compatible Raid controller with SAS 12gbit.
i yeah if this stuff would be new, this is properly even more expansive. But i payed for my R630 300€ and got both PowerValt md322i for free because those were damaged, i spend about 130€ for repair. i bought over the last 2 years, 2 xeon e5 2683v4 and replaced my single e5 2609v3 and bought another set of 4 4RX32GB 2133mhz ECC for the second socket and have now 256GB total System memory and 32 cores and 64 threads, instead of only 6 cores and 6 threads.
In the end, i spend for all of that 700€ the upgrade included.
IF someone asks about the drives, both PowerValts were be filled with 12 1.8tb SAS 10k drives as I got them. Both PowerValts got dropped so they thought the drives are done so they left the drives in the system. Lucky my R630 had already 2 PCIE Raid controller cards in it for PowerValt and a massive 40gbit NIC with 4 10gbit sfp+ ports. I mean, i guess it makes sense if you have only 6 cores and relative massive amount on RAM, using it as a server for storage makes sense in this configuration.
My R630 and both PowerValt with the drives run fine, besides the fact Both powervalt don’t fit in my 5U rack encloser because i have, there are a bit bend but i don’t care they work.
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Can the unifi nas be used as a nvr storage instead of going for the unifi cloud max gateway with storage?
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If you have unfy network and synology nas. Can’t you then mount the unas with smb to the synology for the synology features ? Because it’s cheaper then a bigger synology, and with the 10GB fiber it should not make your read and writes slower then an internal disk i guess.
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lets wait till Unifi has more software for their NAS. for now its more like a normal server thing, to put files on.
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Synology the best
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Synology is better, we all know this. As you said, More than 25 years of experience. Ubiquiti should’ve made this a NAS/Protect solution. Looks like a money grab to me that they didn’t. I’ll probably get it just to mess with it and sell it to a client that only needs backups. I need to upgrade my Synology, and the whole hard drive lockdown thing has really pissed me off. Should be illegal to do those things. If Ubiquiti gets better with allowing apps and better hardware I’ll switch over immediately! Needs redundant psu, needs at least 2 SFP ports, needs better CPU and ALOT more RAM! We all know they have a “MAX” version under their sleeves. So let’s see what that has to offer.
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I think people who pick up the Unifi NAS are likely also owners of Unifi network products. I think Ubiquity are likely targeting their pre-built customerbase. Personally I run Protect on my UDM Pro, I’m not interested in the same thing on my NAS. I want it to integrate well and it would be nice to get proper access to my raw video footage via the NAS rather than messing around downloading clips via the frontend (haven’t watched you deep dive yet). I also don’t want duplicate network functionality in a Unifi product, that would just be bizzare.
If NAS manufacturers are moving more towards a NAS just being a NAS as Synology seem to be doing, with increasing numbers of their products being ARM based and support for transcoding being removed, I think maybe users have to consider the possibility of a low powered mini PC to run their docker containers and if that’s the direction of travel then maybe Unifi starts to eat at Synologys market share. It’s possible that Unifi are ahead of the game in this regard and have set their user expectations early rather than Synology’s long history of being great for a multitude of purposes.
I think the hardware comparison was bizzare, find a like for like comparison and then conclude that Synology wins based on range of product!?!
If I were chosing a new NAS today with the Unifi and Synology products that are currently available, I’d stick with ASUS because I want that flexibility and power in my primary NAS. If I needed a secondary NAS to act purely as a NAS, I might go Unifi because it integrates well with my current set up and I know the Unifi experience.
Ask me a couple of years ago and I’d have told you Unifi for networking and Synology for everything else.
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The three best things about the about the UniFi system at that low $499 price point are … rack mounted, 7 drive bays, and most of all … a 10 Gig port.
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Would be nice if it actually came out though…
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I think that there will be a max version and a lite version later
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I’m thinking to switch from my Synologys 1621+ to two UNAS Pro. The integration in Unifi is great.
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Unifi Nas is way too limited at the moment.
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I much prefer the Unifi NAS software presentation / UI. Why NAS companies try to recreate a windows feel is beyond me… Once you have mapped drives etc, I rarely log in. The fact that I can see everything on my management interface for Unifi, with immediate performance… It’s so much better.
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There was no new NAS from Synology for almost 2 years /last one 224+/. Some nonsense Beestations, Active protect enterprise and very very little on App front I think they either switch to Enterprise or will go bankrupt /means downhill to no more usable in SOHO/. Zimaboard, Unifi Drive, Truenas etc. Its sad.
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I think a fun video would: Buy the UniFi UNAS Pro paired with a beelink mini PC for Plex and performance around that. Also maybe a nice tutorial on how (lol)
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3rd comment !!!
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I want a rack NAS. Wanted a Synology but it is stupidly expensive for outdated hardware. I am considering getting the unifi nas and adding a 1u server running intel hardware for dockers VMs etc. It still comes to half price of a synology rackmount nas. Do you think this approach makes sense?
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Great video, thanks for putting this together. For me, the big gap is the missing nvme cache
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Its their NVR with different software… I think for MOST. Home users and even small businesses it is a great design!
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Not really a fair comparison to compare to Synology really as Synology are not just a NAS, they have an app ecosystem too, where as the Unifi NAS is just a NAS and no extra crap.
I think the hardware is identical to the UNVR Pro, except the UNAS is 8gb RAM. Price is identical as UNVR, and I feel the price point is pretty good for a 10gbp link, Directory Service integration. UI have advised they are adding Raid 6 in a firmware update, so they do listen to the users. I don’t think M.2 is really a big deal, you can get adaptors from M.2 to 2.5″ 2.5″ SATA will max out a 10gbps connection anyway. The single PSU is not an issue as it supports the Unifi USP device as well when you want redundant power supplies. It would add cost if you had a redundant PSU and this is NOT an enterprise version of the device.
I have seen several reviews of this unit and the speed tends to be consistent. Again, remember this is not an Enterprise version of the device. This is a Pro version, which is in between standard and enterprise. A lot of Synology devices at similar price point only have 2 x 1gbp NIC’s
I feel if this sells well, UI will likely release an Enterprise and standard version, based around the other UNVR form factors they have.
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Is it true it doesn’t do iSCSI or NFS?
If so it should be called the “UniFi NAS Home”, or “UniFi NAS SMB”
I am fine with it not doing containers or VM’s, but not doing NAS features such as iSCSI or NFS, and then calling it a “PRO” NAS is ridiculous
I am even fine with the price point, but the NAS PRO name without iSCSI or NFS is ridiculous
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No USB ports useful for local Backups and also no UPS support due to the lack of a USB port. Major failure if you ask me …
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this iust a simple and very basic NAS / filer but lacks « business » features specially for the number of drives that it holds:
* NVMe Cache
* Better and more capable processor
* More RAM!!
* Dual 10GbE RJ45/SFP+ for LACP & redundancy
* Dual PSU for power resilience
* AD Authentication integration
* FIPS 140-2 compliance for business that is required
* No SCSI or NFS support
Wouldn’t recommend this unit for professional use.
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Raid 6 is a curious omission, with raid 10 you have to rely on luck for more than one drive failure especially here with an odd number of drives. So three options, basic protection(raid 1), advanced protection raid 6) and performance (raid 10 would have been ideal. Perhaps a max version with raid 6 and zfs/NFS is in their future. I don’t see the point personally of adding docker etc when most will use another more powerful scalable server for virtualization (proxmox etc)
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It is “cheap”, short depth, quiet, and Unifi. Those are the selling points. Everything else goes hard to the other guys by all appearances. Qnap has a few very short depth (13cm) NAS as well, but the price point speaks for itself.
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But can it run Plex or Jellyfin?
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its has ssd cache support?
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Look Unifi is a cult like Synology BUT ….a NAS that doesn’t have docker, apps, rubbish ,,,a NAS that actually prioritizes local Network attached storage? …Well that is very interesting to me.
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Huge question for using this at work: What is the Active Directory integration like? I saw the checkbox option being moused over many times, but it was never explored on the video. Can I manage access to shares based on group rights, and apply group rights to a share, or a folder within a share?
From a business perspective, the lack of a second PSU is definitely problematic… they really want to push their weird outboard PSU, I know, but that just doesn’t fly if you’re trying to play with the big boys. For small environments and homes, however, it seems pretty great… as long as what you want is STORAGE and not all the extra stuff Synology and the like have grown into becoming.
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I would love this plus something like the Synology Drive software.
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could i put my backup copies of movies on this and run plex from a computer and access from any tv?
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Excellent review. Thank you. I would really be interesting to knowing what drive setup with RAID5 would be needed to saturate the 10b both for reads and writes. Your numbers are not that great with the drives you used. Could faster hard drives do it? Would SATA SSD’s do it and how many would be needed? I am not buying another NAS with 10g that will only do less than half the network capabilities. With this unit in particular, it really needs to have 10g file transfer capabilities.
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Be nice if they allowed for backups to AWS or Backblaze via their AWS api thing.
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So no PLEX available?
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can i ask what hdd temperature at full load all 7bay?
and the cpu is too weak,that power only enough at 2 bay
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can it present iscsi LUNs at all ?
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How you add Reolink Cams to the unifi protect?????
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A teeny tiny bit frustrated that I ordered a backplane mini-ITX case from AliExpress last month (and am still waiting on delivery) intending to build my homelab server/NAS for my Unifi stack then they announce this thing. Chances are it’ll be like the 2U PDU they make & stay out of stock for 10 months…
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I might’ve missed it, but does it really not have NFS or iSCSI support?
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A NAS that’s not trying to be a golden goose-do-it-all homeserver where you run everything but the kitchen sink on.
Take my money
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Waiting for the NAS pro MAX if it has docker/vm support.
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499?! Holy crap. If this does RELIABLE storage, I cannot care less about Qnap and Synology bloatware!
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GREAT video and I love that they have nailed the fundamentals. In your comparative videos, I suspect it’s going to be REALLY hard to find something in this price range that can even come close. (Find an off the shelf 7 bay NAS for $500?)
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7:26 There is a secondary PSU. Uni does it using the Unifi RPS… That is Unifi’s redundant power supply device. Also if you are worried about noise then RACK MOUNT HARDWARE ISN’T FOR YOU! Only a little over 7 minutes and I already dislike this review.
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Everybody is going nuts over the price but that’s by design. V2 will charge extra for redundant power supply and other status quo features.
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Is there currently a feature where you can backup pc clients like active backup for business on synology?
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Wonder why this isn’t just available as an app for other Unifi devices with disk storage?
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Can this replace Synology Drive?
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But can it run plex?…
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Great comprehensive video. I absolutely love all things Ubiquity but I feel like I want to wait for another version or at least more apps. I have a Synology now and don’t even scratch the surface of the features available (including things like running docker images) but the one thing your video suggested is given the lack of use of file metadata I would certainly be missing some app features like the Synology photo app at least and probably video as well so I could look up pictures by person (facial recognition) or geo (show me my Aruba vacation pictures)
I have wanted all things Uniquity on my network and maybe I just need to wait a few software and maybe even a hardware revision or 2. I feel like it may need more memory and CPU once and IF they start to add more app features.
Also, I wish they would have done an M.2 drive slot at least for caching.
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What is your opinion regarding UNIfI selecting BTRFS for their filesystem? I see many video stating that BTRFS with RAID is not ready for production. This is a topic that I would love for you to expand in one of your future videos for the UNIFI nas.
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Does it have Docker?
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@NASCompares Can you test throughput with SATA SSD setup? Like Samsung EVO drives?
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If the unit included NFS, multiple volumes and mixed hard drive sizes . . . that would be then end of Synology for me.
A luxury version with larger screen – summarising all the data at a glance would be a nice option.
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I’m running a bare metal k8s cluster, so I really don’t need to be able to run docker containers on a nas. This is exactly what I wanted and at a great price. Ubiquiti nailed their first NAS outing
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Great video, this is almost exactly what I have been looking for, just need the ability to make immutable backups (WORM) which it sounds like you are expecting from them in the near future. Will be looking forward to your future videos.
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wow imagine releasing a “pro” NAS that is 100% SATA and not being able to have redundant 10 Gb uplinks…. Ubiquiti has no idea what they are doing
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When the UniFi Pro NAS dies, can you take the drives and plop it into a new UniFi Pro NAS and carry on like Synology NAS’s ?
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Will this run Plex so I can ditch my Synology?
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10:01 you’re forgetting that this is unifi’s “pro” line not “pro max”. “Pro” really just means rack mount entry level SMB for unifi devices. I wouldn’t expect dual 10Gb on the regular “pro” model.
Now a “pro max” NAS I would expect to have NVME, more bays, dual 10Gb and a single 25Gb.
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I would be interested to know how the hardware compares to the Protect UNVRPro? But none of the reviews peek under the lid. Is it the same hardware but with more memory or is the more to it?
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Thanks!
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no x86, no good…
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So, can you designate drives? Maybe use 5 of them for raid and 2x as backup?
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Thinking if these do well they will come out with a ‘Max’ and ‘Enterprise’ editions.
I’ve been looking at getting a Synology or building my own TrueNAS system for home. Now this came out, I have more research to do to see this will work for my home and families needs.
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Does it support NFS ISCSI?
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Having already invested in Unifi gear (including a Pro switch with a spare SFP+ port) and already having a fairly beefy Proxmox host in play to host applications this seems like a great option!
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It’s pretty clear their goal for this device is having basic file storage for users of a home/small business that are going to connect to shared folders on mac and windows systems. What a NAS by definition really is… I see a lot of people complaining about lack of redundant network ports, NFS, iSCSI, etc. IMO, I think all those features they’re wanting are things needed when you are building enterprise infrastructure and Ubiquiti knows that’s really best handled by a proper SAN product from the likes of Dell, HP, IBM, NetApp, etc.
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Can an existing UNVR-Pro be turned into a UNAS Pro? Is the hardware identical? Is the software the only difference?
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How can some spend nearly an hour reviewing a NAS and not address file systems?
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Will this support SATA and SAS drives? Haven’t been able to find this anywhere.
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11:30 on my Synology rs3614rpxs, those read and write speeds are what I was getting with five hard drives, over a SPF+ DAC cable. When I switched to a LC om4 fiber SPF+ cable, I was achieving 750MBps or 7Gbps.
Not sure why I’m getting better numbers from fiber cable over the copper cable. Both cables are rated 10gigabits per second
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Can hardly wait for the Enterprise NVR to be released as a NAS WOW
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How about power consumption? Did I miss that part?
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Where is the non-pro version?
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wudnt piss on this crap if it was on fire
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This is just a NAS network attached storage only. Not able to complete to Synology, QNAP, UGreen, etc. at this time. Is this NAS going to support docker, plex, etc
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Is it possible to use 1-2 HDD as a nvr Storage?
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If this is “Pro,” I wonder about their name for the (maybe) upcoming, more powerful version of this. UNAS MegaUltraProMaxSE
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I smell a Ultra Pro version with NVEM Cache Slot, which will be announced in 3-6 months.
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Have you actually logged in via SSH and poked around the system? I’m curious what filesystem its running on those drives; given the feature set, it sounds like they are using btrfs.
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Does this have a media server capability or a way to link up to Plex server??
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VMs are heavy on the ressources, I could understand why it ain’t there, but missing Docker support is a no-go. I remain on TrueNAS for the time being.
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What kind of raid protection is it using? What about the data if the unit fails? Are able to mix different hdds size like Sinolgy shr does?
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Maybe I missed but is there any thermal test for this machine? The front design of those drive bay let me suspect it might have thermal issue once you use it for some years later.
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ZZZzzzz they should enable this feature for UDM PRO MAX , it has 2 disk slots
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SAS support or just SATA?
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Some what disappointed, this is just a software patch of the UNVR with a slightly more RAM. I’m sorry to say this but I’m not going to buy it, well not until an NVME slot, 1x 2.5 gbe lans and 2x 10 gbe SFP+
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Me still waiting for a EU version of Unifi Cable Modem…
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Dude this is amazing how many people are now entering the consumer space. honestly if the software is stable and good like synologys and as a storage server this seems like a no brainer for a home user who doesn’t want to configure a lot.
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Now put in 4TB NAS based SSDs!
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A product like this is for a specific market and it’s not me. I prefer DIY… A used 12bay 2U server is about the same price but way more powerful and more versatile. I do like and use their networking hardware though.
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would love to see a 1u 4 bay version based on unvr as well.
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Such a detailed review, thank you ???? It is a pity about Docker/VM/Plex support (or lack of!), but I understand why Ubi have focused on making just a NAS right now.
Also re reply you made to another comment, I would love to watch the story of how you had to reshoot this video multiple times. Fair play to you on the patience.
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disappointed in the power consumption. Granted being 7 bays at 500$ seems decent but my AIO server is a much better fit long term. I hope they continue to add to their offering.
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Can you have a few drives in raid and a few as seperate single storage?
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From the future: This was all pretty much spot on ????
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Finally someone is throwing a bomb in the NAS market, $500 is CHEAP for a proper built system with solid software and hardware support from a company that is represented in the whole world.
And those that shout “software”, that is something completely different, it takes way more resources to come up with comparable features that Synology has. If that is the need Synology have you covered at a high price with weak specs.
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How about noise ? Is UNAS Pro quiet ?
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I think it’s very nice to have a system that’s actually ONLY a NAS. I do use docker on my Synology devices at home and in the office. And the Synology backup between these two sites is so great that I wouldn’t be without it.
But for something like an actual online disk system in the office, this fits the bill nicely at a much lower price. Also, as an on-site backup for the backup, this would do well.
The only reason why this is the case is the price, of course. If it had been comparable to Synology, why would you ever get it? It’s nice to see someone hitting Synology with a price hammer, though. They’ve been getting a bit pricey over the years.
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this is 99% what I need… I just now need docker so I can run off site backups to b2
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is there a way to gracefully shut down the nas in case of power outage (with a ups of course) maybe with NUT?
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I know you are looking for proxmox setups with the GMKtecK8 mini PC. Do one with the mini running proxmox and a vm like home assistance os (needs a vm) and another vm or proxmox container to run docker containers. The data or docker volumes are atore in the new Unifi nas using SMB (I hope one day it gets NFS)
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I did have a question, understand you were able to put a large seagate hdd without issues. But don’t you usually need more ram when total storage size is much larger? If so is there a limit? For instance, if I fill all 7 bats with 24tb drives let’s say, is it capable of that? Or will the 8gb ram be an issue?
Also if I put 3 drives inside, does it have the ability to add more drives as you go and expand your storage without wiping data from existing raid array?
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Now I need ubiquity to make a 1U server that can run media apps like plex or any of its alternatives and make it for about $200 since rackmount chassis are about $200 on their own which is insane
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70 c temp ? ????????????????????????
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Can you play 360 video within Unifi Drive?
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Need a SAS model!
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Time to ditch Synology. Had enough.
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No redundant replaceable power supplies or network , awful network options in general … sure feels like they left to much out for a Pro max / SE model later
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Can you mix and match drives? On the nvr pro it made me use old 2tb drives because when I tried to put in 2x 10tb, 2x 8tb, and 2x 4tb, it wanted to only use 4tb of d ery drive.
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My entire feed is now just tech tubers reviewing this device. I’m guessing they must have all been waiting for an embargo to end. I am, of course, watching this guys review because he’s THE MAN.
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Would using SSD’s reduce the top end power consumption and idle power consumption?
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I love your review. No shade on any of the other reviewers, but your review is geared more towards how “I” am looking to use a NAS for my work loads.
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It’s all a bit bizarre. Let me check…. yes, it’s definitely 2024. As always, beautiful interface, Ikea-style Unify minimalism, but NIC redundancy, no NVMe, single PSU, it’s all a bit drab. Can you run TrueNas on it ????
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Can be cool if those who dont have a server rack to be able to have Unifi Drive on a cloudkey g2 to have a small file storage without redundancy. Or even on the drive of a UDM.
As they keep the UNVR frame, im assuming they will have a UNAS Enterprise as well with the UNVR Enterprise frame 🙂
And no need apps on a NAS… its a NAS and not a server… I have Plex on my truenas and I regret not having it on my proxmox instead.
I will for sure ditch my TrueNAS for UNAS and migrate my Plex on a VM
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THANK YOU UBIQUITI…. Finally….
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This is the “beta” product. They will cut production quickly and check how many buyers, then renew the team that made it to continue with next unit. New unit will have slot-in PSU (regular server style) but still no backup, as they want to encourage purchase of the Ubiquiti UPS battery. Two SFP ports (depending on cost and users making use of 10G speed, could be one 10G and one 2.5G) and two RJ45 ports (probably regular 1Gbps or using the new 2.5G that throttles when hot). Likely one fewer drive bay. Newer CPU. More RAM. Double the price.
Pro: all driver ports will be SATA/U.2 compatible, much more expensive CPU, possible socketed RAM slot (onboard or soldered 4GB or 8GB). Pro will be around 10x the price.
Ubiquiti developer team isn’t huge, they will not support apps or VM until far future. Best you can hope is to SSH and attempt to install your own OS.
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its their 1st iteration, give them a break?
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Hey Ubiquiti, how about putting Drive on the UDM and NVRs? I want to learn the software while you are working out the bugs.
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The only thing I would have liked was for them to drop the RPS connection and put in dual hot-swappable power supplies. But I get it, they are using the existing hardware from the UNVR Pro so it takes much less effort to make one of these. I plan on getting two of these. One for my primary backups and then the second one for backups of my backups. I will use my current Synology NAS that I am currently using for backups as a Docker system running HA and Plex and move my backups from Synology to the Ubiquiti NAS.
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@nascompares, Robbie, I don’t think you mentioned the file system. Any idea what’s being used?
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no NFS either?
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I would buy this without hesitation if I could split data pools to have a 4 drive raid 1 nas as a data replication for my Synology, and a 3 bay raid 0 for unifi protect. To add to that, I would love love LOVE to also be able to use the drive bay in my UDM SE as an additional storage option for unifi protect. (I don’t need redundancy for my home cameras Ubiquiti, I just want as many days recorded as drives I have available).
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No SAS drive support either, that backplane SATA only 🙁
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This will save me a ton on having a NAS to backup my 1821+. My old 4 bay Synology died. So, I’m backing up one volume on my 1821+ to another volume on the same NAS, which obviously worries me. I can’t justify buying another 8 bay Synology, but I can justify this easily. As soon as it’s proven itself in production environments, I’m getting one.
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I quite like the NAS and just NAS approach they took. I have separate machines for hypervisors to run VMs and containers on and like the separation. Two of these in a shadow mode active-passive fail over setup would be tits.
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I feel like you miss the point of the single PSU. Unifi devices all ahve a single PSU and they have a solution for it that connects to multiple devices and acts as a secondary psu for them. I do not know of any NAS or computer/server that people typically use at home that have duel psu’s.
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It looked fantastic until I saw the weak CPU it has. It worse than my old 5bay QNAP.
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Great introduction and descriptive video to this NAS. Thanks for your efforts!
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Hopefully the firmware up-downgrade will be even easier than their other network devices, as they do sometimes release stinker of updates. Currently they broke many widely used IoT devices like shelly. It would probably be good for install-and-forget areas though.
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This as a no-frill local data replication of the Unraid and TrueNAS systems I already own. Absolutely perfect.
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This is basically a router cpu with storage attached ????
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Any piece of hardware that requires me to create an account just to be able to is it, goes into the trash.
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can you try via ssh `apt update && apt install unifi-protect unifi-talk` and see what happens? (on an EFG it installs both even though its not supported…)
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They are definitely after the home lab market, not commercial. Ticks all the boxes for me!
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WOW, excellent review, I have Unify network setup at home along with a QNAP NAS and heard on the grape vine that there may be a Unifi NAS released soon, and that price, you can’t go wrong… Can’t wait for future updates to see whether they include docker etc as I do like having the utils that QNAP provide. ????
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For my Home Lab this is almost what I need. I have QNAP 8 bay ARM (~1000€) but it’s not rack mounted. But I also use ssd in raid 0 as a cache. And I have about double the ram. I really use it as SMB store so thats fine. I wanted so bad to replace my QNAP with this but it seems, it will just be a backup for QANP storage with speeds I see. UNAS Pro MAX would just need to have 2 NVME bays for CACHE, double SFP+ and give us the 12 bays and 3U. But who knows, maybe the UNAS Pro is enough for raw video editing of SMB and playing games with Steam?
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Those poor hard drives will have no airflow.
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What rack is that?
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All I need is my private dropbox, ability to back up family phones and view uploaded and edited videos from hols on TV and phone. Dont care about plex or dockers (what are these?:)Is that going to cut the mustard?
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Hey there! Finally it came to life, so many years! Now I’m glad I never did spend time on switching OS on a UNVR, that time is now _saved_.
thoughts: It’s good that there’s no concept of pools. keep it this simple or it will just not fit into its very limited scope anymore.
If I could, and if it would already support the right bits, I would put one in each access switch cabinet and use them as archival storage or similar. Not as team folder or anything they would suck at. but as a way to spread out tertiary storage. The price is right, the URPS connector is suitable, don’t need a second 10g port for that either. Integrate moosefs or similar at the same level of hands-off-no-choices setup and this would be nice[tm].
I also would say the lack of WORM features is a pity. how well do they have that down in UNVR? it’s not a trivial feature to implement to any non-laughable level of reliability.
Given the price point, I’d even ejnoy a toggle switch that makes the whole device read-only and can only be cancelled at the front panel. Fill it, lock it.
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Kinda a bummer, i was holding out building something for myself. Sure Not having plex is a bummer butttttttt…. Not allowing Unifi Protect to be used on the NAS is a deal breaker….
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So 4-5 more years and (if they don’t abandon the idea) it actually might be a nice NAS brand 🙂
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Great review. Could you please also test performance with SSD drives? Would like to see how close to 10 Gbps those transfer speeds can be.
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I still have stuff on a DROBO-FS. So, this might be a great upgrade for me. ????
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hardware raid or softwear ?
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I saw this release announcement and instantly search your channel knowing you HAD to have been right on top of it!
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I guess they had a few nvrs laying artound nobody bought ????
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Good review.
I’ve a question about user management and “directory integration”. Does it mean that instead of creating local users in this NAS, if I’ve a MS AD server on ny network, I can assign rights for some network users on some directories ?
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Great video. Soon as they get Docker; I am in.
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Thanks for really nice video!
When sharing a folder, you can add a user. What user is this? Is this something that you create on your machine?
And how does the remote login for it look?
I’m currently using Nextcloud on Truenas to share large video files. All my friends and clients have a personal login where they view/download/reshare the media. I’m curious if I can replicate this with the UNAS.
Also, when you preview/stream remotely a video file does it transcode? If yes, does it also do h265? Sorry for the interrogation 😛 It’s just it can be a dealbreaker or dream for me depending on the answer.
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I wish you would slow down the screen caps.
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For the price, this is great! I usually have my Plex server and VMs and stuff on another machine anyway. Seems pretty desirable to split the two so you have some redundancy.
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If you are going to say G U I instead of gooey, you really need to say N A S instead of nas as a word 😉 – (nice video BTW, really liked your analysis)
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Is this a VCR?
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So nice seagul shirt ????
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Please can you pop the cover off and show us it’s guts? I’m keen to see if the RAM is upgradable
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Needs iSCSI, NFS and SSD caching. Maybe Pro Max next year will have those.
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Nice start, but not a homerun.
Give it:
More cores/threads (n305)
Replacable RAM
NVME storage
Usb ports
Alligned front drives, not this masonry pattern
I’d like to run docker and apps like photobackup, torrent, jellyfin, home assistant.
Happy to pay twice the price
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Got it, this is intended to be mostly a pure NAS not a compute and app platform. For the cost that is a great value prop for SMB. They currently seem to have more interest in nailing the NAS basics rather than trying to run any and all docker apps. This seems ok. woah, directory integration, hope they extend that to the whole control plane and not charge a subscription for that.
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So, did I understood correctly, that with one drive you cannot set this nas up? It requires at least three hard disks, to set up required redundancy level?
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Given Ubiquiti’s history of never delivering promised features on new devices before they reach EOL, I’ll wait to see if they actually deliver the app that simplifies mounting of drives for end users before I decided to make a purchase… I’m over here having “Security Scanning Radio, SHD-AP” flashbacks…
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So Like it but I think you mentioned that Plex does not work on it at the moment? is there any ETA on that (Getting Plex on the the unit)
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Surprised they don’t sell the drive caddies separately haha
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Ubiquiti systems already run docker under the hood. So, it would be very easy for them to make a “hosting” app available under UniFi OS.
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Great video, lots of details thanks! One question, can you mix and match different HDD sizes? As someone who hacked unvr to NAS, I have installed 4 disks which automatically turned on raid 5. Is this the same case with UNAS PRO?
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Hi there,
Can files on this system be shared using Microsoft DFS?
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Buy yourself some new teeth, please.
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Kind of limited to me but I can see this being great for a lot of people, especially those already using Ubiquity equipment and/or who might be on the fence about buying Synology. Kind of refreshing to see a ‘pure’ NAS though as someone who still believes in separating storage and compute.
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Great video! will be using your link to purchase one.
I currently have a TrueNAS box that has 9 drives in it but going to scale down to 7 drives anyways to save power consumption (yes for me it does make that big of a difference). That is the biggest thing for me… when my NAS is at idle it is 90-100w and reading/ writing heavy it is 160-200 w. I don’t do docker or anything like that on my NAS, I have another machine for that. I just need something efficient and that will do the storage thing well, and it will match my other Unifi equipment…. lol
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I actually like that it’s not a Synology or QNAP. I can’t stand how those brands are trying to turn their NAS into a Swiss army knife. I don’t need my NAS to be a VM host, run Docker containers, host OpenOffice, Nextcloud, Home Assistant, act as a DNS or DHCP server, or provide LDAP, etc. I hve proxmox clusters, DC servers, and Routers that already do all of that. I need my NAS to do one thing, and one thing only—store stuff. And that’s exactly what this does. It’s a no-frills solution for straightforward storage.
That said, Ubiquiti has a bad reputation for exciting the world with new products then abandoning thrm 9 months to a year after release and leaving a bunch of early adopters with useless doorstops after they stop supporting it (ask me how i know), so I think I’ll hold off buying one until its been around for a while but it looks like a great jumping point for a platform. as it seems to be based off the UNVR Pro, I imagine the UNVR and UNVR Enterprise will eventually join the ecosystem as the UNAS and UNAS Enterprise so well see. lot of potential here.
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For simple business NAS this is probably more than adequate but anyone who wants a server like Synology/QNAP or something more advanced like Unraid won’t be interested in this at all. What would be cool is if they launched a 4U rack mount case with tons of hot swappable drive bays so we could build what the client (or Prosumers) wants.
I have a 90TB Unraid server in a desktop style ATX case. There are not many rack mount cases that work great imo other than those massive LTT style servers they build (forgot the companys name) but they don’t just sell the case.
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If it can do storage and permissions better then unraid/truenas then I could care less about vm/docker support. Proxmox does vms better and docker is just better on a dedicated machine
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I’ve got multiple Synology’s in my house, and I love them. I also have a full Unifi setup. I’d love to try transitioning to one of these in the future, but I’m going to wait until the software gets a little more polished, and some more features get added. But $500 for a 7 bay rack mountable NAS is a great price!
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ZFS? If not, I’m not interested
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What’s under the hood? TrueNAS Scale?
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I would want this but it’s lacks Docker and VM support. Without docker this is a deal breaker
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Hi, I like rack unit on wheels. Can you please share the link where you bought it from
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It’s surprising to see the same hardware as the NVR Pro, running Drive but doesn’t support Protect. If you combined the NVR and NAS into a single product line, eliminating the need to purchase and manage two separate sets of drives, I’d be ready to purchase it, even with the current software limitations. Over the past few years, Synology has been scaling back on features while continuing to charge a premium for hardware that is outdated. It’s hard to justify paying top dollar for a NAS that still ships with generations old CPU and 1Gb Ethernet. Unfortunately, UniFi’s solution doesn’t seem to be quite there yet either. I had high hopes that UniFi was going to get me out of the Synology downward spiral.
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What’s the underlying file system, BTRFS? No NFS 3 or NFS 4.1? No iSCSI LUN and target support? Upgradeable memory? Does it deliver data fast enough for 4K streaming (Plex) running on a connected device? Does seem disappointing compared to Synology.
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Question: Does it works with mixed size disks? For example like the SHR in Synology
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I don’t understand the connectivity/single PSU complaints. The thing’s 500 bucks. It’s got SFP+. This is 100% a repurposed NVR, and fit for purpose at a frankly insane price. Great for storing your jellyfin library and similar workloads. Don’t ask it to do stuff it wasn’t designed for.
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Hopefully seperate pools setup will be added in the near future 🙂
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I really like this product. Most home users these days want a “NAS” but really they want a home server that runs a lot of different services and stores files for their network and they think their NAS is supposed be that device. I appreciate that this device goes back to being what a NAS was originally intended to be and seems targeted perfectly to the small business and home business market.
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I’m not sure if it supports dynamic expansion, such as adding more hard drives later like SHR, or flexibly expanding by replacing one hard drive with a larger capacity. After all, not everyone is a professional who would spend a large amount of money to buy all the hard drives at once.
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A true lean, clean STORING machine. WONDERFUL!
UNIFI should pay you a comission. Your excellent thorough review just sold one device to me.
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You mentioned it’s quiet and I’ve heard the same from other reviewers. What HDDs were you using when you put the mic on it? It sounded just like my UNVR, which is very quiet. I can’t get over how quiet these Unifi devices are compared to my Synology with Ironwolf drives, which I can hear 2 rooms away.
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I’m not terribly impressed with the documentation on the website as it doesn’t cover what the back plane and system support. is it all SATA3 6Gb or does it also support SAS 12Gb? yes there’s only one 10Gb port BUT the fewer drives you need to saturate that bandwidth the more drives you can allocate for redundancy if you aren’t just looking to maximize storage volume. Despite my grump there, the price alone makes this device appealing and thanks for the video!
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UNIFI, take my money!!!
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Not sure how they can call this a “pro” device… Great review Rob
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Can you create an NFS share on a folder.
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@liamfoneill We have to wait for the UNAS Pro Max for NVME M.2 drive support!! 😛 😀 🙂
It’s also worth noting 1 PSU isn’t a big deal, it has a connection (from what I see from your pictures) for an RPS.
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now Unifi needs to come out with a 24bay Disk Shelf. 😀
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this NAS is a good machine for back-ups over the network
the only think I want to know is what if the unit fails (mobo/PSU) can I remove the drives and move them to another unit and have the data?
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Amazing review, thanks mate.
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ARM. Not A R M.
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This needs ubiqitui dedicated app for creating backups from phones.
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The photo sharing and date sorting is something that I am glad is present.
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Needs to have SFP+ for me to leave synology 2.5Gbps. I am very happy with synology software ecosystem (drive, photos, audio, video, VM Manager). I can’t leave that either.
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Wheres the little one that was on the website ????
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I’m wondering if the storage can be increased by adding more drives without destroying the data already there. Say you set it up in RAID6 with 4 drives and then add 3 more, do you have to wipe the array and start over or is there a way to expand the storage without losing the data already there? 7 disk bays, 10 gig and an easy to manage interface for $500 seems like a crazy good deal if you don’t want to hassle with a DIY job (which I’ve done and hate).
Edit: LOL should have finished watching the vid first
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Good start with a nice price, but I’ll just wait for the next iteration, unless I get Terramaster or Synology (if they ever release anything) soon.
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Exciting! Can’t wait for the content
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SATA SSD’s are cheap
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Cheap is not good. There could have been a bit more hardware and software for a 20% higher price.
It’s just a data repository with a fancy interface, there’s still a lot to do. I have UGreen NAS as an EA, it could do more than NAS when it came out and it’s not more expensive. For the little that the UNAS can do (lack of synchronization between PC and MAC, no NFS and iSCSI, no M.2 NVMe) you don’t need a “special” interface. And the worst thing for me is that I have 7 disks and I can’t set them up in different storage pools.
Is the video also available in slow mode? Many of the interfaces are hard to recognize and the video is extremely hectic.
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Would rather have a 4 bay at $300 and get two for HA
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Great price imo
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Great Video thanks. I’ve been waiting for something like this since I turned off my Power hungry Apple 1U Servers and huge Apple RAIDs and bought a Qnap, which I have hated for years. All I want is mountable storage , easy to use, no faffing about, couldn’t care less about Apps and Containers and real hot swappable storage. Gonna get one for sure.
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What’s the experience like for an iPhone user accessing photos/videos? Can this replace iCloud?
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give us Max version: x86 platform at least 4/8 core, nfs+iscsi, 4x NICs /2+2 10G/, nvme storage, wasabi+backblaze backup target, native apps or dockers. will happily pay 899+ EUR any day.
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That asymmetry is triggering my OCD,…..
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Sorry if i missed it but do they have any SHR like system for mixed sized drives?
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I guess the price reflect the features. But you can use it for Protect archiving recently released. I guess you have UDMP with protect and archive to this or the cloud. The cpu and memory on this are slim because it can’t run any other apps but it’s good for shuffling files. Also the Microsoft / Google account integrations for identity enterprise could be a big feature for businesses.
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I was excited until I discovered it does not have NFS or iSCSI, as I consider those services a fundamental requirement for even an entry-level NAS. I’d also love to see an NVMe RW/RO cache option.
I’d have instantly given UI my money if it had iSCSI, NFS, NVMe cache, and dual 10GB SFP+.
I guess those will come as a PRO MAX version 😛
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The perfect NAS… a pure local storage device without any extras.
When you don’t want another server, you get a NAS.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for a great video on this system. I felt your review was very honest and unbiased. I totally agree on your Pro’s and Con’s and for me, I think the ‘current state’ of this unit is underwhelming for my needs. Maybe if they release another unit that will allow third party software, unifi surveillance integration, a better CPU, and memory upgrades. BTW. I’m almost all in on the Unifi ecosystem although I do have a QNAP and Synology NAS.
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Oh, what a great NAS!
Will it be available in Japan?
I am very much looking forward to it!
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Can I have multiple UNAS-Pros? If I need two for more than 7 drives, will that work?
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Well there goes my hope of not having to wait for synology. So you think if we dont get a synology announcement by first week of Nov no release again this year? I dont see how they would miss the holiday buying period. Unless their plan is to sell old NAS on black friday and release the new one right after and really p everyone off.
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a couple of nvme slots just for the caching would have been really nice.
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Sounds like a very good system for a backup for other NAS Systems. The possibility of 7 * 24 TB HDD for 499€. Sounds fair.
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The “Create a UI account” really seems to be disingenuous on UniFi’s part. Not being at all familiar with Unify, I would just think that it’s the normal user name and password to login locally to the desktop *User Interface* and not an online account. Unify could have been far clearer about this but I suspect that a fair number of people would have blindly proceeded with setting up the UI account which is what they are counting on. And, to put that in perspective, think back to your review of HexOS and the really solid push back by those who did not want an online login. I don’t like to do business with anyone who runs their business like that. No thanks.
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Synology is the only NAS brand where I think their software adds value beyond being a storage server. But if I’m being honest, over time as I’ve migrated most of my docker/VM services over to Proxmox or XCP-ng and have very little running on the Synology hardware itself.
I could see myself being interested in exploring Unifi as a storage server in the future, but I’d need a higher performance version.
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I love all the competition that’s popping-up recently.
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What is the Power consumption?
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Defiantly going to pick one of these up. Don’t give a hoot about the docker side, that’s why I have servers. I want a storage NAS that does just that, store things and get data to the right users, I don’t want to host my docker apps from it as well. Great video thanks for the review!
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Terramaster in 2U would be perfect option with non locked bootloader.
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How fast is it with SSDs?
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Is it even possible to saturate a 10G connection with spinning disks? Other than that, i assume this is meant to be connected to an SFP+ aggregator (USW-Aggregation) switch to split between multiple storage units
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A silent rackmount NAS is what I was searching for! Other rack mount NAS are too loud! I do not need docker, because I have docker on my Proxmox computer.
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Basically this is the NVR reworked to see if the NAS will sell, I would wait to the next generation
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This device is the beginning . It’s affordable and it’s easy to use.
If it catches on, you bet you’re bippy, more will come.
I’ve got four Synology unit in use between my family members and they are great but … I would love something that just efficiently stores data.
It also appears that it may easily, allow safe direct remote access.
I’ll have to watch how things go before I would purchase.
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So I see some real good here; one, Unifi has a track record of software upgrades, so I fully expect items like NFS/ISCSI. I do not in any way expect Plex, Docker, etc. and I shouldn’t – that isn’t who this product is aimed at. Two, the remote management through the UI account management system is a potential IT godsend in comparison to the way that this works in Synology. Three, I do like the snapshop methodology in comparison to the way that this functions in synology. Now, the biggest items I see that will be big is that it fits directly into the UI ecosphere, and that is good. Now, I can see a lot of room for improvement, but I can see where this can have a big future with some of the integration options this is going to have. I do like how this is a business ready product that isn’t moving to drives that are made by them and nothing else (screw you Synology on that one)
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Just a correction, the Unifi Power Backup is a redundant power supply, not a battery backup.
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Thanks for the deep dive. Any news on the ability to mix drive capacities?
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Soooooo ugly. I like Unifi, have a lot of their hardware. But just can’t understand why 7 drives? Why layout is so strange? Just… why? Can’t they just stack two 4-drives cases?
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Thanks for the review, well done and thorough. Not surprised to see no availability for Docker at this point. At the price point, this is great for fire storage. It’s not HA or high-speed system, which is fine. There are other players for that type of equipment. It appears that UI gave us a purpose-built system that does one thing really well, at a price that is hard to not smile at.
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This looks like a decent start – funnily enough while eating my bacon, egg and black pudding (and watching this video), I got the email from Ubiquiti titled “Welcome to Unifi Drive and UNAS Pro” (1134hrs EDT). As others have commented though, I won’t be swapping my DS920+ for the UNAS Pro. I do have a Ubiquiti network setup, so was very excited when I saw your video this morning. As always – great video and thanks for taking the time to post!
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I am… underwhelmed.
I was not expecting perfection, but… it lacks so much to be an instant buy. But yeah, it’s truly cheap (especially for Unifi) for a 2U 7 drive bay (which is really something) and would play nice into the ecosystem. But… no ZFS, no NFS, no iSCSI, no docker (because let’s be honest, even if purists say that a NAS should be just a NAS, but… it makes sense to have those hosts a few docker).
I know Unifi makes update, albeit slowly.. but.. at the moment it’s not worth it. But 500 euros… it’s super interesting when they started adding features.
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Does it support Jumbo frames?
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First galance. Where does the air flow come from to cool the drives. As not much air is going to get around those solid caddie faces. As a rackmount. Its supposed to have front to back airflow. The almost solid front panel raises questions.
The network ports have one up and one pointing down is an odd design choice. Not to mention being in the front.
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Were read/write speeds over 10GbE covered in this video?
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Did he say what OS backend it uses and what file systems the HD can use?
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This is just a pure NAS. Nothing more. I mean, yea. But at the same time it does not go up against things like Unraid or Truenas. Even OMV has more functions. For what this is, it is about $200 more then it should be for what you get. I was really looking forward to this to replace my Unraid server, but damn.
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I’d consider going with a Unifi Nas, but I don’t want rack-mount (5 bays would be great) and I’d like to see more configuration options. Docker support would be (really) nice.
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I’m disappointed in the backup options on this nas. Let’s be honest, no one will be backing up their 7 drives of data to Google Drive. That would be a insane cost. So this device doesn’t have a real, usable cloud backup that you can use. It doesn’t also have USB backup, so to backup this device you need to… get another NAS. Because you haven’t payed enough just yet.
I do agree it’s a good value target for a synology backup.
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The device feels like the perfect unit for low cost offsite backup storage. Easy to lock away in a comms rack and you wont saturate the write speeds over the wire.
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Amazing review! Thank you!!! Excited to see Uniquiti launch a simple JBOD NAS and looking forward to the future of where they take it!
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This is an superb video !
You really know your stuff and you really gave us an insight into the product, what it can and can’t do with lots of visual showing of it
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Looks like a VCR lol
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This looks really interesting to me. My big question though, what if you get more than 1 of these? Say I expand and need more than 7 drives, could I buy a second unit and have the pools merge between the 2? Because that would be cool. Also seeing performance stats of SATA SSD’s would be nice too!
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people complaining about the features for a $499 NAS drive from Ubiquiti, common guys .wait for next more expensive version will probably have all those missing features.
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No tower or 10“ version. Not suitable for a small rack in confined spaces. So my choice will be still Synology.
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what a disappointment, only 1gib network port. I would have liked it to have another sturdy switch, depending on the equipment, at least 1/2.5/5gib network connector.
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The demand was a bit manic. I missed the official announcement but guess it was today. Interesting there is only 1 of each network connection but let me watch the video
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It’s an ARM device (no virtualization means it won’t replace a home server). NEXT! ????????
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This seems interesting and I might even pull the trigger. It would be nice to have a single pane of glass to manage everything and not to have to worry about Synology and the lack of 3rd party device support. I mean from a NAS perspective it literally does just that and anything else can be added later.
Also, do we know anything about the file system or did I miss it in the video? Is it BTRFS or EXT4?
Also, more information about the backups would be awesome! Like is this sort of like hyper backup?
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Great and very timely review Thanks! Did I understand you correctly, can you uses different sized drives in the raid array (like Synology Hybrid raid) or do all drives the array need to be the same size?
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Brilliant and Honest review as always, thanks. I don’t think I will dumping my TrueNAS Scale box anytime soon, but it’s one to keep an eye on ????
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So the non pro will be the 4 bay nvr?
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Isn’t there a NAS brand called U-NAS?
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Can this do Plex hardware transcoding? ????
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I have nevered owned a NAS…just an OWC Thunderbay 4 nut need a NAS u now. So now that this item is released I’m wondering whether for my first NAS I should still stick to getting the Synology DS1522+ as a SOLO videographer and editor using 10TB per year?
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???????????? and couldn’t even get a 2.5gig port on it jeez
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why only 7 drives, at least 8 properly aligned drives…
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i wonder if the software plays nice if you wanna add a 2nd unas pro to your network down the line.
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SATA 2.5 inch SSD compatibility?
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Funny how SpaceRex uploaded his video at the same time. I guess NDA?
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Genuinely worried about this as ive been using a UNVR Pro for a while as a nas using SSH to install samba. I hope they dont artificially block people using the UNVR Pro now that there is an official NAS offering
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They could’ve gone with an Intel N100 or N200 which would’ve been so much better, even if they tack on an added $100-200 dollars to the price tag, unfortunately I’ll not be considering it. It’s nice tho, maybe they’ll release something with an Intel/AMD chip in the future…
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Well Robbie, you said so many times that with synology you pay for the software more than the hardware. It’s painfully obvious looking at this device.
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It’s one strange NAS.
Strange layout. Strange software. Strange hardware. Thermals are dubious. Rackable but lacking features standard for rack hw such as modular redundant PSUs.
Good for undemanding brand fanboys only.
When b- and c-tier brands and even nonames have started pumping out decent NAS devices, seeing such a device from a respectable brand is utterly perplexing. I’d love to get into the product development team’s heads and learn their thought processes that led to the appearance of this bucktoothed inbred monstrosity…
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Phenomenal review and THANK YOU for the well labeled chapter marks in the video. Wanted to jump around to just my highest importance spots first in the video before watching end to end.
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Release date? The US Site still has zero information about its existence
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Can’t wait for UNAS Pro ‘Max’ which has Docker and VM support ????
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Meh, the hardware specs are weak…
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Seems a little underwhelming re-using the same hardware as the UNVR-Pro with a 2012 processor and no NVMe caching.
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I think you hit it on the head at the end Robbie. I’m defo going to be replacing my onsite backup ext. drives with one of these (going by how stuff sells out on their site though, that’s probably going to be around 4/3 2025!). But it won’t be replacing the Synology for day to day work stuff that’s for sure.
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*It FINALLY Happened* – @UbiquitiInc finally launched the #Unifi UNAS Pro – and here is my massive review https://youtu.be/rbq2so5S-zI
Stay tuned for more on this system very soon here on the channel. Otherwise, use the pages below on NC and UNiFi to learn more:
– UniFi UNAS Pro NAS. SHOULD YOU BUY? https://nascompares.com/guide/unifi-unas-pro-nas-should-you-buy/
– Synology vs UniFi UNAS Pro Comparison https://nascompares.com/guide/synology-vs-unifi-unas-pro-comparison/
– QNAP vs UniFi UNAS Pro https://nascompares.com/guide/qnap-vs-unifi-unas-pro-which-nas-should-you-buy/
– UniFi UNAS Pro. FIRST TIME SETUP GUIDE https://nascompares.com/guide/unifi-unas-pro-first-time-setup-guide/
– The UniFi UNAS Pro NAS Review https://nascompares.com/review/the-unifi-unas-pro-nas-review/
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This thing is like half the price of a 8 bay synology. I was getting ready to buy an 8 bay in a couple months, but I might get this now.
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I am Supriesed by the Price. Would have expected at least double that.
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Awesome review! Can you set disks to spindown for lower power consumption when not in use?
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553,20 € the price is not that bad , but I Don’t know what the software has , does it use btrfs or zfs ?
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So is this the unvr but with new software. How are the temps.. 70?? . Can it transcode .. sorry soo excited, disappointed and confused at the same time by this nas
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Still don’t like their io on the front
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Good start, but no NVME, NFS or iSCSI – meh
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Their thinking on the 1G port is probably to use that on a management network for config management and use the 10G for data only. At least that’s usually how appliances set up like that are intended to be used. Would be nice to have more ports for flexibility though if you’re trying to do something like directly attaching vm hosts.
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and they couldn’t manage to align the FRIGGING DRIVE BAYS !!!
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Looks like your last video comments for opening CCTV and NAS has been addressed? I have just purchased the UCG_Max (F*kn brilliant!) and adopted 2 ONVIF camera (out of 3 in my setup) Awesome! And now I can also bin my sh!ty Google Doorbell and get the G4 doorbell! Oh.. and a Unify NAS? I hope i can connect that extra storage to my UCG Max!
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The price tag surprisingly low for 7 bay and it looks so good at the front
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I’M SO EXCITED! Let’s see how it stands up to Synology!
– Jonathan
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finally
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Love the magic roundabout montage!
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I love a 1U rack mount Unifi NAS.
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Enterprise Network Video Pro due 18 Oct and could be a direct reuse for a NAS potentilly… we live in hope!
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I’m wondering if they are not simply adding a new application to the NVR Pro. That would make a lot of sense. The processor listed is identical to the NVR Pro, and the pic of the box is identical as well.
With Onvif coming to Protect, I’d be interested in this if I could use the NAS to backup an NVR Pro to it. I would not need a powerful processor. Not looking to replace my Synology NAS’s, and all the applications I run on them. I am looking to move my security to dedicated hardware. I was looking at the NVR/Pro, and found it does not seem to have the ability to natively send backups to a NAS in its current form. I saw a workaround sending RTSP feeds to another security system to record, but that’s not really a proper solution for back up.
I also wonder if it could run both at the same time on the same box. I have run storage and backups on the same box before, but it is a bad idea. Rather, a better solution would be to have two boxes, one running Protect, and the other NAS. In that case if the Protect box went down, you could convert the NAS to take it’s place while you get a replacement. Temporarily running them on the same box would allow time to build the system out instead of going all in at once.
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White George Moore Mark Lewis Charles
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All of this is happening because Synology has completely fumbled the ball. Old hardware, high prices and worse software updates. Synology might not be scared on UGREEN but they better be scared of Ubiquiti…
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Maybe they’ll get into SANs
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They have the Network Video Recorder and Network Video Recorder Pro that are already pretty much RAID NAS. They just need a software update.
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Some pics of the UNAS-Pro.
From Taiwan NCC certification
https://nccmember.ncc.gov.tw/Application/FUN/FUN016_JPG.aspx?fileid=BmaxyzI95d8%3d
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I am actually more annoyed that they are doing a nas system. They need to stay on their lane and develop their switch and wifi range better instead of going on side quests like cameras and NAS devices.
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https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=Y&application_id=qkDUs%2Fe7pIac7WyObDTZAg%3D%3D&fcc_id=SWX-UNASP
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Look at this in Google: FCC ID SWX-UNASP
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Would be great if Ubiquiti would allow me to use the HDD bays on the Dream Machine Pro as a simple NAS.
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Just as an addition for those interested, its FCC ID is “SWX-UNASP”.
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That NAS pro marketing material is old and in fact predates the UNVR pro. It’s essentially what became the UNVR pro. I even commented to this on the thread on Reddit.
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A NAS with 1GBE????
My main gripe is all their stuff comes with 1GBE including their dream walls, and other appliances! its 2024 seriously… I find it massively overpriced to get subpar speeds
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<3 unifi :) deffo want this!
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The amount of salt in this video made my blood pressure go up. ????
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show !!!!
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My first reaction when I got into the ecosystem was “how do they not have a NAS?!” So, awesome if true ????
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I would love to see a nas that can integrate in the eco system to easily off load protect footage vs using these cloud storage owned my someone else.
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I would love to see a unifi nas for all my data, docker and VMs ♡
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They best make existing drive-capable devices compatible with the nas app
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fix you website, disable ctrl+c and rightclick to force clicking on affiliate links?!
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The rack mount NAS looks like a repurposed UNVR
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heres hoping for unraid
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its just another product unifi will drop after a year of use.
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If it is anything like the UNVR I can only imagine how much of a half assed job they will do.
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needs to be super fast drives though
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The biggest benefit I would hope to see from it is interrupting the existing NAS space by making more affordable 10Gb hardware. If UniFi can come in with affordable products that include 10Gb then I would hope Synology would follow suit. Right now their cheapest Synology solution that comes with 10Gb included is over $1800 (DS1823xs+) (several others with optional upgrade to 10Gb NIC).
Mate. The seaguil is lovely I never felt bother by them. In contrast, It is constant reminder to the audience that u an authentic loyal to ur background and what you said is always (I mean always) valuable to a large IT community.
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I thought there already was a UNAS (A NAS product from another company or a humanoid creature in SG-1) depending who you ask.
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I can’t say I am very excited about it. I don’t like their NVR system. It does not integrate with other vendors. I REQUIRE all of my infrastructure to use common protocols and not have their own special sauce. I do like their Switches and Access points though. In terms of NAS my go to has for many years been Synology but these days I am leaning more and more towards TrueNAS. Software matters more than a pretty enclosure.
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I’m curious if this would require a console that can run it. Like how you need to be able to run Protect, Talk, etc, I wonder if this will have that requirement. I’m interested in the desktop NAS from Ubiquiti, but if my UCGU has to be able to run whatever software is needed for it and that device can’t do it, I’d probably opt for Synology before I’d upgrade my Unifi gear.
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If true then it looks cool but based on a NVR-Pro. Honestly though, I wish Ubiquiti would slow their R&D for new products and just get the current products fully integrated to the extent they’ve spoken about. For example, they’ve officially said that in a future update that the Intercom Viewer will integrate with the G4 POE doorbell with POE chime – has this happened yet? Nope.
Personally I love their products however they need to just finish the things they’ve made public and then create new things. For a NAS solution, Synology is the go-to for rapid deployment in most SMB cases (QNAP if the HDD thing Synology did is an issue), I say this as there’s a hell of a lot of work to create a comparable NAS unless Ubiquiti were to either licence an OS from Synology or QNAP or unless they got permission to deploy TrueNAS (or a fork of it).
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If it is real – this is going to be storage only. It’s not going to run VMs and plex etc ????
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What do you do with all the NAS sat behind you on the shelves?
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How dumb, synology already has a big portion of the market as well as others
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Ubiquiti announced they made a new NVR with expandability. What are the chances that is what this rumor was about?
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I might be wrong here but wasnt there a SMB enable script for Dream devices posted on Github? Wonder if that trick still works.
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Will Synology come with new models this year?
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I’m very interested in this. I really enjoy playing with my home network, but I’m no IT or engineer so I just save files on a windows PC that’s pretty much always on and wired to the network. I hope these devices can also host the unifi controller so I don’t have to have the said PC running it anymore
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If they do a NAS I am suspecting that people will expect it to be an easy to use system that has the feature set of Truenas. That means they will need 25 gig switching.
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Can you please do a video on Use a Synology or QNAP NAS with UniFi. That is to use as storage for protect and back up?
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10G is no good for an SSD based NAS. That’s less than two SSD’s-worth of speed. It will be worse than local storage.
My target spec is 8 PCIE Gen4 x4 NVME slots, 4+ SATA, PCIE Gen 4 x16 slot for networking.
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As a unifi user at home, with almost all my networking gear on unifi… I dont really care for a unifi nas. I believe these products are so different that i dont know why it would be an advantage to have it… Unified.
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Yet they can’t release a udm pro that supports unifi aps with wifi 7. (2.5 gbe) nor sufficient processing to do 5gig IDP and vlan routing
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Looks like it’s an upgraded Alien Router, hopefully it’s going to offer 10Gbe and more overall.
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I appreciate all that you do and have done. Keep fighting.
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As a user who just changed their network over to Unfi to run ethernet throughout the house and who has NAS in the plan, I’m quite excited to see this video poop up in my feed. I hope it’s true and is a decent product. I’d definitely buy it if so.
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I wish Amazon would simply EOL that CPU/SoC, it is 12 years old now and should not be used in newly released products anymore. Ubiquiti needs to move onto something 2-3 generations newer finally.
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New products while the standard product range is barely in stock.. always a fine move
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I would rather see them bring in asked gor features to existing products than focusing on new products.
A 10Gb switch with 25Gb uplink would be great and optional upgrades for udm pro, se, promax for 25Gb uplink to switches would make more sense or optional upgrade to 25Gb WAN and bring unifi to med – large business.
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Probably going to be over priced for what you get like most of there products
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If the rack mount only has 6 bays.. that’s a bit… low? Especially since the rack mount version will probably cost a fair bit. If they could make it 3U (or 4U) and be able to fit the HDDs vertically instead, they should be able to fit at least 10
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Shhh, but normal Unifi “Coming Soon” applies, but as I have said many times they would do better just adding an App for the UNVR’s and Dream Devices
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How would authentication happen? I would assume SMB /FTP, but would it support their client that is used for network access/vpn functionality?
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The issue is what type of NAS user are they designing for?
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Where can I find that sweatshirt? Love it!
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Dang it! Now I need to put a hold on my Synology plans until this turns out to be real or not…
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Dang, my christmas list keeps getting longer……
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Im curious to know in what form and what features will have
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Interesting but I’m impatiently awaiting my UGreen 4800P+ – recently received an email from them to expect a query for shipping information! Getting closer… Now what RAM should I buy to expand it to 16TB and HDD 12TB? Already bought a 5 port 10Gbe router and cables plus a 10 Gbe PCIE card for my PC… Suggestions?
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I’m going to wait for the UNAS Pro Max Enterprise Fortress Ultra with Etherlight
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I can see unifi selling a nas solution as part of a way to “host” multi site networks. As well as being a secondary backup to the nvrs and the controllers.
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Why would they launch NAS? Because they want to sell it to you ofcourse!
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As someone who’s looking to run a UniFi network and so far has been looking at Synology for a NAS to go with it, this is very interesting. However, DSM is so far along, could Ubiquity really get all those ducks in a row, Photo App, Video Station, Plex support, Docker, etc, etc. I’m not sure they will go down the “open” road, and it’ll be more for basic file storage and a place to put UniFi camera footage.
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I personally like the Synology DSM solution. Very complete. However, you’re totally right: a NAS solution from Unifi would be different than others: simple to setup and will just work. Kinda like Protect. That would be sweet. Simple deployment. Central management. Synology DSM does have some business solutions built-in, like M365 and Backup for Business are great to have for a full business solution. I’m guessing UniFi won’t have that. At least not on their first version.
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from your leaked picture of the rackmount nas it looks the same as the UNVR-Pro (CCTV)
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I’d rather put TrueNas on it.
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As a Unifi user at work I honestly never asked for a Unifi NAS, they are a network and security system provider to me, if I want a server I go to Dell.
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I like unifi, but recommend steering clear from new product lines. Unifi unfortunately have a reputation of releasing buggy/incomplete products (from a software point of view) and I recommend leaving it to early adopters to iron out the issues.
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It really not. Well the Desktop is an Alien Router in white. Faceplam. That image is just an example of a NAS. for the diagrams… That shape can’t hold a HHD let alone 2 or 4… possibly SSDs.
There may be a Rack… Sysnology has 40+ designs and purchase levels.
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do you think you have enough nas servers? LOL and how hi is that tower on the left. arent you afraid it might fall over on you head?
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0:55 thanks for playing that music, I was trying to find a certain cartoon that played it for quite a while now
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If it can run UnRaid then I’m a buyer.
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I don’t trust them.
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Software?
guess: TrueNAS Scale with a simplified menu for beginners?
Or a homebrew OS based on Ubiquiti?
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Everything else I have right now is (mostly) Unifi, so… I’m waitin’ and watchin’.
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I can’t trust UNIFI. they under deliver or just plain change what they are doing at the drop of a hat post deployment. worse yet they have other that they promise and never deliver on. i’d trust a crowd funded no name at this point before i trust unif for NAS.
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Ubiquiti Networks UNVR-PRO UniFi Protect NVR Pro was one of the pics you showed. I would love them to create a nas but im not holding my breath. It would be nice though.
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Hmm, feels a wee bit a Me-too product to me but I’m not that into Ubiquiti eco-system, so I could be wrong.
My concern is that the specialist-knowledge required for NAS is more & more watered down by just everybody (pun intended) bringing out a NAS. (too)
If I was Ubiquiti, I would seek partnership instead with a industry-leading NAS company.
Feels like reinventing the round wheel and sliced-bread again, to me.
I know one thing for sure, it will be Ubiquiti pricing, so quire expensive…
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Anyone know where I can score that awesome sweatshirt?
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Anyone know where I can score that awesome sweatshirt?
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Great idea, however, my biggest concern would be about scalability and if you had to buy another unit, how they connect together to increase storage, iSCSI or fiber link etc and also the cost of both units.
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Great idea, however, my biggest concern would be about scalability and if you had to buy another unit, how they connect together to increase storage, iSCSI or fiber link etc and also the cost of both units.
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I’m two months into owning a Sonology and you bring this up ????
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I’m two months into owning a Sonology and you bring this up ????
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I don’t understand why anyone with any interest or skill in technology would buy any of these overpriced and underpowered ready-made NAS’. I can understand if someone knows nothing about storage or technology just wants an easy plug and play storage device, but other than that it makes no sense.
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I don’t understand why anyone with any interest or skill in technology would buy any of these overpriced and underpowered ready-made NAS’. I can understand if someone knows nothing about storage or technology just wants an easy plug and play storage device, but other than that it makes no sense.
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I’d buy the desktop version 10Gbe, Intel Cpu for Plex transcoding, VM’s maybe would be nice. The touch screen would be cool match my Amplifi Alien I’m still using which they also need to upgrade to Wifi 7.
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I’d buy the desktop version 10Gbe, Intel Cpu for Plex transcoding, VM’s maybe would be nice. The touch screen would be cool match my Amplifi Alien I’m still using which they also need to upgrade to Wifi 7.
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This has been one of the worst kept secrets. And it probably will include the same form factor and tech from the NVR Pro. That will make it cheaper to manufacture since they are already making this. Since the CPU and memory are fairly pedestrian ARM embedded chips that Unifi uses everywhere, I’m thinking the device will be limited to file service and related functions but don’t expect to be doing VMs or anything sophisticated. Whether they open APIs to run third party apps is anyone’s guess.
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This has been one of the worst kept secrets. And it probably will include the same form factor and tech from the NVR Pro. That will make it cheaper to manufacture since they are already making this. Since the CPU and memory are fairly pedestrian ARM embedded chips that Unifi uses everywhere, I’m thinking the device will be limited to file service and related functions but don’t expect to be doing VMs or anything sophisticated. Whether they open APIs to run third party apps is anyone’s guess.
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I can’t trust Unifi with my Data. Nope! I rather trust Google it! ????
To many times has there been updates to unifi and it breaks everything. I’ll wait a few years like 10 years before trusting them
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I can’t trust Unifi with my Data. Nope! I rather trust Google it! ????
To many times has there been updates to unifi and it breaks everything. I’ll wait a few years like 10 years before trusting them
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Ubiquiti…finally 1gbps connectivity in a NAS!
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Ubiquiti…finally 1gbps connectivity in a NAS!
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Would love to see more 10Gbps switches.
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Would love to see more 10Gbps switches.
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Ubiquity just discontinued NAS after beta testing
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Ubiquity just discontinued NAS after beta testing
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Dream Wall 2.5gbps w/built-in NAS.
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Dream Wall 2.5gbps w/built-in NAS.
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Interesting. I hope it’s more then a rumor. If it is in development one can also hope it steers clear of bloody Kickstarter and has wide availability. Having said that, ARM isn’t my preference. Sure Apple has done an outstanding job with their silicon and Windows on ARM via Snapdragon Cortex SoC is seemingly coming along nicely. However, server / NAS on ARM gives me the dry heaves.
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Interesting. I hope it’s more then a rumor. If it is in development one can also hope it steers clear of bloody Kickstarter and has wide availability. Having said that, ARM isn’t my preference. Sure Apple has done an outstanding job with their silicon and Windows on ARM via Snapdragon Cortex SoC is seemingly coming along nicely. However, server / NAS on ARM gives me the dry heaves.
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Just ordered the green 6 bay. Darn it.
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Just ordered the green 6 bay. Darn it.
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would be nice , but thing is i dont want rackmount ,
1. rackmounts are not easy to place in a small 2 room house
2. they are less mobile
3. i perfer a network setup with small devices like “Gateway Max”
i dont need that many ports, just a few, and thing is they only care for larger scale, while we are getting 8gb fiber internet soon, unify don’t make consumer products that are 2.5g or more
its a downside of unify
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would be nice , but thing is i dont want rackmount ,
1. rackmounts are not easy to place in a small 2 room house
2. they are less mobile
3. i perfer a network setup with small devices like “Gateway Max”
i dont need that many ports, just a few, and thing is they only care for larger scale, while we are getting 8gb fiber internet soon, unify don’t make consumer products that are 2.5g or more
its a downside of unify
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FOR FECK SAKE !!!! 0:58 ALIGN THE DANG HDD CAGES EVENLY!!! this twisted shiz is horrible…
oh and if they make a NAS? yeah count me in if they price is decent and pref NO DISKS plz thx don’t wanna pay overprice for drives
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FOR FECK SAKE !!!! 0:58 ALIGN THE DANG HDD CAGES EVENLY!!! this twisted shiz is horrible…
oh and if they make a NAS? yeah count me in if they price is decent and pref NO DISKS plz thx don’t wanna pay overprice for drives
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so if UniFi always breaks after updates, how are you going to trust their NAS?
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so if UniFi always breaks after updates, how are you going to trust their NAS?
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I didn’t see this one coming, but makes sense.
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I didn’t see this one coming, but makes sense.
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