UniFi UNAS Pro – 6 MONTHS LATER

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1 UniFi UNAS Pro: 6 Months On — A Measured Look at Ubiquiti’s First NAS
1.1 UniFi UNAS Pro 6 Months Later – The TL;DR
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UniFi UNAS Pro: 6 Months On — A Measured Look at Ubiquiti’s First NAS

Six months since its public release in October 2024, the UniFi UNAS Pro has matured modestly but meaningfully. Initially positioned as an affordable $499, 7-bay NAS with integrated 10GbE and 1GbE networking, its appeal centered largely around seamless integration into UniFi environments and simple turnkey deployment. The first three months revealed a system that delivered on core promises without overselling itself, providing reliable basic storage with intuitive setup, minimal friction during deployment, and straightforward SMB file sharing. However, its limitations in areas such as feature breadth, expandability, and advanced administrative control left some early adopters questioning whether the device was ready to serve as a primary NAS solution.

UniFi UNAS Pro 6 Months Later – The TL;DR

Ubiquiti’s UniFi UNAS Pro has seen steady but conservative development since its launch in October 2024. At $499, it’s an affordable 7-bay NAS with 10GbE that integrates well within UniFi environments, but it launched with limited features and notable gaps. Over six months, some user-requested improvements have been delivered—such as RAID 6 support, expanded cloud backup options (Dropbox, OneDrive), admin control over user backups, and improved file sharing responsiveness. However, key omissions remain: no iSCSI support, no UniFi Protect integration, no containerization, no fan or power schedule controls, and occasional performance or file handling issues. It’s best suited as a supplementary NAS for existing UniFi networks rather than a full-featured standalone solution. Ubiquiti appears focused on stability and foundational updates, but major feature enhancements or new models have yet to appear. HERE are the most notable changes that have happened in the last 6 Months:

  • Added support for RAID 6, hot spare migration, and Time Machine backups via Shared Drives.

  • Enabled OneDrive and Dropbox as new cloud backup destinations.

  • Introduced File Activity tracking and a Task Center for monitoring ongoing operations.

  • Console owners can now manage and back up other users’ drives.

  • Added SIEM server integration, SNMP configuration, and support for .exe execution via SMB.

  • Users can now toggle Link Sharing and configure release channels per app.

  • Support file generation now available for diagnostics.

  • Improved setup, storage initialization, drive transfers, and local admin creation flows.

  • Enhanced system performance, search speed, and responsiveness across the UI.

  • File browsing, sharing, and backup/restore processes made smoother and more reliable.

  • Boosted storage mounting and format resiliency, RAID resync handling, and external storage support.

  • Improved reporting for storage health, system logs, and overall stability—especially with SSDs and encryption.

  • Better SFP speed detection and more stable SMB file operations.

  • Resolved issues with folder renaming, failed downloads, backup restore login errors, infinite loading on drive.ui.com, toast notification bugs, and destination switching during backups.

One of the more frequently cited early limitations was the lack of support for advanced RAID configurations and flexible storage management. At launch, users were restricted to basic options like RAID 1, 5, and a variant of RAID 10, with no ability to create multiple independent storage pools. This particularly limited users who wanted to separate SSDs for high-speed cache or hot data from HDDs used for cold or archival storage.

Three months after launch, UniFi began rolling out RAID 6 support—a heavily requested feature—and its integration was further refined by the six-month mark. Notably, users who had initially set up a RAID 5 with a hot spare could now migrate more smoothly to RAID 6 without complete data loss, provided certain steps were followed. While the system still lacks support for custom pool creation or tiered storage strategies, the RAID 6 addition is a clear example of Ubiquiti incorporating community feedback into its development roadmap.

Early adopters also flagged the limited backup options as a major downside, especially for offsite or cloud-based protection. Initially, users were confined to backups via SMB or to another UNAS unit, with Google Drive being the only available cloud service. This created friction for users looking to consolidate cloud storage or use existing platforms.

By the six-month update, support had been added for Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive, expanding options and bringing the system more in line with mainstream NAS offerings. While other major providers like Amazon S3 or Backblaze B2 remain unsupported, the progress demonstrates ongoing development—even if somewhat slower than expected.

Administrative oversight and user management were similarly underdeveloped at launch. The inability for a super admin to manage, view, or initiate backups on user-specific drives was seen as a major gap in functionality. This was especially problematic in small businesses or households where centralized management is essential. At the six-month mark, UniFi addressed this by enabling admins to directly control user backup routines, offering a more appropriate level of oversight. Though expected in any multi-user NAS environment, this feature only arrived after considerable community pressure, reflecting a reactive—rather than proactive—development pattern.

Performance concerns also became more visible in real-world use. While general file transfers over SMB were stable for most users, large-volume or high-frequency data movements revealed issues. Users reported memory leaks, skipped files, permission errors, and signs of system instability during multi-terabyte migrations. One user described persistent problems during direct NAS-to-NAS SMB transfers, citing missing files and log entries showing out-of-memory warnings. While UniFi has issued multiple patches in response, these issues underline the system’s current limits as a high-performance data mover. Paired with its ARM-based CPU and fixed RAM, the UNAS Pro may not be ideal for workflows involving large file sets or deep nested directories with complex characters.

Quality-of-life improvements have also slowly emerged. File and folder sharing via the GUI is now more responsive, addressing early complaints that changes wouldn’t reflect until refreshing the browser or navigating away. A newly added file activity monitor provides more transparency by displaying changes and access logs on a folder-by-folder basis—a helpful addition for environments that require audit trails. Time Machine support has also been added for macOS users, allowing backups over SMB directly to the device. Additionally, executable files (.exe) now correctly run from network shares, resolving an earlier issue where files appeared to launch but did not actually execute on the system.

Despite hardware parity with UniFi’s UNVR line, the UNAS Pro still does not support UniFi Protect, Ubiquiti’s NVR platform. Although this was never advertised, its omission has disappointed users who hoped to consolidate storage and surveillance into a single device. Likewise, containerization remains absent. Users cannot deploy Docker or LXC-based services directly on the NAS. While the system is positioned more as a basic storage server than a full-featured app platform like Synology or QNAP, even lightweight container support would help bridge the gap in hybrid setups, reducing dependency on external devices for running supplemental services.

Several other features considered standard in competing NAS platforms are still missing. These include iSCSI target support, which allows for block-level storage mapping—a commonly requested enterprise feature that remains unaddressed despite repeated user requests. Scheduled power controls and Ethernet port management are also absent, limiting users’ ability to implement air-gapped operation cycles or optimize network behavior during off-hours.

Additionally, fan control settings are locked, leaving users with no way to adjust thermal behavior. System temperatures frequently hover in the 60–70°C range even during idle states, which some consider concerning. Whether due to poor fan curve logic or unreliable sensor reporting, the lack of manual override remains a drawback.

Another issue affecting a minority of users involves file download errors on mobile devices, particularly iPhones using Safari. Files would only partially download—such as halved images or incomplete audio/video files. The problem was isolated to Safari and resolved by switching to Chrome, but it exposed weaknesses in browser compatibility. Additionally, several systems erroneously report uptime durations exceeding 20,000 days—an obvious bug that, while harmless, illustrates rough edges still present in the software’s reporting logic.

As of April 2025, no additional NAS models have been added to the UniFi lineup. There is still only a single variant of the UNAS Pro, and no indications of rackmount, multi-unit, or lower-tier models have been announced. This suggests Ubiquiti is still treating this device as a pilot platform. The pace of development has been steady, with multiple small improvements and responses to community feedback, but foundational gaps remain. For users who need secure, reliable bulk storage within an existing UniFi network, the UNAS Pro is increasingly serviceable.

However, for broader use cases, it still lacks the depth, flexibility, and robustness of more established NAS vendors. Defintely a device with a long term plan, but it is not in a big hurry to stretch it’s muscles quite yet – but at $499, it has an exceptionally low bar for entry price wise for what you are getting!

 

 

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      474 thoughts on “UniFi UNAS Pro – 6 MONTHS LATER”

      2. I’m so torn with this device. I have an ancient 2-bay Synology now that has to get replaced. Since a nicer one would be around the same price as this, and I have other Unifi equipment, I”m giving this a look. I don’t need it to do anything other than store files, but I need it to just work since it would get attached to my wife’s laptop for her photography files. I could just get a new 2-bay synology and a couple decent size drives as my other option. such decisions…
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      7. Instead of downloading files from Safari on the iPhone, as an alternative you could just mount the drive or share in the files app. It supports SMB and other protocols. In the files app, go to the 3 dots in the upper right corner, then Connect to Server, here you can provide your URI or URL. (example – smb://)
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      9. A pro version with nvme cache and 10gb nicfor $100 more would make this the runaway leader. For $150 more then could make it have a connection to add more external drives in a UVR 1U chassis and upgradable ram people would pay that and drive more sales of those.
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      10. I am fairly happy with as it does the basic job of backup that i need. I only bought it because my Qnap before would click and cluck away all night long when not being used for anything, I just decided that I trust the Unifi brand more with my data. Yes I know I’m just a basic user!
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      11. I have a very specific question that I hope you answer that I think a lot of people would love to know I have a Synology Nas with plex on it i use for my movie theater can you copy your own movies on onto a unas and on the synology use plex to create a pathway to the unas where your movies are strored to pull the movies from to watch from plex, I think this would be a great video for you to do, hope ypo like my idea and do a video on it.
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      13. I just hate that Synology would take for instance running a VoIP server like asterisk. They had a one click install and then done away with it. I think this has upset many of us that have run Synology for years. I have brought this up several times due to the fact we have two Synology units and we love them, but we would also like to be able to run our voip on one unit. I don’t know if the unify will allow it or not.
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      14. i wish they would make an app or add to one of their apps to auto sync our phone photos no matter where we are without requiring VPN or SMB. Even an app for auto sync files from windows and mac etc.
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      18. Had mine for two weeks now and it’s a fine NAS but a few bugs. It does desperately need an update. SMB issues when viewing larger MP4 videos want to download instead of streaming over local network.
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      21. Great follow up Robbie. I’m waiting on them to support iSCSI before I look at migrating from Synology.
        P.S. it’s soccer –with love from the US.
        PPS: when is that teal hoodie I’ve been nagging you about going to make it into a store? I need a link so I can support you and Eddie. 🙂
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      22. I currently use a 4-bay Synology DS920+ NAS to store movies and TV shows I rip from Blu-rays and 4K UHD Blu-rays. I don’t do any transcoding or even any additional compression, and I stream them to a capable but aging gaming PC to watch on my TV at the best possible quality. Aside from that, I back up my OneDrive stuff, but I’d be more than happy to just continue using my Synology NAS for that.

        If I just wanted more potential capacity in the form of more drive bays, then would UNAS Pro be good for my use case, or would a Synology NAS still be preferable in terms of performance?
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      24. Does anyone know how you can set up a folder where multiple people can access AND upload things without setting up an account for every user?
        I intend to use it like a google pictures folder, where I give people access to upload pictures of a wedding.
        Problem is, UNAS only lets me use a QR code to a user folder once over the Identity app. I was planning on printing the QR code to the app and then to the folder so all guests can upload the pictures of that day and share it.
        It is kinda frustrating not having the possibility to share a folder and make so that people are also able to upload.
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      25. I am always surprised by the critics: check the features before buying and if it does not fit, there are a multitude of other options on the market. So think before you buy.
        There are many users for whom this NAS is suitable.
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      26. Thanks for the follow up video, I am currently in the market to get a new NAS, I want rackmount 7 8 drives, single or dual 10gb SFP+, I have mini pc’s running all my dockers etc, but this just doesn’t seem like it has the performance or a qnap or synology for read writes and it definitely doesn’t have the features for user folder control. The nested folder long file – character name issues seems worrying too, I want confidence in when i copy up a lot of data it goes up there.
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      28. Well if the British didn’t want us to call it Soccer they shouldn’t have invented the word and spread it to the US and Australia. Anyway great follow up on the UNAS.
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      30. RAID6 is not officially supported yet. See Unifi’s response in the latest firmware update page for 4.1.11! Discussions online suggest the appearance of RAID6 advanced protection is a UI bug and not fully implemented. Use at your own risk!!!!
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      32. Hi, great video. When you say the unas can backup to another unas, do you mean it can backup to a unas in another location ? Would I need vpn to do this ?
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      35. UNAS Pro is actually not safe to use for sensitive data atm.

        There is a major flaw discussed in their forums concerning RAID which puts data at risk
        also there is this:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJtxCzdwxQs&t=2s

        Simply put: this device is not ready for primetime and do not rely on it!
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      36. I have found a good way to see how good or bad a UniFi product currently is can be found by looking at the comments on the current software release post for that product on their website. The comments for the UniFi OS NAS and UniFi Drive make it clear it isn’t a good option today.
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      37. Just ordered one. I wish I would have done it through your link now. Then I spent $2k on 7 drives…. Like putting a full tank of Biden era gas in a 1976 Ford Pinto. ???? But I like Unifi. Have my who,e network in all Unifi. Plus 15 cameras with the NVR. Prolly have $12k tied up in Unifi. Hope they dont Bambu me.
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      38. OK, I just had an idea that I think would be awesome. What if UniFi create a Compute Key like the new AI Key and fit in the AI Key rack mount. Where the compute key is where you would run containers.
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      39. it would be great to find out a good working rsync solution with my Synology. Than you can have best of both. i saw some explanations on Reddit but its not as simple as it looks i guess
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      40. Thanks for the deep dive. Really interesting to hear about longer usage than 60 minutes. The issues you discussed are a thing yeah, especially Super Admin back-up options (why would I want my users to set it up individually?) and multiple pools.

        I do think however that they did make a good choice to not have any container/app deployment options.

        For the price and the power requirements this is absolutely worth not having the apps. Any Synology that people compare it with has twice to three times the price and energy consumption. Totally not worth it.
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      41. By far the worst NAS experience I’ve ever had. Almost killed four drives for me. Missing crucial functions, encryption and backups are a joke. Looks pretty though. Super happy I can send this pos back tomorrow 🙂
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      42. An 1U 2 or 3 bay unit would be ideal for me… BUT, why not step into the future and offer an 1U 4-bay 2.5″ unit. 3.5″ is going into the history soon…
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      45. I ordered one of these just before I saw your videos about this. If I end up ordering a second for backups, I’ll definitely use the product link from one of your videos.
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      46. anyhow, I hope china soon starts to flush the market with cheap but ok-ish ram and flash nand so we finally get affordable huge capacity ssds, would need to consolidate a few dozen hdds ranging from 80GB to 8TB and an old collection of a few hundred cd and dvd /if they are still viable/ all in all about 100TB netto /after wiping redundant and obsolete data about half-ish/ and it would be really nice if I could do it in one tiny compact form factor like asus flashstor with 6or12 m.2 @16TB capacity per drive that should launch any time now or the terramaster with 2or4 U.2 @60TB with prices for endconsumer around or below 30eur per TB independent on scaling, currently you have meh 1TB for around 50eur and up to 8TB it scales up to 650-1050 eur, and the 60TB solidibm U.2 is around 7500 eur
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      48. “Three months of slow progress…”. Let’s give UBNT some credit. Two GA OS releases and five GA application updates in that time frame is not what I’d consider slow.
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      49. This is nothing to bank on, but Ubiquiti has a great track record in regards to improving its plattform.
        I bought into Access about year ago, knowing that the new line of devices was brand new and quite limited. It has since been contiunually improved with more features and better reliability.
        I bet that UNAS will be getting a whole lot better in the near future.
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      52. I own this device. I got it on January 10 after ordering it on January 2 I did look for the other solutions, which have you all built in Plex but setting it up seemed difficult now I am a tech person, but I did not want to do the set up for that for some reason it seemed too difficult, I remember when I saw that UniFi was coming out with one and I was very happy because I own the dream machine SE and wireless access points so I already have their system and there was pretty easy to set up and I didn’t need a server on my nest because I already had a Mac mini that has Plex which is way more powerful than whatever comes on those other mass systems all I needed to do was to run Plex and you know do my transcoding which it’ll do way better than any of those systems now having it since January 10 I’ve loaded up 3 24TB Seagate iron pro hard drive and everything is working fine. Transferred all my data. I’m keeping my external hard drives for a back up just in case something happens to the Unas pro to me all they need to do is improve on stability of the pool. I don’t need them to add the functionality to do a Plex server or run apps or anything on this thing I just needed to store my media and whatever I want, I’ve already been backing up my Mac computers to it using the Time Machine no problems there mounting the drives or simple with a script, but they also have the UniFi app that you can get for your computer to help with mounting that I am not using that just running a script to when I turn on the computer. It automatically loads all the drives, as for reading and writing speeds I’m getting 600 MB per second or more read and write speeds over my 10 gig SFP plus port, which is more than enough to edit off of which I’ve set up a scratch desk for or record gameplay or whatever I want from my Windows machine to that scratched desk over the network, no problem. which is fantastic for the price in Canada. It was 670 I believe and that was a good deal to me with seven drive base I think all the other options were five sometimes four bases for the same price or more so I’m just still very happy that they decided to come out with this.
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      53. I really want one. I may wait until they get a little farther along with fixing those SMB copy errors and filename issues. All I need is pure storage, which this seems pretty perfect for. I already have a Synology DS918+ for running VMs and dockers… it’s a little slow on the network interface, but I can still use it as a backup destination for the UniFi data, where speed is less critical, and let it continue running VMs, and just let UniFi handle the bulk storage. Win-win!
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      54. I’ve had mine for about a monte now. It did not start well. I installed 3x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives, and then create a single user, a shared drive, and mounted it via NFS on a Linux server. I lettori my backup script to dump about the whole server fs (1Tb or so) overnight. Next morning the nas was stock on requiring reboot, and I had to reset to factory settings and reformat to have it working again… next day, same thing, but this time I had the setup saved, so I did a factory reset but was able to keep the data on the drives. It happened 4 times, and I wrote to the support explaining the problem. They replied the next day, asking if I was backing up symlinks via NFS, and of course I was. That was a bug in drive versions prior to 1.16.15 (which I was able to update to a week later using the preview channel). Using the system with SMB/CIFS in the meantime was a little tricky, as I could not transfer all I needed. Now, with the new version, I am using it without any hitch that I found out. The 1GB Port is saturated by my server at 976 Mbps (but the server also has a 1GB port, so no issue here), and the system has about 1 million files of various sizes, all managed without problem afaik. Only thing I don’t like is the need to use all same size disks and inability to create multiple disk groups.
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      55. Finally caught this in stock and it’s delivering today! I’m unsure what size drives to start with. I could go with two 8TB drives or three 4TB drives. What would be the pros and cons? Migrating from a Drobo 5N with different size drives.
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      60. I’ve had my UNAS Pro since the first order bank shipped and I love it. Popped in seven 18TB Seagate refurbished IronWolf Pro drives for 108TB of storage. This is paired with a headless Mac mini and it works beautifully. I’m mostly using this combined system as a Plex server, and Time Machine backups directly to the UNAS Pro. Haven’t powered on the POS Asustor AS6704T since I flawlessly transferred the data over SMB.

        I know I’m not using the UNAS Pro in a professional or high demand setting, but it has been absolutely flawless. As you say, great value for money.
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      62. I ran into a really odd issue, that I think is related to RAM/CPU limitations personally. Somehow while transferring all my media from Unraid to the UNAS, all of the folders were made, but then recreated and nested under a single folder about 20 folders into the transfer. NBD easy fix right? Wrong, when trying to transfer those folders and files out the UNAS would not Merge the folders keeping the existing content, nor would it overwrite the existing folders entirely as per the options. I had to use the Keep both option which created a ton of Folder (1) folders and go 1 by for 2000+ folders deleting the old and renaming the folders that contained the actual data. I am not entirely sure the folder Nesting was caused by the UNAS as much as Krusader moving the folders but cleaning the mess up was a rough experience through the UNAS UI. In hindsight, using Windows Explorer may have simplified the process.
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      63. I didn’t get it as you could only share entire “Drives” to users. Instead of just sharing specific files or folders. I want it to work like Google Drive. No idea if that has changed. The day this changes, and I get aware of it, is when I’ll buy one.
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      67. They should make a compute node that’s a 1u server that runs all the apps and software and connects through the 10g sfp+ port. The node can have multiple sfp+ ports allowing you to link multiple storage pools for larger storage sets while still letting you use a port for 10g internet. This way those who want just storage get it without paying more and you could have more than 1 storage per compute node. Hope this made sense
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      71. I am reviewing this solution as a possible replacement for a Synology NAS with the addition of a NUC or something similar from where I can run some docker containers. But looking at the multitude of problems which people are reporting and basic NAS functionality missing, to me this product just seems to be a skunkworks project, something that was put togheter very fast with some bit of hardware and software that they had at hand, this is not by any means a mature product or one which underwent a serious development process. Ubiquiti is probably dipping its toes in the NAS water to see how it goes, learn from the experience and decide if this could be a new line of business for them or if geting in the NAS world would be too much of a hassle which is not really worth it.
        UBT is making some great networking stuff but I would probably not want to by and early addopter aka. guinea pig even though the NAS has a really tempting price.
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      72. i had contact with ubiquity about a problem with .exe files. its still has no support for opening .exe files on my pc. so when i have .exe files in my smb folder, i cant open them on my pc becuase of admin rights. they dont know if this is a feature that will be added later in a update. they know the problem. lets hope they add it later.
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      73. I can live with the lack of Protection – they haver the dedicated NVR for that – why cannibalise your own sales but the lack of iSCSI was a deal breaker for me.
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      74. The only thing that I would like to see is the ability to modify a backup set after configuring it, from what I’ve been able to find there is no way to modify the backup set
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      75. The UNAS Pro is not exactly out of stock, look at the UNAS Pro as it’s always in stock. It seems that Ubiquiti is putting the NAS on the back burner until either they figure out and fix all its issues or decide to discontinue it altogether. I think the latter is where they will end up, unfortunately. 90-95% of the issues are in fact software-related and their dev team is not versed as well in NAS software as it is in other dev software Ubiquiti uses. With that being said, I see no reason why the NAS software couldn’t be used on the 4-bay NAS or even on other equipment as it is at the heart *nix based.
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      77. I just purchased the UNAS and will be deploying it sometime in the next few weeks. Your follow up will certainly keep my expectation grounded in reality. All my appliances run outside the NAS, so some of your concerns won’t be relevant, but the large file migration issues you’ve touched on have certainly given me pause. Many thanks for your exceptional work!
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      78. The price is pretty good, but for me anything less reliable than raid6 or raid-z2 is unacceptable. The performance is also lacking. I would easily pay 3 or 4 times the price for an 8 or 8+ bay nas with such features if ubiquiti ever release one.

        Oh, haven’t watched to the end, turns out raid 6 has been implemented, that is a step in the right direction for sure!
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      79. Not really surprised by the lack of iSCSI. Do you also want Multi-Pathing iSCSI ?
        There is not enough performance in this appliance. To me it’s a non issue.
        You get what you buy with the CPU/RAM and single 10G interface.
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      80. Q./ Can you install TrueNAS or UnRAID on this? Do the lack of RAM expandability make this impractical? Is the BIOS locked or the process of installation is difficult? Thanks for the video, very deep and clear. Love your awesome reviews!
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      81. This is a great video! Nuanced, informative and exactly the right time, tech depth for me. Great that you gathered the Reddit replies and added them to your view on the product. Your calm an pleasant way of presenting is the icing on this review cake. This is how a review should be!

        Maybe I’m too praising but I’m sure you can ask someone in the pub to make some funny cynical negative puns.

        As a NAS I almost went to buy it. Most features dont bother me for a basic local 2 user “network storage” its only the unreliability in copying files that is unacceptable as a main storage.
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      83. Back to you get what you pay for. Mixed media storage pools, tiering ISCSI support and beefier hardware for virtualization and apps would inevitably drive COST and complexity. Not really a complaint to make on this product. It’s like complaining over missing crystal champagne fluits in your Honda Civic. You should not expect these features on a system at this price point. Storage pools really doesn’t make much sense in an SMB setup for storage without ISCSI. Sure, more backup destinations like iDrive and OneDrive would be great and might be coming, but the logical separation of access to shared folders is enough for SMBs to separate documents from users in my opinion.

        Totally agree on the user folder backups though.
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      84. I wish I had purchased on the opening day, but I didn’t and missed out. Mine has only been here a week and I’m very happy as it does exactly what I need – storage. I’m using raid 5 and copied data from three smaller desktop NAS drives with zero errors and 100% confidence my data is solid after spot checks. The device is built solidly and because it used existing and proven hardware I don’t have concerns on the physical box. The software is and was my main concern but it looks like Unifi is sorting that out.

        Could there be additional features, absolutely! But I feel this is an excellent solution for the price and would buy it again. I do agree with you on some of the should be there as a default items you listed in the video and feel they are totally realistic for a NAS at this level. I know some people want more, but as a guy who works with this stuff all day for a living, I don’t expect a server, apps or whatnot in a rackmount case at this price point.

        …and the football / soccer screen display bits were funny. I’m not a sports guy but we could probably have a long dueling rant on that topic.
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      86. Hmm. So a LOT of the complaints you seem to have gathered are feature requests that were clearly defined as not included when purchased. So i would not quantify them as valid complaints. I mean, look at the product page, clearly see what feature sets are included or not and purchase based on that, it is disingenuous to buy a product that does not list, for example, the inclusion of a USB port, and then complain that it is not available.
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      87. Hmm. So a LOT of the complaints you seem to have gathered are feature requests that were clearly defined as not included when purchased. So i would not quantify them as valid complaints. I mean, look at the product page, clearly see what feature sets are included or not and purchase based on that, it is disingenuous to buy a product that does not list, for example, the inclusion of a USB port, and then complain that it is not available.
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      91. Raid 6 is not actually available yet. You can get to the option if connected directly, not through the normal unifi consoles access, but it doesn’t work. UI-Team said it scheduled to be released (*Currently*) on Unifi OS 4.2
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      92. Looking forward to your review at the end of 2025. I think you will find that a lot of the things you have mentioned will be addressed by then. I personally do not think that Containers will ever come to the UNAS Pro because of the debacle that occurred with the UDM Pro and Ubiquiti’s move from Containers to Bare Metal for the OS. This was due largely because of all of the Support Calls they received from users trying to add containers to the UDM Pro and “screwing things up”. But I could certainly see things like Active Backup for Business, iSCSI support, multiple pools, and such coming later this year. Right now I am sure they are focused on getting what they have to be very stable and get the current issues (like large file transfers) addressed. Once that is done, then I can see them adding more functionally. Just look at how much the Network application has improved, as well as new features added, now that the UDM Pro and the UDM SE are now both using Bare Metal (a consistent OS, instead of having to maintain two completely different OS systems). I would also point out the expanded lines of hardware in the “Campus”/Enterprise arena where they are making a serious push into the “true” Enterprise space. To be able to compete there, they will need a NAS that can meet business solutions, not necessarily Home Lab users. Therefore, they will make decisions on software updates that will benefit businesses, both large and small.
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      93. I’ve had mine for about 1 month. We are a small 5 user company and had been using a Lenovo P320 PC with a couple of big hard drives for file sharing. I have been looking at NAS systems for a couple of years. As I have a complete Ubiquiti network solution at work and home I was happy that the UNAS would suits my needs. And it does exactly. I have 3 identical drives in a raid 5 format which is great and it does file sharing exactly as I need for our business. A perfect solution at a great price. I don’t need it to do anything more. Brilliant device and I’m very pleased with it. I already have an NVR for running our cameras, so don’t need this to run protect. And happy for these two systems to be completely separate.
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      96. I really like my unas! I use it for Time Machine back ups. And I SMB to Infuse app on my Apple TV and have a great local media server without having to run a plex server. If I need to stream while I’m away from home, I Teleport in using UniFi vpn and I can then stream from the Infuse app on my iPhone or MacBook.
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      100. Was very interested and intended to buy, until my Dream Machine SE completely died out of the blue. It did everything I expected for a little over a year and then paperweighted itself. Non recoverable, no parts to be had, no repair service and tech support sent basically a one-liner that said “Hardware failure”. I couldn’t read the logs, only they could, so I have no idea where to look. What I did see during my research is that there are a bunch of these failures, but you can’t find anything out on the ubiquiti site as to whether they are aware of the problem or changed something to fix it, etc. Not going to get into that eco because of it. The stuff ain’t cheap. They call it enterprise quality, and so I guess if it dies they think of me as an enterprise and I’ll just get another one because I have enterprise money. Also, I don’t look at it as a fluke either because a ton have died in the exact same way, even down to the same message on the screen. No, doubt somebody will jump in and say this isn’t what I should be posting about on this video because it’s not about the UNAS. That’s my point. I never got that far, even though I intended too.
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      107. Got mine last week from the biggest onlinestore in Switzerland (probably the only one who got one ????)

        I have done a backup over SMB from my ASUSTOR NAS. Over 1.1TB of pictures (photography) and I had in the Asustor logs looooots of pictures „failing“
        But…… I checked on my UNAS and the pictures were actually there… it actually did the job, but I am not sure why the logs were showing me a ton of pictures that failed the transfer. Did a comparison of the folders and they matched.

        Multiple storagepools would be really nice. I already had 2x 20TB Harddrives and I still have 4x4TB drives I would love to use as a separate pool.
        Right now they are still in my ASUSTOR NAS with Plex running… I would like to have my Linux Server run Plex, but with the storage from my UNAS but I dont really have the knowledge on how to configure that properly. This UNAS is supposed to be my main storage system someday.

        But I have to say, this this even with its shortcomings is a reeeeraaallly good solution for photographers.
        You can share folder with pictures of your clients without a thirdparty ❤ something like wetransfer.
        A fulltime photographer friend of mine actually is also interested in the UNAS because this is the perfect and easy solution.
        I just sent a link to my UNAS to friends because one of them is getting married and they need older pictures of her. Easy! Made a folder with all her pictures. And sent the link.

        A note on the pictures subject:
        The selection of the pictures is STUPID! You do not gave the option to select the pictures you want like in any other app/program. Or I am just stupid or it is not intuitive.

        You have to keep Options or Command button pushed to select more than one.
        Usually when you click into a square to select, you are able to just select more. But no… here you can just select one…? ????

        So yeaaa… needs improvement before I can use it as my main storage system.

        Also, will iSCSI make my life easier to use Plex with my UNAS? Not really there yet in my Networking abilities… but I am on it ????

        Cool Vid btw ???????? thx for the updates.
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      108. Its their NVR repurposed for a NAS. Version 2 could be a big jump with memory and an nvme slot for cache. The cpu is scraping the barrel for cost so a containers are a no go. Saturating the 10gbps connection as it is won’t happen.

        I would get one although I have a Synology and use it for the Synology type features. Unifi doesn’t do roadmaps so there’s no reason to wait around for some feature.
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      109. Without proper raid6, it’s a hard nope. The system could easily run the more sophisticated raid levels because it’s Linux just like any other nas. I can ignore cache nvram, or expanded system ram for fs virtual buffer caches, and many other features… But raid6 is a huge selling point.
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      111. Not having docker containers is a deal breaker for me. I would have bought this device yesterday if unifi had docker support. It would be great to have Plex, emby or jellyfin. A photo app for your own photo library would be nice
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      113. So basically it’s FANTASTIC value for money as a NAS, but owners want… more. Well, they should have paid somebody else for “more”.

        I seriously considered this NAS, but I do want to run VMs and containers on the same box, so I’m going to build my own – but I really appreciated Unifi offered a clean, simple and very affordable solution to network storage.
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      114. A NAS that cannot guarantee that files copied over from another computer are all included and without errors is just a waste of money, even though it only costs 499 USD.
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      115. Ideas for future models… A 2.5″ version with at least 16 drive bays for an SSD based NAS. Also a hybrid version with both 2.5″ and 3.5″ bays… A NVME version too??
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      117. Love concept of the video. Love the content of the video. Hated the text to speech that was used. It took me out of the experience. Look into using ElevenLabs 🙂 Keep up the good work!
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      119. Appreciate the follow up!
        Been considering one, mainly because of 10GBE and the low price.
        Just pure storage is fine, can always use other boxes for containers and stuff.
        But that user having problems with transmission error is truly horrifying. A dedicated storage box that might corrupt files (and also missing several files). No thanks. Just no.
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      121. My initial thought on why Ubiquiti doesn’t let you run Protect on the UNAS-Pro is because then the argument would be: why can’t I use my NVR-Pro or NVR as a NAS? Then Ubiquiti would have to support all sorts of situations. It might happen one day, but I think those of us that bought the UNAS-Pro are beta testing it before they’re ready to open it up to the NVR crowd. Oh, that and they want to sell more devices is also another obvious reason.
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      122. NFS speeds are horribly slow, unusable. less than a gigabit in linux. Windows 11 also only gets 1 gigabit speeds. Linux over SMB and Windows 10 gets 5/6 gigabit transfers with spinning drives.
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      123. I’ve been on the fence about the UNAS Pro and a larger picture with a Dream Machine SE and some cameras. My finger has been hovering over the buy button for days now, but this morning, the UNAS Pro was actually back in stock. I bought the lot. I think it is the right move, we shall see. Good timing for you to post this video 🙂 Now I just need to pick out some drives.
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      125. Soooo… “football” was originally (still is) called “Association Football” and it was from the association portion where “soccer” was derived.

        Ironically, in England. Where it was called soccer first.
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      127. for a pure NAS i agree iSCSI is essential, i don’t think containers are essential on something designed as a pure NAS, and same for the backup options. I am sure this is disappointing to many, i would argue wait until they release a more powerful unit or buy something else – they designed this (rightly or wrongly) as dedicated network attached storage (NAS) not a general purpose server branded as a NAS.
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      128. a system with no capacity for nvme to do caching or a faster tier, along with missing iSCSI makes this a fart in the wind. I’ll wait for the Pro max or ProHD version or the v2 refresh.
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      129. I really don’t get the desire for containers. Intel mini PCs are such an insanely good value for running apps, and the NAS being dedicated to storage only feels like a better separation of concerns.
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      131. I would like to see it add Active Backup for Google. Also a 1U version would be nice at the $300 price point similar to the 1U NVR at the $300 price point.
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      132. The performance sucks in many ways. When I copy thousands of small files over to Unas it’s ridiculously slow. I have screen shots showing that to copy over 100GB of small files can take days….!!!! Yes, I have proof. And my rack is all 10gbe connected. But I assume they will get it to be much better eventually as they are new to the whole NAS game.
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      134. Had a bit of an issue with mine. Got it all set up and copied all my files across. Then the NAS started saying in the dashboard there was no drives installed. Network shares still worked fine etc. restarted it to try get the drives to show up… Made it worse now it genuinely thinks there are no drives installed. Have contacted Ubiquiti support and they are looking into the logs but not great so far
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      135. I love mine. Right now I mainly use it as a backup to my Synology DS920. I don’t need a device to run dozens of 3rd party apps like the Synology. My only complaint about it is that it is lacking in the area of backups. I wish there was a built in solution to do a NAS to NAS backup from Synology or even PCs.
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      136. This is almost perfect. No fancy app crap is exactly what I need. However ISCSI and backup is a must and caching and/or tiering via NVME drives. Maybe a UNAS pro max later this year ?
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      137. I feel like some of these issues are unreasonable expectations. Ubiquiti is not positioning this product for server/general computing. Unifi devices are designer for simplicity and not being overly complicated. Some of these complaints just don’t really apply to this kind of device. This isn’t a general purpose server with spare compute for ancillary tasks (containers etc…).
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      138. Can you make more than one storage pool yet, that’s a big negative imo even at this point. I do like it though and as this could be implemented as a SW update. I dont care about containerisation on nas i dont think they are the bestvproduct for the job i use a mini pc running xcp-ng and a VM with docker/docker swarm for this .
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      141. that is how I’ve made my diy nas , 4 x 4 tb SSDs in a raid 5 and a 12 tb hard drive mirror , but saying that with synology you do the same with a SSD and HD mix and write to SSDs the HD will wake up too .
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      142. Unifi has the worst customer service ever. Actually scratch that, unifi doesn’t have customer service. Maybe if you pay for it. I’ve been using their equipment for years, installed it at dozens of clients. Once in awhile i had a faulty device but overall was pleased. Until I used their phone. You see, you sign up for a phone number and a phone number is pretty important. You wouldn’t want to just lose your phone number because you know, your credit card expired and you need to put a new credit card number in.

        That’s what happened to me, my credit card expired, no big deal. You would think I would maybe get an email from unify saying that it expired or that they couldn’t charge my account, but I didn’t get any email from them. Realizing my phone wasn’t working, I checked my account and saw that my credit card was expired. So I put a new credit card number in and nothing. My phone still didn’t work, and worse, I didn’t know what to do. So I contacted unify, and I never heard back from them. I went on message boards asking for help, and I never heard back from them. I lost my business’s phone number because my credit card expired. So now I have a phone number that people try to call that goes nowhere, UniFi has harmed my business directly and I recommend no one use their products.
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      145. I think the issue is, Software RAID, isn’t enough in 2025 to exist as a product when similar functionality is coming at the same price points, with 10Gbe and 6 drives (some with M.2 hardware), running on Ryzen R1600 or Celeron N95/N100 CPUs, and some potentially with intel/AMD Copilot NPUs.

        There’s also the secondhand NAS market, but 2U racks are a whole other principle. Universal power+PSU, 10Gbe NIC, but no SSD/2.5″ or M.2 cache, or even a M.2 Coral AI Accelerator to add in for Unifi Protect to use, eh.

        Not being able to run a reliable folder sync on NFS/SMB is kind of trashy. I sort of understand why, it’s a prelude to a better product that requires testing. But, it’s an expensive beta-test to participate in, at your own expense. Much like the EV charger or the audio amp, or the door security, or the phones, etc. There are lots of potential Unifi products that need a home.

        But, you really want to think it through as a first design product, that it has to do what it’s labelled for. They made 2009 Thecus NAS units back in the day with better software/hardware, and those would need to be rebooted after 2 weeks at times because the SMB would crash due to 2GB RAM. I get why ‘personal’ drives can’t (encryption, likely) but that’s dysfunctional as noted. Non-Tech people won’t know why their data is gone, or how to manage their own snapshots unless they use Time Machine (sic), and only if it’s configured and regularly kicks in.

        They can run container/VMs to process tasks and run updates, sync states to get identical setups, etc. Including NVR Camera software, rsync, and various prosumer tasks. I don’t expect it to be a Synology clone, but it’s a strange product as is.
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      146. Appreciate your video, you alway help in with my final choice lol. Because I fully understand what the Unas is and is not I am okay with its short-coming so to speak. I dont own one yet (since its always sold out) but I am looking forward to getting one. I have the Qnap Nasbook with 5 8TB m.2 drive and the Unas would serve as mostly cold storage in my case and workflow.
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      149. My QNAP TS-432XU-RP from 2020 just died ???? and I’m looking for a replacement. I already have a complete Unifi stack. I’m just looking at simply a backup setup to my home desktops. Does this device come with anything like QSYC, if not what might you suggest for supporting backup from Windows PC’S to this device?
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      150. The price on that thing is tempted to get for a backup NAS, but my eye is on an HL15. I’m guessing in a year or so they’ll come out with a UNAS Pro Max anyway ????
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      152. With Protect still not having automatic backups to the UNAS (I shouldn’t ever have to manually select footage to backup, ever), there is no value for me with this product over a synology. Sure the price is nice, but basic nas functions are still broken called out in this video and this product is not ready for prime time. I’m not even concerned about docker containers, I like a NAS to just be a NAS, but basic NAS software is 1/2 baked on this unit.
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      153. Their products are never in stock. Why would I buy anything from them when they’re never in stock? This is a serious question.

        Looks like a Casio F-91W on your wrist. That’s all the watch that most people need. I say this while owning enough watches that I could wear a different one every day for a year and never repeat.
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      154. At least soon (it’s in early access) you can automatically backup Protect footage to the UNAS, sorta like Archive Vault on Synology. But would be amazing if could also run Protect, maybe that will come in a UNAS Pro Max Enterprise Etherlight version
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      155. I noticed drives run hotter in these even in idle versus synology etc, I saw 52C at idle versus 30C for synology in the same room, would love to hear you experience
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      156. Appreciate these follow-up reviews. Sick and tired of reviewers who don’t spend any time with the product and just want to rush a video out to get the ad revenue quickly.
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      157. The NAS hat a bunch of minor issues. It does not properly test disk drives inserted. I used an older but not failing one and this causes a ton of problems like random disconnects. Then with 2 brand new 8TB drives copying thousand of small files (like 100GB worth) can take hours or even days! I have let Unifi know about this days ago and so far just one canned response. It is NOT fast in may experience even with all 10gbe connections. Just keeping it real folks.
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      159. Hi, can you advise please, if I connect UNAS Pro to UDM-pro via 10G SFP+, and then from the UDM-Pro connect to my windows PC using 10G SFP+, will I achieve the roughly speeds of 500-850 MB/s (RAID 5 using 3 x Seagate Exos X24 20gb drives). Or do I need a 10G SFP+ switch?
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      162. Why should I buy this NAS? Out of curiosity perhaps, but certainly not for practical reasons! Look at a QNAP, Synology and even a UUGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus. Maybe a 4 bay instead of a 7 bay, but much better hardware and software and therefore possibilities. If I would buy one of these brands, and I only use the bare NAS properties, then you still have a 20x better NAS that is not only more durable, but also many times as much as a UniFi UNAS Pro. By the way, just leave the Pro out of it, Marketing-wise it may sound nice, but it certainly is not. It is a big marketing launch from UniFi anyway. But an experienced NAS user really knows better.
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      164. I’ve also discovered the two ports, are not for failover. You can only use one at a time. UniFi advised you can only use SFP+ or RJ45. Not both at the same time.
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      165. I’ve been testing my UNAS Pro with four Seagate 18tb Exos drives in the “more protection” setting. I have uncovered a major issue it has with being unable to download files completely to any iPhone via the Identity app. Regardless of Wifi, or LTE (5G or 4G mobile), if you use Safari, it failed on every file to be able to download a file in its entirety. It would download half an image or half a wav or mp3 or mp4, but not the whole file. Despite multiple emails to UniFi and going through their escalation team they were unable to identify the issue until the end when I worked out it is an issue with Safari. Switching to Google Chrome as the browser on the iPhone, it works! I have advised UniFi and they say they will investigate and look at a possible update as they realise now there is an issue with the driver and a bug in its ability to allow for sharing and downloading to the files app on the iPhone via Safari. Thought I’d share for anyone else experiencing this issue. Would be keen to know if you have found this also.
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      166. FANTASTIC REVIEW, ROB!!!

        Thanks a lot!

        I am a long time Ubiquiti user, both UniFi (SOHO/semi-Pro use) and UISP (professional use) and although the lacking twistles that others can offer, as you say, this NAS is almost the ideal companion of a full UniFi network.
        I’d lke the WORM feature as you mentioned, but hopefully I think they will put in there as soon as possible.

        It is very interesting that an early firmware fron Ubiquiti would be as complete and stable as this one, at the moment of the launch.
        In my memory, this is almost the first time it happens… ????

        Price wise, it is a bargain!

        I’ll purchase it, maybe the new revisions in mid 2025… ????
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      173. 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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      174. 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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      176. 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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      178. 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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      180. 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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      183. 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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      184. 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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      185. 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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      187. 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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      188. 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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      189. 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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      190. 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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      191. 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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      200. 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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      202. 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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      203. 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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      205. 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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      206. 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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      207. 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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      210. 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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      211. 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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      214. 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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      220. 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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      225. 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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      226. 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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      233. 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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      234. 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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      237. 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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      238. 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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      239. 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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      243. 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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      244. 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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      248. 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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      250. 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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      251. 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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      255. 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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      260. 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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      264. 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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      268. 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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      271. 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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      273. 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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      275. 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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      277. 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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      278. 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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      280. 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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      282. 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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      285. 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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      286. 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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      287. 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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      292. 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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      293. 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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      294. 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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      296. 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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      297. 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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      298. 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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      300. 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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      303. 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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      306. 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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      308. 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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      309. 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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      310. 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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      313. 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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      319. 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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      320. 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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      323. 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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      324. 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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      325. 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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      332. 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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      334. 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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      336. 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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      342. 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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      343. 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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      345. 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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      349. 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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      352. 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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      353. 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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      354. 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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      355. 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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      356. 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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      357. 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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      362. 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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      363. 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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      365. 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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      367. 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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      368. 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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      370. 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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      371. 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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      375. @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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      377. 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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      382. 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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      384. 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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      388. 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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      391. 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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      393. 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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      396. 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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      397. 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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      399. 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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      402. 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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      405. 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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      406. 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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      409. 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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      412. 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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      413. 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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      415. 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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      416. 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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      419. 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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      420. 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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      421. 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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      422. 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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      424. 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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      427. 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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      428. 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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      429. 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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      430. 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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      432. 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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      434. 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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      435. 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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      437. 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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      438. 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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      440. 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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      441. 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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      446. 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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      452. 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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      453. 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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      455. 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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      456. 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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      461. 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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      466. 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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      469. 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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      471. 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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