Depending on how many cameras you control that could be a bad idea, personally I to separate the controllers. For testing it for sure would have been nice, it's a big gamble to spend 499 + drives for testing only.
@@DPCTechnology yea but some people do. they have vms or containers. things like plex or home automation. so kinda curious what this is for given synology and qnap devices can handle those now too. maybe better interface but i feel lack of features could be aproblem. same thing with enterprise. if its meant to be a storage for a vm server why is there no iscsi interface.
I wouldn't mind a 3 or 4 bay 1u setup for basic file storage. Could also see a nas version of the "Network Video Recorder" heck would be nice if the old recorders could be updated to run unas. Be interesting to see what other nas products come from Ubiquiti.
I built a NAS a number of years ago that runs TrueNAS. It's not used for anything other than storage and it's mostly redundant backups from my main devices. It's only turned on once a month to transfer data because power consumption is high. A 1U 3 or 4-bay version of this like the NVR would like be perfect for my needs.
@@JettaGetUpandGo Thats what happens to most people.. they buy on thinking they are gonna do all this vitualization and then they just use it as a backup target and storge drive.. Might as well spend $499 and just get this... Thanks for the post!
I understand creating a purely NAS product rather than a NAS that is also application server like Synology/QNAP. I do believe that UI Verify brings nice access controls to the data. However, CIFS/SMB + AFS does not a NAS make. Where's NFS and iSCSI??? If they are offering a 10Gbps NIC, then why is not also an iSCSI target? If Ubiquiti wants to play in the Enterprise or even in the serious Homelab realm, then iSCSI and NFS are going to be key requirements. Oh and where are the RAW LUN options? Is the file system EXT4, RAIDn?, Zfs, RAIDz?
IMO, I disagree, they targeted it perfectly for a true simple network attached storage for a small business that needs the ability to have centralized shared files for employees. LUNs, NFS, iSCSI, while NASes can support that, IMO that means you're leaning into the enterprise infrastructure world with virtualization clusters, databases, web servers, etc and that's really best served by a proper SAN products from Dell, HP, NetApp, etc.
@@alanbarber4543 Simple is good. However, if we ascribe to that on the entire Unifi product line, it would mean that an "ISP" style router/gateway with few options would be the Ubiquiti design and we know that is not the case. I think the point here is that if even a small company invests in such a device they would want more options. It seems to me that this is little more than a simple network drive like Google drive and not really a NAS at all. At one end of the spectrum we might have something like a Netapp appliance and at the other end of the spectrum we might have something like a Western Digital MyCloud. UNAS Pro seems more like they should have named it UDrive Lite because the functionality is basically a private version of Google Drive and lots of Open Source solutions meet that use case already.
Is it limited to only sharing entire "Drives" to users? And not folders or subfolders? When you added that separate user, there's no way to also create a group? Useful if you want to share something to the same group, instead of each individual accounts. Especially if it's a recurring task that I need to do. I also work with large video files and I basically do it in the following way (using TrueNAS + Nextcloud): Structure: \2024\2024-10-21 Description of what it is (folders includes videos, pictures and sometimes subfolders) \2024\2024-10-21 Description of something else (folders includes videos, pictures and sometimes subfolders) Then I share each folder to the concerned users or group of users. If it's only Drives it would be a pain as it means every single entry point would need to be a Drive. For each year over 300 :') Ps. thanks for the great video!
What about open shares - like a single spot for anyone on the LAN to store stuff? And I thought there was mention of these devices being able to replicate to another one? Thanks again for another great video.
True, I think i could get a few more mb/s out of it but, it is running neck and neck with my HL15 running TrueNAS with 15 disks and Nvme cashe.. I don't think there is much more in it at 550Mb/s
@@DPCTechnology To clarify, you got 550 megabytes/second with standard HDDs (i.e. 4000 megabits/second)? If yes, I agree SATA SSDs probably aren't going to give much more lift.
It's still kind of annoying that Ubiquity keeps putting the 24-pin ATX plugs on their devices instead of a second standard plug. An Eaton or APC UPS can do the same job for less.
- Is this stackable? - Are file request links via folder possible? - Is it possible to keep a 'UniFi Drive' folder synced away from the local network as you can with Dropbox / OneDrive etc?
I will say.....if you have had this since June....tbh it just seems to be a UNVR Pro with a new "Software". Unifi should really work on its process of creating I don't seems kinda a copy an paste cause so many people "Wanted" a NAS from them I don't know if from a professional side that I would use this over a different thing like a TrueNas system or 48Drive but at that price point is a denect starting NAS and if they can get App support and maybe IMO the Pro version should have had more RAM as to be able to use PLEX and other stuff. Great video as always.
I think its inteded as a network share with fast networking and easy setup. Its for a workspace/SMB. Or someone that wants fast storage and puts thier compute on another device. Ultimately I think it works for most users but it's a different take than a converged NAS..
@@DPCTechnologythis isn’t really accurate though as it doesn’t have iSCSI, or any of the protocols that would allow this to actually work smoothly with another device which does the compute, that was actually my plan when I heard that this was so lacking, but without those protocols this is basically just one large smb share.
Can you start with X number of drives, then add Y number of more drives to the existing RAID volume without losing data? I am used to Synology and expanding a NAS as I need.
It would be great to know if they have plans to allow people "aggregate" two or more of these together into a single larger NAS. Since it only has a single 10 gig port seem that that might be difficult.
Id admit im no pro at that, but it just popped right on and worked. I've been testing for a LOOOONNG time now (LOL) and it never errored or gave me any grief. It was truly a set and forget.
@@DPCTechnology I tried a beta macos and tried to go back with my timemachine network backup and it just wasn’t an option. I’ve done just basic hard drive backups since. Plus icloud usual backup stuff
Hello! Nice video and thank you to make a nice tour. Do you plan to try it with 7 SSDs for a speedtest? Im really into ditch my All SSDs TrueNas for a UNAS with my SSDs
@@DPCTechnology its nice anyway. I never got to pass 400 on my truenas with all SSDs and its a mess to handle for me. UNAS will be wayyyyy better for a normal user like me. Very happy with the news today. I will probably populate it with SSDs anyway for some wattage saving because im running on large batteries and solar panels
Nascompares tried finding it via ssh but couldn’t, but speculates it’s BTRFS due to the snappiness of the snapshot backups/restores and the arm chip that has been used. Mind you this is just speculation on his part, but until we get offical word from Ubiquiti, this is what we have to go by.
I am unsure if UI's price point is quite right given it is the same price as the UNVR Pro, but I guess they are charging hardware cost more than software development. Similar price point to Synology I guess, but Synology has the advantage of an app ecosystem. I am hoping they may follow through with a UNAS standard (4 bay version) and a UNAS Enterprise (the 16 bay version like the UNVR Enterprise? ) I hope Ubiquiti make it so Protect footage can backup to their NAS ( if it is not already possible )
Is there any indication that protect, access, and drive can run on these? Will drive be brought to the NVR series? Or are there not enough resources to make that work?
You showed only RAID 5 and RAID5 with hot spare. What other RAID levels are possible? IS it possible to create more than one RAID array? Is it possible to mix different sized hard drives or SSDs. I found no documentation about this.
It has RAID 5, 6 and 10 at time of shipping (6 is being added). If you stagger sizes it will only use the size of the smallest for all drives in the array...
What is the RAID level for higher protection option? I am presuming RAID6 of some sort. I also hope it can expand - when I upgraded my HDDs in the NVR one at a time from 2TB to 4TB it actually did expand (without really specifying what it was doing) without losing any data, so I would assume it has this feature? Seems like a good deal if one just wants storage, but is currently lacking the applications and features of other NAS vendors.
Since you only have 4 bays populated, what would happen if you installed drives in one or more of the empty bays? Would the storage automatically expand, or would it require a wipe and rebuild?
Shame this is 2U. I am running out of space in my rack. Couple of questions if I may: 1. Can I set it up so that it backs up all family members phones? Photos, contacts etc? 2. Would you say this could replace Dropbox for quick amd smooth file sharing and viewings? I do photography and video editing amd would love to be able to access and show large vid files remotely? Thank you for your review.
Yes on both BUT.. I would like to see an endpoint app that streamlines that a bit. At this point you would need a 3rd party ap to "push" the files to the NAS. But u would then be able to see them remotely
Would also love to see a non-Pro version, just like the non-Pro NVR. Or - allow this one piece of hardware to act as NAS and NVR, of course. I’m sure there’s a plenty of us out there that could get by with just 4 measly bays!
You're talking about RAID5... Did you REALLY one day try to reconstruct a 100TB Raid5 with a failed drive? I sincerely doubt it, otherwise you won't even talk about it. Once you go over 3 or 4 4TB HDD Raid 5 is almost useless. It's almost impossible to rebuild without being stopped by a read error or another... and you've lost your datas. And with 100TB the rebuild would probably take 1 week if not more...
@@DPCTechnology Ok, great, I understand, and it's presentation of a product unfinished, coming soon on the market (in EU Store it's announced for 25-Oct). Raid 6 and 10 are the only valid options when you have huge volumes. It' wasn't the case years ago, when a 2TB HDD was considered a 'monster', but things change quickly.
Is there away to have remote users have an option to have files backed up? I have a Qnap and I install the app on their computer and it connects to my NAS and backs up everything on their pc.
@@DPCTechnology Do you happen to know if that is a limit on the UNAS Pro itself, or was it a read speed limit on your PLEX server where the file was coming from? I know this doesn't have the most powerful CPU in it, but I would have expected closer to 1GB/s capability with 4+ drives installed on a large single file transfer. If there is no bottleneck somewhere else, should be getting 200-250MB/s per drive * 4 drives = 800-1000MB/s. Though the CPU could be a bottleneck, the software raid could be one, or the drive being read from could be another. Might be worth a test to put 4 sata SSDs in it just to make sure there are no drive limitations at all and use a fast SSD on the other end and test the transfer speed.
that link system. kinda curious, i guess its opening some sort of port for it to download from your ui nas if you give it to someone on the internet or would it only work on the internal network. unless its routing through ubiquits cloud?
I say this as a UniFi fan: this really needed to be EPYC based with native support for more flexible applications beyond just storage. Other NAS makers are (and have been) offering solutions that are much broader in scope and to my mind a much better value for the money.
I think they are focused on 2 groups. Business that need fast and large local file colanoration or.. People that don't want the compute on thier NAS and just want a fast inexpensive 10Gbe storage device and compute off board. As an HL15 owner I will tell u this device + a fast compute box will beat my HL15 on price and performance.
Too many Home users now days thinking that a NAS is supposed to be a server. I like that this device focuses on being an actual NAS and doing it well for relatively low cost with good user management and file snapshots for small/medium business.
@@DPCTechnology Can you clarify what you mean by using the UNAS pro in conjunction with a "compute box"? If I wanted to for example, run Plex would I not have to have my content on the compute box and not on the NAS? Sorry if I'm mistaken as I don't know what a compute box is and I've been waiting on Ubiquiti to drop this NAS to pull the trigger on something.
@@Rhino1188 it could be anything. It could be a computer. It could be a server. It could be a raspberry pi.. but typically what hobbyist will do is have a storage box that's just got fast storage and an inexpensive server to do all the computation
UNAS cant do apps? Doesn't matter... I have my plex on truenas and I regret. I will buy a UNAS for sure and put Plex on a Linux VM. UNAS is perfect like Protect. KEEP IT SIMPLE. Install it and forget it ❤
@@DPCTechnology And for identity holy cow!!! Way better even for personnal use... manage shares with my family with identity is way more sample compare to truenas scale.
The cheapest 2-bay Synology under $200 and you will get more functionality than this. For me this device in unusable since I can't use containers (home assistant) or apps at all (I need iPhone picture and video automated back up). No simple and cheap power back up as on Synology. So for me wait for new 8bay Synology rack mount version $1200 - $1300.
Synology is history for prosumer segment with forced adoption of C2 and focus on their 'go enterprise' wet dream. But anyways, it's good they open up the space for newcomers in the segment.
They really need to integrate the file services un/pw with the users login (UID or not.) I'd also like to see integration with MSFT active directory, MSFT entra, Google Workspace user directory, and LDAP.
@@DPCTechnology Without having to subscribe to UniFi Identity Enterprise? In the few videos I've watched, I haven't seen any of the options I listed. Separate UN/PW's are needed for file services (a royal PITA!) And I didn't see anyway shown to integrate with other directory services to pull users. If any of that is possible, can you please point out where those settings are and/or make a video? As far as I can tell, to integrate with other directory services, one would need to pay for UID-E, no? Thanks.
@@MedicNYC Cameron Gray's Video shows the directory services it can use, and it didn't look like it needed subscription, it can do Entera ID, Local AD and LDAP services
Would have been cool to have UniFi Protect and NAS in one box
I know!!!! maybe one day..
please no , buy synology....
@@GabrielKozsar Synology is rock solid stuff!
@@DPCTechnology You bet , i still have a DS213 (12years) with 2x3TB WD REDs , cca 100 000hours. :)
Depending on how many cameras you control that could be a bad idea, personally I to separate the controllers. For testing it for sure would have been nice, it's a big gamble to spend 499 + drives for testing only.
I understand it's using the same hardware from the UNVR Pro, but it blows my mind Ubiquiti is launching new products in 2024 using a CPU from 2012.
good call, but I don think it matters for thier inteded use case. This isnt the device for compute. It's just a good, fast NAS.
I wonder ,how do they do the RAID stuff ?
@@DPCTechnology yea but some people do. they have vms or containers. things like plex or home automation. so kinda curious what this is for given synology and qnap devices can handle those now too. maybe better interface but i feel lack of features could be aproblem. same thing with enterprise. if its meant to be a storage for a vm server why is there no iscsi interface.
I wouldn't mind a 3 or 4 bay 1u setup for basic file storage. Could also see a nas version of the "Network Video Recorder" heck would be nice if the old recorders could be updated to run unas. Be interesting to see what other nas products come from Ubiquiti.
I wouldn't be suprised to see a smaller unit.
I built a NAS a number of years ago that runs TrueNAS. It's not used for anything other than storage and it's mostly redundant backups from my main devices. It's only turned on once a month to transfer data because power consumption is high. A 1U 3 or 4-bay version of this like the NVR would like be perfect for my needs.
@@JettaGetUpandGo Thats what happens to most people.. they buy on thinking they are gonna do all this vitualization and then they just use it as a backup target and storge drive.. Might as well spend $499 and just get this... Thanks for the post!
I understand creating a purely NAS product rather than a NAS that is also application server like Synology/QNAP. I do believe that UI Verify brings nice access controls to the data. However, CIFS/SMB + AFS does not a NAS make. Where's NFS and iSCSI??? If they are offering a 10Gbps NIC, then why is not also an iSCSI target? If Ubiquiti wants to play in the Enterprise or even in the serious Homelab realm, then iSCSI and NFS are going to be key requirements. Oh and where are the RAW LUN options? Is the file system EXT4, RAIDn?, Zfs, RAIDz?
iSCSI is coming..
IMO, I disagree, they targeted it perfectly for a true simple network attached storage for a small business that needs the ability to have centralized shared files for employees. LUNs, NFS, iSCSI, while NASes can support that, IMO that means you're leaning into the enterprise infrastructure world with virtualization clusters, databases, web servers, etc and that's really best served by a proper SAN products from Dell, HP, NetApp, etc.
@@alanbarber4543 I can't disagree with anything you said..
@@DPCTechnology is that official? I havent seen that anywhere else
@@alanbarber4543 Simple is good. However, if we ascribe to that on the entire Unifi product line, it would mean that an "ISP" style router/gateway with few options would be the Ubiquiti design and we know that is not the case. I think the point here is that if even a small company invests in such a device they would want more options. It seems to me that this is little more than a simple network drive like Google drive and not really a NAS at all. At one end of the spectrum we might have something like a Netapp appliance and at the other end of the spectrum we might have something like a Western Digital MyCloud. UNAS Pro seems more like they should have named it UDrive Lite because the functionality is basically a private version of Google Drive and lots of Open Source solutions meet that use case already.
Thank you Clay, very indepth review of this new product.
Surprisingly good price.
Would be nice if this worked with their 4 bay product... and if -protect can use this as storage
Several people have mentioned that. I think a smaller device would be cool too.
Very excited to see this getting released.
*edited as you answered my question, lol
Awesome!
I would love to see a test with SSDs vs. HDD regarding speed and power consumption. The last one could be interesting for home owners.
Good video idea!
Is it limited to only sharing entire "Drives" to users? And not folders or subfolders?
When you added that separate user, there's no way to also create a group? Useful if you want to share something to the same group, instead of each individual accounts. Especially if it's a recurring task that I need to do.
I also work with large video files and I basically do it in the following way (using TrueNAS + Nextcloud):
Structure:
\2024\2024-10-21 Description of what it is
(folders includes videos, pictures and sometimes subfolders)
\2024\2024-10-21 Description of something else
(folders includes videos, pictures and sometimes subfolders)
Then I share each folder to the concerned users or group of users. If it's only Drives it would be a pain as it means every single entry point would need to be a Drive. For each year over 300 :')
Ps. thanks for the great video!
@@MichaelBylehn it is a little limited at this point but they have been developing rapidly..
@@DPCTechnology Thanks. Don't be shy to create a video when things develop! Sometimes changelogs don't give all the info.
@@MichaelBylehn will do?
holy moly they actually released it, nice!
I know, right?
What about open shares - like a single spot for anyone on the LAN to store stuff? And I thought there was mention of these devices being able to replicate to another one? Thanks again for another great video.
You can do both
It’d be great to see more extensive speed benchmarks including using SSDs rather than HDDs
True, I think i could get a few more mb/s out of it but, it is running neck and neck with my HL15 running TrueNAS with 15 disks and Nvme cashe.. I don't think there is much more in it at 550Mb/s
@@DPCTechnology To clarify, you got 550 megabytes/second with standard HDDs (i.e. 4000 megabits/second)? If yes, I agree SATA SSDs probably aren't going to give much more lift.
It's still kind of annoying that Ubiquity keeps putting the 24-pin ATX plugs on their devices instead of a second standard plug. An Eaton or APC UPS can do the same job for less.
Hope that those will be stackable like the UNVR Pro
Would be cool
- Is this stackable?
- Are file request links via folder possible?
- Is it possible to keep a 'UniFi Drive' folder synced away from the local network as you can with Dropbox / OneDrive etc?
1. not sure but will ask. 2. yes, 3, not yet but would assume it is on road map..
@@DPCTechnology Thank you! 😀
I will say.....if you have had this since June....tbh it just seems to be a UNVR Pro with a new "Software". Unifi should really work on its process of creating I don't seems kinda a copy an paste cause so many people "Wanted" a NAS from them I don't know if from a professional side that I would use this over a different thing like a TrueNas system or 48Drive but at that price point is a denect starting NAS and if they can get App support and maybe IMO the Pro version should have had more RAM as to be able to use PLEX and other stuff. Great video as always.
I think its inteded as a network share with fast networking and easy setup. Its for a workspace/SMB. Or someone that wants fast storage and puts thier compute on another device. Ultimately I think it works for most users but it's a different take than a converged NAS..
@@DPCTechnologythis isn’t really accurate though as it doesn’t have iSCSI, or any of the protocols that would allow this to actually work smoothly with another device which does the compute, that was actually my plan when I heard that this was so lacking, but without those protocols this is basically just one large smb share.
Can you start with X number of drives, then add Y number of more drives to the existing RAID volume without losing data? I am used to Synology and expanding a NAS as I need.
It would be great to know if they have plans to allow people "aggregate" two or more of these together into a single larger NAS. Since it only has a single 10 gig port seem that that might be difficult.
@@biochemscott that would be great, I did not hear anything about plans for that..
Just a note, do your research on backing up with Time Machine over the network. It can be a huge pain in the ass or not even work some times.
Id admit im no pro at that, but it just popped right on and worked. I've been testing for a LOOOONNG time now (LOL) and it never errored or gave me any grief. It was truly a set and forget.
@@DPCTechnology I tried a beta macos and tried to go back with my timemachine network backup and it just wasn’t an option. I’ve done just basic hard drive backups since. Plus icloud usual backup stuff
@@Fordtruck4salethat sounds like it’s not a Time Machine problem, but a beta problem. You can’t restore a backup to a lower version of MacOS.
Hello! Nice video and thank you to make a nice tour.
Do you plan to try it with 7 SSDs for a speedtest?
Im really into ditch my All SSDs TrueNas for a UNAS with my SSDs
@@Timichaud I'm pretty sure I'm near the limit at 550MB/s.. more drives is going to only give moderate performance gains
@@DPCTechnology its nice anyway. I never got to pass 400 on my truenas with all SSDs and its a mess to handle for me.
UNAS will be wayyyyy better for a normal user like me. Very happy with the news today.
I will probably populate it with SSDs anyway for some wattage saving because im running on large batteries and solar panels
Looking forward to an Enterprise version with M2 SSD Caching and ideally lots of RAM for ZFS stuff. Btw, what file system is running on this?
Me too! It is unifi Drive
U meant File system when u said file system.. LOL not sure
Nascompares tried finding it via ssh but couldn’t, but speculates it’s BTRFS due to the snappiness of the snapshot backups/restores and the arm chip that has been used. Mind you this is just speculation on his part, but until we get offical word from Ubiquiti, this is what we have to go by.
I am unsure if UI's price point is quite right given it is the same price as the UNVR Pro, but I guess they are charging hardware cost more than software development.
Similar price point to Synology I guess, but Synology has the advantage of an app ecosystem. I am hoping they may follow through with a UNAS standard (4 bay version) and a UNAS Enterprise (the 16 bay version like the UNVR Enterprise? )
I hope Ubiquiti make it so Protect footage can backup to their NAS ( if it is not already possible )
The 10Gbe is what makes this such a value at $499. I want the Enterprise one too! Protect backup is available!
@@DPCTechnology Looks like it is time to retire my Synology NAS and get the UNAS. I guess I've been waiting for an excuse to do this 😊
@@EsotericArctos LOL, GAS!
UniFi is holding product reviews I see! Everyone else released at the same time 👍🏾
Yes. Embargo was today for release. this is how they do it for all creators.
@@DPCTechnology I love it. I watched for the technology. Stayed for the “creators”😂👍🏾
Is there any indication that protect, access, and drive can run on these? Will drive be brought to the NVR series? Or are there not enough resources to make that work?
I have not heard any plans for that. would be cool though
You showed only RAID 5 and RAID5 with hot spare. What other RAID levels are possible? IS it possible to create more than one RAID array? Is it possible to mix different sized hard drives or SSDs. I found no documentation about this.
It has RAID 5, 6 and 10 at time of shipping (6 is being added). If you stagger sizes it will only use the size of the smallest for all drives in the array...
What is the RAID level for higher protection option? I am presuming RAID6 of some sort. I also hope it can expand - when I upgraded my HDDs in the NVR one at a time from 2TB to 4TB it actually did expand (without really specifying what it was doing) without losing any data, so I would assume it has this feature? Seems like a good deal if one just wants storage, but is currently lacking the applications and features of other NAS vendors.
Since you only have 4 bays populated, what would happen if you installed drives in one or more of the empty bays? Would the storage automatically expand, or would it require a wipe and rebuild?
Drives Auto adopt according to nascompares
Correct
Shame this is 2U. I am running out of space in my rack. Couple of questions if I may:
1. Can I set it up so that it backs up all family members phones? Photos, contacts etc?
2. Would you say this could replace Dropbox for quick amd smooth file sharing and viewings? I do photography and video editing amd would love to be able to access and show large vid files remotely?
Thank you for your review.
Yes on both BUT.. I would like to see an endpoint app that streamlines that a bit. At this point you would need a 3rd party ap to "push" the files to the NAS. But u would then be able to see them remotely
Would also love to see a non-Pro version, just like the non-Pro NVR. Or - allow this one piece of hardware to act as NAS and NVR, of course. I’m sure there’s a plenty of us out there that could get by with just 4 measly bays!
@@Steven092391 good point!
You could set up Nextcloud and use the nas as a storage target.
You're talking about RAID5... Did you REALLY one day try to reconstruct a 100TB Raid5 with a failed drive? I sincerely doubt it, otherwise you won't even talk about it. Once you go over 3 or 4 4TB HDD Raid 5 is almost useless. It's almost impossible to rebuild without being stopped by a read error or another... and you've lost your datas. And with 100TB the rebuild would probably take 1 week if not more...
U are correct, I just used it for the demo, RAID 5, 6 and 10 are available. 6 is being released this week (was not avaiable when I was filming)
@@DPCTechnology Ok, great, I understand, and it's presentation of a product unfinished, coming soon on the market (in EU Store it's announced for 25-Oct). Raid 6 and 10 are the only valid options when you have huge volumes. It' wasn't the case years ago, when a 2TB HDD was considered a 'monster', but things change quickly.
Can this be setup like Google Drive to have clients upload files to?
Yes. very easily.
I didnt see any mention of Active Directory Auth? Kerberos?
It can do LDAP integration with UIdentity. no Keberos
Is there away to have remote users have an option to have files backed up? I have a Qnap and I install the app on their computer and it connects to my NAS and backs up everything on their pc.
Not yet but it has been submitted as a feature request.
What are the write speeds? If I understood correctly, it sounded like the read speeds were 550 megabytes per second? Is that correct?
Those were writes and reads..
@@DPCTechnology Amazing! Thank you.
@@DPCTechnology Do you happen to know if that is a limit on the UNAS Pro itself, or was it a read speed limit on your PLEX server where the file was coming from? I know this doesn't have the most powerful CPU in it, but I would have expected closer to 1GB/s capability with 4+ drives installed on a large single file transfer. If there is no bottleneck somewhere else, should be getting 200-250MB/s per drive * 4 drives = 800-1000MB/s. Though the CPU could be a bottleneck, the software raid could be one, or the drive being read from could be another.
Might be worth a test to put 4 sata SSDs in it just to make sure there are no drive limitations at all and use a fast SSD on the other end and test the transfer speed.
@@LordSaliss Petty sure it's near the limit of the box.. My HL15 gets similar speeds with 15 drives and nvme cashe..
that link system. kinda curious, i guess its opening some sort of port for it to download from your ui nas if you give it to someone on the internet or would it only work on the internal network. unless its routing through ubiquits cloud?
No port forwarding using Unifi's cloud..
I say this as a UniFi fan: this really needed to be EPYC based with native support for more flexible applications beyond just storage. Other NAS makers are (and have been) offering solutions that are much broader in scope and to my mind a much better value for the money.
I think they are focused on 2 groups. Business that need fast and large local file colanoration or.. People that don't want the compute on thier NAS and just want a fast inexpensive 10Gbe storage device and compute off board. As an HL15 owner I will tell u this device + a fast compute box will beat my HL15 on price and performance.
Too many Home users now days thinking that a NAS is supposed to be a server. I like that this device focuses on being an actual NAS and doing it well for relatively low cost with good user management and file snapshots for small/medium business.
@@DPCTechnology Can you clarify what you mean by using the UNAS pro in conjunction with a "compute box"? If I wanted to for example, run Plex would I not have to have my content on the compute box and not on the NAS? Sorry if I'm mistaken as I don't know what a compute box is and I've been waiting on Ubiquiti to drop this NAS to pull the trigger on something.
@@Rhino1188 it could be anything. It could be a computer. It could be a server. It could be a raspberry pi.. but typically what hobbyist will do is have a storage box that's just got fast storage and an inexpensive server to do all the computation
UNAS cant do apps? Doesn't matter... I have my plex on truenas and I regret.
I will buy a UNAS for sure and put Plex on a Linux VM.
UNAS is perfect like Protect. KEEP IT SIMPLE. Install it and forget it ❤
I really think that's the way to go for most..
@@DPCTechnology And for identity holy cow!!! Way better even for personnal use... manage shares with my family with identity is way more sample compare to truenas scale.
Will this work offline, not connected to the internet?
didnt test, but assuming yes
Is it MDRAID or ZFS under the hood?
You had this since June??
LOL! longer, that's the last time i formated it.. :p
@@DPCTechnology Dang, lol I bet it's entertaining watching threads talk about a "possible" nas. Meanwhile, you actually have one. lol
Docker ?
Negative
So, no iSCSI????
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The cheapest 2-bay Synology under $200 and you will get more functionality than this. For me this device in unusable since I can't use containers (home assistant) or apps at all (I need iPhone picture and video automated back up). No simple and cheap power back up as on Synology. So for me wait for new 8bay Synology rack mount version $1200 - $1300.
Not with 7 bays and 10Gbe
The synology will require you to buy their branded hard drives
Synology is history for prosumer segment with forced adoption of C2 and focus on their 'go enterprise' wet dream. But anyways, it's good they open up the space for newcomers in the segment.
They really need to integrate the file services un/pw with the users login (UID or not.)
I'd also like to see integration with MSFT active directory, MSFT entra, Google Workspace user directory, and LDAP.
@@MedicNYC it has all that
@@DPCTechnology Without having to subscribe to UniFi Identity Enterprise? In the few videos I've watched, I haven't seen any of the options I listed. Separate UN/PW's are needed for file services (a royal PITA!) And I didn't see anyway shown to integrate with other directory services to pull users. If any of that is possible, can you please point out where those settings are and/or make a video? As far as I can tell, to integrate with other directory services, one would need to pay for UID-E, no? Thanks.
@@MedicNYC Cameron Gray's Video shows the directory services it can use, and it didn't look like it needed subscription, it can do Entera ID, Local AD and LDAP services
@@MedicNYC you can do it with the free version of uid. But I will test to verify
@@DPCTechnology I’m also interesting if you can test what this NAS can do for free with the MSFT Active Directory integration
Ok product but it seems unfinished.
Fair assesment. They are still rapidly developing..
“I’ve been using this for a while”. Yeah, we know. 😂
Seems like over 4 months
I am also an idiot... LOL
@@DPCTechnology 😁
@@DPCTechnologyof course, it’s not like Ubiquiti hasn’t been leaking their own future stuff in product announcements for other things. 😮
Thx for the Video. Device is not worth it, imho.
@@Strangerwithoutaname yeah value is a personal choice. I think it will sell like crazy but not for everyone.
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Businesses use Windows, not Mac OS. The presentation would be more valuable on a business system.
I was using Win11 for all of this except backing up time machine on my wife's Mac.
No ftp server, cannot install Plex server, Transmission, etc. Useless.
Definitly not for u if u need FTP...
i think you are missing the use case. Also it’s a new product which will require a lot of time and development on the software side.