As an owner of a DS920+, I thought I would use more of its functionality. In reality, I only use it for backing up my PC. I am too busy running my business, and albeit that Synology has so many great features, I find the learning curve is steep, given my time constraints. The UNAS would be a perfect add-on to my other Unifi gear. I am hopeful that they introduce an integrated Protect/UNVR backup. Thanks for the review, Will.
I'm hoping in the future, they add services equivalent to Active Backup For Business so you can backup entire workstations, and also add more cloud backups options other than Google Drive. Still though, for the price point this thing is hard to beat!
I own a Synology 4 bay. My Synology has become the storage/media hub of my family. I was looking for a way to back it up AND serve the files I accumulate at work. I looked into building my own rackmount NAS and couldn't design anything less than an $850 TrueNas configuration when including ECC Ram, motherboards, etc. This UNas is $500, rack mountable with 10GB. It is PERFECT for what I need.
If I was in your position, I'd be more inclined to get another Synology and use the built in apps to backup one NAS to the other. I'm pretty sure that Will did a video on exactly that and included backing up the snapshots.
@@DavidM2002 Cost. I thought about it. $8 Bay RackStation $1300 (lame 2 GB) 1U 4 Bay Rackstation $700 ... and don't forget to add in $100 for a 10 GB expansion card. The UNAS is plug and play 7 bays for $500 bucks.
Game changer :) I've always made the argument that a NAS is about Network Attached Solutions, storage is just part of the whole package. I do like what's being done here though. Interesting to see what impact on the market will be like.
This is where I'm at. I want something rackmountable. The Synology options are far more expensive that I'd like to pay. I watched LTTs video about the CM3588 and OMV and started thinking about building my own NAS but fell into that tech-rabbit hole where forum users bashed that form of creating a NAS and promoted other methods, only for those methods to also be criticised. I just want something that centralises my documents and allows them to be accessed over the network, that runs fairly quietly and is expandable to grow alongside my data needs. For $500 I'm thinking this may be for me.
All rack mount NAS from other manufacturers are much louder. Quiet operation is the killer feature for me! I prefer to run server services or Docker on my Proxmox server anyway.
Also, the backup sounds like a miss to me. In my world backing up 7 drives to a Google Drive is prohibitly costly. For me, this doesn't have a usable backup feature.
I have Synology several times over and I use very few of the apps. I’d like something much simpler. In your video, you said that you added in additional drives and it handled it well. I am assuming you used drives of the same storage amount. What happens if one needs to increase storage and all of the bays are full? For example you have seven 4tb drives and you want to start moving to 8tb drives? Is it going to choke or will it work through all of that each time you add another 8tb drives?
I think too many people think they want an all-in-one NAS device that operates not only as a file server, but also as a compute server to run containers and VMs. TrueNAS itself is more of a file server than it is a true Type I hypervisor that’s designed to run VMs on top of. That’s why so many people end up virtualizing TrueNAS anyways and use Proxmox as their Type I hypervisor. I personally think this UNAS is perfectly fine as just a file server. Just have to get a mini PC, like a minisforum MS-01, and run ProxMox on that device with all the VMs the user could ever want. Then map the shared drives hosted on the UNAS to the promox VMs. I don’t think you’d save any money then going with a Turnkey NAS solution, or building your own DIY NAS server, but a UNAS with a mini PC like the Minisforum MS-01 would be super quiet, take up very little rack space, and super easy to setup!
Thank you for the review. This looks perfect for me and my use cases. That said, I would really like to see some noise levels, wattage levels and heat levels. I would use this in my home lab and I need it to be quiet, cool and affordable to run. My current Synology is noisy, hot and watt hungry.
Thanks for the video, this seems like a great NAS. I was looking for another NAS to backup my Synology NAS. I only need a NAS for backing up, no Docker etc. needed, would this be a good option?
Hey mate Love your channel and thanks so much for all the help with my Synology NAS I have recently been working with my NAS to replace Dropbox and be my primary file server. That said Synology is very complicated. Is it worth purchasing this to replace my current Synology 4 Bay NAS? I have been wanting to rebuild my home network with all Ubiquity and it seems like buying onto a ecosystem makes sense?
i have a truenas server already but want to get a simple remore backup server, and i like the sound of this, no bells and whistles, performance not top priority, super simple. But I am infering that unless you have a UNAS Pro locally, setting up one of these as a remote backup server might not be feasible? It isn’t providing any services to attach to use for that sprt of purpose?
It really depends on what you are looking for. If this has the features you need, it’s awesome and easy. But I don’t think it will ever do everything a Synology does
$500! I am very interested in this. Already have dream machine pro, cameras, and access points at home. I’m sure my wife won’t notice one more thing. I hope it gets a feature to offload photos from iCloud. That would be awesome.
I think the NAS will improve over time and should get much better. However, the lack of a USB port is a challenge because you can’t do direct backups or connect a UPS unless it’s over the network.
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?
So I would say this is absolutely not targeted at someone who knows what iscsi is. They are going for the base consumer for this, who does not need to be confused by all of the options.
@@SpaceRexWill If that is the case, and I concur with you that it is, why does Ubiquiti not build a Unifi Gateway with literally no options similar to what an ISP provides? The reason is that their Unifi line at the very least is considered to be "Pro-sumer" gear. There are lots of "Western Digital MyCloud" types of product offerings that just attach a "disk" to a network. I think the problem is that if Ubiquiti wants to sell this to customers that already own their Unifi line. it should be more than just a network drive. It doesn't have to be an application appliance, but if it is a Unifi device adopted to my network, I expect a Pro-sumer experience and not a Play-Skool experience. Not all of use run only Windows or MacOS FYI.
Very interesting device this UniFi is. I wonder if you could try to insert a btrfs raid volume from a synology NAS into this one, and see if you can keep the data.
also interested to know if you can take the drives from a failed UNAS Pro and drop them into an emergency thrown together DIY system and add the drives to it and have it seen as a btrfs raid array
I think it is clear that they fit different objectives. They are both turnkey off the shelf storage appliances and that is where the similarities end. If you just want file storage, the ubiquity will handle that easily and simply, more simply than the Synology. However the Synology offers a lot of bells and whistles beyond file storage. If you aren’t using any of those apps and services, you’re paying Synology Tax and not benefitting from it, and the ubiquity would be cheaper and simpler. Migrating would be as simple as copying all the files across from one to the other… might take a bit of time.
I was curious if it would also double as an NVR for Protect since it’s essentially the same hardware. But since you didn’t list that as an app that could be installed I’m guessing that’s not possible. Wonder if it is on their roadmap.
This is ALMOST a NAS done right. They need to add Backblaze, S3, Azure, etc to do the backup to. Also, needs to have a way for "users" to backup folders (docs, pics, etc) from outside the network for those mobile using a laptop. What about versioning? Versioning and snapshots are totally different. You mentioned mapping, so I assume you mean this will show as a network drive where one can use any backup program to back up to the NAS? Calculating the time to set up the drives, they need to speed that up because waiting upwards of 5-14 days to initialize is an early 2000's timeframe. I hope you do a follow-up video and go in-depth and not just gloss over some features to satisfy Ubiquiti's ego for getting the unit for free.
I might have missed it, but is there a way to run NVR on this, so your NAS becomes your NVR system also so avoid having two groups of spinning disks? If not I bet the enterprise version they put out eventually will have it ...
I am moving from the Synology 12-bay RackStation RS3621RPxs to the UNAS. My question is when I sell the synology can you recommend a way to "clean" the drives so they are DOE level reformatted? Any software you can recommend or a process. I can sell it without drives, but I have all synology drives in it as required and I have no reason to keep them
Mainly looking at the product as a pure storage server my question might be dumb could this be used to store folder to direct plex at from a different server
Would this be a good option to back up my Synology NAS DS1522+ as opposed to buying a second Synology. I do a lot of video editing and Photoshop on my 1522+
You will have received a message from me about HDDs to choose with Synology DS1522+. Now that this item is released Im wondering whether I should still stick to getting the Synology DS1522+ as a SOLO videographer and editor using 10TB per year?
Price to spec ratio, seems like this trumps the 1522+ by a mile. I have a 1522 now. Maybe not as many apps etc from synology, but 10gbe built in is a win/
At my company I have other needs than just a simples NAS. On your shoes I would easily go with Unifi NAS. You could probably buy 2 of these and make an offsite backup very affordable. Symbology it’s awesome if you’re using many of the applications they offer. I don’t think you would benefit much from. Also Synology hardware it’s overpriced
I'm a solo/freelance videographer and editor, and I recently purchased the RS1821+. I've filled it with 4TB SA500s. I edit in DaVinci Resolve, with my footage stored on the NAS. I tested editing 8K footage from my Canon R5 MK II, and it works perfectly. I'm a big Ubiquiti fan though, and this uNas Pro will serve as a backup solution as well as my Time Machine backup.
This is a really interesting solution, but it’s to simple in my opinion. I think Unify didn’t nail it. I am with you - simplicity is great, but in this case it’s really lagging of features instead of only being simple. To me this is one of the first videos, where I think about if this is your real opinion or are you saying this because staying friendly with Unify. I agree to that points, you are missing, but I also would like to see some more. Using 3 bays with SSDs for daily used data and 4 bays separately with HDDs as a big data storage where the disks spin down after an hour of no access. Is there in general any setting for spin down the disks and save some energy? Then as a first step I also would like to see something like Synology drive to mirror server data locally on my machine(s) including on demand availability . This would be the absolut minimum to give Unify money for that device. The good thing is - software can be upgraded. The question is, what is Unify planning to to at what timescale …
can't wait for a 2.5 gig smaller model. Synology setup just annoys the living crap out of me at this point. once they unify makes one targeting home users like me I will be all over it. I would pay like $300 for a 4 drive system. will make it an all ssd machine (read quiet, I am ok with the wasted performance) lol.
Does anyone know if the UNAS Pro has an automatically setup Data Scrubbing task and how often it runs, its one of those very important maintenence tasks that in Synology you have to remember to go and setup. The same question as well for SMART Testing the drives is this automatically done or another feature we could do with adding?
Will I be able to remotely access my NAS files without using VPN? I would like it to function similarly to DropBox, using a Windows client so that the NAS files appear in Windows explorer.
For those who concern raid or data issue , raid is not backup and you need to do 3-2-1 anyway Get two unit and it proably still got chance cheaper than turkey nas solution especially rackmount model How much for 2 ? 1000 😂 I just wondering how they implement unify system And will they have storage node / sync / failover function if you add more of these thing into the system
See if you can install nload on the UNAS via SSH. Then you can monitor networking much better. For example nload -i 10000000 -o 10000000 to monitor up to 10Gbs.
It's kinda disappointing tbh. You're trying to sell it's simplicity as a good thing, but it's just a lack of basic features that we've grown to expect from a modern NAS system.
That’s the thing. If you need features this doesn’t have, it’s really not for you. For me, I could never run my business off of it. But I know a ton of photographers who need nothing more, and think that Synology is too complicated to setup.
@@SpaceRexWillas a professional photographer I have looked at the photos app but it is of absolutely no use to me. LightRoom Classic is the way a view and manage my photos. Totally agree with you here. The only thing my main Synology NAS does is hold files that I’m not currently working on. I really only use its SMB functionality. I do have 2 other Synology units. One runs security station… for now… I’m slowly switching everything over to Aqara / Apple Home because the “Ai” features and easy access from Apple Home. My remaining Synology NAS backs up my main NAS and acts as a VPN server for remote connections. The NAS in this video looks very compelling for an affordable storage solution that has a 10GB connection.
I’m sticking with Synology - backup for business, etc., never buy hardware with the hope that new features will come… many on the next hardware refresh cycle I can look at this…
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
@@SpaceRexWillI have a DS918+ running plex but am contemplating a second NAS or an expansion device as I have 4x 10TB drives to use. Would this be suitable? As the main synology could still be the main operation centre. I have an existing ubiquiti home network setup.
7 bays in 2U is pretty poor density tbh. They should have kept the ports on the back and made it a 2.5in nas. Also, they really should have integrated with truenas scale instead, proven tech, popular in their markets.
While I'm excited UI has joined the NAS game time disappointed in features. My current synologies are 8 Drive; dual 10GB sfp, cache card and 16gb ram. I'd rather see their new enterprise nvr chassis.
every review ive seen has been this is cool and the price is good but i wouldnt use it. This nas cant seem to fit into anyones workflow so who would buy this.
Not sure I agree with this. Synology should fear this product if anything. There are a lot of us home lab people who use synology to provide backup destinations and other file based functionality. Given the price and its rack mount form factor this could end up leaching quite a bit of the sales from synology. Do I wish it would at least let me shoe horn plex in there? sure... but would I be willing to work around that for what this unit does offer? If the thruput of RAID 10 / SSDs can meet my performance needs then absolutely. Hell at $500 I might just get one to play with and figure out what it's for later. Having "all the things" in my little Unifi rack on wheels is a bonus. Do I know that this is just the beginning and will I have buyers remorse when the "Pro +" version comes out with a beefier CPU and limited VM capabilities? You bet.. lol..
As an owner of a DS920+, I thought I would use more of its functionality. In reality, I only use it for backing up my PC. I am too busy running my business, and albeit that Synology has so many great features, I find the learning curve is steep, given my time constraints.
The UNAS would be a perfect add-on to my other Unifi gear. I am hopeful that they introduce an integrated Protect/UNVR backup.
Thanks for the review, Will.
Dude...your videos have made my life SO MUCH EASIER!!! Thank you
I'm hoping in the future, they add services equivalent to Active Backup For Business so you can backup entire workstations, and also add more cloud backups options other than Google Drive. Still though, for the price point this thing is hard to beat!
I own a Synology 4 bay. My Synology has become the storage/media hub of my family.
I was looking for a way to back it up AND serve the files I accumulate at work.
I looked into building my own rackmount NAS and couldn't design anything less than an $850 TrueNas configuration when including ECC Ram, motherboards, etc.
This UNas is $500, rack mountable with 10GB. It is PERFECT for what I need.
If I was in your position, I'd be more inclined to get another Synology and use the built in apps to backup one NAS to the other. I'm pretty sure that Will did a video on exactly that and included backing up the snapshots.
Ditto , I just want a rack format nas, tempted to gut a synlology and rebuilt it
@@DavidM2002 Cost. I thought about it.
$8 Bay RackStation $1300
(lame 2 GB) 1U 4 Bay Rackstation $700
... and don't forget to add in $100 for a 10 GB expansion card.
The UNAS is plug and play 7 bays for $500 bucks.
Game changer :) I've always made the argument that a NAS is about Network Attached Solutions, storage is just part of the whole package. I do like what's being done here though. Interesting to see what impact on the market will be like.
This is where I'm at. I want something rackmountable. The Synology options are far more expensive that I'd like to pay. I watched LTTs video about the CM3588 and OMV and started thinking about building my own NAS but fell into that tech-rabbit hole where forum users bashed that form of creating a NAS and promoted other methods, only for those methods to also be criticised. I just want something that centralises my documents and allows them to be accessed over the network, that runs fairly quietly and is expandable to grow alongside my data needs. For $500 I'm thinking this may be for me.
@@MCULYW-gx8lt Ya for $499 this is a pretty dang go deal. Especially if you are already invested into the Unifi ecosystem.
All rack mount NAS from other manufacturers are much louder. Quiet operation is the killer feature for me! I prefer to run server services or Docker on my Proxmox server anyway.
You can get a RS1221 really quiet w noctua fans.
@@mjscprretrofit, not OTS
@@JeremyTaylorNZ True, not for everyone. But it really is a < 10 minute job most can do.
I now ran the UNAS pro and the RS1221 side by side - the UNAS is much quieter than the 1221 w Noctuas.
Also, the backup sounds like a miss to me. In my world backing up 7 drives to a Google Drive is prohibitly costly. For me, this doesn't have a usable backup feature.
I have Synology several times over and I use very few of the apps. I’d like something much simpler.
In your video, you said that you added in additional drives and it handled it well. I am assuming you used drives of the same storage amount. What happens if one needs to increase storage and all of the bays are full?
For example you have seven 4tb drives and you want to start moving to 8tb drives? Is it going to choke or will it work through all of that each time you add another 8tb drives?
It appears to be a nice addition to your Unifi setup. Not a replacement for Synology, QNAP, UGreen, etc.
completely agree with you on this!
I think too many people think they want an all-in-one NAS device that operates not only as a file server, but also as a compute server to run containers and VMs. TrueNAS itself is more of a file server than it is a true Type I hypervisor that’s designed to run VMs on top of. That’s why so many people end up virtualizing TrueNAS anyways and use Proxmox as their Type I hypervisor.
I personally think this UNAS is perfectly fine as just a file server. Just have to get a mini PC, like a minisforum MS-01, and run ProxMox on that device with all the VMs the user could ever want. Then map the shared drives hosted on the UNAS to the promox VMs.
I don’t think you’d save any money then going with a Turnkey NAS solution, or building your own DIY NAS server, but a UNAS with a mini PC like the Minisforum MS-01 would be super quiet, take up very little rack space, and super easy to setup!
Thank you for the review. This looks perfect for me and my use cases. That said, I would really like to see some noise levels, wattage levels and heat levels. I would use this in my home lab and I need it to be quiet, cool and affordable to run. My current Synology is noisy, hot and watt hungry.
Thanks for the video, this seems like a great NAS. I was looking for another NAS to backup my Synology NAS. I only need a NAS for backing up, no Docker etc. needed, would this be a good option?
Hey mate
Love your channel and thanks so much for all the help with my Synology NAS
I have recently been working with my NAS to replace Dropbox and be my primary file server. That said Synology is very complicated. Is it worth purchasing this to replace my current Synology 4 Bay NAS? I have been wanting to rebuild my home network with all Ubiquity and it seems like buying onto a ecosystem makes sense?
i have a truenas server already but want to get a simple remore backup server, and i like the sound of this, no bells and whistles, performance not top priority, super simple. But I am infering that unless you have a UNAS Pro locally, setting up one of these as a remote backup server might not be feasible? It isn’t providing any services to attach to use for that sprt of purpose?
Synology is very very good, but I truly hope that this will be better!
It really depends on what you are looking for.
If this has the features you need, it’s awesome and easy. But I don’t think it will ever do everything a Synology does
Maybe in 5years after multiple iterations 😂
As soon as it has protect, I buy it.
$500! I am very interested in this. Already have dream machine pro, cameras, and access points at home. I’m sure my wife won’t notice one more thing.
I hope it gets a feature to offload photos from iCloud. That would be awesome.
I think the NAS will improve over time and should get much better. However, the lack of a USB port is a challenge because you can’t do direct backups or connect a UPS unless it’s over the network.
I hope they will also release a table top form factor of their NAS with 4 or 5 drive slots.
That is a NAS done right, without any additional server functionalities. A pure LOCAL STORAGE device. BEAUTIFUL!
UNIFI, take my money!
Very Impressive for a NAS for that price... but still preferred my synology NAS's ... different workflow... But very nice one for simple NAS usage
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?
So I would say this is absolutely not targeted at someone who knows what iscsi is.
They are going for the base consumer for this, who does not need to be confused by all of the options.
@@SpaceRexWill If that is the case, and I concur with you that it is, why does Ubiquiti not build a Unifi Gateway with literally no options similar to what an ISP provides? The reason is that their Unifi line at the very least is considered to be "Pro-sumer" gear. There are lots of "Western Digital MyCloud" types of product offerings that just attach a "disk" to a network. I think the problem is that if Ubiquiti wants to sell this to customers that already own their Unifi line. it should be more than just a network drive. It doesn't have to be an application appliance, but if it is a Unifi device adopted to my network, I expect a Pro-sumer experience and not a Play-Skool experience. Not all of use run only Windows or MacOS FYI.
Is it possible to encrypt backups òn the UNAS before uploading the data to google?
Very interesting device this UniFi is. I wonder if you could try to insert a btrfs raid volume from a synology NAS into this one, and see if you can keep the data.
also interested to know if you can take the drives from a failed UNAS Pro and drop them into an emergency thrown together DIY system and add the drives to it and have it seen as a btrfs raid array
Would you recommend using this over the Synology ecosystem? What would the migration be like?
Hahahahahaha
I think it is clear that they fit different objectives. They are both turnkey off the shelf storage appliances and that is where the similarities end. If you just want file storage, the ubiquity will handle that easily and simply, more simply than the Synology. However the Synology offers a lot of bells and whistles beyond file storage. If you aren’t using any of those apps and services, you’re paying Synology Tax and not benefitting from it, and the ubiquity would be cheaper and simpler. Migrating would be as simple as copying all the files across from one to the other… might take a bit of time.
I was curious if it would also double as an NVR for Protect since it’s essentially the same hardware. But since you didn’t list that as an app that could be installed I’m guessing that’s not possible. Wonder if it is on their roadmap.
UI stock has been risking pretty strong this year, but the NAS market could give it way more room to run.
If it has something similar to Synology's SHR (different size HDDs), I would buy this in a heartbeat
This is ALMOST a NAS done right. They need to add Backblaze, S3, Azure, etc to do the backup to. Also, needs to have a way for "users" to backup folders (docs, pics, etc) from outside the network for those mobile using a laptop. What about versioning? Versioning and snapshots are totally different. You mentioned mapping, so I assume you mean this will show as a network drive where one can use any backup program to back up to the NAS? Calculating the time to set up the drives, they need to speed that up because waiting upwards of 5-14 days to initialize is an early 2000's timeframe.
I hope you do a follow-up video and go in-depth and not just gloss over some features to satisfy Ubiquiti's ego for getting the unit for free.
I might have missed it, but is there a way to run NVR on this, so your NAS becomes your NVR system also so avoid having two groups of spinning disks? If not I bet the enterprise version they put out eventually will have it ...
No, not at this time. I don't think it will support the Protect app.
Wish it could install Protect tooo... then this NAS is also our NVR.
Do you know the difference between the uplink cable and the 25G DAC?
Uplink part# UACC-Uplink-SFP28
DAC part# UACC-DAC-SFP28
I am moving from the Synology 12-bay RackStation RS3621RPxs to the UNAS. My question is when I sell the synology can you recommend a way to "clean" the drives so they are DOE level reformatted? Any software you can recommend or a process. I can sell it without drives, but I have all synology drives in it as required and I have no reason to keep them
Thank you will /from sweden
Can you perhaps test with the RAID 10 config? SSDS? I really would like to replace my dell server with this and the thru-put my only concern
I think you would still be CPU limited to ~700-750 MB/s
Can it also be assigned from my iPhone as an iCloud backup??????
Kind regards
Imagine this. 10G copper. 5 bay m.2 NVME. 16GB RAM. 1U rack mount... $699
Why 16GB RAM when you can’t run any apps on it 🤣
@@Dextermorga Yet. I would be fine with lower but as long as it is expandable.
Mainly looking at the product as a pure storage server my question might be dumb could this be used to store folder to direct plex at from a different server
Is it easy to set up?
Would this be a good option to back up my Synology NAS DS1522+ as opposed to buying a second Synology. I do a lot of video editing and Photoshop on my 1522+
One thing concerns me it’s tha lacking of gracefully shutdown on UPS.
Unifi should make a UPS urgently
😂 dream on. On Dream machine for camera back up is missing also for many years - they don't care 🤣
@@Dextermorga not sure if automation is there but you have the option to backup video to a NAS
Can you set it up as an off site target?
You would need a site to site VPN to do that
@@SpaceRexWill So this does not have the same functionality that is provided by Synology Drive?
Isn’t raid5 (with btrfs) unstable (write hole issue)?
They look to be using MDADM for raid and just BTRFS as the file system
Not related to the product but what keyboard do you use?
Can u upload files from the iphone app like synology or the qnap nas? enabling u to upload photos and videos straight from ur phone?
it doesn't provide any compatibility hdd spec but the price point is attractive. this costs less than a synology expansion unit.
maybe will change the synology when adding cache will be available and capability of adding containers ... (and some more)
You will have received a message from me about HDDs to choose with Synology DS1522+. Now that this item is released Im wondering whether I should still stick to getting the Synology DS1522+ as a SOLO videographer and editor using 10TB per year?
I just bought the 1522 as well for videography lol, maybe an oops.
Price to spec ratio, seems like this trumps the 1522+ by a mile. I have a 1522 now.
Maybe not as many apps etc from synology, but 10gbe built in is a win/
At my company I have other needs than just a simples NAS.
On your shoes I would easily go with Unifi NAS. You could probably buy 2 of these and make an offsite backup very affordable.
Symbology it’s awesome if you’re using many of the applications they offer. I don’t think you would benefit much from. Also Synology hardware it’s overpriced
I'm a solo/freelance videographer and editor, and I recently purchased the RS1821+. I've filled it with 4TB SA500s. I edit in DaVinci Resolve, with my footage stored on the NAS. I tested editing 8K footage from my Canon R5 MK II, and it works perfectly.
I'm a big Ubiquiti fan though, and this uNas Pro will serve as a backup solution as well as my Time Machine backup.
@@cytokinestorm3074 so u mean u wish u had waited for this Unifi model instead of Synology? Am I right
if using tailscale, access it like any other smb share?
what pci gen is the ssd interface? dont see it on the tech spec sheet
This is a really interesting solution, but it’s to simple in my opinion. I think Unify didn’t nail it. I am with you - simplicity is great, but in this case it’s really lagging of features instead of only being simple. To me this is one of the first videos, where I think about if this is your real opinion or are you saying this because staying friendly with Unify.
I agree to that points, you are missing, but I also would like to see some more. Using 3 bays with SSDs for daily used data and 4 bays separately with HDDs as a big data storage where the disks spin down after an hour of no access. Is there in general any setting for spin down the disks and save some energy?
Then as a first step I also would like to see something like Synology drive to mirror server data locally on my machine(s) including on demand availability .
This would be the absolut minimum to give Unify money for that device.
The good thing is - software can be upgraded. The question is, what is Unify planning to to at what timescale …
can't wait for a 2.5 gig smaller model.
Synology setup just annoys the living crap out of me at this point. once they unify makes one targeting home users like me I will be all over it. I would pay like $300 for a 4 drive system. will make it an all ssd machine (read quiet, I am ok with the wasted performance) lol.
is it possible to run a vm on a raspberry Pi for example and use de UNAS Pro as storage for the raspberry pi?
Does anyone know if the UNAS Pro has an automatically setup Data Scrubbing task and how often it runs, its one of those very important maintenence tasks that in Synology you have to remember to go and setup. The same question as well for SMART Testing the drives is this automatically done or another feature we could do with adding?
So, to clarify, it needs to have an Internet connection to get files? It doesn't have local only?
Local only works perfectly fine
Will I be able to remotely access my NAS files without using VPN? I would like it to function similarly to DropBox, using a Windows client so that the NAS files appear in Windows explorer.
No smb?
I have my Plex server on a NUC and sending files via SMB from a Synology now, I shouldn't have any issues, right?
Correct!
looks it very easy and simple.
No problems with WD drives right?
none
For those who concern raid or data issue , raid is not backup and you need to do 3-2-1 anyway
Get two unit and it proably still got chance cheaper than turkey nas solution especially rackmount model
How much for 2 ? 1000 😂
I just wondering how they implement unify system
And will they have storage node / sync / failover function if you add more of these thing into the system
Do you think is good for video editing?
It's not bad, but not going to be phenomenal due to CPU spec, but for 1-3 light users it should be fine!
How do you connect to the NAS when you're not home?
Can it show up as a folder on your computer over the internet?
You would need to setup a VPN server on your router
@@SpaceRexWill😂 golden Synology
@@SpaceRexWill I suppose you could do it with their one click through Wi-Fi man
When file sharing… what is the file size limit?
I am not sure, may also be subject to change
"Easy, easly, simple" - as for me it look like there are some missing functionalities which general NAS users are get used to.
Can you access the share via a Unifi site to site vpn?
Unable to run not even picture and video back up for the iPhone for 499 = too expensive
See if you can install nload on the UNAS via SSH. Then you can monitor networking much better. For example nload -i 10000000 -o 10000000 to monitor up to 10Gbs.
And it's sold out on release day. 😞
Noise level?
It's kinda disappointing tbh. You're trying to sell it's simplicity as a good thing, but it's just a lack of basic features that we've grown to expect from a modern NAS system.
That’s the thing. If you need features this doesn’t have, it’s really not for you.
For me, I could never run my business off of it. But I know a ton of photographers who need nothing more, and think that Synology is too complicated to setup.
@@SpaceRexWillWould you actually recommend it to your photographer friends without a photos app?
Most of my professional photographers clients don’t have any need for Synology photos.
I personally love it, but it comes down to workflows for them
@@SpaceRexWillas a professional photographer I have looked at the photos app but it is of absolutely no use to me. LightRoom Classic is the way a view and manage my photos. Totally agree with you here.
The only thing my main Synology NAS does is hold files that I’m not currently working on. I really only use its SMB functionality.
I do have 2 other Synology units. One runs security station… for now… I’m slowly switching everything over to Aqara / Apple Home because the “Ai” features and easy access from Apple Home.
My remaining Synology NAS backs up my main NAS and acts as a VPN server for remote connections.
The NAS in this video looks very compelling for an affordable storage solution that has a 10GB connection.
Don’t be disappointed because they are just putting the product out people wanted and will add features later. This is basically a MVP tried and true
They could've made the drives vertical :p
Can you load your own OS?
No.
would have loved a 100gbe cage
That wouldn’t get you much, the bottleneck here is the mechanical hard drives. As it is now it can’t saturate 10gb, let alone 100.
@@AaronAbernethy you can put SSD, just thought it would be nice so it could serve a lot of people
I’m sticking with Synology - backup for business, etc., never buy hardware with the hope that new features will come… many on the next hardware refresh cycle I can look at this…
But is it easy to use???
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
Can you run Plex on it?
You can’t
@@SpaceRexWillI have a DS918+ running plex but am contemplating a second NAS or an expansion device as I have 4x 10TB drives to use. Would this be suitable? As the main synology could still be the main operation centre. I have an existing ubiquiti home network setup.
PLEX??????????? 🤪 Does not look like it will run 3rd party apps.
No UPS Monitoring? Don’t see a USB port
the ARM is fucking up the speed...
7 bays in 2U is pretty poor density tbh. They should have kept the ports on the back and made it a 2.5in nas.
Also, they really should have integrated with truenas scale instead, proven tech, popular in their markets.
Damn, they really missed it by not including docker containers
finally
Using spinning rust in raid 5 isn’t smart normally
While I'm excited UI has joined the NAS game time disappointed in features. My current synologies are 8 Drive; dual 10GB sfp, cache card and 16gb ram. I'd rather see their new enterprise nvr chassis.
No iSCSI. No reduntancy.
Plex server app, Filezilla FTP, Transmission, … and so on. No. Thats not a NAS. At least for now.
This is going to be impossible to obtain
only 400mb/s :( no LACP no 2x 10GE no PCI-E nothing only 7 Bays...
every review ive seen has been this is cool and the price is good but i wouldnt use it. This nas cant seem to fit into anyones workflow so who would buy this.
Hello
Sent it to you free, yet not sponsored? Sounds like a contradiction
FIRST!
Not sure, think the other guy might have gotten you
@@SpaceRexWillI Dunnnoooooo
They should have partnered with Synology for the software.
Not sure I agree with this. Synology should fear this product if anything. There are a lot of us home lab people who use synology to provide backup destinations and other file based functionality. Given the price and its rack mount form factor this could end up leaching quite a bit of the sales from synology.
Do I wish it would at least let me shoe horn plex in there? sure... but would I be willing to work around that for what this unit does offer? If the thruput of RAID 10 / SSDs can meet my performance needs then absolutely. Hell at $500 I might just get one to play with and figure out what it's for later. Having "all the things" in my little Unifi rack on wheels is a bonus.
Do I know that this is just the beginning and will I have buyers remorse when the "Pro +" version comes out with a beefier CPU and limited VM capabilities? You bet.. lol..
Synology : sure , add 800 on price tag before contacting us again 😅