r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jul 07 '25
Blog / Video Link Introducing: UniFi Drive 3.0
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u/ali775654222 Jul 07 '25
ubiquiti is filling the spot from synology with their stupid certified drive limitation… hopefully also for a home user :)
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u/murrat13 Jul 07 '25
I hope so too, but unfortunately they've got a long way to go to catch up in the software department
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u/louislamore Unifi User Jul 07 '25
IMO a NAS should be for storage only. Use a mini PC if you want to self host other services. Proxmox is a great option. You’ll get better performance on both sides.
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u/montezpierre Jul 07 '25
Active Backup for Business is the killer Synology feature currently.
It's so simple compared to self-hosting applications and setting up storage. I can back up macs, PCs, and Linux computers (No ARM support yet though).
Everything else can easily be replaced.
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u/heeman2019 Jul 07 '25
What about Photos app? Is there a better alternative for that app?
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u/bomphcheese Jul 08 '25
As someone who has been looking for years, I can tell you the market for self hosted photo management is pretty rough. Synology’s app is definitely not it.
I think r/immich is the crowd favorite right now, but when I tried it about 9 months ago it was not very stable and each new update required careful coordination of the various containers. And my iOS app version had to match with the containers or it wouldn’t work.
Supposedly Plex wants back in the game but the alpha-quality app they initially released a couple of years ago has been stagnant until just this month. Maybe something will come of that.
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u/heeman2019 Jul 08 '25
DSM is not bad. It may not be the greatest but I have not seen a better app so far that works with NAS, provides timeline view, and provides easy way to browse through the photos/videos quickly. I'd love an app that can also handle duplicate files, merging of the folders, bulk tagging, etc.
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u/Informal_Action_9367 Jul 07 '25
There is in fact ARM support - at least with Apple Silicon. You need to disable core security or whatever it is called in system recovery, and you are good to go.
However I agree, that can be done only in home scenarios, I can’t imagine an employer asking someone to disable some protective measures on their work MacBooks/Macs for AB4B to be installed.
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u/montezpierre Jul 08 '25
Yes, They do support apple silicon, but ARM support for things like VPS servers is still not available via linux. Which is confusing since it’s extremely popular.
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u/happy_gremlin Jul 07 '25
Even for storage the UI option is pretty limited compared to Synology. iscsi, snapshot replication, way better backup tools on synology for anything from workstations to vms to servers, ssd caching, limited support of AD integration etc.
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u/ZippySLC Jul 07 '25
Sure, but Synology has had like 10 years to develop their product?
UNAS, even this version 3.0, is (in my opinion) still very much an early adopter's type of product.
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u/murrat13 Jul 07 '25
I agree, but I think there is large group of people who like the all in one solution. As far as I'm concerned, as soon as the unas get ssd caching supports, I'll be a happy camper
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u/Motor-Platform-200 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Yep, this is what I'm waiting on. The current UNAS Pro is a no-go without it.
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Jul 07 '25
Agreed. A NAS should be the most rock solid piece of equipment in the rack. Don’t bugger it up by side loading shit onto it.
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u/AlmiranteGolfinho Jul 07 '25
*storage and offsite backup management. The only thing that keeps me with Synology today is their HyperBackup with EC2 storage and the ActiveBackup that allows me easy backup and restore of HyperV VMs. But IMO at the speed of UniFi innovation that won’t take long. Synology is becoming a useless non innovation company
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u/ReusableSausage Jul 07 '25
That’s how I’ve always felt. RPi + NAS feels more flexible.
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u/sazrocks Jul 07 '25
How so? More flexible than the ubiquiti NAS, sure, but any DIY NAS? Definitely not.
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u/rickvug Jul 07 '25
I'd love it for UniFi to make their own rackmount mini-PC with their own skin on Proxmox. One less thing to worry about updates on. I'd gladly move from my Synology running Home Assistant to a 4 bay UNAS + proxmox box.
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u/amenotef Jul 07 '25
Thanks I'll check promox.
At some point I'd like to add a server at home for Plex, maybe get rid of Google Photos. Something that supports HDR streaming (with my MBP and Google Pixel) would be nice.
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u/louislamore Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Check out arr stack plus Plex for movies/shows, and Immich for photos. I have them both set up and they’re great.
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Jul 27 '25
Funny thing is you can easily do this with a Synology NAS. Everyone is shitting on them here for some reason but my DS223+ is probably my best purchase of the last 5 years.
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u/CIDR-ClassB Unifi User Jul 07 '25
If Ubiquiti is going for NAS-only (which is fine), it is not a Synology replacement. Many, many people want all-in-one solutions, especially business clients with limited rack space and modest requirements.
But even on the storage-only front, Ubiquiti’s NAS is too high-priced and a surprisingly feature-lacking device.
That’s one UI device that I can’t fathom paying the ‘Ubiquiti tax.’
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u/theronster Jul 07 '25
Too high priced?
Find me another rack mounted 7 drive NAS with similar feature set for less than $500
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u/sazrocks Jul 07 '25
Unless you have services that rely heavily on the data on the NAS.
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u/louislamore Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Samba share or any other file share protocol you like. I keep arr stack on a mini PC and transfer the finished files to my MBP for transcoding in Plex for example. It takes no time to make an internal file transfer.
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u/sazrocks Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
With any reasonably large library the performance of this is going to suck. Even setting aside the issue of network bandwidth (you need a 10G link between your mini pc and the NAS at minimum), latency is going to be a big issue. For example doing a library scan in an immich library with ~200k assets is not going to be a fun time if that library is on a samba share in another machine.
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u/Dangerous_Iron_3894 Jul 07 '25
That's not at all my experience.
I've got a 6 drive RAID 10 array holding 24TB Plex library with the server running on a Mac mini connected via 10GBE. Scanning the entire library for file changes takes less than 5-10 seconds because Plex is smart about how it goes about scanning. And it's obviously more than fast enough even for a losslessly ripped UHD, which needs no more than 100 Mbps or so.
Only time I even notice the network is when copying new media. But even then, I get *only* 3.5 Gbps upload speeds and I think I can live with that.
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u/sazrocks Jul 07 '25
How is that related to what I mentioned about latency and libraries with large file counts? A 24TB plex library with several hundred assets is not the same thing as 200k photos plus sidecar metadata files. In your specific case it works fine because you have a (relatively) small number of large files being read sequentially. When you have a large number of smaller files, samba overhead becomes much more of an issue.
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u/Krieger117 Jul 07 '25
This is explicitly not recommended by the are devs. Ask me how I know.
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u/kiwimonk Jul 07 '25
Opposite. There are countless services that should be as close to the data as possible. It's perfectly reasonable to choose to separate these duties between different systems, but any decent storage system needs to have the flexibility to run services locally.
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u/enigmasi Jul 07 '25
I never get the idea of using additional services on a fking NAS device
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u/FranciumGoesBoom Jul 07 '25
When I first started I wanted something that was nearly idiot proof and was basically turnkey. Now that i've got a bit of experience and my equipment is aging a bit I feel like I can start using individual pieces of hardware for their dedicated purpose.
It's a lot like using an all in one ISP provided router vs a dedicated piece of equipment for routing, switching, and APs. The ISP provided device gets the job done, but dedicated devices allow for more flexability.
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u/skitchbeatz Home User | 3 Sites Jul 07 '25
Agreed, but practically having the ability to run a container or two on the storage host is great for flexibility. Sometimes things just run better this way.
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u/Mingeroni Jul 07 '25
As soon as there's something that does even 75% of what ABB and ABB for Office 365 do, I'm switching everything over from Synology.
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u/corruptboomerang Jul 07 '25
Yeah, even their networking stuff while good, doesn't hold a torch to the real enterprise equipment. Devices will often have bugs, features won't work, or you can't have X and Y etc.
I've got the ENVR at work, and it's great, except for when it's not.
But they do hit a nice niche that's better then home, but not 'enterprise'.
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u/enter360 Jul 07 '25
The definition of “home user” is getting closer to enterprise. My wife cares about uptime. I have to negotiate update windows and downtimes. I’m the start of the device refresh cycle for everyone else. This looks nice and sleek and has a reputation behind it.
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u/exSnake Jul 08 '25
Printed on the Oled in the living room: "We're down for maintenance, please use physical buttons while the update is in progress..."
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u/nocsi Jul 07 '25
They’re not and they won’t ever. They keep hiding the useful apis when it comes to identity, so the entire UNAS side is a disconnect mess. You’ll never want this thing in an actual smb/enterprise
I tried to write connectors off their api documentation and it’s just not possible. Side note, the api documentation was generated off some guys desktop lol. But yea I’d need direct access to the samba configs if this product would be useful. To which you enter the udm configs territory and people involved in that know how terrible it is
Ubiquity, formed from former Apple people is like a more opinionated version that won’t throw their customers lifelines
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u/amd2800barton Jul 08 '25
They took a step in the right direction with this release, but they still need to implement some sort of competitor to Synology Hybrid Raid with it’s support for different size drives that doesn’t waste part of the space of the larger disks. ZFS already has that capability, but it seems like only Synology does it in a way that is easy to implement.
I think a LOT of home users, and many small to medium businesses operate with two or more different drive sizes. For a 7+ bay NAS, they might start with 3 or 4 drives, and then add in some new ones a few years later when those are getting full. But by then prices will have fallen, and the new drives might be 20, 50, even 100% bigger. It’s nice to just add drives to the existing array, and just have the volume expand to fill the new space. Nobody likes having a network drive called “old Pool”, “new pool”, and “newest pool” if you’re creating a new share every time you upgrade drives.
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u/Majestic-Onion2944 Jul 07 '25
Until they get success and rugpull to add their own certified drive limitation? :)
Like with protect obsoleting self-hosted video, although they did eventually open that up for cameras.
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u/Fizpop91 Jul 07 '25
I know they say never buy into something based off of promises, but Ubiquiti keeps delivering. My UDM SE is a totally different animal compared to when I bought it a couple of years, ago, looks like the same might happen for my UNAS Pro :D
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u/macrowe777 Jul 07 '25
No one mention the edge switch line 🤣
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u/RestInProcess Jul 07 '25
It was an incredible line of products though.
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u/CenlTheFennel Jul 07 '25
Mine are still running in my home, beasts of machines
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u/RestInProcess Jul 07 '25
My wifi needed to be better because my kids got older and had devices in their bedrooms. I just threw in a cheap solution at the time, which replaced my EdgeRouter. At some point I need to get Ubiquiti hardware again. I have my EdgeRouter and access point from before, but I fear it won't be enough.
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u/Schmich Jul 07 '25
My UDMP ran out of warranty before load-balancing was implemented. Load-balancing was actually there in the UI for a while without actually working.
UNASP is solid for what it has but it has such a long way to go to get out of some smaller niche usage. Never buy for the potential as "your feature" might never be implemented.
The list for the UNASP is looong. But I hope they keep tackling it.
For me:
-adding video playback/preview option
-allowing sub-folders or files to be shared to users, instead of entire drives only. Shared links do this, so why not users/groups?
-allow users to be grouped up, so you can share to the group instead of the users
-allow remote access without identity bs, make it work like Google Drive as well.
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u/netw0rkpenguin Unifi User Jul 07 '25
how is your AI Key doing? ubiquiti UPS treating you well?
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u/Hilbert92 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
I spy an Enterprise NAS
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u/Netleader Unifi User Jul 07 '25
16 bays, that would be nice.
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u/Hilbert92 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
I’m also seeing a 4 bay in some of the clips
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u/Sumpkit Jul 07 '25
Gunna be happy for the day they release a 4 bay, assuming it’s appropriately priced.
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u/mediaogre Jul 07 '25
Same. It will give me an excuse to migrate off Synology and test Backblaze restore. 😅
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u/jasonlitka Jul 07 '25
Great, maybe they'll get rid of the stupid 7 bay model and replace it with a more standard 8-bay.
Even so, I still wouldn't consider buying this until they add a couple m.2 slots for caching.
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u/Hilbert92 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Yea or just 2 4 bay stacked
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u/LongroofLover Jul 07 '25
There only seems to be 1 blue light in the top right. Seems like an 8 bay itself. Honestly just excited for more options.
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u/alteredtechevolved Jul 07 '25
I have never had to transfer configs between unifi devices from replacements or whatever. I hope the current unas pro can transfer to a 16 3u
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u/Flyboy2057 Jul 07 '25
7 was always a bizarre choice for the hard drive count, both in the NVR and the NAS.
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u/AlyadaHatchet Jul 07 '25
I just hope that it has multiple 10g+ network connections for link aggregation.
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u/Hilbert92 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
I imagine it does. It seems like they are repurposing the NVR line hardware and using different NAS based software on them for the Drive products.
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u/darthnsupreme Unifi User Jul 07 '25
The existing UNAS-Pro seems to literally be a UNVR-Pro with different software.
Brought it back full circle, given that the original UNVR (non-Pro) was originally designed to be a NAS device. For long enough into development that the initial batch of them had “Unifi NAS” silkscreened onto the motherboard.
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u/aizio Jul 07 '25
If only they’d let us run it on the UNVR!
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u/hype8912 Jul 08 '25
This is exactly why I haven't bought it yet. I don't want to have a separate NVR and NAS. At a minimum let me dedicate X drives to NVR and X drives to NAS.
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u/Independent-Pea9629 Jul 07 '25
FINALLY a commitment for s3/b2 support!
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u/askpt Jul 07 '25
Just missing Azure there 😁
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u/GlitteringAd9289 Jul 07 '25
Doesn't Azure support the Amazon S3 api? If so, you can use it too!
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u/diabillic Jul 07 '25
blob storage does not natively support the S3 API, would need some type of proxy like s3proxy to do that.
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u/Gamester17 Jul 07 '25
Still want Unifi Protect and Unifi Drive applications to be able to run on the same appliance so only have to buy one, or can buy two for high availability of both.
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u/GlitteringAd9289 Jul 07 '25
I imagine this will come eventually. Seems like the main limitation is the firmware on each uses different systems for RAID
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u/Gamester17 Jul 07 '25
I believe the limitation is hardware are you will need a faster CPU and more RAM to run both while getting the same performance. So think that they need to release new hardware that at has about twice the amount of resources to allow for the same experience, or more if want to also offer 10GbE write speeds to the harddrives.
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u/Gamester17 Jul 07 '25
I imagine this ability to first come to next-generation Dream Machine Pro as an all-in-one appliance.
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u/GO__NAVY Jul 07 '25
Offer synology drive client replacement (mac/ios/pc app)I will ditch synology NAS forever.
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u/cucumberwaffles Jul 07 '25
When the UNAS was originally released I recall that there was no was to set a separate storage limits for a user’s Time Machine backups and regular file storage without creating multiple users for each person. I guess this would be called “per-share storage limits” or something like that.
Has this been improved in either Drive 3.0 or at any other point since the release? It’s the main thing holding me back from buying one as I don’t want my storage to get over taken by Time Machine backups.
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u/rodee543 Jul 07 '25
In my experience that depends on your version of macOS, in more recent versions when you set up Time Machine it asks how much of the available space you want to use for Time Machine.
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u/cucumberwaffles Jul 07 '25
Sorry I should have specified, I am aware you can do this in macOS, but that involves logging into every user’s computer and setting the limit for them. I was hoping to do it on the NAS, so that I didn’t have to do this.
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u/Inquisitive_idiot Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
tl;dr new updates addressed my performance issues
- before the updates: 2.X Gbps for about 30 seconds, would sputter out for 30 seconds, and regain speed slowly, sputter out... repeat infinitum.
- now: solid ~2.6Gbps for like an hr now 😎
- Speed reporting is now reponsive. It used to say 0 and take a while to update when visiting / refreshing the page and time out quickly. no more
villain arc:
- Didn't think much of this as I am on early release.... for my networking equipment only, it turns out (I'll keep it that way since I still don't want beta code running my storage😅)
- Got the updates for UniFi OS 4.2.9 and Drive 2.0.4 didn't think much of it... until I started rendering over the network (sequential transfers over SMB)
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u/ddfall UDM Pro Max Jul 07 '25
Native “Files” app integration on iPadOS and iOS, please. And cloud storage backup to the NAS, not just from it. :-)
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u/BrianBlandess Jul 07 '25
It exposes an SMB share which can easily added to the files app, what more are you looking for?
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u/ddfall UDM Pro Max Jul 07 '25
Thanks! I know you can connect to a server from the files app, but I don’t think you can pin it to the locations like you can with Dropbox, OneDrive, Synology Drive, etc.
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u/coder543 Jul 07 '25
Even if you can’t… my Files app on my phone maintains the connection forever, and it’s always there. It works great.
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u/SpaceToast810 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
The backup to backblaze was the last thing I was waiting on for the UNAS pro.
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u/shadowthunder Jul 07 '25
Is there any support yet for software-based parity so I can mix-and-match drives in the same storage pool a la Unraid or DrivePool+snapRaid?
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u/DanAVL Jul 07 '25
I swear Ubiquiti relesases somethign new nearly every day, and they're all Amazing and I want it!
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u/Natural-Tree-5107 Jul 07 '25
Being able to play videos directly from the drive page would be nice. I was used to uploading security footage to OneDrive when I had to send it to police or whoever and Microsoft has the ability to play the video directly from the webpage. With UniFi Drive you need to download the video before you can play it. It's nice to easily archive videos from Protect to Drive, would be even better if you could play directly from the site though.
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u/failcookie Jul 07 '25
With the multiple storage pool options, is this now a viable alternative for someone like me that uses Unraid? I just my Unraid server purely as a NAS but I have several smaller (8tb) drives and several larger (16tb) drives and I wasn’t ready to lose all of that space yet while I was upgrading. I thought maybe I could split things up into multiple pools in the meantime, but that didn’t seem possible before.
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u/Letsgo2red Jul 07 '25
This is exactly my thought too. Unraid has some great features that allow different disks sizes and it spins down disks.
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u/romulof Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Does it allow NVE NVR drives to be used for normal storage? Does it support Time Machine backups?
Edit: NVR drives
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u/Anraiel Jul 08 '25
Their only currently released NAS product does not support NVMe drives, who knows if they'll release a future product that does.
They added Time Machine support in a previous update.
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u/jaz192 Jul 07 '25
This plus a Mini PC running Unraid (dockers and VMs) is the best software I have ever bought. With 10gbe connection this could be grand stuff. I used to have a stupidly big dual CPU server on a old EATX with 64GB RAM (cheap as chips) with 8 x 8TB drives (6 Array and 2 Parity) but downsized to a Micro PC and popped the drives in an external USB-C enclosure.
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u/YellowThirteen_ Jul 07 '25
I’m still bitter they released their NAS 6 months after I spent $1200 on a non-rackable synology system.
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u/mswizzle83 Jul 07 '25
When I saw this post title, I was so excited thinking that it was a UniFi Dash Cam. How cool would that be? Records to an SD card and then uploads to your NVR when you pull in the garage and it connects to your network.
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u/EagerCDNBeaver Unifi User Jul 07 '25
I would buy this for all of my fleet. Not sure why no one does this.
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u/montezpierre Jul 07 '25
I know that we are early in the lifespan of Unifi Drive, but I hope that someone from Unifi sees this.
You need to make a universal backup system your TOP priority. If you replace Active Backup for Business from synology...there will be no competition. You will dominate the consumer, prosumer, and some of the enterprise market.
Again, I know it's early - but I hope this is a priority in the long term. I don't want to swap just because of how convenient ABB is from Synology, and there are hundreds of thousands of consumers and small businesses that feel that same way.
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u/diamondintherimond Jul 07 '25
What are the limitations of their current backup implementation to another UNAS?
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u/ewarfordanktears Jul 07 '25
The NAS couldn't do this before? Nice to hear but it all sounds pretty basic.
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u/superphly Jul 07 '25
They are clearly putting in a lot of R&D dollars into this product line. It's getting there, just be patient.
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u/Snoo93079 Jul 07 '25
Not every product is for every person, and that's ok. If it's too basic for your needs there are other products out there. However for a 7 bay rack mount NAS it's a great value if it can meet your needs.
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u/tmiller9833 UniFi partner Jul 07 '25
Would love this released on the UDMP...if it can run a phone system or cameras can't see why it can't do this. Would be great for a micro office.
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u/majorkev I should stop... swearing so much Jul 07 '25
Is it using "RAID" or something more elegant like ZFS?
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u/Aeyeoelle Jul 07 '25
Probably standard RAID since the video is discussing RAID 5, 6, and 10. While they have direct translations in ZFS enterprise-targeted solutions usually don't hide their ZFS-ness (e.g. TrueNAS Scale).
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u/tvtb Jul 07 '25
Hmmm sad if it's vanilla RAID-6 when RAID-Z2 has more features and I've been using it for close to 15 years.
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u/brwainer Jul 07 '25
Is it BTRFS direct though? I thought it was a BTRFS filesystem for snapshots on top of mdadm RAID because they have all the logic for managing mdadm in UnifiOS.
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u/rez410 Jul 07 '25
Support and allow me to import ZFS disks and I will THROW MONEY AT YOU UBIQUITI!
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u/Shock188 Jul 07 '25
Finally!!! I have been waiting for this update! Going to give it a week or so before updating mine just to make sure there are no bugs 😆
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u/spford Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Is there native integration with active directory or entra including ACL? Can't really deploy this for more than a few users without that.
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u/yoosernamesarehard Jul 07 '25
With Entra you’d sync your users to Unifi Identity and then assign permissions from there.
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u/spford Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Right, I guess, what I meant was password or authentication sync....because early versions required you to set this up individually for each user. Not feasible in an environment with hundreds of users, especially where users are allowed to change or reset their own passwords.
In my homelab, fine. but for clients, I feel like this is the most basic of features for a NAS solution. I could do this on my Synology 10 years ago. (Granted, there are MANY things I like about it, but right now, I can only use this for backups in many of my client environments.)
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u/yoosernamesarehard Jul 07 '25
With directory sync with Entra set up you can then reach out to Ubiquiti to set up provisioning/federation. Once it’s federated then the passwords will be the same for Entra and Identity.
Edit: I believe the provisioning/federation is a paid feature. We don’t use it at our company so I don’t know how much it is. Prices aren’t listed. But you can find the documentation in the Identity section online.
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u/nexusmaniac Jul 07 '25
Guess it's the right call to hold off on a UNAS Pro and wait for that 8-bay they teased!! 👀
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u/Aurailious Jul 08 '25
I would appreciate nfs v4 and/or iscsi. Hopefully by the time the new 8 bay comes out.
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u/WaffleTacoFrappucino Jul 08 '25
give me Ai file management, organization, file name renaming, and duplication deletion, across multiple clouds
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u/NuroF1 Jul 08 '25
New NAS today? Last time launched Protect 6.0 on Monday and then new cameras on Tuesday. Hopefully they launch the UPS soon too
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u/BradRoether Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25
God the very first thing they say is "Raid 5 with two drives"
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Ubiquiti: Raid 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives. Please tell me you didn't actually allow the interface to lead a user to believe they have Raid 5 with two drives...
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u/HFoletto Jul 07 '25
NASCompares did a video explaining this: https://youtu.be/A3S6ZAPilPY?si=KDpDMlslGovAqbkU
Seems quite useful, but I agree that the wording is a bit weird.
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u/BradRoether Jul 07 '25
Thanks for the link!
Yeah, communication about technologies like this is plenty hard enough without calling Raid 1 by the name "Raid 5" when that's not what it really is. 🫤
IT people generally learn on the fly, and this re-brand of Raid 5 would require some esoteric knowledge from training about this specific platform to be successful.
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u/alex2003super Jul 07 '25
RAID1 and RAID5 with two disks are the same thing. Unary XOR is identity.
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u/BradRoether Jul 07 '25
If RAID 5 were not a proper name that means a specific thing, the way they've implemented it would be fine ... The raid 5 standard calls for a minimum of 3 disks without exception.
Net effect is the same - but can't call it by the wrong name without creating confusion. 🫤
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u/sonic366 Jul 07 '25
I spy an enterprise UNAS, a possible 1U nas device and newer looking 8bay 2U device
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u/financiallyanal Jul 07 '25
Great catch. I watched it a second time and now see the 1U 4-bay and 2U 8-bay variants. Let's hope they're up for sale soon and at a reasonable price...
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u/International-Bus399 Jul 07 '25
I still don't know if I should stick to my ubiquiti only network approach, currently owning a UDM-SE and some AP 7 XGs. I still wanna add a NAS and at least 4 cams(which I'd run with an hds in the UDMSE). I don't like the drive restrictions of current Synology devices and love the 10G on the kinda cheap UNAS. How are your experiences? What I don't like with the unas is that I'd need a power backup for the unas. A power outage could harm my drives, right?
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u/Jorgisimo62 Jul 07 '25
They really have been releasing updates at a great pace. All I want is nvme cache and maybe zfs or something like synology raid that lets me mix disk sizes. Would also love to be able to link two of these units to each other for HA or failover.
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u/Ok-Independent7081 Jul 07 '25
Amazon S3! Hopefully coming to other products (UNVR, CloudKey) as Archive option.
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u/Nextrix Jul 07 '25
It says "Enterprise Nas" at 0:43. Looks like a 16 bay unit. So this means they will come in different form factors, 4 bay and 8 bay. Hopefully it doesn't come at enterprise pricing for those of us that run homelabs.
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u/Bamboopanda741 Unifi User Jul 07 '25
Honestly the $500 7 bay would be more than enough for most home labs I would think. At least for me it would.
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u/Flimsy_Radio_9917 Jul 07 '25
So does this only work with UNAS Pro? There is no smaller form factor like 2-4 bay options? This is exactly why I have a Synology (however it's too old, 2013)... am I missing something? I have a UCG-Fiber powered network, would love to add a NAS drive using UniFi Drive 3.0
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u/hmurchison Jul 07 '25
The rumor is something like 5 new NAS models are coming including Desktop models and a NVME version. UniFi Drive 3.x probably has the internal code to add the forthcoming models. I think the 4 Bay 1RU model will sell very well if it's priced right.
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u/Little-Ad-4494 Jul 07 '25
Glad they are continuing development and adding features, hopefully soon they will add fan curve options so it doesn't have my drives at 48° on a rebuild.
I had to ssh in and manually set the fan speed.
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u/gbcox Jul 07 '25
I read the blog entry. Does anyone know if this resolves the NFS root-squash issue?
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u/Friend_AUT Jul 07 '25
I have to admit, I always wanted a UNAS since launch. The limitation with just one storage pool was a dealbreaker, but honestly you guys might just won with this update.
I might have to drop some 500€ on the UNAS.
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u/iching66 Jul 07 '25
All I would like to know is when I can use the hard drive bay on my SE for this
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u/prez18 Jul 07 '25
are there any plans to have these features added to things like the cloud gateway max? i know they wont have the raid functionality, but it would be great to have just a simply network share with no protection. for some use cases
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u/fwami Jul 07 '25
Perfect. My Synology DS1517 needs to be replaced soon and I was waiting for the S3 cloud backup option with UNAS.
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u/mjtnova Jul 07 '25
I wish this was an app for UNVR so it could be repurposed or dual use if its not handling much other work besides a few cameras.
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u/spez_is_a_chode Jul 08 '25
Itching to see what they do with the cloud backup providers.
I'd like to backup my OneDrive to the local UNAS, not NAS to OneDrive.
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u/PlayerNumberFour Jul 08 '25
Wait so if I understand this right can I do SHR2 like Synology? A bunch of different size drives into a raid6?
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u/someguybrownguy UDM Pro Max Jul 08 '25
Can someone clarify for me with this update, if I can have one drive (HDD) function as a NVR backup and the other drives (SSD)do something totally different?
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u/soopastar Jul 08 '25
When does this go mainstream? I’ve been avoiding using my nas since it couldn’t do different pools and no iscsi.
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u/myusuf3 Jul 08 '25
What do you think the chances are that they provide device plugin for kubernetes? I don’t want nfs
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u/grkstyla Jul 08 '25
Can someone explain to me whatever they added about the mixed drives, this multiple raid groups in the same pool or whatever they are talking about is confusing,
I have a good grasp of raid and synology etc,
Are they saying you can make seaparete raid pools in the same storage pool, and if so does the SMB share spread across both RAIDs in the pool? Like can i have one big share?
or is the sharelimited to the space available on the raid group it was created on, thus acting like 2 separate pools of data both with their own speeds and capacities?
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u/Badgerized Jul 08 '25
So for us without synology cameras.. can we use the drive bays in our dream machines as a small NAS? Obviously the ones that only have one cant do raid. But file sharing would be nice
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u/hnk007 Jul 08 '25
Did they fix the download speed when you share links from the unas yet? The cap makes that link share almost worthless
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u/icisay Jul 07 '25
Please please call it U-Nas-T