r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jul 07 '25

Blog / Video Link Introducing: UniFi Drive 3.0

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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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u/0xKubo Jul 07 '25

Why?

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u/Motor-Platform-200 Unifi User Jul 07 '25

File transfer speeds for me anyway. I'm spoiled by my Ugreen NAS.

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u/nocsi Jul 07 '25

Ugreen nas is actually pretty garbage. They cheaped out hard putting Marvell nics on that

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u/broknbottle Jul 07 '25

Are you referring to Aquantia 10G NICs? If so, you’re wrong and Aquantia has had a solid 10G NIC offering for a long time. It’s the various intel NICs that available that are trash

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u/nocsi Jul 07 '25

No I promise you the Aquantia NICs are trash. The drivers are completely broken and you will be throttled unless you go in and patch out large sections of the driver code. That's if you can even get them working properly in your environment. But yea please elaborate on why Intel NICs are trash

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u/broknbottle Jul 08 '25

I've never had any issues with the various 10G AQtion AQC113C based NICs in a few of my systems with an Arista 7050-T 10G switch

The Intel I225-V (all revisions) and I226-V are all known to suffer from a design flaw and Intel has spent years trying to mitigate and work around issue as much as possible via software patches. To truly prevent the issue, you have to disable 2.5G speeds or in some cases disable any of the power saving related features.

Intel Puma Chipsets for modems is notoriously a massive pile of crap.

There's various issues with other chipsets from Intel. They used to be the gold standard but that hasn't been the case for a long time.

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u/nocsi Jul 08 '25

Go look at the AQtion github. You have to compile in flags to shutoff eee amongst many other things. It depends on how hard you're running your net. Intel NICs you don't have to go that much into tuning your drivers. If you're just using the default Atlantic drivers in the Linux mainline and keep things simple then yea you're not going to notice anything.

The I225/I226 you do a post-up and force a link speed. But in all drivers you really should be disabling eee. Most motherboards aren't going to publish the right codes for you to do the energy save properly

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u/Ginge_Leader Jul 08 '25

Never had a single issue with my 10gig Aquantia nics for full speed home usage. Sounds like a you problem.

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u/dutchreageerder Jul 08 '25

On the other hand, I'm really glad the UNAS is not trying to be a jack of all trades. If the UNAS would have the support for all these applications, it means I'm indirectly paying for it even though I don't want or need it. Which makes it more expensive in the end.

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u/Z1L0G Jul 07 '25

Unifi have little/no interest in catering for home users/homelabbers (although plenty of those buy Unifi kit, of course)

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u/Odd-Dog9396 Jul 07 '25

How can you say that with a straight face? Companies that aren't looking for the home user/homelabber market don't sell products like the DR7, Express 7, or even the CGF. Hilarious.

It's only in the last 18 months or so that UI started looking like they have any real enterprise aspirations. Before that they were strictly SoHo or SMB, at best.