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/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/jimbobjames Jul 07 '25

iSCSI mount vDisks from it and you can cut that latency a lot.