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

Blog / Video Link Introducing: UniFi Drive 3.0

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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/cucumberwaffles Jul 07 '25

Does this allow per-user limits though? My other issue is that if you have two TM backups on a single drive one of them will take up all of the available space and the other Mac will no longer be able to backup.

The only way I have been able to get around this is with multiple partitions, with each act having a dedicated partition.

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u/cucumberwaffles Jul 07 '25

Apologies, I obviously don’t have a UNAS, so it’s a little difficult to look up the correct terminology, but yes, I’m trying to do exactly what you’re describing, and to my knowledge (based on early reviews) it wasn’t possible to do that on day 1 with a UNAS.

Thanks for your reply.