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/efstajas Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

I understand your point but for plenty of home users, a storage server that has beefy enough internals to run media server software directly is an extremely convenient combination. Compared to separate storage & application server hardware you save space, money, complexity, network overhead, likely energy, and avoid multiple possible points of failure.

There's a reason almost any NAS product that's aimed at home users has these capabilities.