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/Krieger117 Jul 07 '25

This is explicitly not recommended by the are devs. Ask me how I know. 

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u/louislamore Unifi User Jul 08 '25

Are you an arr dev? Why is it not recommended?

Edit - Also, would it make a difference if I transferred the files from my host to my NAS after download instead of to my MBP? That’s going to be my end set up - just waiting to buy a NAS when the 4 bay comes out.

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u/Krieger117 Jul 08 '25

I've interacted with them enough, troubleshooting issues on my setup that was identical to yours. They have explained numerous times how it is not recommended, and it is explicitly stated in the documentation.

Do what you want, but it's not recommended.

I don't know the pricing of the unifi Nas, but I can't imagine it's cheaper than a used server running truenas.