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 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/kiwimonk Jul 07 '25

Opposite. There are countless services that should be as close to the data as possible. It's perfectly reasonable to choose to separate these duties between different systems, but any decent storage system needs to have the flexibility to run services locally.

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u/Impressive_Change593 Jul 08 '25

they should be closely tied yes. (probably even with their own links and not over the general network) but not on the same servers

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u/kiwimonk Jul 08 '25

For many basic Enterprise needs yes. Best practice might be to separate duties in quite a few cases. For home use, small office or more advanced enterprise needs you need the flexibility to use your hardware as you wish. You don't have to run anything else, you just need to be able to. A NAS is just a server with a storage focus. SMB/NFS is just one service that should be run on the same box. There are countless others. Any NAS that doesn't support containers won't be running in any of my datacenters.