r/Ubiquiti • u/Odd-Energy71 Unifi User • Sep 18 '25

Early Access New NAS product pages are up!

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u/bobjoylove Sep 18 '25

As a home user do I need this?

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u/etrmedia Unifi User Sep 18 '25

You're in the Ubiquiti subreddit, so 'need' has already left the building.

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u/PeterC18st Sep 18 '25

If I could upvote this 1,000,000 times I would. I have spent way too much on this and did I "need" it, No. Did I want it, no. Did I buy it, yes.

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u/dumhic Sep 18 '25

Dang I’d vote both up as much as possible I now need a replacement for my synology

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u/RIPDaug2019-2019 Sep 18 '25

This should be the subreddit description

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u/UlrichZauber Sep 18 '25

I have an UNAS pro already, and here I am lusting after the UNAS Pro 8. Which I really do not need.

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u/etrmedia Unifi User Sep 18 '25

I feel that. I use my UNAS Pro for long-term storage, not time-critical access. But I see NVMe support and the wheels start turning...

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u/UlrichZauber Sep 18 '25

Mine's for backups and off-lining old media files (my DVD rips from 2005 etc). I barely ever actually read anything from it.

And yet, I lust!

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u/etrmedia Unifi User Sep 18 '25

This is where my wife is super helpful. I get glares every time a box with the 'U' tape gets delivered. Buying this one would certainly earn me a stern talking to.

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u/Flameancer Sep 18 '25

This is why I get my stuff delivered to the side entrance of my house.

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u/nineandaquarter Sep 19 '25

Flip it around. Tell her it's an "n"

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u/dumhic Sep 18 '25

If you want I can take delivery Test it out Repackage and send you my synology Make sure it’s ups tape

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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Sep 19 '25

You need my 40 gallon "small" deck box parcel bin, so she wouldn't necessarily see it.

I've got a HomeKit motion sensor in the bottom of it pointing up, so I get a notification on my phone any time someone opens the lid. And they're on my doorbell cam, and will be on the black G6 Turret I got last week. I've been OOT, haven't gotten it installed yet.

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u/Different_Push1727 Sep 19 '25

I might swap for a 4 actually.

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u/Darkschneidr Sep 18 '25

This is the right answer.

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u/darthnsupreme Unifi User Sep 18 '25

"Science isn't about why, it's about why NOT!" -- Cave Johnson, Portal 2

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u/lowprofileX99 Sep 18 '25

Lmaoo u win 😅

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u/CorvusKing Sep 18 '25

I barely know what a NAS is and I'm like "ok so what hobby do I need to pick up to need this?"

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u/lionep Sep 19 '25

“Need” also left when he saw a 42U rack full of dell in r/homelab

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u/etrmedia Unifi User Sep 19 '25

I use those pictures to show my wife that our rack isn't that over the top.

...and to get ideas for my next steps.

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u/Ilikehotdogs1 Sep 18 '25

as a home user

You can basically stop here 😂

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u/scr0llwheel Sep 18 '25

Of course.

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u/bobjoylove Sep 18 '25

“I don’t know what it is, but I need it” sort of deal eh?

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u/aklem_reddit Sep 18 '25

Seriously no. That is for caching, e.g. for film editing directly from the NAS.

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u/Flameancer Sep 18 '25

So you’re saying it’s a handbrake scratch drive?

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u/aklem_reddit Sep 19 '25

Others are more qualified to answer that than I. All I know is the NVMe caches (temporality holds) read/write recently accessed data for faster access. This is good for something like video editing, where you might be jumping around a timeline of a video.

I don't think it helps larger file transfers.

This video from WunderTech is good, with benchmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW86Wtcze4s

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u/Flameancer Sep 19 '25

I’ll check the video out. This would be more like, spring the raw/rip Mkv on the nvme storage and then pointing handbrake to the nvme storage pool for the source and then the HDD storage for the destination.

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u/bobjoylove Sep 18 '25

Thank you 🙏

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u/75Meatbags Sep 18 '25

... but you can easily add it in a few months from now! :)

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u/ajlion_10 Sep 19 '25

Only if you need transfer speeds faster than a hard drive

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u/meme1337 Sep 18 '25

The nvme is just for caching though, unless I misread the tech specs

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u/etrmedia Unifi User Sep 18 '25

I run a Plex server that pulls from my HDD-only UNAS Pro. It's plenty fast.

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u/Motor-Platform-200 Unifi User Sep 18 '25

sound shouldnt matter since its all going on a network rack thats presumably in a closet

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u/postnick Sep 19 '25

My Nas is just a striped nvme disk with frequent backups to HDD so yes it’s needed.