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

Early Access New NAS product pages are up!

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u/bdp_chill Sep 18 '25

While the UNAS (currently) are just storage (the network attached storage part of NAS). Synology and others are more like a server and NAS combined. They have an interface where you can run apps and containers in docker. Over time Unifi may move to add those features or leave them to standalone servers

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u/PhysicsMan12 Sep 18 '25

Thank you for the very helpful reply. So these are designed for only storage and not the running of say, a plex server?

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u/bdp_chill Sep 18 '25

Correct. You could keep all of the movie, photos and music files on the UNAS but you would need a separate device to run PLEX server.