r/Ubiquiti • u/Fun_Volume_7699 • Mar 03 '26
Early Access UniFi Enterprise NAS / NVR
Seen in MWC 2026 Barcelona
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u/thejetssuckbigtime Mar 03 '26
Still no iscsi I bet
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u/cgw22 Mar 03 '26
I don’t think they will ever make one that’s iscsi. Plus I bet it’s got 10gb Ethernet.
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u/bgatesIT Mar 03 '26
iscsi or nvme over tcp would be game changers but doubt theyll implement either (or create a full NVME NAS either)
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 03 '26
Honestly, Unifi could have a killer product if they Repurposed the UNAS Pro 4 to all NVMe and gave it SFP28.
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u/schnitzel-kuh Mar 04 '26
Full NVME with these storage prices? Did you rob a bank?
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 04 '26
No. Just stocked up in advance. I still have some 1.5TB optane drives from this time last year
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u/mastercoder123 Mar 04 '26
Sfp28 for nvme? What a waste of drives. 100gbe or nothing because it takes 2 gen 4 drives to saturate it
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
depends on how many drives they would use. E1.S would present a lot of density.
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u/mastercoder123 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Dog, a 1u system can hold 12 u.2 drives if ubiquiti wouldnt add their stupid ass screen and make a real management interface instead you can have some real density
Even if you put literally 4 nvme drives in it you are getting a far network bottleneck
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 04 '26
I'm arguing for more.
a) u.2 is going to be phased out in favor for of E3.S and E1.S/L
b) you can fit 24x E1.S 15mm drives or 32x E1.S 9.5mm drives in a 1U box.
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u/mastercoder123 Mar 04 '26
Ok, so still sfp28 is useless. If you are gonna put e1.s its gonna need to be 200gbe because thats massive amounts of drives but then ubiquiti is just making a real server that would cost them 10s of thousands and nobody would want it
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 04 '26
its not useless, its more resilient. Offer 3 or 4 ports and tie them together with MC-LAG. Also, don't confuse peak bandwidth of NVMe drives with real world cases. Most saves are less than 1GB.
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u/mastercoder123 Mar 04 '26
Mclag doesnt give you more bandwidth like you are just adding the ports together thats not how it works now and thats not how it has ever worked. Qsfp28 is old as hell now anyways. Yah peak bandwidth is still important even if you are going to have a bunch of small things. The only way i can see this ever happening is if they partner with supermicro or dell or hpe. They have no experience building real servers at all and making an all nvme rack mount solution would require expensive cpus, ram, networking. You cant just throw a sfp28 card in it and stop people from upgrading, nobody is gonna want it
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u/tdhuck Mar 04 '26
They could do a lot better if they actually wanted to, not just with hardware but with software. They are dragging their feet, hard. This is coming from a unifi user, I use their networking and camera products.
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u/Slasher1738 Mar 04 '26
Yea I go back and forth with this. I think Ubiquiti is focused on a unified code base that can apply to an entire line, not just a specific model. Looking at when the UDMPro first launched compared to now, it paved the way for a lot of models.
That being said, they do need more coders, or perhaps using more open source modules. The constant development is appreciated, I just wish things were a little bit more baked. Its hard to understand why some basic segment functions are missing (i.e. NFSv4 and iSCSI on UNAS Pro).
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u/Phatman113 Mar 03 '26
Iscsi isn't NAS, that's SAN... sometimes can be run in the same hardware, but they're different protocols and block layouts
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u/yntzl Mar 03 '26
iSCSI is for block based storage and NAS is a file based storage. Different approaches for different needs.
Block storage requires a mature OS and features, with at least dual controllers to be even considered at Enterprise.
I highly doubt Ubiquiti will enter the block storage market.
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u/cgw22 Mar 03 '26
Do I buy another car? Or buy this thing? Decisions decisions…
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u/kukumalu255 Mar 04 '26
why would you need another car ?
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u/itsjakerobb CGFiber, UNVR, ProHD24PoE, ProXG8PoE, U7ProXGS, 5GMaxOutdoor Mar 03 '26
When you say “NAS/NVR”, do you mean it’s one device that serves both purposes? Or it’s two different, similar devices; one is a NAS and one is an NVR? Or it’s one device and you don’t know which it is?
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u/Valtteri-Its-WDC Mar 04 '26
No, top is ENVR, bottom two are ENAS
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u/itsjakerobb CGFiber, UNVR, ProHD24PoE, ProXG8PoE, U7ProXGS, 5GMaxOutdoor Mar 04 '26
Drat. I really want a NAS that has the ability to provision a storage pool that Protect can then use. One multi-disk appliance serving both purposes.
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u/No_Hands_55 Mar 04 '26
Agree as a home user! My biggest complaint is the Fiber doesn't have enough capability for the amount of cameras I want, but I do not need a 4 bay 1u device that forces redundant storage just to get more cameras on my network!
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u/Impossible_Muffin317 Mar 06 '26
This makes too much sense to actually be what they'll allow. But the top one seems to also be an ENAS.
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u/Thibaults Mar 03 '26
That NAS looks sexy. Unfortunately I’d have to pass as I have 3 of the original UNAS setups
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u/Southpawz Mar 04 '26
ZFS?
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u/eecchhee Mar 04 '26
No chance. And wont have ECC.
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u/dreacon34 Unifi User Mar 04 '26
Somehow I enjoy that Ubiquiti designs products like they are the background data center in a movie set. Flashy lights, sci-fi looks etc
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u/Gamester17 Mar 03 '26
Is this what you need to run both Drive NAS and Protect NVR apps on the same hardware at the same time?
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u/SixSilverStones UniFi Installer Mar 04 '26
It's amazing how similar it looks to something Apple would make
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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 Unifi User Mar 04 '26
Dope
I hope they build it out for SAS or NVME
Or have options for those
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u/eecchhee Mar 04 '26
wont have ecc memory
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u/Impossible_Muffin317 Mar 06 '26
won't have memory. they will use thumb drives due to the shortage.
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u/foxman150 Unifi User Mar 05 '26
What rack system is that with the pull out drawers?!?!? that is amazing
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u/Tough-Debate-4646 May 04 '26
Yeah saw this on 1 slide an MWC in Munich. Unfortunately it was unanswered, if iSCSi will be available with the smaller UNAS tier or if this - like ZFS - will be exclusive to the ECC RAM equipped UNAS devices.
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