I know nobody has the real answer to this unless your employed at ubiquiti, but I’m looking to buy the Unas, but my gut feeling is just telling me that this first version was just rushed onto the nvr hardware and they are actually working on a other module.
What are your gut feeling?
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I wouldn’t get it. Same gut feeling. Also saw some posts in here with issues. Maybe they were just early OS builds and now fixed, but idk. It also has no m.2 slots for ssd caching.
At this point I would rather get the QNAP TS-435XeU (for around 150-200 more where I live) and not expose it to the internet directly since it is a QNAP.
I have one, and I’m now a bit “meh” about it following some real-world use.
Firstly, i was really excited about being able to use UniFi Identity (the free tier) to provide logins to my family - the use case was to replace iCloud Drive and “personal” storage for each family member.
Well… that’s where the woes started unfortunately. My Identity setup is led by our UDM Pro SE - I.e. WiFi and VPN is provided by this. The UNAS shows up as a SEPARATE “site” within Identity - so there’s clicking and choice required to be able to see everything - not ideal. After lots of back and forth with Ubiquiti, the only option to have everything in “one site” was to move to Identity Enterprise.
Secondly, access outside of the house (I.e. not on the LAN) requires the VPN to be active. You can’t, from what I’ve seen/tried so far, remotely mount the UNAS in the Files app on iOS for example. Hitting the UNAS button in the identity endpoint takes you to a webpage on ui.com which, for me at least, doesn’t do anything. And even if this did work, it’s not integrated with the iOS ecosystem to allow for, say, downloads to be saved to the UNAS whilst out and about.
So for my use case, it’s great for local file storage/usage if you’re happy to stump for Identity Enterprise, or are prepared to manage multiple “sites” (and therefore SEPARATE USER ACCOUNTS). Also, the UNAS user accounts for SMB are NOT the same as your UNAS/Identity login… it’s a mess. On top of this, if you wanted to do account management with say LDAP, again this requires Identity Enterprise. For a company that’s “always subscription free”, there’s a lot of basic functionality which requires a subscription to access…
Would I recommend? Not really. It’s CLEARLY an early product and needs a significant amount of development and thinking about how this is supposed to work in either a business or home environment.
But it looks pretty, and if the software had some serious development, it might be useful.
If anyone else has one and has managed to get things set up differently or link to iOS effectively, please do reach out!!
Same gut feeling. I’ve come close to impulse purchasing a couple of times now to replace a perfectly fine, but power hungry five year old four bay Synology.
I know there’s been a lot of talk about it not being powerful enough to run containers etc, but in my mind that’s not what a NAS should do - I have a NUC running proxmox for that.
For me, the next version needs SSD caching, a newer processor and/or better controllers to take more advantage of the speeds available from solid state media.
I want RAID6 at least too, but I know this is coming soon on the Unas pro.
I have one, and totally understand other people’s comments, but as a network storage device within the UniFi ecosystem (which is all it was promised as to be fair) it’s great. I replaced my Synology with it because I moved everything I was using my Synology for over to a new server anyway, so it was just storage. The only thing I’m personally missing is some sort of Synology Drive functionality for this device, which is purely a software offering so I’m hoping this comes at some point. It is fairly basic in it’s functionality, but as a purely storage device as does just about everything it needs to, and again as a purely storage device there’s not really anything else that’s ±500 bucks with 10Gbe and 7 drive bays
I have one and have no issues with it tbh.
It’s a NAS none of this extra stuff, basically the way a “NAS” should be. For services like remote files etc I have a server that runs that. Simply mount the NAS and do what you need on docker etc. In my eyes once a NAS does more stuff that just storage then it’s a mini server.
Given that it’s using software RAID and does NOT use ECC memory, I’m not touching one for our business. That’s fine for an NVR (where its heritage lies), but not way should a “Pro” product ostensibly used for business be without it. I wouldn’t even consider it for secondary backup storage.
Buy gear from companies that specialize in the technology. UniFi/Ubiquiti’s specialization is Networking. Not storage. For NAS - Synology or similar companies that have been doing it for a very long time would be my choice. I’m not saying UI’s line is bad, but just that they don’t have enough time in the market as a trusted storage solution.
I just bought one that will arrive tomorrow. Its just perfect for my needs
Is there a particular reason you wouldn’t expose a QNAP nas?
I have a Synology nas which I expose certain services. Are QNAP less secure?
I read to many articles over QNAP security patches over the last months that I wouldn’t hook it up without any VPN or ZERO TRUST connections to the internet.
I wouldn’t expose a Synology, either.
They had a bad track record
Synology is terribly insecure. Shut the public access down. Seems like they have a huge congestion of hacked synologies on their quick access network that behaves like a worm. Unless you want snuff film links clogging your journalctl output and crypto mining in your docker environment, you know what to do.