FINALLY! A New UniFi Dream Machine! - UDM Pro Max

The UDM Pro Max is here and it's packed with upgrades like a faster CPU, more RAM, an internal SSD, more eMMC, Dual Drive bays and more! Today we check on the new UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max, configure and test Shadow Mode, and test network throughput to see if this really is the fastest UniFi Dram Machine yet.

Products were given for testing the new Shadow Mode feature and the new UniFi OS4 (coming soon). I wasn't paid money.

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00:00 - Meet the UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max
01:29 - UDM Pro Max Specs vs UDM Pro
03:20 - Applications
03:45 - The New Shadow Mode
05:39 - Testing Shadow Mode HA Failover
07:30 - Shadow Mode with Protect
08:18 - Shadow Mode Primary / Secondary
08:51 - My Test Scenarios & How I Tested
10:17 - 10G LAN Tests
11:42 - 8 Port 1G Switch Tests
12:53 - 10G WAN Test?
13:23 - My Thoughts about the UniFi Pro Max
13:55 - Who is this for?
14:43 - Final Thoughts

Thank you for watching!

[tcntad]

Apple has to stop naming the devices like this..

[WolfSon-MS]

Once again, price upfront and you decide if you want to see the remaining of the video or not... That deserved my immediate like.

[BartekOO]

that lan switch limited to 1gb is unacceptable at this price

[ThatsDandy]

This is a swing and a miss by Unifi IMO. How you gonna call something "Pro Max" and not have the switch ports be 2.5gbps? At least this doesn't make me regret purchasing my SE just a couple months ago.

[lzcpg]

But can you finally create IPv6-only VLANs?

[dufusk]

For testing the 10G WAN I think you could just hook the UDM Pro Max into any old random port in your existing 10G network. The WAN port would then get a DHCP IP plus DNS info from your existing network. Make a network on the UDM Pro Max with a different ip address range and you've then essentially just set up NAT. You could then probably do some trickery with iperf to go from behind the UDM Pro Max into your existing network, which would essentially be "the internet" It wouldn't be an exact test compared to having an actual 10G WAN, but you could at least test the performance through NAT/Firewall. Or, I could be completely wrong :)

[Movies]

no POE. Why Unifi? You added extra drive slot for NVR. But left out POE+ for cameras.

[exploreiceland]

This is the best Pro Max review on Youtube so far today. I bought one today. It will replace SE that is not handling 100 unifi devices, ~350 client devices and 5 vlans

[BryanCole]

I think the secondary purpose for the internal drives is still helpful for those of us who have separate UNIFI "big boy" NVR Pro's - we don't use the internal UDM drives for Protect, but for those of us who use Access, the camera feeds from the door access controls with cameras are stored on the UDM's HDD - so at least we have some redundancy or extra space. Thanks for this great video!

[bluable]

I am genuinely surprised that they didn't make the 8, 1Gbe ports on the Front PoE++...

[Plague_GG]

It would be nice if having shadow mode enabled would allow you to raid across the UDMs. The two drives in the primary udm could raid1 with the two drives in the shadow udm.

[moortu]

for 200 more you would think they would have upgraded the 8 lan ports to 2.5 gbe

[SY]

just did an inter-vlan test on my SE. Getting 2.0Gb/s using the 2 10G ports, and I'm also running protect in the background. All security features turned on.

[manslayerdbzgt]

Remember too when that update comes out for shadow mode in OS4 all the other rackmount dream machine pro and SE will get it to they're just showcasing them on a dream machine promax

[darkodus]

I was so excited about this until I realized it's a very marginal upgrade from UDM SE and they are STILL using GbE ports in this machine which makes it obsolete even before it was released. Why can't UniFi realize that nobody wants 1GbE ports anymore? 🤦‍♂

[DeadlyDragon_]

For your wan question application testing. You "should" absolutely be able to add any router with a "public ip" to mimick your ISP just make sure the mock ISP router and your UDM are in the same subnet. From there you can span that subnet to an IPERF host and try to get a throughput metric done.

[GearSeekers]

The lack of PoE is a miss for me. I only have a couple PoE devices and the UDM SE is perfect for that.

[HOSPlTALLER]

the 8 ports needed to be 2.5/5G and POE, same for the WAN.

[cqfkgos]

Can’t imagine why they keep forgetting 2.5g LAN with POE. Oh yeah I remember now.

[connorbunch]

I really appreciated the failover demo! That was cool!