UniFi's Brand New NAS! - UNAS Pro - First Look & Performance Tests

In today's video we'll be taking a look at Ubiquiti's first ever UniFi NAS - The brand new UNAS Pro! We'll take a look at the hardware, run through the brand new UniFi Drive application and all of it's features, then finish up with some performance tests to see what it's capable of!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Hardware Tour
01:13 - Initial Setup
07:03 - Software Tour
16:17 - Storage Management & Expansion
22:35 - Uploading Files to the UNAS
24:14 - File Sharing using Links
25:47 - Passwordless User Authentication using UniFi Identity Endpoint
28:57 - Mounting the UNAS over SMB
34:59 - Performance Tests
39:48 - Conclusion

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[labbiee]

5:20 thats absolutely brilliant of ubiquity to take ur advice and implement that!

[JellyLancelot]

Not badly priced at all when comparing it to things like Synology especially with it being rack mounted too, and that seamless integration with UniFiOS and stuff really is a big win, as with all UniFi stuff. However, as you said in the video, there are several key things that would stop me at this stage;
- No Backblaze/S3 compatible storage endpoint for backups
- Lack of caching via SSD’s, ideally some NVMe slots somewhere
- Lack of ZFS support for rolling your own instead of relying on hardware raid
- Lack of containerisation support for running micro-services, although it could be paired with a few Pi's or something for that sort of thing anyway
Don't think it will tempt me away from my Unraid box quite yet, but looks promising!

[TheRTM]

Dude you just earned subscriber👍.. thanks for educating me on the difference between the RAIDS and the pros and cons of their benefits👏

[vinceagorn]

Just saw this notification on X, and rushed to YouTube to see a decent and indepth review. And you sir did not disappoint :-)

[greentom]

They should just add the RAID level in parentheses behind their naming "Basic Protection (RAID1)"

[RobertJBareIII]

Wish you could do multiple arrays like you can on synology. Like I’d love to do a small SSD array in the top three bays for a “higher performance” array for things like video editing, and then use the bottom four bays for a slower HDD archive/bulk storage array.

[nelizmastr]

If they add iSCSI support and a decent sync application for Windows/Mac I'm ditching my Xpenology setup for this. Can't miss either functionality though.

[EduardoSantanaSeverino]

Hi there, thanks for the video. I am looking to see the following:

1. iPhone and Android Applications to backup the pictures from the phone into the UNAS.
2. something similar to google documents to create office documents directly on the UNAS.
3. backup up one entire windows computer to the UNAS, similar to synology backup for business. .

[Eleven.Eleven.]

Wonder if they will allow unas pro installed on the unvr pro

[giornikitop]

it's an okish nas for the price, but it lacks several software "goodies" that are kind of necessary today. oh, don't bother with raid10 when you have <6 hdds. the lost capacity is way too much for the minor gain in performance.

[rabildgren]

What are the power consumption, in read, write and idle?

[stonent]

I'm really curious to see inside that thing.

[nickharvey]

You didn't mention the support link in the webUI. For Ubiquiti that is radical!

[kennyg]

How will this compare speed wise for a small company with 30 staff? Currently using a high end dual Xenon PC with 5x 8TB disks in RAID 5 with a 10gbe SFP card on to my Ubiquiti network. Only used for data storage and sharing.

[wiebowesterhof]

As a storage/NAS only device, it isn't bad at all. If you want to run VMs and other stuff like that, this is not a good match for that. I'm tempted to get one to back up my NVRs to a centralized NAS. I would imagine they will release the non-Pro version as well, as 4 drives is fine for most stuff. The 7 drive capacity is nice.

[VW_Fan]

Does this have SNMP? Something that is missing from the UNVR!

[sythenelexia]

They finally made a nas....Took em long enough XD

[RobertJBareIII]

Would be really cool to see another pro variant of this with all 2.5” drive bays in a 1u chassis. With maybe a couple hundred added to the price. The idea being to allow for higher speed/density SSD NAS for things like video editing or other heavy workloads

[TopiasSalakka]

Can the initial setup be done without the app though? I hate every device that requires an Android/iOS app to function.

[samuelhulme]

Do UniFi users from the UniFi console (in the same site) get synchronised to the NAS?