Unifi NAS (UNAS) Pro - OUT NOW!

After long await, UniFi has finally released the UNAS Pro, a $500, 7 bay, rack mount NAS with a built-in 10GbE SFP+ connection, what's not to love. This review goes over all of the features and specs of the new unit.

#unifi #unasPro

TOC
00:00 Product overview
04:44 User interface
10:15 Snapshots
14:26 Settings and users
18:32 Performance and speed test
21:49 What I think is missing
23:48 Who is this for?
25:03 Pricing

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[iampatrickmurphy]

Dude...your videos have made my life SO MUCH EASIER!!! Thank you

[mattschoular]

As an owner of a DS920+, I thought I would use more of its functionality. In reality, I only use it for backing up my PC. I am too busy running my business, and albeit that Synology has so many great features, I find the learning curve is steep, given my time constraints.

The UNAS would be a perfect add-on to my other Unifi gear. I am hopeful that they introduce an integrated Protect/UNVR backup.

Thanks for the review, Will.

[aaronfisher]

I'm hoping in the future, they add services equivalent to Active Backup For Business so you can backup entire workstations, and also add more cloud backups options other than Google Drive. Still though, for the price point this thing is hard to beat!

[IrateCitizen]

Game changer :) I've always made the argument that a NAS is about Network Attached Solutions, storage is just part of the whole package. I do like what's being done here though. Interesting to see what impact on the market will be like.

[GerhardAEUhlhorn]

All rack mount NAS from other manufacturers are much louder. Quiet operation is the killer feature for me! I prefer to run server services or Docker on my Proxmox server anyway.

[cloudmover]

I own a Synology 4 bay. My Synology has become the storage/media hub of my family.
I was looking for a way to back it up AND serve the files I accumulate at work.
I looked into building my own rackmount NAS and couldn't design anything less than an $850 TrueNas configuration when including ECC Ram, motherboards, etc.

This UNas is $500, rack mountable with 10GB. It is PERFECT for what I need.

[Unifi-U]

Can it also be assigned from my iPhone as an iCloud
Kind regards

[bitpickersplace]

I have Synology several times over and I use very few of the apps. I’d like something much simpler.

In your video, you said that you added in additional drives and it handled it well. I am assuming you used drives of the same storage amount. What happens if one needs to increase storage and all of the bays are full?

For example you have seven 4tb drives and you want to start moving to 8tb drives? Is it going to choke or will it work through all of that each time you add another 8tb drives?

[alonzosmith]

It appears to be a nice addition to your Unifi setup. Not a replacement for Synology, QNAP, UGreen, etc.

[drewadlof]

I think too many people think they want an all-in-one NAS device that operates not only as a file server, but also as a compute server to run containers and VMs. TrueNAS itself is more of a file server than it is a true Type I hypervisor that’s designed to run VMs on top of. That’s why so many people end up virtualizing TrueNAS anyways and use Proxmox as their Type I hypervisor.

I personally think this UNAS is perfectly fine as just a file server. Just have to get a mini PC, like a minisforum MS-01, and run ProxMox on that device with all the VMs the user could ever want. Then map the shared drives hosted on the UNAS to the promox VMs.

I don’t think you’d save any money then going with a Turnkey NAS solution, or building your own DIY NAS server, but a UNAS with a mini PC like the Minisforum MS-01 would be super quiet, take up very little rack space, and super easy to setup!

[markmonroe]

Thank you for the review. This looks perfect for me and my use cases. That said, I would really like to see some noise levels, wattage levels and heat levels. I would use this in my home lab and I need it to be quiet, cool and affordable to run. My current Synology is noisy, hot and watt hungry.

[JeremyTaylorNZ]

i have a truenas server already but want to get a simple remore backup server, and i like the sound of this, no bells and whistles, performance not top priority, super simple. But I am infering that unless you have a UNAS Pro locally, setting up one of these as a remote backup server might not be feasible? It isn’t providing any services to attach to use for that sprt of purpose?

[scottibyte]

I understand creating a purely NAS product rather than a NAS that is also application server like Synology/QNAP. I do believe that UI Verify brings nice access controls to the data. However, CIFS/SMB + AFS does not a NAS make. Where's NFS and iSCSI??? If they are offering a 10Gbps NIC, then why is not also an iSCSI target? If Ubiquiti wants to play in the Enterprise or even in the serious Homelab realm, then iSCSI and NFS are going to be key requirements. Oh and where are the RAW LUN options? Is the file system EXT4, RAIDn?, Zfs, RAIDz?

[billyjoe]

Synology is very very good, but I truly hope that this will be better!

[mikescofield]

Is it possible to encrypt backups òn the UNAS before uploading the data to google?

[jorgemtds]

That is a NAS done right, without any additional server functionalities. A pure LOCAL STORAGE device. BEAUTIFUL!
UNIFI, take my money!

[georgenoctrex]

Very interesting device this UniFi is. I wonder if you could try to insert a btrfs raid volume from a synology NAS into this one, and see if you can keep the data.

[MatTeague]

Thanks for the video, this seems like a great NAS. I was looking for another NAS to backup my Synology NAS. I only need a NAS for backing up, no Docker etc. needed, would this be a good option?

[yourpcmd]

This is ALMOST a NAS done right. They need to add Backblaze, S3, Azure, etc to do the backup to. Also, needs to have a way for "users" to backup folders (docs, pics, etc) from outside the network for those mobile using a laptop. What about versioning? Versioning and snapshots are totally different. You mentioned mapping, so I assume you mean this will show as a network drive where one can use any backup program to back up to the NAS? Calculating the time to set up the drives, they need to speed that up because waiting upwards of 5-14 days to initialize is an early 2000's timeframe.

I hope you do a follow-up video and go in-depth and not just gloss over some features to satisfy Ubiquiti's ego for getting the unit for free.

[wvansluisveld]

I hope they will also release a table top form factor of their NAS with 4 or 5 drive slots.