UniFi UNAS Pro Setup & Review: Better than Synology?

The UNAS Pro is a new NAS device by Ubiquiti running UniFi Drive. Manage it all from the UniFi Site Manager and learn why it might be your next NAS.

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0:00 UNAS Pro by Ubiquiti
1:09 How to Set Up the UNAS Pro
2:51 UNAS Pro Dashboard
3:14 UNAS Pro Shared Drives
6:20 UNAS Pro Settings
6:30 File Services
7:43 Backups
8:39 Snapshots
9:01 Push Notifications / Shared Links
9:31 Control Plane
9:59 Managing Users
10:22 Identity Endpoint
11:07 Power Consumption
11:25 Performance
11:47 Pricing
12:20 My Thoughts
14:32 Areas for Improvement
15:37 Final Thoughts

#unaspro #unifi #ubiquiti

[practeff]

Thanks for testing this with 6 HDDs in RAID 10. You seem to be getting better speeds than other reviewers, and I think that’s why.

[archer]

Ubiquiti timed this release perfectly for me and I really appreciate your review. Ordering one today.

[RealLex]

I like what they have done here. It's not ready to replace my Synology Rack that I use for Syncing with Drive and offsite clients, but it looks like a great start. Will be following their progress as I love all my other Ubiquiti devices that run my home network.

[VladimirBashkatov]

I wish they would release 2 or 3 Bay model in 1U or micro tower form factor.

[coolcat]

Sounds like a very attractive option! I fully agree that support for NAS basics should have utmost priority and personally I don't rely on any non-essential functionality (other than media transcoding). I'd want RAID 6, though, and struggle to see why it isn't offered yet. It would be great to see a future model that will also support media transcoding. I believe that is a useful addition to have for a storage device, i.e., it shouldn't be regarded as one of the many "luxury" features like running Docker containers that many NAS solutions offer on top of basic file storage.

[TheJoaolyraaraujo]

For launching it’s an amazing product. Agree with you

[QuikTechSolutions]

Great job covering the NAS release. Best of them on YT. Device looks promising. Thanks for sharing.

[pbrigham]

Very well presented, we can hardly keep with the new stuff lunched from Ubiquity every year.

[TechOverwrite]

Great video, thanks for the in-depth info. This definitely looks like a well made and competitively priced product. Very promising 🤞

[gswhite]

Great review, thanks 🙏. RAID 6 would be nice, apparently, that's coming in a future release. Everyone will always compare and comment on the lack of Docker/Kubernetes/VN Functionality. A lot of HOME NAS's are providing app functionality, and probably Plex/Emby etc, which this one is gong to struggle with. That means storing your data here and having a head end Plex encoding server to do the grunt work@

[BTCKYLE]

I need seemless sync from iphone to NAS everytime I re-connect to my WiFi network. Will it have that functionality?

[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. .

[alonzosmith]

Nice review, this NAS is not a replacement for QNAP or UGreen. Nice for the Unifi ego system.

[Simon-tc]

M.2 would be a nice little add on in v2 of this NAS

[pdoge]

Thank you for the review, sadly NFS is a must have for me. Hoping they add this later down the road, maybe together with a 3-slot 1u device which would be sufficient for my personal needs as an onsite family vault.

[cuepower]

When I use the drive encryption feature in UNAS, after setting the password, I need to restart the device for the encryption setting to take effect. when I enter the password to decrypt, I also need to restart UNAS to re-encrypt. Is there any other way to avoid needing to restart the device for the encryption to take effect?

[ufomism]

You should do tutorial setting up unifi network

[kiaser]

Need a 12-bay version, ability to upgrade RAM and set a large read cache, ability to create a write-cache mirror (or better) using nvme/flash in the bays, and options like RAID-6 instead of RAID-5, and iSCSI support! And for the love of God, Ubiquiti, release the 100Gbit connectivity switches and ports!

[slinnky]

I assume we could block external access to the nas through the unifi router, rather than through a nas specific firewall rule set like with symbology systems?

[ascot]

What about apps such as Docker, VMs, media application (eg Plex) and all the other things we have entrusted to NASes? Are there any vendor restrictions on SSD / HDD? How fast is the backplane & is it SATA only? Is there anything akin to BTRFS and data scrubs to account for bit rot? Is there any drive caching to RAM? How long does it take to rebuild an array post-failure? How does it protect itself from power failures if it cannot connect to a UPS?

At the moment it looks like an (enlarged) Apple TimeMachine from a decade ago. The price point probably recognises how limited it is as a device but as the drives make up a significant part of a NAS investment the overall cost to the consumer vs its capability may limit its appeal.