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All-New Next Gen of UniFi Storage
- system2 1y agoI’m surprised they don’t have their own Synology C2–type backup service. Instead, they list AWS S3, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi as back-end integrations. We use Synology with VMware ESXi backups, and it’s a lifesaver. Unless they add VM support, I wouldn’t consider UI. I also wonder what their backup-restore timeline/search looks like. EDIT: You know what grinds my gears on HN? Getting downvoted for a basic observation and never knowing what I said that sounded wrong to others.
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- crmd 1y agoIt could be because storage data plane development is a complex and niche software engineering domain, and cloud storage itself is not a high margin business.
- amluto 1y agoI know nothing about this particular product, but I would not buy anything from UniFi where you will be sad if it becomes essentially useless for any remotely nontrivial use case. In recent days, I've encountered at least the following issues: - Removing a fixed DHCP address from a device that is no present requires switching to the old UI. - Gateway network traffic by client is flat-out broken. - My particular combination of hardware does not support UniFi's speedtest. Dunno why. They don't care. - Doing almost anything temporarily disruptive to the network resuts in long-lasting disruption as the controller re-adopts everything. - Per-port switch settings are janky. They often result in the settings page and the actual applied settings not being in sync. And sometimes the port I want to configure is missing. (Seriously, the ports will be in numeric order except one is skipped. So maybe I have port 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Traffic is passing on port 4 just fine, but there is no port 4 as far as the UI is concerned. - Network ACLs are a serious mess and often simply don't work, although I admit it's been a little while since I've re-tested this issue. (The ones above are all things I've encountered very recently.) I'm sure I'm forgetting something. UniFi is... sort of featureful but not actually impressive.
- pharos92 1y ago90% of the product effort goes into out-appleing apple on their website
- Andrex 1y agoIf that's the goal I think they succeeded, I could barely browse it on my old laptop.
- q3k 1y agoAlso add to this that they tend to randomly (soft-)EOL products. I've already been bitten by this twice (first by their early CCTV systems, then by their EdgeRouter series of devices). Don't buy Ubnt unless you're ready to replace it by something else when things go wrong.
- InTheArena 1y agoThe Edge Router line has been what, 5 years old since any major update? But these are still being supported. The CCTV stuff was replaced, again 5+ years ago, but I have been using Unifi switches, and Unifi protect for ~10 years now, and have not had a problem. Unifi Protect also supports ONVF now, which means it supports third party cameras, which was part of the reason people didn't like protect originally.
- kuschku 1y ago> The Edge Router line has been what, 5 years old since any major update? Where's the replacement for those anyway? From what I can tell, the new unifi routers don't even officially support SSH or Serial login, nor do they support the typical configure/commit/abort procedure, nor do they officially support loading/backup up config files, nor running custom cronjobs (which I need as German ISPs require even on FTTH a 24h reconnect, and if you don't schedule one, they'll schedule one for you)
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- Hamuko 1y agoMight be an appealing product if I just needed networked mass storage, but my home NAS (Synology DS920+) is also a home server, running a bunch of applications. I imagine Ubiquiti isn't going to start making servers anytime soon either.
- esseph 1y agoThey did not, but MikroTik has... https://mikrotik.com/product/rds2216 https://mikrotik.com/product/rds2216
- fmajid 1y agoI recently upgraded to a Minisforum N5 Pro DIY NAS (I run Alpine Linux with ZFS on it), and it's been great running backups and Immich in Docker. ECC RAM and 10G Ethernet are must haves as far as I am concerned, as is the freedom to use your distro of choice. https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-n5-pro-review-an-awesome-nas-platform/ https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-n5-pro-review-an-awe...
- InTheArena 1y agoJust a few words of caution - this doesn't directly compete with synoplogy. It's literally just a NAS box. That said, it's a NAS box at a awesome price / performance / capability point _if_ and only _if_ you are already in the Unifi namespace. I would say you are almost always better buying this + a mini-pc then a synology at this point, or a Ugreen NAS + TrueNAS if you want to do amost everything a synology can do.
- zbowling 1y agosynology doens't even compete with synology anymore because all the new hardware requires locked in synology drives now. It's creating a void that is getting filled with Ugreen, Minisforum, beelink, Aoostor for invoative platforms from China and classic competitors like Qnap, Asustor, Teramaster, etc for innovation for the small to mid-tier needs. 45drives in the larger spaces for folks wanting to manage things more on their own but have enterprise scale needs. Dell and HP have always competed on the high-end enterprise space and also becoming a better option, even though synology is so easy as an appliance.
- rpcope1 1y agoDidn't Synology just walk back the whole "first party drives only" thing?
- sam_bristow 1y agoYes. Synology introduced the requirement to use first-party drives earlier this year and it was such an unmitigated disaster for them that they rolled it back just a couple of days ago. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves-walks-back-some-drive-restrictions-on-upcoming-nas-models/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves-walks...
- anonymars 1y agoDiscussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513485
- psyclobe 1y agoI love unfi system for my home lab it’s feature rich and just constantly getting better
- subscribed 1y agoI especially love it when the entire network is down after I changed the schedule for one WiFi network. Or after everything, including the gateway trips over itself when I reboot one of the switches. Or when it decides to run two APs, pretty much next to each other, on the exactly the same channel after a daily scan. Or when I wake up to the WiFi down because it decided to turn on the automated firmware upgrade. Yeah, they're almost out of the alpha phase.
- psyclobe 1y agolol u posted that before idk man I run a home lab different use cases
- signalblur 1y agoYeah I’ve used them for years - I get some people have different experiences and people occasionally get lemons but I don’t remember the last time my UniFi gear was the source of an outage that wasn’t caused by my misconfiguration. I’ve had only a simple / reliable setup experience with a great UX
- elevation 1y agoUnifi WiFi has been highly reliable for me in simple set ups. An elderly friend had high-speed Internet installed in his farmhouse. The lath and plaster walls were reinforced with chicken wire mesh, and ISP’s WiFi router box couldn’t penetrate it. I thought maybe he would need a few UAPs, but a single UAP-LR puck has been serving reliable Wi-Fi for 10+ years with no need for a unify controller. I’ve repeated this installation for other elderly and non-technical friends. I get absolutely zero service calls.
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- sgarland 1y agoIf/when they launch a bigger unit than 8-bay, with ZFS, I’ll probably buy it. I’m already in the ecosystem and love it, and while my homegrown Debian-based NAS is rock-solid, I’d totally switch if they had a 3U or 4U high-capacity offering. I’ve tried TrueNAS many times, and I just don’t like the UI/UX. It tries to ride the line between a walled garden, à la Apple, and “do what you want.” That doesn’t work, IMO. I really don’t like how it tries to do everything - I don’t want hyper-convergence, I want you to do one thing, and do it really, really well.
- stego-tech 1y ago> with ZFS Literally my only hangup. I feel like I’m playing with fire with btrfs on Synology the longer I use it. Having ZFS would put my mind at ease, and I can relegate the Synology to backup duty.
- cyberax 1y agoI'm the opposite, I don't want ZFS with it's homegrown cache (ARC) that is separate from the system. btrfs has been solid, as long as you use it with dm/md raids. I'm also waiting for bcachefs to mature a bit. It's already pretty great, but needs a bit of polish.
- pdimitar 1y agoI've been considering bcachefs multiple times. What's stopping you from using it?
- cyberax 1y agoI'm waiting for erasure coding to mature, and I also want something like TrueNAS to support bcachefs natively. One other thing is support for attributes on single files, to tweak the CoW behavior for VM images.
- sgarland 1y agoWhat do you have against ARC? It’s an extremely proven piece of tech.
- ksec 1y agoI still haven't found an official answer, do any of the UNAS 2 and 4 uses ZFS or at least BTRFS?