I like that you keep your Fonts, intro etc the same for years now.. When watching your Videos I get this kind of nostalgic feeling when I started with unifi 4-5 years ago thanks to your videos :)
Much as I love ubiquiti equipment this rack is pretty pointless and overpriced when an off the shelf 6u rack will do everything this does, and will be far more flexible to fit any other equipment for no doubt half the price
The appearance and solidity looks great. If it could be expanded by stacking multiple racks, and also accommodate other equipment, then it'd be perfect. But as it stands now, it's too limiting to be useful.
The build quality looks great and I like the casters. However, as it doesn't accept standard rackmount kit it's a wasted opportunity in my opinion. About a year ago I converted an old IKEA RAST unit into an 8U rack. When you add up the RAST unit, rack rails, casters, wood screws and the blank patch panel it came to less than ~100 USD. So that 250 USD price point for a toolless rack is pricey.
I agree. Surely it could have been designed toolless for newer Ubiquiti gear without precluding a tool-mount option for older Ubiquiti or other-brand 19-inch rack mount gear. Something like the Samson SRK8 is much more useable/useful, IMO.
I'm just curious why you feel that the castors are important. I totally understand having them on a 5ft or 6ft tall rack that is very heavy, but a 6U rack is so short that you could trip over it if you had it on the floor. Instead, I would mount a small rack like that on a shelf or a wall where castors would not be used.
@@PeterHonig. sadly I live in Singapore and rent so wall mounting is out. I've got three racks that I've made. An 8U rack for my core switch, router and the compute for my K3S cluster. The other two 12U racks hold small edge switches and audio production gear. I could wall mount or use pin legs but I've found that the casters make things much, much easier when it comes to any task which requires access to the rear of the rack or moving it i.e. repatching cables, cleaning(becomes a breeze), reorganising equipment, moving house(which I do every ~two years).
Last year I bought a 18U rack, standard, nothing fancy, with glass pannel for 120 US dollars It can be mounted on the wall, I have build a platform with casters for $10 It works great, build materials are good, nothing fancy, compatible with all 1U network equipment (it's depth it's limited to 19 inches so you can fit short depth equipment only) The Ubiquiti's 6U Toolless Mini Rack is hella' pricy for what it does...
we use this as kind of a "branch office as a service build" pre configured NVR, Switches and Gateways. Rolling right down the ramp, plugin power and Inet and automaticly reach the main office or other branches
Always wondered why casters were even a thought with racks like this. If you want any semblance of cable neatness, the cables will be coming into the rack in wrapped bundles.. You won't be doing much rolling-around of these things.
I use a wall mounted rack with a locking cage. I just put some wheels on it and park it on the floor in the corner of my office. It's black which makes it less noticeable.
I have a client on site at the moment where this would have been really handy. Load it up with switches, power and wheel it to where the client decided they would have their tech gallery set up.....which was well away from any of my 35 existing switches
Seems to be a very niche product to me. My 6U rack with patch panels and a mix of Ubiquity and non-Ubiquity equipment is mounted just below the ceiling to keep it out of the way.
@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh Unsecured because unless it has exactly the same screw holes as a UI device, it will be just resting on the shelf in the rack. Able to slide freely, etc.
@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh Have you looked at the open frame options from Rack Solutions? Sure, you have to own a screwdriver, but they are much more standardized.
I like the shelf concept. But, only 6u, no support for other rack devices, no wall mount, and 265€ it's a pass for me, it looks good but that is just not enough... With 6u I would rather buy something like the STARTECH WALLMOUNT6 for 55€, or WPN-RWA-06604-B for 62€
Nice piece of hardware. Would like to see Ubiquiti come out with a patch panel for standard racks in the Unifi color. Also, a rack mounted power strip/surge protector in that same color.
I wish ubiquiti made a can of silver paint - then I could paint a decent patch panel to match the rest of the kit - that patch panel looks cowboy, there was no support bars at the rear, right?
Exactly what I needed. Cheap in comparison to other rack solution like a pelican case that is at least 1k. Looked at other racks with 6-9 inch, but they either sucked or were ugly as hell so great job Ubiquiti!
Looks nice, but way too limited in application and too expensive for just 6u. I don't get why they bothered with this, maybe just to showcase gear at trade shows. In most places, network gear is squirrelled away from all but IT eyes so a basic standard rack is much more desirable.
@@KentBunn That's the problem. It doesn't. It only has one captive screw on the rack to line up with just one hole on the side of the patch panel. I guess you could drill out holes on the patch panel and then tap them and then attach rack ears to it, but it would be fairly difficult lining everything up precisely.
The rack only has 1 screw. The patch panel may have 2 holes, I don’t know for sure. If it has 2 holes, it could have ears added on. It wouldn’t be ideal, but it might work in another rack that way. It might have the second hole, since that’s how you line up for the screw on all the other devices.
@@Group.B True the cost may be about the same if one wants casters, even so, I rather have a standard rack as the chances of all my gear being Unifi is slim. I'm sure there are use cases, but they are outliers not the mainstream.
Everyone moaning it's out of stock. Like allot of UI stuff it pops up every few days in stock for about 5 minutes. You need to use extensions or discord groups. It's how I have got most of my stuff every few months. Is it a pain in the ass YES. Should we have to do this HELL NO. But the stuff does go in stock every few days. Great review and Mine is on it's way finally.
Just curious of what your use case is, I like most find it far too limiting to consider. I'm generally wondering what people purchasing this will use it for.
@@Zeric1 Hi, I have a strange use case all my network and nas gear sits in my living room currently in a unit under my laser PJ. I want to consolidate it into a unit that can be placed to the side out the way hidden by the couch but will need access occasionally so with it being on wheels is great. It also gives it all better airflow as well with it being open.
Son of a… I should’ve laid more attention to the first time I watched this. I just bought an APC 1U UPS for mine, needless to say it doesn’t fit similar to your qnap. Pretty lame they didn’t implement a solution to use other hardware. Yes your video is very clear :) but still sucks. I’d be happy to buy a UniFi UPS if it existed. I was pretty excited about this UPS too. Since there is a gap on either side of the UPS similar to your qnap, I may make a little threaded adapter
Personally i would love the wheelless option (as you probably can stack the racks too), but you can always lock the wheels all the time as the wheels win it from the hard plastic pieces (for the bottom rack). I mean, it's not forbidden to lock them all the time, atleast... i hope :-) maybe Ubiquiti should shine a light on that :-D I like the design, it's not a big metal box with (whoohoo!.....) a window in it. You can see the cabling, yes. But the windowed version also shows all your cables. but i see a bigger issue than that.... Come to think of it that the generic 6u unit can be mounted to a wall or the floor... Well you can attach the ubiquiti rack to a wall or a floor but that would be pointless as one could screw the whole thing apart :P
wothless.... even if you god just like a ISP modem or one non ubiquiti product witch is highly probable this rack is unusable, if they did have a shelf or just add standard rack mounts it would be realy nice, good design and looks high quality. Nice video though
No wall mount, only Ubiquiti devices, very small capacity and a whopping $250 tag. Not buying it. The only cool thing it has is that it can be assembled without tools which most people assembling it will also have the basic tools to assemble a non tool-less rack anyways.
As much as I love a lot of Ubiquiti products, I prefer wall mounted racks. easier on the back rather than having to kneel down to work on stuff. Hard pass.
Ahh a non standardized rack that's not going to be compatible with anything other than Unifi which is about double the price of a standard rack/cabinet of this size... no thanks
Ahhh yes the Subway Bread rack. I don't see this very practical. I wish it had a hard top so you can at least set a printer on top. So for that reason on this I'll pass.
Absolutely pointless. Better to invest into proper rack 12U. Much more flexibility and better use case. Ubiquiti is too much trying rip us off on hardware and still not following up with firmware updates and changes to limited functionality.
Foam supplier: and how much foam do you need?
Ubiquiti: yes.
Ubiquiti the king of look at all the neat stuff we don't have.
I like that you keep your Fonts, intro etc the same for years now.. When watching your Videos I get this kind of nostalgic feeling when I started with unifi 4-5 years ago thanks to your videos :)
Cisco and Omada better
Much as I love ubiquiti equipment this rack is pretty pointless and overpriced when an off the shelf 6u rack will do everything this does, and will be far more flexible to fit any other equipment for no doubt half the price
AKA Gimmick ! :)
Ubiquiti is trying to pull an Apple on us, no thank you..
I totally agree, wouldn't even think of buying this. Adopt to the standard or go away.
@@maxd7228ubiquiti is the apple of the network world
It’s pretty stupid for it to not be compatible with standard equipment, the only use I see for it is staging
When I look for ubiquiti;s stuff this is the place I come to get the information. always like the intro its got that vibe of wanting to see more.
The appearance and solidity looks great. If it could be expanded by stacking multiple racks, and also accommodate other equipment, then it'd be perfect. But as it stands now, it's too limiting to be useful.
The build quality looks great and I like the casters. However, as it doesn't accept standard rackmount kit it's a wasted opportunity in my opinion.
About a year ago I converted an old IKEA RAST unit into an 8U rack. When you add up the RAST unit, rack rails, casters, wood screws and the blank patch panel it came to less than ~100 USD. So that 250 USD price point for a toolless rack is pricey.
I agree. Surely it could have been designed toolless for newer Ubiquiti gear without precluding a tool-mount option for older Ubiquiti or other-brand 19-inch rack mount gear. Something like the Samson SRK8 is much more useable/useful, IMO.
I'm just curious why you feel that the castors are important. I totally understand having them on a 5ft or 6ft tall rack that is very heavy, but a 6U rack is so short that you could trip over it if you had it on the floor. Instead, I would mount a small rack like that on a shelf or a wall where castors would not be used.
@@PeterHonig. sadly I live in Singapore and rent so wall mounting is out.
I've got three racks that I've made. An 8U rack for my core switch, router and the compute for my K3S cluster. The other two 12U racks hold small edge switches and audio production gear.
I could wall mount or use pin legs but I've found that the casters make things much, much easier when it comes to any task which requires access to the rear of the rack or moving it i.e. repatching cables, cleaning(becomes a breeze), reorganising equipment, moving house(which I do every ~two years).
@@PhillipHilton Makes perfect sense in your situation. Thanks for clarifying.
Hard pass.
It's everything a rackmount shouldn't be:
- Small
- Proprietary
- Shiny
- Overpriced
And Sold Out?
@@paulklein649 hahaha
Last year I bought a 18U rack, standard, nothing fancy, with glass pannel for 120 US dollars
It can be mounted on the wall, I have build a platform with casters for $10
It works great, build materials are good, nothing fancy, compatible with all 1U network equipment (it's depth it's limited to 19 inches so you can fit short depth equipment only)
The Ubiquiti's 6U Toolless Mini Rack is hella' pricy for what it does...
@Chris: the thing in the back you don’t know what it is. But did you know Ubiquiti put a video on youtube a month ago showing it off. So its Smart 😉
we use this as kind of a "branch office as a service build" pre configured NVR, Switches and Gateways. Rolling right down the ramp, plugin power and Inet and automaticly reach the main office or other branches
Been sold out for over 18 months. Seems as though they are producing just a handful to get them into the reviewer's hands.
Had my eyes on this rack for quite some time now, but like you said…constantly sold out ☹️ but one day…one day it’ll be mine 😼
Always wondered why casters were even a thought with racks like this. If you want any semblance of cable neatness, the cables will be coming into the rack in wrapped bundles.. You won't be doing much rolling-around of these things.
I use a wall mounted rack with a locking cage. I just put some wheels on it and park it on the floor in the corner of my office. It's black which makes it less noticeable.
I need you and Lawrence and Mac and everyone to start slamming UI for all the proprietary games they're playing lately.
I have a client on site at the moment where this would have been really handy. Load it up with switches, power and wheel it to where the client decided they would have their tech gallery set up.....which was well away from any of my 35 existing switches
Any alternative on this? Any suggestions on amazon? Thank you …
I like numbers on the patch panel, but it's fine rack
Looks solid and clean and pretty fast to assemble.......what power strip are you using?.....thanks love your videos.
Can it be wall mounted?
I need that super secret gizmo
Are they stackable?
So glad I watched this… I would’ve been upset to realize the CKG2-RM kit doesn’t fit nor would my pfSense box
Seems to be a very niche product to me. My 6U rack with patch panels and a mix of Ubiquity and non-Ubiquity equipment is mounted just below the ceiling to keep it out of the way.
Looks like a nice way to consolidate a heap of IT gear (router, Nas, switch, virtualisation) in my living room
Unsecured NAS is a bad idea
@@KentBunn "unsecured" because of the wheels?
@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh Unsecured because unless it has exactly the same screw holes as a UI device, it will be just resting on the shelf in the rack. Able to slide freely, etc.
@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh Have you looked at the open frame options from Rack Solutions? Sure, you have to own a screwdriver, but they are much more standardized.
You could always look at making a 3d bracket with their screw hole vs standard equipment?
I like the shelf concept. But, only 6u, no support for other rack devices, no wall mount, and 265€ it's a pass for me, it looks good but that is just not enough...
With 6u I would rather buy something like the STARTECH WALLMOUNT6 for 55€, or WPN-RWA-06604-B for 62€
Is this rack sturdy enough to stack another rack on top to make it a 12u?
Useful for ubiquiti salesmen
Exactly, I see that as the best use case...trade shows.
Nice piece of hardware. Would like to see Ubiquiti come out with a patch panel for standard racks in the Unifi color. Also, a rack mounted power strip/surge protector in that same color.
I wish ubiquiti made a can of silver paint - then I could paint a decent patch panel to match the rest of the kit - that patch panel looks cowboy, there was no support bars at the rear, right?
can i expand the rack when i buy twice or more of them ?
02:16 Lol, I hope the box was not injured in the process. Thx for the video 👍
Exactly what I needed. Cheap in comparison to other rack solution like a pelican case that is at least 1k. Looked at other racks with 6-9 inch, but they either sucked or were ugly as hell so great job Ubiquiti!
Looks nice, but way too limited in application and too expensive for just 6u. I don't get why they bothered with this, maybe just to showcase gear at trade shows. In most places, network gear is squirrelled away from all but IT eyes so a basic standard rack is much more desirable.
What is the super secret smart plug thingamajig in the back of the rack that Chris blurred-out? Is this because it is still in EA?
You will need to modify each of the tool-less shelves to allow clearance for non-ubiquiti and older ubiquiti hardware.
Would be nice if they would just sell the patch panel by itself....
The patch panel only works with this rack. It doesn't have rack ears so you would not be able to use it with any other rack.
If its got holes that are identical to all modern UI gear, then ears can be added.
@@KentBunn That's the problem. It doesn't. It only has one captive screw on the rack to line up with just one hole on the side of the patch panel. I guess you could drill out holes on the patch panel and then tap them and then attach rack ears to it, but it would be fairly difficult lining everything up precisely.
The rack only has 1 screw. The patch panel may have 2 holes, I don’t know for sure. If it has 2 holes, it could have ears added on. It wouldn’t be ideal, but it might work in another rack that way.
It might have the second hole, since that’s how you line up for the screw on all the other devices.
@@Polkster13 they need to sell them separately since one is not enough.
Nice LTT deskpad!
Great setup jazz!
Sounds like the qnap issue can be resolved with a 3d printer and a bit of patience
Or some duct tape.
...or just get a standard rack instead, likely for less money as well.
@@Zeric1 the 6u I come across are around the same price. If less they don’t have casters.
@@jasonsmall5602 Oh boy lol.
@@Group.B True the cost may be about the same if one wants casters, even so, I rather have a standard rack as the chances of all my gear being Unifi is slim. I'm sure there are use cases, but they are outliers not the mainstream.
Thanks Chris. Excellent review and useful insights!
Everyone moaning it's out of stock. Like allot of UI stuff it pops up every few days in stock for about 5 minutes. You need to use extensions or discord groups. It's how I have got most of my stuff every few months. Is it a pain in the ass YES. Should we have to do this HELL NO. But the stuff does go in stock every few days. Great review and Mine is on it's way finally.
Just curious of what your use case is, I like most find it far too limiting to consider. I'm generally wondering what people purchasing this will use it for.
@@Zeric1 Hi, I have a strange use case all my network and nas gear sits in my living room currently in a unit under my laser PJ. I want to consolidate it into a unit that can be placed to the side out the way hidden by the couch but will need access occasionally so with it being on wheels is great. It also gives it all better airflow as well with it being open.
@@McTAnGuS okay, makes sense. Do you see an advantage to this one vs a industry standard open rack with casters?
As for the mystery device, my guess is that it's the USP PDU Pro.
Hey Man, what is the model of the QNAP NAS?
Oh, you got the PDU! I do wonder how that works. I could use one to clean up the cables on my Mini Rack.
@@jmurray0220 th-cam.com/video/pbo94CW6Ano/w-d-xo.html
"I wouldn't let it sit loose in a production environment..." Glad you can't see my 13 IT closets :)
Son of a… I should’ve laid more attention to the first time I watched this. I just bought an APC 1U UPS for mine, needless to say it doesn’t fit similar to your qnap. Pretty lame they didn’t implement a solution to use other hardware.
Yes your video is very clear :) but still sucks. I’d be happy to buy a UniFi UPS if it existed. I was pretty excited about this UPS too. Since there is a gap on either side of the UPS similar to your qnap, I may make a little threaded adapter
Look perfect for someone that gonna use it on a concert stage where they might need network
The box looks like IKEA inside 🤣
Personally i would love the wheelless option (as you probably can stack the racks too), but you can always lock the wheels all the time as the wheels win it from the hard plastic pieces (for the bottom rack). I mean, it's not forbidden to lock them all the time, atleast... i hope :-) maybe Ubiquiti should shine a light on that :-D
I like the design, it's not a big metal box with (whoohoo!.....) a window in it. You can see the cabling, yes. But the windowed version also shows all your cables. but i see a bigger issue than that.... Come to think of it that the generic 6u unit can be mounted to a wall or the floor... Well you can attach the ubiquiti rack to a wall or a floor but that would be pointless as one could screw the whole thing apart :P
Have you got a new desk Chris?
What is the Super Secret Gizmo? I may want to get one. :)😁
I need that Super Secret Gizmo with IEC spec so that it can be used internationally.
No idea why you'd use this when you can get a standard 6U cabinet for half the price. Just another way for Ubiquity to tie people into the brand.
Equipment rails aren't secured nor does it support standard 19" rack mount equipment.
Add a padded panel on top, and use it as a wheely server-room chair.
Here’s a rack for all your stuff you can’t buy anywhere right now 🙃
Bonjournice to meet you! fellow!you made excellent , 😯
I'll stick with a rack that uses open standards, and isn't "Ubiquiti devices only". It is a pretty rack though.
Ubiquiti has already released a video on the new PDU-Pro: th-cam.com/video/pbo94CW6Ano/w-d-xo.html
wothless.... even if you god just like a ISP modem or one non ubiquiti product witch is highly probable this rack is unusable, if they did have a shelf or just add standard rack mounts it would be realy nice, good design and looks high quality.
Nice video though
Wall mount and I’d buy it (if available hahahaha)
No wall mount, only Ubiquiti devices, very small capacity and a whopping $250 tag. Not buying it.
The only cool thing it has is that it can be assembled without tools which most people assembling it will also have the basic tools to assemble a non tool-less rack anyways.
Who has more than 6U of Unifi in a single rack?
Eh... I can get a 15u rack with casters for $200 and won't be limited to just Ubiquiti gear.
To ubiquity: stop spending time on these "pointless" products and focus more on features of existing products.
A 15U rack wouldn’t be useful at all, unless it supported standard ears. Nobody is running 15U of just UI gear.
It should've been at least a 12U for that price.
Who has 12U of new gen UI gear they need to rack?
Nice verry nice even...but i pass this unifi part and will not buy it...yet :)
A lot of money, and no blind front plates. wow...
As much as I love a lot of Ubiquiti products, I prefer wall mounted racks. easier on the back rather than having to kneel down to work on stuff. Hard pass.
No wall mount
Proprietary
Looks heavier than hell
That's a hard pass from me.
Ahh a non standardized rack that's not going to be compatible with anything other than Unifi which is about double the price of a standard rack/cabinet of this size... no thanks
Ahhh yes the Subway Bread rack. I don't see this very practical. I wish it had a hard top so you can at least set a printer on top. So for that reason on this I'll pass.
Piece of plexi/plywood
Absolutely pointless. Better to invest into proper rack 12U. Much more flexibility and better use case. Ubiquiti is too much trying rip us off on hardware and still not following up with firmware updates and changes to limited functionality.
You can't buy this thing anywhere
Ubiquiti is trying so hard to be Apple. I hope they fail with all this proprietary BS they’ve started launching.
Expensive and out of stock. Thanks, no.
Expensive and useless. Why didn't they make it support standard rack mount? Oh well, suppose fanboys will still buy it anyway....
Ugly, overpriced and proprietary. What a waste of time
Visual eye candy packaged in a lot of plastic garbage... Shame 😢