This is by far the most comprehensive and clearly explained setup video on the unas pro I've seen. Outstanding job in explaining the different raid hdd setups from the initial installation. I found these details lacking in other videos.
Great video! I migrated to Ubiquiti products a couple of years ago; it was the best decision I ever made. After watching your video, the UNAS will be my next purchase when it becomes available on the Uniquit website.
I just got my Unas yesterday (yes lucky me, already sold out again). My advice: wait until the drives you put in fully sync (which can take 10 hours or more) before you start copying data over. While it's possible, it's really slow and prone to some disconnections (all happened to me). So in the end I decided to just start over and put the faster drives (7200rpm) into slots 1 and 2. Is there some way to force the system to make a specific bay the hot spare? Best feature as far as I can tell is you can access all your data from a cell phone without any port opening shenanigans.
Congrats! Your advice waiting is good advice though I did not have any issue it is a better way to wait. As for the hot spare, I have not tried that yet as am only running 3 drives and prefer to raid 5. I have a robust backup strategy which I am currently doing video that I do not worry about a hot spare in my environment. I keep a spare drive that I can use on any of my NAS units and that works well for me. Let me know about the hot spare if you get to try it before me. Thanks for the feedback!
Hi, can you advise please, if I connect UNAS Pro to UDM-pro via 10G SFP+, and then from the UDM-Pro connect to my windows PC using 10G SFP+, will I achieve the roughly speeds of 500-850 MB/s (RAID 5 using 3 x Seagate Exos X24 20gb drives). Or do I need a 10G SFP+ switch?
Yes, you should be able to achieve that speed but rememeber everything has to be on 10G so you will have configure the two SFP+ port to LAN so your internet will be limited to 1G unless you get a switch.
@ Thank you for the quick response, I have done that, ensured both LAN ports on the UDM-Pro are set to 10G, and also the pc connection is set 10G, but I cannot understand why I am only achieving a maximum of 64mbs transfer. Any suggestions what I’m doing wrong?. My motherboard on the pc MSI X570 Creation, which also has a 10G RJ45 connection, and I installed a 10G spf+ pci card, but still only achieved 64mbs, I changed the network settings to ensure it was manually set 10G connection. Any suggestions is appreciated.
Yes and no. It is standard raid and not like unraid, so all drives will be formatted to the smallest size. If you have 3 10T drives and add a 20, only the 10 will be used. My suggestion is to use the same size and type. Start with 2 or 3, and add drives as you need them. Except for Synology Hybrid UNRAID, and TRAID from Terrramaster, every native raid typically uses the same drive size as there is not a dedicated parity drive, it is spread over the raid. Hope that helps.
Great question. As this is a standard RAID configuration, all drives will be seen as the same. So if you use 3 6T drives and add an 8T, the 8T will only be seen as a 6T and not use the extra 2T. This is pretty standard for RAID.
Great video! I really want to like the UNAS but they lost me with the ARM SoC. If said ARM SoC were as powerful as an Apple M4 then that would be something but this certainly isn’t the case. I’d rather something more robust like an Intel i5 or an AMD AM5 platform (RyZen 5, 7 or 9).
I see on the ubiquity site it's sold as a network video recorder. Can I use it as a nas to hold my files or as an expensive plex storage? or just as a nas to store regular files?
There are actually two units. The UNAS Pro (store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-integrations/products/unas-pro) and the NVR (store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-cameras-nvrs/products/unvr-pro) They are very similar and share hardware but the OS is different.
Yes, you can use the unas pro as media vault for your plex content. This is exactly why ai purchased mine. I have a rack mounted server running plex on Windows 11. Once the unas is mapped in your o.s just select your library folders for media in plex and scan to add all the content.
@MikeFaucher don't get me wrong, most will just use 10g but my point is the cost to Ubiquiti of a 1g vs 2.5g port is cents. In 2025 2.5g should be the standard, especially on a NAS.
This is by far the most comprehensive and clearly explained setup video on the unas pro I've seen.
Outstanding job in explaining the different raid hdd setups from the initial installation. I found these details lacking in other videos.
Honored! Thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated.
Great review! I plan adding this to my Unifi eco-system
Thanks for the feedback. Good luck.
Great video! I migrated to Ubiquiti products a couple of years ago; it was the best decision I ever made. After watching your video, the UNAS will be my next purchase when it becomes available on the Uniquit website.
Glad to hear it and I completely agree. When you try it you will love you decision. Thanks!
Great video would love to have one at my lab 😊
Thanks for the feedback! So far it has been great.
I just got my Unas yesterday (yes lucky me, already sold out again). My advice: wait until the drives you put in fully sync (which can take 10 hours or more) before you start copying data over. While it's possible, it's really slow and prone to some disconnections (all happened to me). So in the end I decided to just start over and put the faster drives (7200rpm) into slots 1 and 2. Is there some way to force the system to make a specific bay the hot spare? Best feature as far as I can tell is you can access all your data from a cell phone without any port opening shenanigans.
Congrats! Your advice waiting is good advice though I did not have any issue it is a better way to wait. As for the hot spare, I have not tried that yet as am only running 3 drives and prefer to raid 5. I have a robust backup strategy which I am currently doing video that I do not worry about a hot spare in my environment. I keep a spare drive that I can use on any of my NAS units and that works well for me. Let me know about the hot spare if you get to try it before me. Thanks for the feedback!
Syncing 4 drives took my UNAS Pro 12 days. Expansion to a 5th drive took 4 days.
@@ArnoSchmidt70 Wow. What kind of drives? That is the longest I’ve heard about. Thanks for the info.
Hi, can you advise please, if I connect UNAS Pro to UDM-pro via 10G SFP+, and then from the UDM-Pro connect to my windows PC using 10G SFP+, will I achieve the roughly speeds of 500-850 MB/s (RAID 5 using 3 x Seagate Exos X24 20gb drives). Or do I need a 10G SFP+ switch?
Yes, you should be able to achieve that speed but rememeber everything has to be on 10G so you will have configure the two SFP+ port to LAN so your internet will be limited to 1G unless you get a switch.
@ Thank you for the quick response, I have done that, ensured both LAN ports on the UDM-Pro are set to 10G, and also the pc connection is set 10G, but I cannot understand why I am only achieving a maximum of 64mbs transfer. Any suggestions what I’m doing wrong?. My motherboard on the pc MSI X570 Creation, which also has a 10G RJ45 connection, and I installed a 10G spf+ pci card, but still only achieved 64mbs, I changed the network settings to ensure it was manually set 10G connection. Any suggestions is appreciated.
Do the drives all have to be the same size?
Thank you
Yes and no. It is standard raid and not like unraid, so all drives will be formatted to the smallest size. If you have 3 10T drives and add a 20, only the 10 will be used. My suggestion is to use the same size and type. Start with 2 or 3, and add drives as you need them. Except for Synology Hybrid UNRAID, and TRAID from Terrramaster, every native raid typically uses the same drive size as there is not a dedicated parity drive, it is spread over the raid. Hope that helps.
@@MikeFaucher Awesome thank you! How did you get one already?
also can I use different sized drives instead of all one sized drives.? Will they all look like a single big drive? sorry new to this.
Great question. As this is a standard RAID configuration, all drives will be seen as the same. So if you use 3 6T drives and add an 8T, the 8T will only be seen as a 6T and not use the extra 2T. This is pretty standard for RAID.
Great video! I really want to like the UNAS but they lost me with the ARM SoC. If said ARM SoC were as powerful as an Apple M4 then that would be something but this certainly isn’t the case. I’d rather something more robust like an Intel i5 or an AMD AM5 platform (RyZen 5, 7 or 9).
I agree but as it turns out it is more than enough for just files as you can’t run apps or vms. Thanks for the feedback.
I see on the ubiquity site it's sold as a network video recorder. Can I use it as a nas to hold my files or as an expensive plex storage? or just as a nas to store regular files?
There are actually two units. The UNAS Pro (store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-integrations/products/unas-pro) and the NVR (store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-cameras-nvrs/products/unvr-pro) They are very similar and share hardware but the OS is different.
Yes, you can use the unas pro as media vault for your plex content. This is exactly why ai purchased mine.
I have a rack mounted server running plex on Windows 11. Once the unas is mapped in your o.s just select your library folders for media in plex and scan to add all the content.
It's mad that they put a 1gb nic on this and not a 2.5gb 🤦♂️
Yep, but you can use a Microtik RJ10 transceiver module and get 2.5G, but I agree it would have been nice.
@MikeFaucher don't get me wrong, most will just use 10g but my point is the cost to Ubiquiti of a 1g vs 2.5g port is cents. In 2025 2.5g should be the standard, especially on a NAS.
@@Chris-hy6jy Agreed. Thanks
I love Ubiquiti products, but this seems too “beta” software: it hasn’t encryption and it’s BTRFS-based… for me is a no, no, no.
Not beta but early days. You know they update pretty regularly. It has been very solid.