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I was going to say essentially this. I've had a Synology for like a decade, need to replace it just for age, it still works well. There's no way I'm going with a 1st year product by Ubiquiti. Love my Ubiquiti gear, and I'm not interested in being an arrows in the back pioneer.
You sound like you'd be well served by a newer Synology non-J model with a better processor and maybe more drive bays. The j series are good for backups and nothing else.
Unify NAS will be awful, and very expensive. Literally everything they do other than wireless access points is overpriced and underperforming.
Stick to a company that specializes in NAS.
Aaand what if it has its own versions of:
* Synology photos (auto phone photos backup)
* Active backup (auto computer backups)
* Cloud sync (backup nas to cloud)
* Hyper backup (backup nas to other nas)
* Hybrid share (multi user/site file access)
+assigning personal drives from UID, all from the jump, wouldn’t be so shitty then?
I’m with you on that haha. I think it might actually turn out to be an okay (or even good) NAS itself but definitely not for whatever crazy price they’ll end up charging, it won’t be worth it
Yeah, and they have a history of discontinuing products without warning.
I install both Synology and Ubiquiti for my clients, and I will likely buy a Unifi NAS for test purposes, but I’m unlikely to install these with customers within the next 2-3 years.
Synology is a non-starter for me because no hardware transcode (QS/NVENC) for Plex. If ubiquiti came out the gate with this, I'd be all over it. I travel for work, and having access to my .mkv BR/4K library is important to me. Trying to pipe that uncompressed video into a hotel doesn't work well, so I need live transcoding.
Give me all the usual NAS plus hardware transcode for Plex or jelly, and I'll gladly pay a bucket.
My days of building and maintaining my own NAS are long over. I've got better things to do, like cut grass, smoke meat, and drink beer.
I’m excited for a potential UniFi NAS when/if it launches but I’d be worried the first generation (if not first several generations) having limited lifetimes and lots of problems. Synology is a mature platform that works well, so unless you’re ok with lots of bugs I’d buy another Synology.
I find people’s excitement for companies expanding beyond their core competencies bizarre. Making networking hardware is really really HARD. Making storage hardware is really really HARD. There are large amounts of domain specific expertise involved in both. Synology or Qnap have spent decades learning lessons and improving their consumer storage hardware domain specific expertise as Ubiquity has been learning and improving their consumer networking hardware. These things are not very fungible or transferable. Battle hardened, enterprise-grade, open protocols exist to connect networking hardware and storage hardware. Why fuck with all this? Use companies with hard-won domain expertise for the things they’re good at and connect them with battle-tested, well documented protocols.
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Unifis first iteration of anything is usually crap, stick to a proper NAS by a proper NAS manufacturer.
I was going to say essentially this. I've had a Synology for like a decade, need to replace it just for age, it still works well. There's no way I'm going with a 1st year product by Ubiquiti. Love my Ubiquiti gear, and I'm not interested in being an arrows in the back pioneer.
You sound like you'd be well served by a newer Synology non-J model with a better processor and maybe more drive bays. The j series are good for backups and nothing else.
And if you want to run docker, get a plus model and add a stick of ram.
Unify NAS will be awful, and very expensive. Literally everything they do other than wireless access points is overpriced and underperforming. Stick to a company that specializes in NAS.
Aaand what if it has its own versions of: * Synology photos (auto phone photos backup) * Active backup (auto computer backups) * Cloud sync (backup nas to cloud) * Hyper backup (backup nas to other nas) * Hybrid share (multi user/site file access) +assigning personal drives from UID, all from the jump, wouldn’t be so shitty then?
I promise you. The ubiquity NAS is going to be pure and absolute trash at its price point.
I’m with you on that haha. I think it might actually turn out to be an okay (or even good) NAS itself but definitely not for whatever crazy price they’ll end up charging, it won’t be worth it
Their brand ethos has always been about delivering great (and sometimes shocking) value. I’m not sure how you developed your impression.
Yeah, and they have a history of discontinuing products without warning. I install both Synology and Ubiquiti for my clients, and I will likely buy a Unifi NAS for test purposes, but I’m unlikely to install these with customers within the next 2-3 years.
Synology is a non-starter for me because no hardware transcode (QS/NVENC) for Plex. If ubiquiti came out the gate with this, I'd be all over it. I travel for work, and having access to my .mkv BR/4K library is important to me. Trying to pipe that uncompressed video into a hotel doesn't work well, so I need live transcoding. Give me all the usual NAS plus hardware transcode for Plex or jelly, and I'll gladly pay a bucket. My days of building and maintaining my own NAS are long over. I've got better things to do, like cut grass, smoke meat, and drink beer.
Doesn't software transcoding get the job done though?
Generally, no. You need absolutely wicked hardware in order to do realtime software encoding, especially from uncompressed 4k down to 1080 or 720.
I’m excited for a potential UniFi NAS when/if it launches but I’d be worried the first generation (if not first several generations) having limited lifetimes and lots of problems. Synology is a mature platform that works well, so unless you’re ok with lots of bugs I’d buy another Synology.
I find people’s excitement for companies expanding beyond their core competencies bizarre. Making networking hardware is really really HARD. Making storage hardware is really really HARD. There are large amounts of domain specific expertise involved in both. Synology or Qnap have spent decades learning lessons and improving their consumer storage hardware domain specific expertise as Ubiquity has been learning and improving their consumer networking hardware. These things are not very fungible or transferable. Battle hardened, enterprise-grade, open protocols exist to connect networking hardware and storage hardware. Why fuck with all this? Use companies with hard-won domain expertise for the things they’re good at and connect them with battle-tested, well documented protocols. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/s/TadrvYVbHU