I've always used ZFS because it's vastly superior to other options. When I see storage companies building without fault tolerance, or without a merkle tree (so that you can backup deltas efficiently without having to recompute them) it's a sign their marketing team has more influence over the company than their engineers.

Sadly, the few ZFS COTS options have been somewhat underpowered. QNAP supports ZFS filesystems, but their backup configuration won't let you arrange for a nas to pull from the source (instead of the source doing a push.) You can still pull it off by scheduling your own cron job, but this somewhat defeats the purpose of paying extra for a vendor solution.

UBNT is still supporting my 15 year old edgerouters with security updates, and their interface is clean and usable for anyone with basic network experience. And their video surveillance solutions are unusual in that they allow you to keep your footage entirely onsite and offline, an uncommon level of privacy. If they can bring the same polish to their storage solutions, I'll be using these new products for a long time.

Off top of my head, besides all the UI/UX glitches:

- They once allowed a human employee to access static AWS root access key.

- Their employee once claimed "remote access" was end to end encrypted, but later people figured out they probably just meant TLS in transit.

- They had a configuration error that allowed some users to access other users' camera feeds. They corrected the error, but never explained how the hell was it even possible or if they made any architecture design change to prevent that from happening again.

Now, ZFS is nice. But even after years of iterations, I still need to do 50% of my operations via SSH on my Truenas system. I can't imagine Ubiquiti to do any better

"Dual 25 Gigabit SFP28 ports and redundant power supplies for resilience"

Can you actually saturate the links with the spinning drives?

I've had the hardest time making my TrueNAS ZFS server fast when it was filled with HDD spinning disks. I initially also had 12 of them trying to get maximum speed. I have 128GB RAM and a 10G ethernet connection. I tried all types of optimizations like L2ARC via NVMe, etc, and it wasn't very effective and just too much time spent tweaking and testing.

Instead I just threw up my hands and replaced all the spinning disks with NVMe drives for the data I actually shared (8x 4TB NVMe drives.) And now it very usable and no need for LRArc, etc. Random or streaming access is equally fast.

Best choice I made. Now I did do this over a year ago so I skipped the NVMe price inflation.

I still keep 4 spinning disks but it is for archival data that I expect to never access unless something bad happens. It is slow and I use it like a tape drive.

$3999

First hand experience many times over: there is little more regrettable than placing Ubiquitis latest test-it-in-prod release in to an Enterprise setting.

$4000 is… a lot. I can buy a used CSE-846 for about 1/4 of that, an X10–era mobo for a few hundred bucks, and have 1.5x the bays (tbf, also 4U instead of 3U). Managing ZFS is just not that hard; it’s not Ceph. If you want easy mode, throw TrueNAS on it, and you’ll get an awesome UX that abstracts away everything difficult.

If this were < $3000, I’d probably buy it. I’ve been holding off on replacing my two CSE-826 because I’ve been waiting for this to come out. Disappointing.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/tech-firm-ubiquiti-suffe...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/crooks-use-hacked-router...

https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ubiquiti-insider-hacker-sen...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-network...

https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ubiquiti-insider-hacker-sen...

https://www.theregister.com/security/2022/03/30/ubiquiti-sue...

In the case of the fake whistleblower, it sued a journalist for defamation but its counsel could not spell the word "damning"

Was it meritless. Would it have been dismissed for failure to state a claim

If yes, this might explain why Ubiquiti agreed to a stipulated dismissal

https://dn721900.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.vaed.52...

Seems like a nice, basic, affordable platform for workgroup/SME stuff. Not NetApp/Pure Storage "enterprise" grade though.

It is nice to be able to access your local NAS and LLMs while away from home too.

I bought the 8-bay UNAS ($799.00) but have yet to put a drive in it yet since the costs are out of control for hard drives currently. I'm still using my 2x 12-bay Synology for now.

I hope they don't abandon or lose focus of their UNAS offerings (and/or they get better) since I had planned to buy 2-3 more 8-bay UNAS units once I can afford the drives for them.

Admittedly my 1 grand is referenced off pre AI insanity pricing. Call it 1.5 today

Point is someone willing to roll the dicey on AMD consumer CPUs doing ECC can beat everything else out there

[for those contemplating...asus crosshair viii dark hero is where you want to start looking ) And reminder that these boards take UDIMMs not RDIMMs...do not assume suppliers understand the difference

But of course, if I'm someone who knows how to build a NAS and is inclined to do such a thing, then I'm sort of inherently not the kind of person that would be interested in such things and not the audience they're marketing towards, which is obviously fine.

with ... no firmware restrictions on drive models, organizations can scale capacity without being restricted by proprietary hardware ecosystems.

This looks like a dig at Synology, who do this.

Would be nice to have a CSI, but I can probably just use democratic-csi like I already do on my homemade ZFS based storage appliance.

EDIT: Nevermind, the product page has an option to add up to 32 additional drives via expansion units. Nice!

https://www.ui.com/legal/privacypolicy/

If other products are so bad like that one, I don't know what is the hype for this company.

Sounds like a marketing piece frankly.

Their UI is pretty (lmao ui.com) but their software is terrible, unreliable. Logs are filled with errors which is "normal" etc.

Overpriced piece of hardware that you will never own because it runs proprietary firmware, you are forced to install apps to take full advantage from those devices.

They manage to make performant, capable hardware for a decent price. Then they give you shit configuration tools, a shit configuration experience, vendor lock in, and forced to the cloud. So on balance no thank you per my personal priorities.

If you expect cloud and vendor lock in is a plus that you’re accustomed to with other maybe enterprise vendors, by all means.