If/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.

Just 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.

I love unfi system for my home lab it’s feature rich and just constantly getting better

Might 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.

I’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.

I 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.