Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by ksec » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
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Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by exabrial » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

Ubiquiti's biggest feature is no monthly recurring cost. I really hope they continue the streak on products like this. Seems like anything else bought up these days is switched to an MRR model with no vision into the long term viability.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by tristor » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

I am highly interested in this, especially if it works well with Time Machine to do backups over the network. I've got a fully 10GbE + WiFi 7 network w/ Ubiquiti gear already, would love to ditch my janky DIY NAS setup for something that is integrated with the rest and could potentially give me a better backup setup for my photography as well as enough storage to act as a media server.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by swrobel » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

Did we decide ZFS is good after all this time?

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by evanjrowley » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

I've never been a fan of Ubiquiti's proprietary solutions, but this might actually be one product that I can be enthusiastic about.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

swrobel wrote: post #4

Did we decide ZFS is good after all this time?

Who said it was bad? I thought we were all pretty much in agreement that it was good, and the only thing holding it back from wider adoption into e.g. the Linux kernel was the poison-pill of Oracle's ownership and licensing.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by DataDynamo » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

exabrial wrote: post #2

Ubiquiti's biggest feature is no monthly recurring cost. I really hope they continue the streak on products like this. Seems like anything else bought up these days is switched to an MRR model with no vision into the long term viability.

*yet

They will at some point just cash out.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by annoyingnoob » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC

Looks interesting, but likely lacks FIPS support which makes it an issue for companies that work with the government.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by natebc » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

swrobel wrote: post #4

Did we decide ZFS is good after all this time?

Who said it was bad? I thought we were all pretty much in agreement that it was good, and the only thing holding it back from wider adoption into e.g. the Linux kernel was the poison-pill of Oracle's ownership and licensing.

another thing holding it back is the threat of a lawsuit from Netapp.

source: used to work for a storage vendor that was marketing a NAS based on ZFS and got credible threats from Netapp to the point that we sought a partnership with Oracle that included indemnification under Oracles settlement with Netapp.

Re: Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

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Post by fragmede » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 3:11 PM UTC

tristor wrote: post #3

I am highly interested in this, especially if it works well with Time Machine to do backups over the network. I've got a fully 10GbE + WiFi 7 network w/ Ubiquiti gear already, would love to ditch my janky DIY NAS setup for something that is integrated with the rest and could potentially give me a better backup setup for my photography as well as enough storage to act as a media server.

Wireless Time Machine backup works until one day, Time Machine decides to shit the bed. Do not trust it. Invest in a different backup solution if your data is at all important to you. Something like Arq or Backblaze or tarsnap.