*** Official Ubiquiti Discussion Thread ***

[Avalon]

UNAS-Pro has arrived, I am just waiting for the drives now

I would comment on it but it looks the same as my UNVR-Pro

How are you planning on setting up storage? I mean it looks nice, but it’s not exactly giving us anything significant in terms of functionality that I can see, and R5 leaves me cold with todays drive capacities.

 

[RSR]

How are you planning on setting up storage? I mean it looks nice, but it’s not exactly giving us anything significant in terms of functionality that I can see, and R5 leaves me cold with todays drive capacities.

I'm going to use it in basic protection mode with 4 WD Gold 16TB drives for now, which gives me more than enough to move everything from my Synology onto it.

UniFi Drive Dash

Storage

I'm still waiting for the last WD Gold 16TB to arrive, which should be due Monday. It's doing a resync because I only got it up and running on a single drive and then popped the others in.

It's been fairly straightforward to use, well once you understand the users but the Time Machine for Mac is very easy to set up. In terms of power use, it seems to be very a efficient little unit drawing around ~40w at the mo once it's all settled in I can pull some more detailed state from it. I will need to look at a backup solution for it though, which is much the same as the Synology be that Azure / AWS or other Cloud Storage.

I'll be building another NAS to replace the Syno, which will be flash which seems to be a lot harder than I first thought due to MB sizing / short depth rack cases / PCIe lanes etc... but what this does allow me to do is get rid of a load of old 12TB WD Golds and a Synology DX517

 

[kidkhaos]

Looks like this is a simple signal strength issue rather than an ap issue. The speeds look fine for the signal strength.

That said, is the wifi speed actually an issue in the real world, are you getting and drop outs etc on the devices at the edge of its range? I guess what I’m trying to say, is there really any real world benefit of buying more kit?

P.S. im not one to talk, I’ve got 3 APs, one middle of the house, one on the back of the house (external) and one in my garage!

That's the reason I let it be over the last few years as 300ishmb weren't too bad but tbh it's always annoyed me the upload has always been so much better than the download even standing just below the current AP.

However it's time for me to get another AP and I'm torn between u6 enterprise or u7 pro max.... Maybe I can convince the wife we need to e7

 

[robj20]

I'm tempted by WiFi purely because there is zero interference none of my neighbours have it yet so the more of my devices that can use it the better.

I really like the Mesh form factor though so hoping for a U7 Mesh.