Ubiquiti UniFi UNAS Pro

Modest performance and features, but the UNAS Pro offers a high storage capacity at an incredibly low price

- DAVE MITCHELL

PRICE Diskless, £395 exc VAT from broadbandbuyer.​com

Ubiquiti's UniFi family has a well-deserved reputation for delivering classy managed wireless network solutions, and the company is now making a play for the business network-attached storage (NAS) space. It aims to make a big splash as its low price makes the UNAS Pro one of the most affordable appliances on the market.

Aimed at large-scale file storage and sharing, this 2U rack-mounter sports seven LFF/SFF drive bays. This is an odd number for a NAS appliance, but Ubiquiti has forsaken an eighth bay so it can fit its trademark LCD touchscreen operator panel on the left, along with copper gigabit and 10GbE SFP+ fibre ports on the right.

It's powered by the same 1.7GHz quad-core Arm Cortex A57 CPU as found in many of Ubiquiti's Dream Machine gateway appliances, and this is teamed up with 8GB of non-upgradable DDR4 memory.

No PCIe expansion slots or USB ports are provided but a rear connector supports Ubiquiti's optional Power Backup appliance.