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Given Ubiquiti's history of abandoning entire product lines, I cannot ever imagine trusting a ubiquiti closed-source NAS product with my data. No thank you. Not when TrueNAS exists.

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Basing your major infrastructure choices on Ubiquiti feels a kickstarter purchase every time. Huge claims, borderline religious following community, an intentional and almost proud absence of technical support, and a coin toss if the product line will still exist in 24 months.

And when they work as advertised they are fantastic.

> Given Ubiquiti's history of abandoning entire product lines

Huh, this is news to me but seems to check out from my Googling. I've really been enjoying the Ubiquiti ecosystem and was considering a UNAS to replace my Seagate NAS.

I've been following ubiquiti since the days of 802.11a based radio bridges (and then 802.11n based stuff like the powerbridge m5), it's an exceedingly frustrating company to rely on doing anything serious with.

802.11a is from 2000. That is 26 years ago! Has there been any major issues with them in the past 5 years?

What I meant was, that prior to about 2012, they put a solid and honest effort into building useful networking equipment for people. Then after that ubnt pivoted to mass market consumer goods. The 802.11a and n stuff was solid.

In the past 5 to 7 years they have abandoned a number of entire product lines and left the people running it hanging, with no way to purchase replacement parts, or keep a system running.

I recommend to check about UNAS speed issues, I heard it's pretty slow due to bad controller and on Macs has extra disconnect/time machine issues

Yes, TrueNAS works great sans a couple of quirks with external storage boxen. I'm mostly a happy camper.

I believe I'll be more happierer as I integrate it to my life more and more.

Thankfully it's not dissimilar to Synology internally: btrfs+mdadm on the smaller ones, ZFS on the big ones.

Shouldn't be hard to migrate if it got discontinued.

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