re: General security camera discussion (was "Unifi Protect security cameras")

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maybe/hopefully upgrading to a 2.5 or 10gbit port and the UNVR would make a great NAS.

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I saw some filings for it to be named the “pro,”‘so presumably a 7-bay NAS. They already have an SFP port capable of 10gbit- they’d probably rather sell their dongles and direct-attach cables than upgrade the Ethernet port. And in this particular case (where 5m ago a Reddit post walked idiots how to do it on existing hardware and Ubiquiti responded with something to the effect of, “wait, you guys would want this?,” it’s hard to blame them.

A $300 4-bay NAS (an ‘converted’ NVR) isn’t bad (unless the glued-on USB drive melts away again). But it’s still a very manual process, and it’s a pretty dedicated single-use box (or maybe dual-use if you’re brave enough to run protect and SMB shares, though it seems that protect likes to overwrite in its own directory, not from the new directory created)


Granted, when deals like this come around, you may argue better value is in the cast-offs. If only there were a way to silence and throttle the 230w of cpus on that monster.