New UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max - First Look & Performance Tests!

in today's video we're going to be taking a look at a brand new product from ubiquity that literally just launched today and it's the UniFi dream machine pro Max so y this is a brand new product have just released and they've sent this over as a pre-release sample for me to check out so what we'll do in this video is we'll take a very quick look at it try out talk about some of the new features and do some initial performance tests and then when it comes to some of the more in-depth features I want to go into I'll do separate videos covering those in full detail now if you look at the front of the box you'll see what looks like a regular unified dream machine with couple of slight subtle changes because what this is is essentially an upgraded version of the regular UniFi dream machine pro with some of the features from the UniFi dream machine pro se and a few additional new features and more powerful processor so it looks like quite an interesting option for either people who just want a bit more functionality or for higher end networks that require additional performance so that's enough time looking at the Box let's take a look what we get so let's open this up and Y for the avoidance of Doubt UniFi have sent me this over free of charge for review as an early review sample so I could take a look at it before initially released to the released to the market however they haven't told me anything to say and I'll be give a full opinion of this product so yeah let's take a look at it so open the box up here very quick unboxing it's very similar to most other udm you get a box of accessories here so if we quickly take a look inside here what you're going to get is a power cable I've got a European power cable I think that's just cuz it's a review sample they quite often include a European or American power sample power cable with review samples but you should hopefully get one for your country and you also this an interesting end on this connector cuz this is a locking power connector so it now has a locking power connectors we'll take a look at that in a minute then here you also get a box of accessories it's the same sort of thing you get with other udm what you'll get is a bunch of screws for the rack here and also to mount the hard drives some rubber feet if you want to stand on a table and then some cage nuts and then one quick note with these cage nuts just for people in Europe or in countries that use a metric system these cage nuts are imperial sized cage nuts and screws so personally I try not to use these because if you get these mixed in with a bunch of regular imp metric cage nuts that you'll normally use if these get mixed in it it becomes a complete pain cuz with cage nuts and screws that don't fit so I tend to just keep these separate and just stick to using metric cage nuts but it's nice to get them included so yeah that's all the sort of screws and accessories there and you got a couple of rack here that you can mount on it so we'll get these on later when we actually get it set up but we want to take a look at now is the udm not the boring accessories box so let's get this out so hopefully I can lift this out on camera without dropping it cuz it's very awkward on this table there we go get up and here we have the brand new udm Pro Max so let's get the box out the way get this thing unpacked and then let's take a look at it so just try and get out the packaging that's it there get that out and it's in a sort of bag here get this out see what it's like there we go we now have the brand new UniFi dream dream machine pro Max so what I'll do now is I'll go and get this out get all these stickers taken off get the rack ears put on and we'll take a closer look at it so now here we have the brand new UniFi dream machine pro Max so let's talk about the changes between this and the regular udm Pro well the first change will be fairly obvious with this one you now have two 3 and a half in or 2 and 1 half in Drive Bays where the previous device only had one and what this allows you to do is have hard drives in raid for UniFi protect Now it only supports raid one so you can only mirror your hard drives you can't stripe to get additional capacity but what it now means is that you can have UniFi protect redundant across two separate hard drives so if one drive fails you don't lose all your footage and your UniFi protect setup doesn't go down and to be honest it really isn't an issue that it's only raid one realistically I would never recommend striping on a say an NVR to get additional capacity just put bigger hard drives in or if you need a lot more capacity buy a dedicated NVR but what this now means is that if you just want to use UniFi protect on a udm without having a separate NVR you can now finally have raid and that's quite important especially for situations either for like legal reasons compliance reasons insurance reasons you might need to have your CCTV footage particularly secure and not have it rely on a single hard drive where if that fails you lose all your footage or even just as a personal thing you might just want more redundant storage for your for your CCTV rather than trusting a single hard drive so with this you can take a pair of hard drives in there and have full hard drive redundancy next up let's talk about the ports so if you look over here it looks very similar to a regular udm Pro you have your eight gbit switch ports here and these like before are on a dedicated gigabit switch that's Uplink to the CPU over a gigabit connection and this is something a lot of people got confused about especially when the udm came out and I made a video trying to clarify this people talk about these ports being limited by like a total switching capacity of gigabit and all this kind of stuff essentially what this is is a gigabit switch so all these ports can talk to each other at gigabit speeds all simultaneously and it's completely fine but if any traffic on these needs to connect through the CPU they're going to be limited by that 1 GB connection which is absolutely fine so you're going to use these for basic devices that you just want to plug into the udm to get sort of an internet connection and for that it works absolutely fine now unlike the udm pro se these aren't Poe ports you don't have Poe on this this is generally designed for higher end larger deployments where where you'd have dedicated separate Poe infrastructure so if you're wanting that sort of all-in-one box that has built-in Poe you're probably still better looking at udm Pro but for larger deployments you're going to have separate p switching so you don't really need Poe in this so these are just eight regular gigaby ports next over here you have a one port but unlike the udm pro but like the udm pro se this is a 2.5 GB Port so on this you now have two 2.5 GB one connectivity which is quite useful because a lot of isps are now starting to introduce 2 and a half G connections sadly not anywhere I live but they're starting to bring it out in certain parts of the world and those ons and modems generally require a 2 and a half gig ethernet port so it's nice to have that there finally you have your pair of regular 10 gig SFP plus ports one for one one for Lan like you've had before and what you can also do with these is remap them all so all these One Ports are remappable like on other udm so what you have is as standard You've Got 2 and A2 gig W port a 10 gig W port and a 10 gig land port and then these are all 1 gig land ports what you can do is Port eight on the switch can be turned into a gigabit one port and then you can reassign them so for example while you could have the sort of standard configuration what you could instead do is you could set up Port eight on this switch to be a gigb one port and then set the 2 and A2 gig Port act as a lan Port so if you had a relatively inexpensive 2 and 1/2 gig switch that was just a full 2 and 1 half gig copper switch with no 10 gig uplinks you could potentially remap this remap this one port to be a land port and plug that into your 2 and2 gig switch so that's potentially an option likewise if you've got no plans to have a 10 gig L one connection which is very rare nowadays what you could do is you could turn both of these sfb plus ports the land ports and upload these to switches so it is really nice that they are remappable but yep in comparison to normal udm Pro you now have a 2 and2 gig one port like you did on the udm pro se now while we're on to topic of ports we'll take a very quick look look around the back but there's nothing that exciting or new you've got this regular redundant power connection for connecting to the udm RPA UniFi RPS I'm not going to be using that here but it is nice to have that if you want to have that essentially it's a separate DC power supply that you can plug into all your UniFi devices and feed that from a separate device so if you've got a dual a dual fed rack fed from two separate sources you can plug all your built-in psus into one feed plug your RPS into other feeds into the other feed and have two feeds going into each device so that's quite nice there and finally you got your regular IC power Inlet but you may notice this looks a little bit different to the regular udm Pro Port is a little bit recessed and there's this sort of switch here and that's because this is a lockable connector so now if you want to use a standard IC power connector it'll work absolutely fine you can plug that in there just like that and it'll work absolutely fine but if you use the cable it comes with so here we have the included IEC cable and take a look at the end of that you can see it looks a little bit different it's a slightly flatter end and it's got this Notch out the side and that's because this works with that locking mechanism so if I plug that connector in there and then slide this lock along that connector is now locked in place so if I pull on it that's not going to come out and that is really useful if you've got this in a rack with a bunch of equipment it's nice to have some way to stop that being pulled out because it's so easy for a IC connector to slowly work loose over time as you're working in the rack and then you can sort of knock it and either completely knock it out and kill power to the device or just jiggle it enough that it loses power and reboots so having that locking connector is really nice so yeah that's a nice little feature there I think the SC might have it and a few other UniFi products are starting to introduce this but it's definitely not Universal across all the products yet but it's nice to see that they're starting to roll out across their products it's a really nice little feature but yeah that's a look at the sort of hardware and the changes that you can sort of see on the Sur surface and the ports and how all that works but the other thing that you don't see with this is the improved specs under the hood and essentially the udm pro Max just has a nice spec bump over the regular udm Pro so where the udm pro and udm pro se have 4 gigs of RAM this has 8 gigs and this has a much more powerful processor looking at the high level published specs the udm pro and udm pro se are rated for think three and a half gigb of full IDs and IPS throughput this on the other hand is rated up to 5 gigb so you get significantly better IDs and IPS throughput but the other thing to bear in mind with this is the udm is not just a firewall it also runs a bunch of other applications UniFi protect UniFi access UniFi talk all their new features they're bringing out and all of that shares the same CPU so if you're running protect on a udm and you're running access on a udm and a bunch of other applications those are all sharing the exact same CPU that's also doing your firewalling routing IDs IPS all that sort of stuff so even if you don't care about having the full 5 GB IDs IP yes through I personally have no use for that the additional CPU power in this might be quite useful for larger deployments we running a lot of UniFi applications on the udm just to get that additional CPU headro likewise the additional memory could also be very helpful for that so yeah that'll be really cool just to have that additional power there but yeah that's look at the hardware and talk about the specs so what we'll now do is we'll get it fired up we'll take a look at these redundant hard drives in action and we'll do some performance tests to take their claims of 5 GB IDs and IPS throughput to the test okay so now here are the udm pro Max set up so what we've got here is we got it connected up to my main network over a 10 GB connection so it's going the 10 GB one port is connected onto my main Network and then the laptop just plugged into one the gigb ports and we ped up the web interface for it so before we get on the performance tests let's take a look at how these new hard drive Bays work and how we can set up raid So currently there's no hard drives in this so if you go to storage and the web interface it just says that there's no discs found and actually shop hdds which takes you to the UniFi store but let's get some drives put in so what we have here is we have a pair of hard drives I've got a pair of WD purple so these are WD purple Pros which are Western digitals high-end drives designed for surveillance use of course it'll work with any hard drives but these are designed for CCTV use and I've got a pair of these so let's get these installed now when it comes to installing the drives the process is basically the same as any other udm it's just the same Drive Bas it's just you've got two of them now so we'll take the hard drive out and it is a nice tooless mechanism so it can take that out there take the drive out like that and then here we have the Bays so pull that out there there's the bay and what's quite neat with this is that both of these Bays has have a cooling fan now the cooling fans are very quiet you barely hear them but whereas on the normal udm you have one one fan cooling this hard drive they have actually put a second fan in so both hard drives are cooled so that's quite nice there's a little fan in back of both these two hard drive bays and then to install the drive it's a completely tool lless mechanism you just line the pegs up on one side there like that and then just click it in on the other side just like that that drive is now ready to go in so yep that's installed so now all we need to do is put the drive in the machine so with that first drive let's get it installed so we'll slide that into the machine there and see if it comes up on the screen so we'll just set it up first of all a single hard drive and then we'll add the second one in for a raid configuration so that drives in there we'll let that spin up and we'll take a look what happens on the screen so you just hear that hard drive starting to spin up there so I'll give it a couple minutes let it get ready and we'll come back when it's recognized in the software as you can see the drives now detected so the drive detected in the software here showing got 8 terab usable space but as you can see it says 8 terab usable storage no no zero bytes of storage protection so it's not running in raid and as you see it recommends adding additional drives for basic storage protection so that would then allow you to add an extra drive and enable raid one so yep that's now working straight away with single drive just single Drive no redundancy let's try an additional drive so all we'll do is we'll pop the other drive into the second hard drive bay stick it in using the exact same tool-free mechanism as before so you just get one side in there and then the other side Just Clips in just like that slide the second drive into the front and see how easy it is or how hard it is I'm not actually tried this see how it works when you want to add an extra drive into the storage array so let's let that spin up and we'll come back once it's detected and there we go the drive is now detected so as you can see right now it says repairing storage and it's going to take about 14 hours to do that essenti what it's now doing is it's rebuilding the rad array onto that extra drive here so it'll take a long time to do that but that's just the initial setup process and once that's done we'll have full redundant storage as you can see what it's now showing is 8 terab available storage 8 tab storage protection so these drives are now mirrored so once this is all finished repairing the storage and rebuilding the array if either of these drives fails all the data stored including all the UniFi protect footage would still be safe on the other drive and then you just need swap in a new drive to replace a failed one it would rebuild automatically and you can go back to having full redundant storage so yeah really really nice to finally see redundant storage on a udm rather than to go all the way to un UniFi unvr just to get raid you can have raid on a udm pro Max which is really really cool finally let's take a look at the performance so what we'll do is we'll take a look at performance of the udm pro Max and see how it compares to the published performance figures of the udm pro and udm pro se so first of all we'll take a look at my talk about my performance test setup because it's a little bit juny so I'll just explain how that works and then we'll get on to Performance so here we have this the test setup and I'm going to be using open speed test so open speed test is a speed test server that's running on my server which is sitting off to the site here so this is a local speed test server running on my local network and this server is capable of full 10 gig speeds so if I run this connected directly to the server I can easily pull full 10 gig speeds so the speed test server will not be a limitation here I've also swapped out the framework laptop for a Macbook because the framework was struggling to get 10 gig speeds on open speed test so I've swapped out for this more powerful laptop that can definitely do it then to connect it all up you'll notice udm Pro Max isn't sitting here it's actually sitting off camera and the reason for that is as you've seen the udm pro Max has an SFP plus one port and an SFP plus Lan Port but the only 10 gig network adapter I have that can connect to my laptop has a 10 gig copper port and I don't have any sort of media converters or icfp plus to rg45 modules that would work for this so instead what I've done is I've got the udm pro Max sitting off to the side plugged to my switch the one port on the udm pro Max is plugged into a switch Port that's assigned to my main Lan so through that one port it can directly access speed T access the speed test server on the server then the landan port on udm Pro Max is plugged into a different switch Port which is on dedicated VLAN that shared with one of the copper ports and it's that third copper Port along that has that yellow cable coming out of it with that VLAN that switch is essentially just acting as a media converter so it's essentially connecting that 10 gig Lan port on the udm pro Max directly into the laptop's network adapter and the switch is really just sitting in the middle acting as a media converter so on this network adapter here we essentially plug directly into the land port on the udm pro Max so what we can do is when we run speed test through open Speed Test we're going to be pulling that traffic through the udm pro from the one side to the land side and we'll get the full one to performance of the udm pro Max you'll also notice here that I've popped the hard drives out that's just because the hard drives are still trying to rebuild that raid array from the previous demonstration so I've pulled them out just so it's not sitting there trying to rebuild a radar just cuz that would impact the CPU performance for these tests so I've popped the drives out just so we get the full unaffected CPU performance so let's check it out so for the initial test we can see we have IDs and IPS turned off so regular device identification and traffic identification is turned on in the udm but suspicious activity which the IDS and IPS functionality is turned off so this just got to get get our Baseline performance test for the full speed that we can get through this device so let's run the test and see what we get so start that see what happens and as you can see we're getting well over 9 GB a second so we're basically maxing out the connection that is very very good and then upload we're kind of getting yeah around the same we're getting very close to 10 GB now I can't really find performance test figures for the regular udm pro and udm pro se for just basic firewall performance without IDs and IPS but with this we're fully we're almost saturating a 10 GB connection so that's really really good to see so Y without IDs and IPS enabled just acting as a standard firewall with the sort of traffic identification functionality enabled you can almost saturate a 10 GB connection so that's really really good but now let's go for the harder test we're going to turn on suspicious activity which is the IDS and IPS functionality so that's all turned on there with kind of sort default settings there and then now let's see what happens we run a speed test with IDs and IPS enabled so we'll refresh that run the test and see what we get so it's been a few minutes I've given it enough time for the IDS and IPS to fully enable and get up and running so let's test it out and the number to beat with this is 3 and 1/2 GB because the udm pro and udm pro se are rated for a maximum of 3 and 1/2 gbit of IDs and IPS throughput so let's see if we can beat that with udm Pro Max so let's run the test start that and we're straight away beating it so we're now 4 and a half gig 4.6 gig 4.7 gig 4.8 4.9 yep we're getting almost 5 gigb of IDs and IPS through put and there we've beaten 5 gigb briefly so yep we are fairly easily able to get almost 5 gigb of IDs and IPS throughput through the udm pro Max so that is definitely beating out the other udm and that just shows that does have a much more powerful CPU that does definitely translate to better IDs and IPS performance so yeah that's pretty clear there definitely more powerful than the other udm so there you go that's a look at the brand new unified dream machine pro Max and it seems like a really nice device now of course this doesn't replace the regular udm Pro if you just need a standard udm Pro and you don't need the high-s speeed performance of this or the Redundant hard drives the udm pro is still a perfectly viable device but if you're working on a larger deployment where you maybe need that additional IDs and IPS throughput or potentially you're just worried about running a lot of UniFi applications on this and you just want that additional CPU power and memory or you're in an environment where you don't want to have to Fork out for a dedicated unvr but you do want redundant hard drives for UniFi protect this is an absolutely brilliant option so yeah hope you found this video interesting and stay tuned for future videos I'll be doing on these where we take a look at additional features in more depth but all left to say now and thank you very much for watching

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Length: 19min 28sec (1168 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024