UnifyDrive UT2 hands-on review: Portable NAS with a ton of flexibility

[Redaktion]

The UnifyDrive UT2 debuted as a portable storage solution that aims to make data backups easy. Besides support for up to 16 TB of NVMe storage, the portable NAS is compact, offers many backup options, and has a built-in battery for uninterrupted data access.

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[The Werewolf]

The user manual of the UT2 offers detailed steps to get started with the portable NAS. UnifyDrive sent two NVMe drives for the purpose of this review, and installing them required the removal of only one screw.

I'd suggest that with two NVMe drives - it would need three screws.

Also, I'm trying to figure out who this product is aimed at and where it would be used. Most of the NAS features don't make sense when you're mobile - just use a portable drive. I can see the logic for phones, sort of, and the automatic backup of SD cards is useful - assuming you're not bring a laptop with you (which negates most of the other uses), so good for drone and camera types, I guess.

And a portable media server - again, when would this be useful over just a portable hard drive? What would you connect it to that also couldn't just be connected to a portable hard drive?

I'm left with multiple users accessing it at the same time - but then why portable? Camping group file access from laptops or tablets?

[Abid Ahsan Shanto]

I'd suggest that with two NVMe drives - it would need three screws.

Hey, the screw slots on the NVMe drives don't come with screws. So you mount the drives and then put in the screws from the accessory bag.

so good for drone and camera types, I guess.

Yes, they are primarily targeting outdoor photographers.