Umbrel makes plug-and-play home cloud servers (Umbrel Pro and Umbrel Home), and umbrelOS. One-click install for 300+ self-hosted apps like OpenClaw, Immich, Plex, Ollama, and Bitcoin node. No subscriptions. Just a cloud that lives in your home.
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Umbrel Pro
Launched this week
Home cloud server with 4 NVMe SSD slots for up to 16TB storage.
Milled from a single block of aluminum and framed with American Walnut.
Powered by umbrelOS - run OpenClaw, Immich (photo/video backups), and hundreds of self-hosted apps with one click.
Launch Team / Built With
Umbrel
Hi Product Hunt! š
Iām Mayank, one of the founders of Umbrel.
The story:
5 years ago, we started building umbrelOS toĀ make running a home server accessible to everyone. 3 years ago, weĀ launched the Umbrel Home - ourĀ first plug-and-play home cloudĀ server.
But users kept asking forĀ three things: more power, more storage, and RAID (so no dataĀ loss even if an SSD fails).
LastĀ week, we launched our dream hardware:Ā Umbrel Pro.
Who is this for?
You've been consideringĀ aĀ NASĀ butĀ don't want something big, loud, and bulky with the UI and industrialĀ design of the 2010s.
You're paying forĀ iCloud orĀ Google PhotosĀ and it bugs you thatĀ your photos live on a company's serversĀ that can lock you out anytime.
You've been eyeing aĀ Mac MiniĀ forĀ OpenClawĀ but dedicating a whole MacĀ to one thing feels off. Umbrel Pro can runĀ OpenClaw alongside 300 other self-hosted apps, all onĀ somethingĀ purposefully builtĀ to stay on 24/7Ā with negligible power draw.
You've been meaning to set upĀ PlexĀ to stream 4K movies to your TV, orĀ HomeĀ AssistantĀ for home automation, but the setup always felt likeĀ a hassle. With umbrelOS, it's oneĀ click.
OneĀ purchase, no subscriptions, and you own all your data.
The industrial design:
We mill theĀ chassis from a single solid block of aluminum, sandblast and anodizeĀ it to a deep matte black finish, and frame it with real AmericanĀ Walnut wood.
We postedĀ a behind-the-scenes video ofĀ how it's manufactured if you want to geekĀ out on the machining.
Powered by umbrelOS:
No keyboard or display required. JustĀ open umbrel.local on any browserĀ on the same network andĀ start dropping your files in. You canĀ also add it Dropbox-styleĀ as a network folder on Mac/Windows, or even on your phone.
The UmbrelĀ App Store has hundreds of apps, like OpenClaw, Bitcoin Node, Immich (self-hostedĀ GoogleĀ Photos), Plex/Jellyfin, Ollama, Nextcloud, and more - all one-click install.
Specs:
4x NVMe SSD slots: Magnetic lid, no-tool SSD swaps, up to 16TB.
2.5GbE LAN: Fast enough to edit 4K footage directly off of it.
8-Core Intel Core i3-N300, 16GB LPDDR5 RAM.
FailSafe Mode: You can start with 1 SSD and add more later to enable RAID. Powered by ZFS.
Whisper quiet: The entire magnetic lid acts as a heatsink for the SSDs and you can barely ever hear the fan.
Umbrel Pro is shipping worldwide now, and you can order it on our website (from $699 / 599 ā¬ / Ā£529).
We'd love your feedback! If you've got any questions regarding the hardware or the software, our team will be hanging out in the comments all day!
Migma AI
The timing on this is perfect - traditional NAS systems feel so dated compared to what you've built here. Love that you listened to the community feedback from Umbrel Home and delivered on all three asks: more power (i3-N300), more storage (16TB), and RAID support (ZFS). Question for you: what's been the most popular use case among early users? Are people mainly using it for media/Plex, or are you seeing more interest in running AI models locally with OpenClaw?
Raycast
How would an IntelĀ® Coreā¢ i3-N300 compare with Apple silicon M5?
Umbrel
M5 beats N300 any time of the day in terms of raw compute power. But N300 is great for running 24x7 tasks/home server apps (~7W power consumption, 8 efficient cores). They're both meant for different use cases. Mac is designed to be personal computer, Umbrel Pro is designed be a personal server - so different engineering decisions/tradeoffs.
The aluminum + walnut design is what sold me ā finally a home server that doesn't look like IT equipment from 2010. ZFS with FailSafe Mode is smart for people who want peace of mind but don't want to buy 4 SSDs upfront. What's the typical power draw when running a few apps like OpenClaw + Immich? Always curious about the 24/7 running cost.
A plug-and-play ZFS box at home will hit scale pain on silent data loss risks from misconfigured pools plus long-term security patching across 300+ one-click apps.
Best practice is automated ZFS snapshots + scrub schedules with SMART alerts, plus signed app manifests and unattended OS/app updates with rollback for bad releases.
How are you handling app isolation and update provenance today, and will you surface a āhealth scoreā UI (pool status, scrub cadence, failed backups) for non-technical users?
Been running Ollama on a Mac Mini for local inference, and the always-on tax is real. Dedicating a whole machine to serve a couple models feels wasteful when it sits idle 80% of the day. Umbrel Pro with 4 NVMe slots, ZFS, and one-click Ollama plus OpenClaw on a 7W chip is a much better fit for that use case. FailSafe Mode starting with 2 drives and scaling to 4 later is a nice touch for people who don't want to buy all their storage upfront.
Umbrel
That would be nice, but the Intel N300 (the entire N-series) only supports max 16GB RAM. Though it's plenty for most home server use cases. Do you have a specific use case in mind?