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What is FreeNAS?
FreeNAS is an open source operating system that allows nearly any hardware serve as a network-attached storage device. It was developed by iXsystems.
Amazing product that will keep your data safe and always available.
A great tool for our legacy application and systems.
FreeNAS: The best OpenSource NAS service
FreeNAS best bang for buck
Freenas, the best great free NAS solution
FreeNAS makes Network Attached Storage cheaper and easier
For both home and business, so powerful!
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What is FreeNAS?
FreeNAS is an open source operating system that allows nearly any hardware serve as a network-attached storage device. It was developed by iXsystems.
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TrueNAS, formerly known as FreeNAS, has been widely adopted by organizations to support their legacy systems within their on-premises networks. Users have praised the product for offering all the functionalities of FreeBSD and seamlessly operating on their legacy systems with minimal tolerance. The porting process from FreeNAS to TrueNAS is straightforward, providing users with a significant advantage.
One of the primary use cases for TrueNAS Core is its role as a file server, supporting SMB/WebDAV protocols, and block storage for hypervisors using iSCSI. This allows organizations to efficiently manage and share files across their network while providing reliable block storage for virtualization environments. Additionally, FreeNAS is commonly used as a central depot, supporting services like UrBackup and NextCloud, enabling organizations to securely store and access important data.
The stability, reliability, and speed of ZFS running over FreeBSD have garnered praise from users. This makes TrueNAS an ideal solution for storing archived backups and operating as an office file server within organizations. The support for protocols like SMB, NFS, and iSCSI further enhances its versatility and usability.
Furthermore, FreeNAS has found popularity in testing departments as it provides a centralized location for up-to-date files and software. Its open-source nature based on FreeBSD enables any machine to be transformed into a NAS, making it accessible for departments looking to expand their network storage capabilities for employees.
Overall, TrueNAS Core offers organizations a cost-effective and rock-solid storage solution that seamlessly integrates with their existing infrastructure. Whether it's supporting legacy systems or serving as a centralized file server or test environment, TrueNAS proves to be a reliable choice for managing data and facilitating collaboration within networks.
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(1-7 of 7)We've used this for many years, having previously put together our own file servers based on Linux and FreeBSD that worked well but required a lot of admin. The switch to FreeNAS was painless, ultra-reliable, and almost maintenance-free. No complaints here!
- ZFS storage for top-class data integrity.
- Wide range of protocol support for networked devices to connect with.
- Excellent web interface for managing storage, users and general administration.
- 2 factor authentication for increased security.
- Driver support is generally very good but could be improved for some more 'exotic' network and storage interfaces (currently limited by what FreeBSD supports, which is slightly more restrictive than Linux).
- I'd like to see Arm CPU support in the future. This isn't much of an issue at the moment because today's typical Arm devices do not support lots of memory, storage, etc. However, the tide is turning, and Arm devices are only going to increase in popularity, availability, and performance over the coming years.
It's pretty simple to use (it helps to have at least a basic understanding of the underlying technologies) and almost maintenance-free.
One scenario that springs to mind that it may not be appropriate for (yet) is as S3 storage. However, S3 functionality was added in a recent release and may have improved greatly since then. I'm sure it will eventually work very well for this.
A great tool for our legacy application and systems.
- Highly Flexible.
- Simplified UI and ease of usage in volumes.
- Efficient storage management.
- Secure and reliable in legacy systems.
- Initial installation is a hassle.
- Really difficult in switching between RAID storages.
- Support for free version is very limited.
FreeNAS: The best OpenSource NAS service
- OpenSource and Free to use.
- Supports multiple redundancy configurations.
- Great UI with 360 degree view of the system.
- Not good for beginners as it requires deep understanding of networking and storage.
- Most of the good and required features are not available in free version.
FreeNAS best bang for buck
- Cost effective
- Many options and features
- Not beginner friendly
- Buggy
Freenas, the best great free NAS solution
- The FreeNAS web interface is modern looking. It makes tasks like provisioning drives into raid volumes easy.
- The ZFS raid option allows you to add in an SSD as a cache drive to increase performance.
- I found it hard to set user specific security options on shares.
FreeNAS makes Network Attached Storage cheaper and easier
- Portable configuration provides separation of bootable NAS and the drives. This makes it easy to move drives to a different NAS or replace failed hardware.
- Supports many drive redundancy configurations such as Raid 0, 1, 5, 10.
- Provides a full bootable, portable package that installs on old or new hardware to enable drives to be configured as a NAS using a Web UI.
- Supports default or customer encryption keys to secure your data.
- FreeNAS installs on a USB drive for performance
- The NAS User Interface could be made more user-friendly and easier to configure, but in the most recent version improvements have been made.
- It could be easier to back up the encryption key and configuration so they can be easily restored.
- We have seen isolated issues when streaming large files (8GB+) across the network, specifically video files. Uploading and Downloading is fine, when but streaming live sometimes we see an issue.
For both home and business, so powerful!
Installed on a dual CPU 2U server with 16 front bays, I use a combination of SATA 3TB Drives and 240 GB SSD drives. The SSD Drives are used as a read cache, but also as a write cache (50 GB mirror).
ZFS is one of the most stable, reliable and fast file systems! Running over FreeBSD is very powerful. The community is awesome.
- RAIDZ, fast and simple, and reliable.
- SSD Caching, for both Read and Write.
- Many services, from FileServer (FTP, SMB, WebDAV, ...), including iSCSI, and many other available using jail
- Powerful UI, easy to monitor, and manage.
- Awesome community, with many improvements every build.
- Deduplication. The deduplication uses so much RAM, and makes every write very slow. I have a very powerful server, with 128 GB of RAM, and when enabling deduplication, writes are 50% slower. Disaster. A Microsoft approach (cron job) using junction would be better, in my opinion...
- VMs. They have a module for VMs, but, it's a pain. Based on FreeBSD, they should do something to make it work... or provide some images. Tried to make a Windows Server VMs with many tutorials, and can't get it to work.
- Backup. It is very easy to use FreeNAS as a backup target, but when it's time to backup the FreeNAS itself... not that simple.
Tried to go true TrueNAS, which is one of the paid versions of FreeNAS, but they will only do next business day, hardware shipping. If you need a 24/7 on-site support, it is a no go. You are on your own.