Acronis Files Connect vs. FreeNAS

Acronis Files Connect tools are easy to access and the management of different project documents and storage of all the business files on one platform is perfect. Organizing files on Acronis Files Connect is very easy for all users and the training guidance that Acronis Files Connect team provides is an effective and excellent support desk.

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FreeNAS is well suited for most storage serving scenarios, whether it be for an office file server, backup destinations, data replication across the internet, or as backend storage for virtual machines. It can serve various types of clients via a plethora of standard protocols and can easily integrate with existing infrastructure using LDAP authentication and so on. 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.

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• Spotlight Search
• Mac Connectivity
• Fixing bad behavior of Mac Office, Adobe Apps, etc.

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• 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.

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• Everything is perfect only the interface setting to new users.
• Tools for big data management are complicated.
• Huge files access is a very complex task.

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• 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.

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There were some things that can be found by other users on forums and Google and some things that were not.

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FreeNAS effectively uses all resources really well and it is highly recommended for in premises NAS. It has unlimited ROI as it is really free and open-source. The only payment we need to pay is when we need any support from those guys. FreeNAS helps us to effectively do our work with the legacy systems as it manages all the components really well. FreeNAS although rebranded to TrueNAS will still be there until our legacy systems run.

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• Been a great ROI. We wouldn't be able to function without it, given how many Mac users we have.

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• Low-Cost Network Attached Storage
• Provides additional network storage to support client & business operations
• FreeNAS secures our data using custom encryption keys

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