FreeNAS

FreeNAS

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FreeNAS	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	FreeNAS is an open source operating system that allows nearly any hardware serve as a network-attached storage device. It was developed by iXsystems.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	FreeNAS Verified User Employee Chose FreeNAS Before swapping to FreeNAS, we'd been using plan old Linux servers running Samba and NFS with ZFS storage underneath. This worked really well for our requirements at the time but required a lot of administration when new versions came along, or new users had to be added or … Incentivized Helpful? eldhose k shibu Chief Technology Officer (Consulting) Chose FreeNAS 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 … Incentivized Helpful? PJ Pranay Jain Senior Consultant Chose FreeNAS OpenMediaVault, XigmaNAS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose FreeNAS We were recommended to use FreeNAS by our peers because of its cost effectiveness and better GUI. We later moved on from it as the scope of the server changed from being a simple file server to a Configuration Management repository. As far as issues, there were issues with … Incentivized Helpful? CT Chris Thibeau Technical Support Analyst Chose FreeNAS Nas4Free, Windows File share, Unaid, OpenFiler Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose FreeNAS One alternative to FreeNAS is NAS4Free. FreeNAS tends to be a bit more cutting-edge, which is good for us technical enthusiasts. By contrast, NAS4Free sticks with the core NAS functionality and doesn't provide a fancy interface. NAS4Free is opensource, but enterprise support … Incentivized Helpful? Tommy Boucher IT Director Chose FreeNAS If you are ready to build it yourself, FreeNAS is the best. I tried so many alternatives, including paid versions, and nothing compares to the power of FreeNAS. If you need an enterprise-grade NAS, you would go with an HPE or Dell because of the support, not the features. If … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Web interface Pro New hardware Pro Legacy systems
Top Cons	Minus Free version Minus Beginner friendly Minus Large files

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User Ratings
	FreeNAS
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FreeNAS
Likelihood to Recommend	iXsystems 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	iXsystems 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. Incentivized CT Chris Thibeau Technical Support Analyst Read full review
Cons	iXsystems 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. Incentivized PJ Pranay J Senior Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	iXsystems There were some things that can be found by other users on forums and Google and some things that were not. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	iXsystems 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. Incentivized Eldhose K Shibu Chief Technology Officer (Consulting) Read full review
Return on Investment	iXsystems Low-Cost Network Attached Storage Provides additional network storage to support client & business operations FreeNAS secures our data using custom encryption keys Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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