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TrueNAS, formerly known as FreeNAS, has been widely adopted by organizations to support their legacy systems within their on-premises …
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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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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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February 06, 2022
FreeNAS: The best OpenSource NAS service
First of all, FreeNAS is now rebranded as TrueNAS core. We are using it for our legacy applications which are running on-prem in a local network. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD and it's free to use with all the core features. The best part is we can switch to TruNAS enterprise in just one click which we did for some of our installations.
- 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.
- Open Source Software.
- Can be used with Old system as it's based on Linux.
- It's free to use so ROI is infinite.
- Great learning experience for team.
OpenMediaVault, XigmaNAS
January 17, 2020
FreeNAS best bang for buck
I needed a cost effective NAS in order to store and share files within the network. FreeNAS fit the bill as the name implied it was 'FREE'. FreeNAS was used primarily by the testing department and solved the issue of keeping a 'golden' set of files that should be the most up to date all in one location. If anyone needed a specific file or software, they would be able to look to this location and know that it is current.
- Cost effective
- Many options and features
- Not beginner friendly
- Buggy
- Infinite ROI as it is free
- The negatives is the time it takes to implement FreeNAS into the architecture
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 maintaining FreeNAS as services stalled and implementing active directory was not very simple and sometimes broke.
January 26, 2019
FreeNAS makes Network Attached Storage cheaper and easier
FreeNAS is opensource software that is based on FreeBSD OS. It provides bootable software to run Network Attached Storage for your organization and provides many features, some of which are enterprise level. It can be loaded on virtually any machine, new or old to turn it into a NAS. We use it within departments to provide additional network storage for employees. It supports multiple drives, custom encryption keys, and separation of OS and NAS.
- 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.
- Low-Cost Network Attached Storage
- Provides additional network storage to support client & business operations
- FreeNAS secures our data using custom encryption keys
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 is not readily available. There are many other Network Attached Storage appliance that can be purchased which come with proprietary commercial software.