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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 07, 2022
A great tool for our legacy application and systems.
Our company uses FreeNAS to support our legacy systems, which were implemented long before, although FreeNAS is now officially TrueNAS, We still use FreeNAS in our on-premises system (legacy). Since it is based on BSD it has all the functionalities that FreeBSD has to offer. The performance capability of FreeNAS is really amazing it still continues to operate on our legacy systems with minimum tolerance. Also since the porting of FreeNAS to TrueNAS is really easy, it also gave us an advantage for us.
- 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.
- Backing up of data.
- Secure storage of files.
- Effective utilization of network resources.
- As it is free and open-source, we need not spend much except when we require support.
- Really works well still, so we have infinite ROI.
- handled all the network resources effectively.
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.
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 31, 2018
For both home and business, so powerful!
FreeNAS is the central depot. Not only it is used as a file server (SMB/WebDAV), but also as a block storage for hypervisor (iSCSI), and many services provider (including usage of jail). I host many products on it like UrBackup and NextCloud.
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.
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.
- Positive - Can be download for free, if you don't need support
- Negative - The paid support is basic, and requires next business day shipping
- Positive - Can work on almost any hardware
- Positive - Powerful caching, can have low latency high IOPS for almost any application using ship hardware
- Positive - Plugin market with ready to go apps, time saver
- QNap, Sinology, Netgear ReadyNAS, HPE StorageWorks, Dell Storage NX, Openfiler, TrueNAS, D-Link NAS and Western Digital My Cloud
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 you want a middle-range - QNap, Sinology, Netgear - they have an awesome product with powerful features, but you need to buy the hardware and software from them, with fewer options, and very basic support.