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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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Our organisation uses FreeNAS (now known as TrueNAS CORE) in a number of ways. We have an instance that operates as an office file server, an instance that provides network storage to our VMs, and another instance that we use for storing archived backups. In all three scenarios, FreeNAS works flawlessly, providing rock-solid storage using ZFS along with SMB, NFS, and iSCSI protocol support for all our networked devices. Also, it does all of this for free!
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!
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.
- Open-source.
- Support for a wide range of network protocols.
- ZFS storage for top-class data integrity.
- Requires very little maintenance, allowing us to focus resources on other areas of the business.
- Being free of charge (for TrueNAS CORE versions), it saves us money and allows us to scale up to multiple machines without cost concerns.
- The ZFS storage provides us with peace of mind that our data is safe, which in turn, keeps our customers happy.
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 drives needed replacing, and so on. FreeNAS did away with 95% of that work and does a much better job too.
January 30, 2019
Freenas, the best great free NAS solution
I required a free network attached storage solution that would work with testing different virtualization solutions. Freenas was a perfect fit, as it supports NFS, SMB, and ISCSI sharing.
I use FreeNAS on old hardware, and it is extremely reliable. It uses a USB stick to boot from, which leaves all the internal data ports available for storage.
- 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.
- Backing up FreeNAS is not simple, as it does not have a built-in option to backup.
Nas4Free, Windows File share, Unaid, OpenFiler
FreeNAS is the best build it yourself solution. It works on any type of hardware you can through at it. Has a multitude of options on how to share out the volumes allow you to select which is best for you.
Now with the ability to create and run VM's and all the additional plugins, FreeNAS is a great solution.
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.
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.