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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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Amazing product that will keep your data safe and always available.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 10, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 st...
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Employee
FreeNAS10 years of experience

A great tool for our legacy application and systems.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 7, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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eldhose k shibu
Employee - Engineering
Chief Technology Officer (Consulting)
RightVows Job Store
FreeNAS5 years of experience

FreeNAS: The best OpenSource NAS service

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 6, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 a...
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Pranay Jain
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Consultant
GeeksRadar
FreeNAS3 years of experience

Freenas, the best great free NAS solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 30, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 IS...
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Chris Thibeau
Employee - Information Technology
Technical Support Analyst
Nova Scotia Provincial Gov
FreeNAS5 years of experience

For both home and business, so powerful!

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 31, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 usag...
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Tommy Boucher
Director - Information Technology
IT Director
Coveo
FreeNAS3 years of experience
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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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A great tool for our legacy application and systems.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 07, 2022
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eldhose k shibu
Chief Technology Officer (Consulting)
RightVows Job Store (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeNAS
5 years of experience
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Pros
  • Highly Flexible.
  • Simplified UI and ease of usage in volumes.
  • Efficient storage management.
  • Secure and reliable in legacy systems.
Cons
  • Initial installation is a hassle.
  • Really difficult in switching between RAID storages.
  • Support for free version is very limited.

FreeNAS: The best OpenSource NAS service

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 06, 2022
PJ
Pranay Jain
Senior Consultant
GeeksRadar (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeNAS
3 years of experience
Pros
  • OpenSource and Free to use.
  • Supports multiple redundancy configurations.
  • Great UI with 360 degree view of the system.
Cons
  • 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.

Amazing product that will keep your data safe and always available.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 10, 2022
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeNAS
10 years of experience
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.

Freenas, the best great free NAS solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 30, 2019
CT
Chris Thibeau
Technical Support Analyst
Nova Scotia Provincial Gov (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeNAS
5 years of experience
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Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • I found it hard to set user specific security options on shares.

For both home and business, so powerful!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 31, 2018
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Tommy Boucher
IT Director
Coveo (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeNAS
3 years of experience
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Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
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