You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter Magnus33 Start date Jul 31, Status Not open for further replies. Magnus33 Senior Member. Joined May 5, Messages Nas4free interface: Clean intuitive interface with info displayed in a understandable format.
Freenas: Freenas present interface in the latest 9. Needed info can be found but you need to go digging for it and figure out which menu lets you get there. Its not the most intuitive interface and lacks info like temperature and so on.
Setting up storage: Both make this fairly easy but freenas is more intuitive when you figure out how to get there. But truth be told this caries little between the two and users of either shall have no problem setting storage up on the either. Setting up users: Nas4free makes this about as dead simple as you can get and if you can't figure this out you should stop now.
Freenas overloads users with an already-populated list of every existing user on the system—not just ones you create in FreeNAS, but all the system and service accounts as well. This can be quite overwhelming for new users until they figure out to just ignore whats there and make their own.
A sub tab for advanced users would probably have made a lot of sense here. Freenas once you figure out which tab to click on is also straightforward with a neater interface vs nas4free simple but informative one.
Snapshots: Nas4free snapshot system works but its frankly outdated and lacks options. Replication: Nas4free unfortunately requires you to do this yourself. Freenas does work now although in previous version it was a disaster creating problems up the you know what. Active domain joining: Nas4free makes this simple and fairly straightforward Freenas falls victim to is messy interface with tabs going down both sides.
SMB3 was added in the last release which can help with Windows clients. Joined Dec 26, Messages 2, Click to expand Joined Dec 10, Messages We use FreeNAS here at our office as a company file server as we quickly outgrew our Windows solution not long after I started a year ago. System seems to be doing pretty well so far, lots of RAM is your best friend setting one of these up we started with GB.
I don't think I'll need more than GB for the intended use, also no deduplication. Last edited: Feb 13, It depends on your use case, for backup and media you shouldn't need more than that for most applications. Phantum [H]ard Gawd. Joined Jul 25, Messages 1, I had a number of issues on the last version of N4F with pools, I would add the drives to create a vdev and then try to add that vdev to a pool and the system would hang.
I tried many different things to get it working but ended up switching over to FreeNAS and haven't looked back. Almost absolute seamless mix-n-matching of different disks that could create an ever expanding pool was great.
I'm using it at home for a media server Plex and backups. I have to say very stable and reliable, no reboots unless I'm making a hardware change in 3 years. I see no reason not to use freeNas.
For long term storage I believe it is probably more fault tolerant and better at error correction than most other options. No, it is not at all the case. They are a product category that should not exist for this reason As a storage engineer, I can tell you that the reasons are very much real and aren't just theoretical but we've seen them play out in the real world and they do so commonly.
Lots of solid reasons to avoid FreeNAS. Gary is spot on. And ZFS is nothing special. Software RAID commands all the highest end use cases. As others have said, just get any Linux or FreeBSD system and you will have something better supported, simpler, more supportable, more upgradeable, and safer.
No benefits to these products. There are industry standard ways to do this very simple. And you don't care about ZFS, it's irrelevant here. Brand Representative for StarWind. So I read through all the above posts and came to realize that maybe I should go with a Linux based OS. What do you guys suggest I try?
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