FreeNAS Reviews
What do you like best?
The ui is easy to use, it's feature set includes everything you need or want in a storage system. ZFS that it's based on is the absolute best file system for file storage.
Also the logging capability is excellent! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Without paying for their hardware you can't really get redundant controllers so there is no downtime when doing updates, however this is not unexpected and is easily manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
One word ZFS rocks ! Used FreeNAS for almost 5 years now on my homelab and my clients for being extremely reliable is an understatement describing this software software.
Its can rival its corporate counterparts from ease of use and reliability when it comes to business applications.Its open source,free,secure and have a very good support forum with its very helpful community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
abolutely none this software is a godsent thanks to ixsystems! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
FreeNas help us to build solid storage node based on different equipment, with reasonable access speed and quite dissent compression abilities. Which helped us to save about 40% of disk space and decrease net traffic workload. Thank you for your work! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Could be a bit tricky if some extra functions required. not so simple approach in plugin installation comparing to other brands with preinstalled marketplaces, but manageable anyway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I like that was easier to deploy, the way to handle the permissions for the different OS, the easy way to administrate all the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I think nothing at this time, the deployments I did were very smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
a) Able to run from USB sticks
b) Can plug more than one USB sticks ( in mirrored state )
c) Easy integration with UPS device to shutdown, in case of power failure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Installation is super easy. but after creating other few initial steps may found bit difficult for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
FreeBSD based, ZFS filesystem, snapshots, iSCSI, remote replication, ethernet bonding and fibre channel with minimal modding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
maybe that is not a pure opensource project, but that adds enterprise support which is not bad at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I can find my photos, videos, documents whenever I want within my network. No need to plug in and out hard drive or Pendrive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
While using my old PC after some time my PC will shutdown so I have to turn on it. that the dislike from my part while using on old PC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
FreeNAS is great for it's sharing feature we can manage sharing with high security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Installation process is quit boring required UI from the very beginning. Should describe all the feature details so that less tech guy can use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It's rock-solid stability! Out of all of the other kit in the rack, FreeNAS just sat there and worked, reporting of any disk/other errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
In conjunction with a Supermicro 846 chassis, disk location / disk ID not as seamless as I'd like - though this could be a unique attribute of my set up, and might not be a FreeNAS issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
User friendly options for multiple NAS mounting partition for 100 of Servers, very stable software product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The interface look and colour improvement required per my experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The web gui, the disk support, the full raid and zfs (snapshot ecc) support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It’s not a freenas fault, but maybe mine: I feel uneasy handle the freebsd disk system. In disaster recovery it can be a problem. Actually I use linux mint as samba server, not using raid at all, I found a better disaster prevenction to have a secon backup disk handled by cron jobs that backups data asinchronusly(better than mirtoring). I don’t trust striping raid soluctions... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Freenas is exactly what the name suggests... freeNAS appliance. The software is amazingly efficient. I get 800 Mb/Sec transfers on my regular SATA hard drives via Gigabit Ethernet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
This does not work well with RAID controllers. It works best when you use the proprietary ZFS file system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
