FreeNAS vs. Linux Mint

FreeNAS suited really well in managing our legacy systems and it handled all our network flows really well, less maintenance is required on our part. FreeNAS also gave the option to switch to TrueNAS for free as now its support is limited. The major issue that we faced was with the installation as it is really complex and required lots of time. Rest all is good and FreeNAS still works well on our systems.

Incentivized

The OS is very pleasant to use and it allows to quicly get on the problem instead of spending time configuring the OS. The updates are done in a successful way and do not broke the OS, thanks to the APT packaging system. The terminal and file management is really easy to use if you are accustomed on Windows OS.

Incentivized

• 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.

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• terminal
• file management
• OS and software updates

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• 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.

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• some more User Interfaces - like for services

Incentivized

There were some things that can be found by other users on forums and Google and some things that were not.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Linux Mint has the stability of all the great linux distros with the best UI of any of them

Incentivized

• Low-Cost Network Attached Storage
• Provides additional network storage to support client & business operations
• FreeNAS secures our data using custom encryption keys

Incentivized

• It has saved tens of thousands of dollars just for being our air-gapped backup solution. other software would have been very expensive, and harder to manage
• Providing simple, easy to use applications (docker, for example) that can quickly, easily, and inexpensively deployed saves many, many hours and dollars

Incentivized