FreeNAS Reviews, Competitors and Pricing (2024)

Vendor: FreeNAS

4.2 out of 5

9 reviews

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What is FreeNAS?

FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. FreeNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Use FreeNAS with ZFS to protect, store, backup, all of your data. FreeNAS is used everywhere, for the home, small business, and the enterprise.

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FreeNAS is the #9 ranked solution in top NAS solutions. PeerSpot users give FreeNAS an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. FreeNAS is most commonly compared to IBM FlashSystem: FreeNAS vs IBM FlashSystem. FreeNAS is popular among the large enterprise segment,accounting for 51% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from acomputer software company, accounting for 20% of all views.

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Vincenzo D'Aniello

Software developer at TREXON S.R.L.

Jul 31, 2023

We mainly use the 'jail' service. In our company we develop javaEE software with deployment on a Tomcat server, then some nodejs services, relational databases such as Mysql and NoSQL such as Mongo,a GitLab environment like corporate code repository, corporate chat with rocketChat, and aMaven…

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HuckyBridge

President at EXAG Multimedia

May 17, 2023

The solution's most valuable features are container integration and storage capacityThey should include clustering for the solution. Presently, we cannot sync the setup with hyper devices.I have been using the solution for five years.The solution needs to be more scalable. I rate its…

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John Boggero

Consultant at ITIP

Jun 1, 2020

One of the improvements in the most recent version is the support to better control the temperature of the equipment. For example, we are able to retrieve and monitor the temperature of devices easily. My advice to anybody who is considering this solution is to think about what level of support is needed. FreeNAS is web-based, community support, whereas TrueNAS has more reliable support. Either way, the product is stable. The biggest lesson that I have learned is not to store a large number of snapshots. This solution allows for unlimited snapshot capability, although even for just one month, this can take a lot of storage space. If you maintain years of snapshots then, in my opinion, it is not efficient. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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FreeNAS market share

The market share of FreeNAS in the NAS category is 4.2% and it decreased by 18.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The ease of use of the 'jail', the management of backups, and copies to easily create test and pre-production scenarios have speeded up the development and distribution of business apps."
"It has the best storage capacity."
"FreeNAS is much simpler and easier to use than other solutions, but we don't have the complete range of features that come with the full version."

Room for Improvement

"If you find the documentation, it is always incomplete and fragmented."
"They should include clustering for the solution."
"FreeNAS should be better prepared for clustering."

Pricing

"Its licensing cost is based on the hardware capacity."
"Its price is okay. It suits our needs."
"For our configuration, we pay a little bit less than €10,000 ($12,000 USD) per year."