FreeNAS 11.2 Released With Modern Web Interface, Improved Jails

[brrrrttttt]

Looking at the hardware requirements (https://www.freenas.org/hardware-requirements/)..
Why do they need 8GB Ram and a 64bit processor for, if there typically is a 120MB/s connection bottleneck?

I am planning for years to brain my wd my book live with free Nas software. Use case is NFS and dlna and ideally automatic sync with phones (backup of photos).

Does not seem like the "Nas" solutions cater for that.

ZFS doesn't work very well without a lot of RAM.

[discordian]

Looking at the hardware requirements (https://www.freenas.org/hardware-requirements/)..
Why do they need 8GB Ram and a 64bit processor for, if there typically is a 120MB/s connection bottleneck?

I am planning for years to brain my wd my book live with free Nas software. Use case is NFS and dlna and ideally automatic sync with phones (backup of photos).

Does not seem like the "Nas" solutions cater for that.

[brrrrttttt]

I like the idea of FreeNAS but surely ssh'ing into the box and changing a couple of config files is almost just as easy as a web UI and much harder to accidentally do random stuff by clicking a button by accident.

Also, I kind of like text files so I can keep things a little bit more deterministic and I can follow an audit trail.

There must be a reason for FreeNAS or OMV, I just can't quite see it?

The reasons are very good ZFS support, and it's really simple and you don't need to spend much time on it. You copy if to a USB stick, boot it, set network config, set smtp server, add disks to pool, set smb/nfs/whatever and you're done. You can ssh and administer it just as you would any other nix machine if you're bored (well, except you've got to be careful what you touch to avoid FreeNAS updates nuking your changes).

[TeoLinuX]

What about NAS4Free?

[kpedersen]

I like the idea of FreeNAS but surely ssh'ing into the box and changing a couple of config files is almost just as easy as a web UI and much harder to accidentally do random stuff by clicking a button by accident.

Also, I kind of like text files so I can keep things a little bit more deterministic and I can follow an audit trail.

There must be a reason for FreeNAS or OMV, I just can't quite see it?

[edwaleni]

Gave up on FreeNAS awhile back. Freezing under load. Tried different motherboards, different NIC's, different drives, same result.

Tried all the others and found out I didn't need NAS as badly as I thought.

[starshipeleven]

Is FreeNAS as hacky as OMV?
I am currently using OMV and have to work around so many inconsistencies and errors. It's almost not worth the benefit of having a GUI, compared to completely setting up a NAS/Cloud/Media server by oneself.

No it's not hacky. I've never had to connect to ssh to do random shit unlike with OMV.

[brrrrttttt]

We switched to OpenMediaVault some years ago and never looked back.
Not that I dont wish FreeNAS the best, just I never see OMV updates on phronix; despite many major new releases.

AFAICT it only supports ZFS through a plugin, and.... I'd greatly prefer ZFS-on-BSD over ZFS-on-Linux. :/

[cen1]

Is FreeNAS as hacky as OMV?
I am currently using OMV and have to work around so many inconsistencies and errors. It's almost not worth the benefit of having a GUI, compared to completely setting up a NAS/Cloud/Media server by oneself.

Give it a try and see for yourself. it is hard to express the experience in a forum post. I am quite happy with it personally.

[elvenbone]

Is FreeNAS as hacky as OMV?
I am currently using OMV and have to work around so many inconsistencies and errors. It's almost not worth the benefit of having a GUI, compared to completely setting up a NAS/Cloud/Media server by oneself.