But, we’re not a car dealership, we’re a storage company. Instead of buying a fleet of delivery trucks, I suppose we could purchase all the components separately, build the trucks ourselves, and fix them when things break. We make TrueNAS because businesses don’t want to “DIY” And, some folks are storage experts themselves. Some folks have limited budgets yet still want powerful storage software. Some folks don’t mind downtime when there’s an issue and enjoy perusing the FreeNAS forums for help. Some folks only get satisfaction when building things on their own. We make FreeNAS for people who want to “DIY” TrueNAS, by contrast, contains only the most stable and vetted code, keeping software updates to a minimum and the release cycle methodical. FreeNAS is where technologies are tested and refined therefore the software undergoes an often rapid and frequent release cycle. Where FreeNAS is the bleeding edge, TrueNAS is the stable handle. We make TrueNAS for enterprise stability. All we ask in return is that you enjoy the software and contribute when and where you can, which can be as simple as providing feedback, filing bugs, and making feature requests, or as involved as helping us write code. The FreeNAS Project has a mature community and a team of developers dedicated to providing the best (open-source) software defined network file storage solution in the world. We make FreeNAS for Open Source flexibility.įor those that have the expertise and the spare time to build and support their own solutions, or for those that want to tinker and learn about storage, FreeNAS is freely-available and unencumbered by license restrictions. And, when storage is this important to your business, it’s imperative to have a Support Team at arm’s length who can resolve any issue that may arise without having to first wrap their heads around the hardware platform you’ve built. Compared to a user-built system that your software vendor knows nothing about, the appliance platform is inherently easier to support when things don’t go your way, because your software vendor is your hardware vendor as well. It took us nearly two years to select, design, test, and qualify the myriad hardware components that go into TrueNAS, which is a purpose-built appliance - meaning software coupled with custom hardware - designed for its one specific application: critical storage. Storage downtime can equal an instant loss of revenue, making reliable storage a painstaking process - a process that requires careful consideration, deep hardware and storage knowledge, and countless hours of testing - certainly eons more difficult than the Software Defined Storage crowd would want you to believe. We make TrueNAS for when storage is critical. Applications like home storage, simple office file servers, tertiary backups, home streaming media servers, scratch space, storage experimentation, or any other application where data is fungible FreeNAS can be the perfect solution for all of them. There are certainly many storage applications that don’t require professional support. We make FreeNAS for when storage is non-critical. High-Availability (failover) is hardware-dependent and only available in TrueNAS.īut, perhaps more critical to understand than the “what” is the “why”:.There are performance and usability optimizations in TrueNAS that are specific to the hardware we use and therefore aren’t included with FreeNAS.TrueNAS is commercially-supported, while FreeNAS is community-supported.The first difference is the software delivery method: TrueNAS is a purpose-built storage appliance while FreeNAS is freely-downloadable software that requires the user to understand storage well enough to select the correct hardware that is appropriate for their application.“What’s the difference between TrueNAS and FreeNAS? Is TrueNAS just FreeNAS installed on a server?” If you look at the software feature list, there aren’t a ton of differences. View the newest version of the blog here. NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information.
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