Scott Alan Miller wrote: Scotch1337 wrote: Is appliance really the correct term? That is asking for what good free hardware for NAS? I think it would be better stated what is a good APP or OS for a NAS?

Don't mind me nitpicking FreeNAS is an appliance. NAS means appliance. This is just a software appliance rather than the physical thing. Like asking for a free server and meaning the free server software. FreeNAS is an appliancization of FreeBSD. I have always thought of an appliance to be a piece of hardware designed with a specific intent.

Like a barracuda spam filter. Good to now though:D. Scotch1337 wrote: I have always thought of an appliance to be a piece of hardware designed with a specific intent.

The Opensource Linux NAS software are light Linux Distros but enough power to handle your storage problem. 8 Best Free and Open source NAS or SAN software. H2S Media Team May 7, 2018. FreeNAS® supports the core features of a NAS appliance out of the box. However, many users like to enhance their NAS appliance with third party software for media streaming, alternative protocols, or web applications.

Like a barracuda spam filter. Good to now though:D It's that there are two things. The physical appliance and the logical appliance.

Just like you have a physical server (the metal device in the rack) and the logical one (the host on the network.) For example, if I was to take FreeNAS and install it on a VMware, as an end user you would see a NAS appliance on the network for you to use. That it didn't have a physical chassis would be unknown to you. The physical appliance is the all inclusive device.

The logical one is the one that end users see. Scott Alan Miller wrote: Scotch1337 wrote: I have always thought of an appliance to be a piece of hardware designed with a specific intent.

Like a barracuda spam filter. Good to now though:D It's that there are two things.

The physical appliance and the logical appliance. Just like you have a physical server (the metal device in the rack) and the logical one (the host on the network.) For example, if I was to take FreeNAS and install it on a VMware, as an end user you would see a NAS appliance on the network for you to use. That it didn't have a physical chassis would be unknown to you. The physical appliance is the all inclusive device. The logical one is the one that end users see. Jeffrey1704 wrote: That mostly applies to people that try to use commodity hard ware to run esxi or don't configure it properly. It all has to do with ZFS wanting direct control of the disks.

If it doesn't then it offers no protection. Prakash mali maharana pratap video. You would have to use VMware to monitor the disks. I have a post pending that has the relevant links. Oh, more of the 'cult of ZFS' problems coming through. I swear everything about FreeNAS is colored by people pushing a ZFS agenda in ways that make no sense in the overall industry sense.

Jeffrey1704 wrote: ZFS is the only reason I've heard of that freeNAS isn't recommended to be virtualized. But that was mostly aimed at home users that didn't know what they were doing and ended up losing data. If you got a good RAID card handling the disks it's a non issue.It's more of a marketing ploy because people are selling FreeNAS solely based on ZFS and ZFS based solely on 'magic software RAID' features and if those features aren't there the logic that led people to FreeNAS evaporates. So it is a reverse recommendation based on their marketing needs.