FreeNAS is BSD based, not Windows, so there’s a slight learning curve for Windows administrators.Yes, like any system there are some downsides: Most businesses already have the other infrastructure in place (such as Internet connection and office space) so the incremental cost of a NAS is just the hardware, and electricity. (Cloud storage prices quoted are from the Wasabi price comparison, 20TB and 10% downloaded per month.) We think that FreeNAS can be very cost effective, especially if you have 20 TB of data or more.Īs a comparison of estimated prices: Hardware for a FreeNAS, with RAID and 20TB disks You know exactly where your data is stored.Recovery can be faster than downloading data from a public cloud.Over time, it can save you thousands of dollars in cloud storage fees.If the answer isn’t clear from its name, it’s free! But that’s not all… I anticipate the results we obtain here will be generalized to other NAS platforms, and also help as a buyer’s guide for off-the-shelf NAS devices. What is the effect of RAM size – do you need 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, or more?.How powerful does the CPU need to be? How many cores?.Does the choice of disks make a difference? SSD vs HDD? NVMe vs SATA?.Should I run FreeNAS on physical hardware or as a virtual machine?.
Over the next few months, I’ll be running a series of experiments – hundreds of backups and restores, transferring over 1PB of data, to answer these and many other questions: Our goal in this special series of feature blogs is to remove the guesswork from setting up and running FreeNAS, so you’ll know what hardware to use, what to expect from FreeNAS running on physical or virtual hardware, what disks to use, how much RAM to install, and so on.
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