TrueNAS Scale (Free Version, formerly called FreeNAS) is one of most popular modern NAS software with more than 10 million times download based on Debian Linux operating system using the OpenZFS filesystem with high efficiency. It packages a well balanced functionalities which is suitable for general public and corporate usage. Some of the advanced features include easy replication, snapshots, file sharing and intuitive web interface – and these lead to the increasing number of corporate usages.
Features of TrueNAS Scale:
- Administration
- Web-based graphical interface, console and SSH access configurable with optional SSL encryption
- Over 230 languages localization
- Plug-in Architecture
- 2 factor authentication, LDAP, Active Directory, RADIUS, IPSec, Kerberos and other authentication /user management systems (supported by Debian Linux)
- Wide range of configurable alerts and alerting mechanisms, including log emails and reporting notification
- File Systems
- Highly resilient ZFS file system including compression, full-volume encryption, snapshots, data deduplication, user quotas, physical disks are fully portable to another TrueNAS servers
- Data reliability – including mirroring / RAID, multiple copies of selected data and metadata, entire-system checksum, background data repair as needed, etc.
- Server reliability – replication and failover; multi-version boot environment – the boot menu provides access to previous versions of TrueNAS which have been upgraded to allow using the old version if any issue for the upgrade.
- Built-in Network Services
- Protocols as standard – Samba/SMB/CIFS (for Microsoft and other networks), AFP (Apple), NFS, iSCSI, FTP/TFTP
- LDAP and Active Directory client support with Windows ACLs
- Apple Time Machine and Microsoft File History/Previous Versions support
- rsync data sync and replication (server/client)
- Link aggregation and failover
- VLAN networking
- Dynamic DNS client
- Remote syslogd forwarding
- SNMP monitoring
- Wide range of networking hardware and environments, including copper cable, fiberoptic cable, WiFi
- Supports jumbo frames, hardware offloading (exact features offloaded vary by adapter), high bandwidth servicing (10G+)
- Other
- UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) support
- Virtual Machine host and management with GUI based management
- Jail management and templates
- iozone, netperf, OpenVPN, tmux and other utilities
- Hundreds of package available and able to be installed.
Moreover, if you would like to have explorer or use more advanced features, you may go for “TrueNAS Enterprise”.
