XigmaNAS is agreed as one of the best Linux NAS solutions for open source enthusiasts / technologists. Many people of this group is migrating their NAS box from FreeNAS to XigmaNAS in recent years. It is another modern NAS to allow large-scale data management for people with less experiences. However, It is based on the FreeNAS codebase and provides experimental support for the ARM architecture making it special for techy.
Features of XigmaNAS:
- Unique Feature(s)
- Multiple architectures: i386[7] or amd64 and ARM-based versions
- Administration
- Full Web Management Interface (WebGUI)
- Hard drive and volume management
- Software RAID
- Disk encryption (using cryptographic accelerator card if present)
- Partition
- MBR, GPT
- iSCSI initiator
- Filesystems
- ZFS v5000, UFS
- Ext2, Ext3
- FAT, NTFS
- Networking
- 802.1q VLAN tagging
- Wireless
- Network link aggregation
- Wake On Lan
- Network Bridge
- CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
- HAST (Highly Available Storage)
- Network Protocols
- Server Message Block (SMB, one never used version was known as CIFS) (Samba)
- Active Directory Domain controller (Samba)
- Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) (Netatalk)
- Network File System (NFS)
- FTP (ProFTPD)
- TFTP (tftp-hpa)
- rsync (client/server)
- Unison
- SCP (SSH)
- iSCSI target
- Extra services
- UPnP server (FUPPES)
- UPnP server (MiniDLNA)
- iTunes/DAAP server (Firefly)
- Lighttpd (Webserver)
- Iperf Iperf3 Network Bandwidth measure
- Syncthing File synchronization application\
- Transmission BitTorrent client
- VirtualBox Virtualbox included and managed by phpVirtualBox and noVNC on GUI
- Monitoring
- S.M.A.R.T. (smartmontools)
- Alert by E-mail
- SNMP
- Syslog
- UPS (NUT)
