XigmaNAS Reviews

XigmaNAS is Really a great NAS OS. We use XigmaNAS and zfs for our really huge Plexamp music collection. After set-up and configure the server last year, i can say that i'm better of with xigmanas than truenas. It seems lighter, it has also more options and services out of the box. Overall, couldn't be happier about the switch to xigmanas, I had never heard of them until last year on reddit, i also hope they never switch to linux either.I highly recommend XigmaNAS.

XigmaNAS is one of the best NAS Systems out there. While using very litte server resources it provides more options in some areas than FreeNAS (e.g. optional and selectable statistics). Minimized write access on system flash storage makes it great for simple flash media installs like USB sticks. Releases are very up to date: Feb. 2021 FreeBSD 12.2 is already available. Experienced users can customize the full version while novice users are on a safe track with the emedded release. If you need a data tank like me, XigmaNAS is the way to go: GUI, ZFS Redundancy, Windows File Sharing, full hardware resource utilization and FreeBSD reliability

Solid, effective, versatile. I've integrated two XigmaNAS servers into my LAN and they help as backup, multimedia server, and more. The system is *extremely* stable. ZFS is rock solid, and with mirroring I've been able to replace dying disks without losing a byte. The embedded system runs from a USB stick (!), so your data are totally decoupled if the motherboard dies or something terrible happens to anything but the disks themselves. In case you need help, the forums are generally very helpful, with a friendly environment. Highly recommended.

Best ZFS NAS Based, need less resources than FreeNAS, and is rock solid stable. now wit RootOnZFS and beadm that have the advantages of a ZFS boot and you can revert to old dataset in case on new one fail.

I have been using for about 3 years. Currently on a proxmox server as a vm. It has been a stable part of my environment and has served as both a backup solution, and file sharing system. Effective and flexible, highly recommended.

Excellent.

I use it for over 3 years now. It is based on FreeBSD, has ZFS, light and easy interface and a lot of possibilities: many services, jails, VMs. It is great.

Nas4Free/XigmaNAS is easily the best free NAS program out there. I have extensively tested it. It does have minor issues here and there but compared to the competition it is really the best. I was using for years FreeNAS, which is another good (and free) nas program OS (and the 'father' of XigmaNAS). Sadly that fork has gotten to big (and slow) for its own good. It has much more user support than XigmaNAS but if you already know a thing or two about networking and NAS and you want to build a quick and cheap system - right now XigmaNAS rules the competition. Kudos to the handful of dedicated developers!!!

Amazing performance at very old nettop Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz 2GB RAM and 2TB Hdd, much better than FreeNas and OMV. Thanks for developers

Just perfect

Consistently ahead of other projects for a home NAS. builtin VurtualBox VM server with USB passthrough. Your choice of Fuppies or MiniDLNA. AFP, TimeMachine, CIFs/SMB/SAMBA AD. Consistent releases that are well enough tested before GA. Far to many features to touch on them all. FTP, TFTP, Rsync, LDAP, included. If your creative enough you can run custom command scripts to load ssh keys and transfer snap shots. Plugin system to add/create features.

I have been using Nas4Free for over 2 years now, and never loose one bit of data having survived a power supply and hard drive failure, performance is more than OK for my home lab, ZFS is really awesome, ZFS over ISCSI for my virtual machines makes me a really proud user of an open-source NAS. Congratulation to all developers!! The only thing that is missing from my opinion is more support for cloud storage.

No meu caso, o mais completo.

Simple, powerful, and ZFS!!!

Love this software, use it for home nas, i also run 3 vbox on the same machine, I've used other nas software and nothing compares. Thank you guys for suck a great product.

Excellent and well maintained product. I especially like the ZFS, Samba and VirtualBox integration.

my favorite NAS System since years

Unbeatable for the price. :-) Fast & reliable. Not a fancy system with colourful GUI but also low HW requirements. Basic offer of usual services available - torrent, web server, FTP - and possibility to install others as addons.

Very fast, simple and... 250 daus without reboot. Excellent

I was a dummy until I decided to use Nas4Free - don't be a chump, get on it. Rock solid reliability, easy to use and fantastic support from a great community. Everyone is really friendly and the developers are super responsive and nice guys. And say hello on the forum

it's really a big thing!!!

Just ok.

Amazing software, very easy to use and reliable ! I use it for many years with dual hard drives It's very light, give a second life to old desktops. More plug-ins would be amazing (sockso, new Dynamic DNS services, ...) Thaks

veryyy goood

Very, very good