Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 23, 2007 06:36 PM
I really wish people doing articles on freenas would actually use and test it before saying how great it is, just getting it to run does not make it easy and great. Case in point, this particular article the author claims he seen $75K performance, what was he smoking, read on further when I get to the speed issue.
Besides it not being stable, (freebsd is stable you say?) well yes it is, but the freenas team has managed to make it unstable with poor php programming, it's been alpha quality code for over a year. All one needs to do is peruse thier bug tracker and forums and see the amount of problems.
Security? I've already found 3 different ways too compromise it (unix security 101), of course it does make it a little easier when the author keeps all the user/passwords in cleartext in a xml file.
Raid is nearly a joke in it, people can't rebuild, the system reboots randomly when the array degrades, it's plain sad.
Speed is another MAJOR issue, it's extremely slow, slower than hardware nas boxes like buffalo etc. It seems to handle 10/100 fine, but when you get to gigabit, forget it, the system can't keep up. Since a nas box spends 99% of it's time sending/receiving files, this is the deal breaker. Here's a couple links for speed discussions.
Bottom line, with all the time your gonna spend screwing with this thing, your better off putting that time into learning to configure a linux distro, it will be safer and faster and more reliable.
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Freenas should be renamed SLOW-Nas
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Besides it not being stable, (freebsd is stable you say?) well yes it is, but the freenas team has managed to make it unstable with poor php programming, it's been alpha quality code for over a year. All one needs to do is peruse thier bug tracker and forums and see the amount of problems.
Security? I've already found 3 different ways too compromise it (unix security 101), of course it does make it a little easier when the author keeps all the user/passwords in cleartext in a xml file.
Raid is nearly a joke in it, people can't rebuild, the system reboots randomly when the array degrades, it's plain sad.
Speed is another MAJOR issue, it's extremely slow, slower than hardware nas boxes like buffalo etc. It seems to handle 10/100 fine, but when you get to gigabit, forget it, the system can't keep up. Since a nas box spends 99% of it's time sending/receiving files, this is the deal breaker. Here's a couple links for speed discussions.
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Bottom line, with all the time your gonna spend screwing with this thing, your better off putting that time into learning to configure a linux distro, it will be safer and faster and more reliable.
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