FreeNAS vs XigmaNAS (Formerly NAS4Free)
FreeNAS and XigmaNAS (NAS4Free) are Open Source network-attached storage operating systems based on FreeBSD. Both support the SMB, AFP, and NFS sharing protocols, the OpenZFS file system, disk encryption, and virtualization.
FreeNAS
FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. FreeNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Use FreeNAS with ZFS to protect, store, and back up all of your data. FreeNAS is used everywhere, for the home, small business, and the enterprise.
XigmaNAS (Formerly NAS4Free)
This Open Source project is based on the original FreeNAS 0.7 code and is led by developers Daisuke Aoyama and Michael Zoon. XigmaNAS (Formerly NAS4Free) preserves the m0n0wall/PHP architecture used by the original FreeNAS.
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| Overview | FreeNAS 11.3 | XigmaNAS (NAS4Free) |
| Ease of Use | Graphical User Interface | Graphical User Interface |
| Documentation | User Guide, How-To Videos, Training Videos | Wiki |
| Certified Hardware Available | SoHo and Business | No |
| Open Source Licence | Primarily 2-clause BSD | 2-clause BSD |
| Base Operating System | FreeBSD 11.3 | FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE |
| File System | OpenZFS | UFS, FAT32, EXT2, OpenZFS |
| Architecture | 64-bit | 64-bit |
| Downloads | Over 10 million | Over 2.5 million |
| Development Language | Python, Angular | PHP |
| Open Source Repository | https://github.com/freenas | http://sourceforge.net/projects/nas4free/ |
| Core Developers | 25+ | 3 |
| Forums | 66,500+ users and over 550,000 posts | 7,800+ users and over 65,900+ posts |
| YouTube Community Videos | 134,000+ results and 22K+ subscribers | 7,700+ results |
| Social Media | 28,800+ Facebook likes, 13,700 Twitter followers | 500+ Facebook likes, 746 Twitter followers |
| Restorability | Download/Upload configuration file, default settings restore, boot environments | Download/Upload configuration file, default settings restore |
| Built-in Visual Reporting | CPU, disk, memory, network, processes, uptime, iSCSI, ZFS | CPU, disk, memory, network, processes, UPS, uptime, ZFS |
| Supported Disk Configurations | Stripe, mirror, RAIDZ1, Z2, Z3, hot-swap | Stripe, mirror, RAIDZ1, Z2,Z3, RAID5, hardware RAID |
| Encrypted Storage Support | Software Disk Encryption, Self-Encrypting Drives (SED), and Dataset Encryption in TrueNAS CORE 12 | Software Disk Encryption (Experimental) |
| Third Party Application Support | Plugins, Jails, bhyve VMs, Docker VMs | FreeBSD packages (CLI) |
| API | REST, websockets | none |
| Alerting Services | GUI, email, and SNMP alerts, integration with AWS-SNS, InfluxDB, Slack, Mattermost, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, VictorOps | GUI and email alerts |
| Built-in File Sharing Protocols | SMB, NFS, AFP, WebDAV | SMB, NFS, AFP, WebDAV, Bittorrent |
| Built-in Block Storage Protocols | iSCSI | iSCSI |
| Other Built-in Network Protocols | rsync, FTP, TFTP, LLDP, SSH, DDNS, SNMP | rsync, FTP, TFTP, SSH, DDNS, SNMP, Unison, HAST, UPnP |
| Built-in Cloud Synchronization | Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, Dropbox, FTP, Google Cloud Storage, HTTP, Hubic, Mega, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft OneDrive, pCloud, SFTP, WebDAV, Yandex | none |
| Built-in Directory Services | Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, NIS | Active Directory, LDAP |
| Built-in Hardware Protocols | S.M.A.R.T., SCSI Enclosure Services (SES), UPS | S.M.A.R.T., UPS. LCDproc |
| Built-in Virtualization | bhyve, Docker | Virtualbox, bhyve (command line) |
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