XigmaNAS Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• OpenBSD Innovations

  BSDs may not have a significant presence on desktops, but they're well known in the networking world for their reliability. They also were the foundation used to build OSes for specific applications. OpnSense and XigmaNAS, for example, are two excellent FreeBSD based applications aimed at firewalling/security and NAS/services. https://opnsense.org/ https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Looking for Drobo 5D replacement for M1 Macs

  A standalone NAS running ZFS as the filesystem. So XigmaNAS, TrueNAS, etc. Works beautifully. Source: about 1 year ago

• good os for nas

  XsigmaNAS - the father of freenas/truenas, much lighter on resources but development kinda stuck in just updating OS and packages and to be able to communicate with community, one have to register on closed forum. Source: about 1 year ago

• Wonder what everyone is using as a home server OS .. and why:)..

  XigmaNAS. Other machine is Xen. Most likely will move to Proxmox. Source: over 1 year ago

• Data hoarding newbie here, considering archival/backup/duplication options

  A NAS does not necessarily need to run 24/7. The better option IMHO would be a selfbuilt NAS with ZFS on 3x mirror https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/ | https://www.truenas.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Thinking about setting up a FreeBSD home server.

  If you're looking for a pre-rolled solution, ready to go out of the box, I'd suggest XigmaNAS or TrueNAS Core. At least if you're looking to stick with something built on BSD. If you're looking to learn something, and find that enjoyable, then I'd suggest setting up a FreeBSD machine and going from there. The official forums are a lot better place to ask for help then here. Source: over 1 year ago

• Dying xigmanas, need to mount USB drive, failing

  This was mysterious. I imagined spoken emphasis on the man part of the word. Eventually I realised, it's NAS (https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/). Source: over 1 year ago

• Ubuntu or Windows 10 for running 24/7 without interruptions/crashes

  FreeBSD, although it does take some ZFS understanding. Main reason I use it is the computer it's on is a potato. Setup was pretty easy, and I didn't have to register anything (ClearOS). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? (2021)

  Support in the browser would require the browser to stay on the whole time, along with the computer. Bittorrent clients are better run on small less power hungry boards (RPi, etc.) or on hardware that is meant to be running 24/7 anyway. For example, I run the Transmission daemon on my XigmaNAS home file server. The NAS is headless, but I can control the daemon through its remote GUI, so as soon as I click on a... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago