Friendly Twitter Poll Fight

[SpencerJ]

Unraiders.....Assemble!

 

 

[BRiT]

So what's in it for me to NOT vote for FreeNAS!? 🤔

[SpencerJ]

4 minutes ago, BRiT said:

So what's in it for me to NOT vote for FreeNAS!? 🤔

Are you saying you can be bribed? 😛

[jaylo123]

I used to run FreeNAS with MediaTomb for my media server, but the support community was horrible.  Everything came down to "Learn this stuff yourself" or "You need ZFS and ECC otherwise you're a dumb***".  UnRAID's community has been the complete reverse of that.

 

Sure, technically FreeNAS is the better solution, in "theory", but the community is just horrible.

 

That said, there are use cases for one (or both) solutions, just depends on what you want to do.  For me, I like UnRAID because it makes management of my server seamless and easy.  I don't have to constantly tinker with things, and I can go months without having to even touch the server.  FreeNAS required much more attention, which is probably fine for some folks that like to tinker.  /shrug

[Jcloud]

On 7/12/2020 at 11:27 AM, Jason Harris said:

That said, there are use cases for one (or both) solutions, just depends on what you want to do.

I think that's a great summation. I love Unraid but if I needed a straight up NAS solution I'd take a hard look at FreeNAS (and Synology).  I had a DM chat with a FreeNAS user on Imgur; I was impressed with a few FreeNAS features, but the BSD-hypervisor was badly lacking in comparison to Unraid's/Linux-KVM (which makes Unraid the winner for my use-cases). 

 

Okay, I'm done beating the dead horse. Have a good one, everyone.