FreeNAS/Features

Base System

• Base OS: Embedded FreeBSD 7.2
• Need only 64MB on media (flash compliant) and 256Mb of RAM
• Multiple arch: i386 or amd64
• Full Web Management Interface

Network Protocols supported

• SMB/CIFS (samba)
• AFP (AppleShare file server)
• NFS
• FTP
• TFTP
• RSYNC (client/server)
• Unison
• SCP (SSH)
• iSCSI (initiator and target)

Extra services

• Bittorent client (Transmission)
• UPnP server
• iTunes/DAAP server (Firefly)
• Webserver (lighttpd)
• Network bandwidth measure (Iperf)

Hard drive / volume management

• ZFS
• Software RAID 0,1,5 and mix (1+0,1+1, etc…)
• Disk encryption (using cryptographic accelerator card if present)
• Filesystem: UFS, Ext2/3, FAT, NTFS
• Partition: MBR and GPT
• iSCSI initiator

Network

• 802.1q vlan tagging
• Wireless
• link aggregation
• Wake On Lan

Monitoring

• S.M.A.R.T (smartmontools)
• Email alert
• SNMP
• Syslog
• UPS (NUT)