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Hey, they made a mistake and then owned up to it. It is a great reason to go forward with them. Most companies never are this honest. I run FreeNAS at home and

Hey, they made a mistake and then owned up to it. It is a great reason to go forward with them. Most companies never are this honest. I run FreeNAS at home and have a rack of iXsystem servers and a TrueNAS at work. We are buying more. Great team, great support.

awinder 10y ago
If Apple released 10.13, waited 2-3 weeks, and then explained that one of their big devs left the company so ~ shrug ~ everyone just downgrade, we're gonna re-do it again but throw everything away, and oh yeah, here's a THIRD beta UI we've got in development because apparently we've learned 0 lessons, people would absolutely claim amateur hour. And they'd be right. I haven't even gotten to why they went from a new React UI to an angular 2 based UI, which, I just can't even on that one yet.
- myrandomcomment 10y ago
  They are not Apple. They are a smallish company in Silicon Valley that sold servers and built a business around being an alternative to NetAPP / EMC on the storage side. Mistakes where made. It is growing pains. If that does not work for you then please go buy from EMC / Dell. Also IIRC Apple pulled an iOS release or 2 in the last few years for major issues. I have worked at a few startups that have sold for a few $100M or gone public for a few billion. Stuff happens. It is how you handle it. They owned up to it fully and have a path forward. That is much better then most.
  - snuxoll 10y ago
    One should also note as far as their enterprise product, TrueNAS, is concerned, there was never an upgrade to "Corral" pushed in the first place since it lags behind FreeNAS releases to ensure everything works correctly and any gotchas have been ironed out. I understand ixSystems also sells the FreeNAS Mini, which is target at home users and small business - but anyone who uses any network storage product for production or mission critical use should be wary of any upgrades coming from the software vendor without thorough testing. I stayed far away from Corrall on my FreeNAS server at home explicitly because so much of the UI and underlying infrastructure was changed, didn't seem reasonable to upgrade without letting people braver than I am test (plus, I rely on iSCSI support for my VM's - that was missing).
    - myrandomcomment 10y ago
      Correct. Our work systems are on TrueNAS and left alone. I upgraded my FreeNAS because it was my home system and I wanted to see how things looked as a preview for when they pushed things into TrueNAS. It was broken so I reverted. The best part is it was so simple just to go back and it all worked.

awinder 10y ago

If Apple released 10.13, waited 2-3 weeks, and then explained that one of their big devs left the company so ~ shrug ~ everyone just downgrade, we're gonna re-do it again but throw everything away, and oh yeah, here's a THIRD beta UI we've got in development because apparently we've learned 0 lessons, people would absolutely claim amateur hour. And they'd be right. I haven't even gotten to why they went from a new React UI to an angular 2 based UI, which, I just can't even on that one yet.

myrandomcomment 10y ago
They are not Apple. They are a smallish company in Silicon Valley that sold servers and built a business around being an alternative to NetAPP / EMC on the storage side. Mistakes where made. It is growing pains. If that does not work for you then please go buy from EMC / Dell. Also IIRC Apple pulled an iOS release or 2 in the last few years for major issues. I have worked at a few startups that have sold for a few $100M or gone public for a few billion. Stuff happens. It is how you handle it. They owned up to it fully and have a path forward. That is much better then most.
- snuxoll 10y ago
  One should also note as far as their enterprise product, TrueNAS, is concerned, there was never an upgrade to "Corral" pushed in the first place since it lags behind FreeNAS releases to ensure everything works correctly and any gotchas have been ironed out. I understand ixSystems also sells the FreeNAS Mini, which is target at home users and small business - but anyone who uses any network storage product for production or mission critical use should be wary of any upgrades coming from the software vendor without thorough testing. I stayed far away from Corrall on my FreeNAS server at home explicitly because so much of the UI and underlying infrastructure was changed, didn't seem reasonable to upgrade without letting people braver than I am test (plus, I rely on iSCSI support for my VM's - that was missing).
  - myrandomcomment 10y ago
    Correct. Our work systems are on TrueNAS and left alone. I upgraded my FreeNAS because it was my home system and I wanted to see how things looked as a preview for when they pushed things into TrueNAS. It was broken so I reverted. The best part is it was so simple just to go back and it all worked.