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How do you like XigmaNAS? I sometimes hear it in discussions on TrueNAS. Did you try TrueNAS?

• squarefoot 4y ago
  > How do you like XigmaNAS? I probably lack the expertise to rate it from a professional point of view, but for my home use it does its job fine. I never experienced any crashes or data losses, and my last year resync of two RAID1 ZFS pools to new bigger disks went fine. Uptimes up to 1.5 years and always interrupted for maintenance or blackouts (no space for a UPS, but this will change soon). I use the embedded version flashed on a USB dongle mounted directly on the motherboard, a Supermicro X7SPA-L employing a AtomD410 CPU which does the job without the need of a fan. I found the max supported RAM amount (4GB) enough for normal use despite ZFS; used RAM rarely goes beyond 50-60%. Disks are all WD Red Plus (not the infamous SMR ones) which ensures it stays cool and silent. If I have some criticism to move is the file manager supplied with the web interface that sometimes refuses to move files (all data, non system files) without any explanation. I would love having a text file manager such as mc available, but the embedded version doesn't allow to install more software, probably to save space and reduce flash memory wear. About TrueNAS, i heard of it but never tried it. I might try it after I relocate a few months from now as i plan to build a 2nd NAS for redundancy.