zVault or XigmaNAS or other TrueNAS alternative

[simplex6]

Hey, anyone here using zVault instead of TrueNAS?
It's based on TrueNAS CORE and actually open source / free.

zVault - Open Source ZFS NAS

I'm thinking between it and XigmaNAS, or some other NAS solution, but it's hard to decide.

 

[Navvie]

I've used XigmasNAS (NAS4Free) for over a decade and switched to TrueNAS Core about a year ago when I rebuilt my NAS from a Norco 4224 to a Supermicro SC847.

No doubt that TrueNAS looks prettier, but it also hides some information from you that XigmaNAS puts front and center.

I'll let zVault mature a little yet but it's certainly on my radar.

 

[simplex6]

I've used XigmasNAS (NAS4Free) for over a decade and switched to TrueNAS Core about a year ago when I rebuilt my NAS from a Norco 4224 to a Supermicro SC847.

No doubt that TrueNAS looks prettier, but it also hides some information from you that XigmaNAS puts front and center.

I'll let zVault mature a little yet but it's certainly on my radar.

Why did you switch to TrueNAS Core?

After one year, any benefits of using that vs XigmaNAS apart from the pretty UI?

 

[louie1961]

Why are you looking for an alternative? Does it have to be BSD based or are Linux based distros acceptable?

 

[simplex6]

Why are you looking for an alternative? Does it have to be BSD based or are Linux based distros acceptable?

I would like to go in the BSD way.

 

[louie1961]

According to Distrowatch, XigmaNAS is your only remaining option now that TrueNAS core has been deprecated. zVault looks interesting but doesn't even show up yet on Distrowatch. I had never heard of it before. You could also roll your own on FreeBSD

 

[simplex6]

According to Distrowatch, XigmaNAS is your only remaining option now that TrueNAS core has been deprecated. zVault looks interesting but doesn't even show up yet on Distrowatch. I had never heard of it before. You could also roll your own on FreeBSD

Yeah, it's kinda new, but what's the point of a homelab if I don't try out new stuff

 

[Greg_E]

Ok, always interested in options. Anyone willing to give a summary on Xigma and zVault as compared to Truenas?

And will any run on a Pi4 for a simple home NAS (only really need a single disk). I just can't get a grip on OMV, but I have 6 Truenas between lab and production (some Scale and some still Core).

 

[simplex6]

Ok, always interested in options. Anyone willing to give a summary on Xigma and zVault as compared to Truenas?

And will any run on a Pi4 for a simple home NAS (only really need a single disk). I just can't get a grip on OMV, but I have 6 Truenas between lab and production (some Scale and some still Core).

I think getting them run on an Rpi4 is both kinda involved, and does not worth the trouble.

https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/14xfcfa

 

[Navvie]

Why did you switch to TrueNAS Core?

After one year, any benefits of using that vs XigmaNAS apart from the pretty UI?

I didn't keep my XigmaNAS install up to date. I was still booting of a usb flash drive and that's not been supported/recommended for a while. Upgrading meant reinstalling so I figured I might as well install something else and try it. I looked at both FreeNAS and nas4free ten or so years ago and picked nas4free, which became XigmaNAS.

TrueNAS forums were a lot busier than XigmaNAS. Questions are answered more quickly, and more questions have been asked. It's a better reference and the TrueNAS documentation is better.

Why Core instead of Scale? I've been using FreeBSD since the 3.x release, so I've got a bit of a soft spot for it.

Any benefits of TrueNAS over XigmaNAS? Only the nicer UI. The way information that is presented is presented in a better way - the reporting tab in TrueNAS is very good. But I do miss stuff from XigmaNAS like the output of 'zpool iostat -vy 1' (or whatever Xigma's interval is) and 'zpool status -v', the output of both commands is shown in Xigma's UI exatly as is. in TrueNAS, as far as I know or as far as I've been able to find out, I have to run those from the command line. Which is no problem but it's an extra step.