NAS4Free 11 is a system based on BSD to implement a storage system or Storage (NAS). Similar to FreeNAS, if you know it, it allows you to have an operating system that with a simple web interface can be configured to have a secure and flexible network storage system. It can be installed on any computer that we want to dedicate to these purposes and thus always have our private "cloud" and data accessible from anywhere.
For those who do not know what a NAS (Network Attached Storage), It should not be confused with NAS (Network Access Server) technology, since this corresponds to an entry point to a network for users, while NAS in reference to a Storage system refers to a storage technology for users. share with remote clients. You can have one or more hard drives dedicated to this purpose at home and with an Internet connection allow the data you have there to be accessed from a smartphone, tablet or any PC from anywhere in the world.
That is, with NAS4Free and similar systems we can have a kind of private and secure cloud for our purposes. Like FreeNAS, NAS4Free is also based on the FreeBSD operating system, which we have already talked about numerous times. Specifically, this latest version uses version 11.0 as a base. New functionalities have been added and some bugs corrected, in addition to having pampered usability a little more. It includes compatibility with 64-bit equipment and also for older 32-bit ones.
Su WEBGUI It is very similar to the competition, and avoids you having to deal with commands, greatly simplifying its configuration and monitoring. If you dare to download it from the project's official page, you can install it on your computer to have a real NAS. It will ask you for the username and password, which by default is admin y nas4free respectively. Obviously you must change them once you access the web interface, since these are not secure and you would be giving access to your data to third parties.
It looks very interesting I'm going to try it.
What I found nice was that on the FreeNAS Site they do a Vs http://www.freenas.org/freenas-vs-nas4free/ A dirty move to discredit the competition or a latent fear of losing part of the pie? It seems like a very low resource to do that.
regards
It would not be bad to always put a link.