FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect
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Today's news that the FreeNAS Coral project had to roll back their latest release due to instability is a great example of even one of the better and bigger storage "add on" projects having risk, and rather a lot of it, due to the Jurassic Park Effect. This is a truly massive setback for the project and will haunt them for a long time.
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@scottalanmiller I remember way back on SW when you too had a difference of opinion about FreeNAS in the Community. Funny as heck.
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@jimk said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect:
@scottalanmiller I remember way back on SW when you too had a difference of opinion about FreeNAS in the Community. Funny as heck.
LOL, that's happened a lot. Boy do a lot of people rely on this over there. At least it replaced OpenFiler, now that was a disaster.
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@scottalanmiller We moved to Synology and Netgear for SMB. I was just finding that the free stuff just wasn't stable or dependable enough.
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@jimk said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect:
@scottalanmiller We moved to Synology and Netgear for SMB. I was just finding that the free stuff just wasn't stable or dependable enough.
It's not that free is bad, it's that the JPE hurts free stuff. CentOS, OpenSuse, FreeBSD... they will all take on Synology and Netgear easy peasy. They are lighter, more advanced, more flexible and featureful, easier to strip down, get patched sooner, etc.
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@scottalanmiller Point well made.
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It's hard to keep up with all the hardware when you have opensource and all the different components of each. FreeNas was great on version 6,7 and 8 but now it seems different. We had moved from Buffalo Terastation and Openfiler to Freenas then to Synology and have not looked back since.
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@Eltolargo said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect:
It's hard to keep up with all the hardware when you have opensource and all the different components of each. FreeNas was great on version 6,7 and 8 but now it seems different. We had moved from Buffalo Terastation and Openfiler to Freenas then to Synology and have not looked back since.
That's where an HCL would make sense.
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