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| XigmaNAS | |
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 Screenshot of XigmaNAS WebGUI | |
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| Stable release | 14.3.0.5.10432 / 10 September 2025; 5 months ago (2025-09-10) |
| Operating system | FreeBSD |
| Platform | x64 |
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| Type | Computer storage |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | www |
XigmaNAS is an open-sourcenetwork-attached storage (NAS) server software with a dedicated management web interface. It is a continuation of the originalFreeNAS code, which was developed between 2005 and late 2011. It was released under the nameNAS4Free on 22 March 2012.[1][2] The name was changed to XigmaNAS in July 2018. OnSourceForge, it was elected "'Community Choice' Project of the Month" twice, in August 2015 and March 2017.[3]
XigmaNAS is anembeddedopen-source NASsoftware distribution based on the latest release ofFreeBSD.[4][3] It isfree software under the terms of theSimplified BSD license.[5] It was developed from the original FreeNAS 7 code and updated to work with current FreeBSD releases[1] while preserving FreeNAS's original m0n0wall/PHP architecture and introducing experimental support for the ARM architecture.[6]
XigmaNAS supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includesZFS v5000, SoftwareRAID (0,1,5),disk encryption,S.M.A.R.T., and email reports etc., with the following protocols:SMB, Samba Active Directory Domain ControllerAD,FTP,NFS,TFTP,AFP,rsync,Unison (file synchronizer),iSCSI (initiator and target),HAST,CARP, Bridge,UPnP, andBitTorrent. All of this is configurable through itsweb interface.[citation needed]
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XigmaNAS is installable on almost any boot medium including LiveCD, both forx86-64 andx86-32 computer platforms up to version 10.3.[9] As of version 11.0, XigmaNAS no longer supports x86-32, but version 10.3 is still getting updates.[10] XigmaNAS can be installed on Compact Flash, USB flash drives, SSD, hard drives or other bootable devices, and supports advanced formatted drives using 4 kB sectors. The software distribution is currently distributed inISO image (.iso, approximately 370 MB),USB flash drive image (.img, approximately 320 MB) format, and insource form.[citation needed]
A special small footprint embedded image is also available (.img, approximately 150 MB).[10]The preferred method is the embedded installation onto a USB stick, Compact Flash card (CF), orHDD/SSD, for which XigmaNAS was designed. The XigmaNAS OS will load into system memory, eliminating system writes to a drive except for configuration changes written to an archive. Flash devices are more energy efficient and the updating process can be done byWebGUI in the browser, downloading and installing a new firmware image.[citation needed]
The original FreeNAS projectderives fromm0n0wall.[11]
The FreeNAS 0.7 branch wasend-of-life'd in late 2011 after the FreeNAS name was legally acquired byiXsystems, Inc. Starting with version 8.x, new iXsystems developers rewrote FreeNAS. Legacy FreeNAS 0.7 was no longer available for download.
The legacy FreeNAS 0.7 code was unable to be developed any longer under the same name, and a name change was necessary. The founder of FreeNAS (Olivier Cochard-Labbé) donated the original FreeNAS source code to the NAS4Free project. With the support of the former developers, namely Daisuke Aoyama and Michael Zoon, it carries on the original FreeNAS code base. FreeNAS 8.x.y and up is a softwarefork of the original FreeNAS with a new rewritten code base, continuing the old branded name.[1] In 2018, the project applied for the XigmaNAS trademark to protect the brand[12] prior to the release of v11.2.
Further readings prior to 2012 are referring to the legacy FreeNAS .07 precursor branch.
