"Empresa" significa coisas diferentes para pessoas diferentes. Eu me sentiria confortável usando o FreeNAS em um ambiente de rede de pequena empresa, particularmente como uma máquina não essencial para a missão, como um destino de backup secundário. Muitas pessoas aqui parecem considerar confiável .
No entanto, acho que o prego final no caixão para usá-lo como uma séria apresentação de armazenamento "de nível empresarial" é simplesmente que o FreeNAS não foi projetado para isso. A maior parte do mercado alvo do FreeNAS está no SuperUser.
Esta é uma entrevista com o gerente de projetos do FreeNAS Josh Paetzel :
Q: What is the target market for FreeNAS? Is it mainly for personal
use by people who want networked storage at home, or is it used in
production environments -- would you consider it enterprise-ready, for
example? In some respects it seems to straddle both consumer and
business markets -- it has features that would be great for home
storage, but also features like iSCSI targeting and 10GigE support.
A: I think in some ways it does straddle the high-end home user market
and the low-end commercial market. In its current form it has moved
away from the multimedia centre that many people were using FreeNAS
for and more towards a storage appliance. We certainly intend to get
back to that role in the future, but that's where we are at today.
It's also missing the features of really high end storage, like
active/active failover, a clustered filesystem, single name-space, or
horizontal scaling. So it can't compete with the likes of a BlueArc,
NetApp, or EMC at the high end. What we are finding is that there's a
lot of room in the lower end, where features like snapshots and dedup
are needed, but things like active/active failover are not. People
need more features than a Netgear ReadyNAS offers, but less than a
NetApp offers. FreeNAS fits into that very nicely.