TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. TrueNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data.




PetaSAN is described as 'Open source Scale-Out SAN solution offering massive scalability and performance. PetaSAN uses modern cloud based technologies to provide the elasticity and agility to scale up the storage cluster simply by adding more nodes' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to PetaSAN for a variety of platforms, including Linux, VMware vSphere Hypervisor, Self-Hosted, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Ubuntu apps. The best PetaSAN alternative is TrueNAS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PetaSAN are Unraid, XigmaNAS, Western Digital My Cloud and EasyNAS.
TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. TrueNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data.




Flexible operating system combining storage management with support for mixed drive sizes, Docker containers, virtual machines, hardware and GPU passthrough, browser-based interface, file protocols, scalable expansion, integrated parity, and monitoring features.



XigmaNAS (formerly NAS4Free) is an embedded Open Source Storage NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD. This project is a continuation of TrueNAS 7 series project.




Western Digital My Cloud is an easy-to-use personal cloud storage device that plugs directly into your Wi-Fi router at home so you can preserve your digital life. Use the My Cloud app on your phone, tablet or computer to access it anywhere without paying a subscription fee.




It uses openSUSE Leap as a base with the Btrfs advanced file system. EasyNAS is managed through a web-based interface and offers such features as on-line growing of file systems, snapshots and copy-on-write.







Enterprise Storage OS® is a quasi Linux distribution based on the excellent SCST project; its purpose is to provide SCSI targets via a compatible SAN (Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, iSCSI, FCoE). In a nutshell, ESOS® can easily turn a server with the appropriate hardware...
Open-E Data Storage Software V7 SOHO (Small Office Home Office) is a free version of Open-E DSS V7, previously known as Open-E DSS V7 Lite. With SOHO, you can take advantage of basic functionalities of our fully featured NAS / SAN software...




StorMagic SvSAN is a highly available hyperconverged storage solution using only two servers and protects data with encryption features and key management.



StorPool is an intelligent software-defined storage solution that allows service providers, enterprises and other Cloud builders to run data storage on standard x86 servers, instead of on expensive and inefficient storage arrays (SANs).



Dell EMC UnityVSA lets you deploy Dell EMC Unity unified storage as a virtual storage appliance. Dell EMC UnityVSA is software-defined storage that runs on industry-standard hardware and VMware ESXi, which you supply.
OviOS Linux is a specialized Linux distribution aimed at creating the fastest and easiest Linux unified storage server. It requires no knowledge of Linux, NFS, SMB or iSCSI protocols to create a fully functional storage server in less than 10 minutes, simply by following the 4...



