For detailed and important information, limitations and requirements about specific features make sure you read the Setup and Users Guide.

• XigmaNAS 11.3.0.4 Base OS = FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE - Check this hardware compatibility list
• XigmaNAS 12.0.0.4 Base OS = FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE - Check this hardware compatibility list

Minimum Specs:

• OS disk: 2GB, RAM: 512MB for “Embedded” installs.
• OS disk: 4GB, RAM: 512MB for “Full” installs.

Note! More than 2GB of RAM will give you better system performance! * ZFS prefetch needs 4GB of RAM Golden rule: The more RAM you add, the better it is!

All XigmaNAS OS versions:

• Arch: x64 (x64= 64-bits, 32 bit is discontinued) & ARM (discontinued, try at your own risk)
• Full Web Management Interface (WebGUI).

• Active Directory PDC
• SMB/CIFS (Samba)
• AFP (Netatalk)
• NFS
• FTP (ProFTPD)
• SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol)
• TFTP (tftp-hpa)
• RSYNC (client/server)
• Unison
• SSH (including SCP and SFTP)
• iSCSI target

• Bittorent client (Transmission)
• UPnP server (FUPPES)
• iTunes/DAAP server (Firefly)
• Webserver (lighttpd)
• Network bandwitdh measure (Iperf3)

• ZFS ZFS
• HAST (Highly Available Storage, hastd(8))
• Software RAID 0,1,5 and mix (1+0,1+1, etc…)
• Disk encryption (using cryptographic accelerator card if present)
• Filesystem: UFS, Ext2/3, FAT, NTFS
• Partition: MBR and GPT
• iSCSI initiator

• CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
• 802.1q vlan tagging
• Wireless
• Link aggregation
• Bridge
• Wake On Lan

• S.M.A.R.T (smartmontools)
• Email alert
• SNMP
• Syslog
• UPS (NUT)

XigmaNAS is based upon/includes various free software packages, listed below. The authors of XigmaNAS would like to thank the authors of these software packages for their efforts.

• FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org) Copyright © 1995-2019 The FreeBSD Project. All rights reserved.
• geom raid5 FreeBSD GEOM RAID5 module Copyright © 2006-2009 Arne Woerner (arne_woerner@yahoo.com) & Copyright © 2010-2014 maintained by Lev Serebryakov (lev@FreeBSD.org).
• PHP (http://www.php.net). Copyright © 1999-2019 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.
• jQuery (http://jquery.com) Copyright © 2012 jQuery Foundation.
• Lighttpd (http://www.lighttpd.net) Copyright © 2004 by Jan Kneschke (jan@kneschke.de). All rights reserved.
• OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com) Copyright © 1999-2009 OpenBSD.
• Samba (http://www.samba.org) Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation.
• Rsync (http://www.samba.org/rsync) Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation.
• ProFTPD - Highly configurable FTP server (http://www.proftpd.org) Copyright © 1999, 2000-2019 The ProFTPD Project.
• tftp-hpa (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp) Copyright © 1999, 2000-2009 The tftp-hpa series is maintained by H. Peter Anvin.
• Netatalk (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net) Copyright © 1990,1996 Regents of The University of Michigan.
• Apple Bonjour (http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour) Apple Public Source License.
• Circular log support for FreeBSD syslogd (http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd)Copyright © 2001 Jeff Wheelhouse (jdw@wheelhouse.org).
• ataidle (http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software/ataidle.php) Copyright © 2004-2005 Bruce Cran (bruce@cran.org.uk). All rights reserved.
• smartmontools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools) Copyright © 2002-2012 Bruce Allen.
• iSCSI initiator (ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd) Copyright © 2005-2011 Daniel Braniss (danny@cs.huji.ac.il).
• istgt - iSCSI target for FreeBSD (http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama) Copyright © 2008-2015 Daisuke Aoyama (aoyama@peach.ne.jp). All rights reserved.
• FUPPES - Free UPnP Entertainment Service (http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de) Copyright © 2005 - 2011 Ulrich Völkel (u-voelkel@users.sourceforge.net).
• mt-daapd - Multithread daapd Apple iTunes server (http://www.fireflymediaserver.org) Copyright © 2003 Ron Pedde (ron@pedde.com).
• NTFS-3G driver (http://www.ntfs-3g.org) from Szabolcs Szakacsits.
• Fuse - Filesystem in Userspace (http://fuse.sourceforge.net).
• e2fsprogs (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net) Copyright © 1994-2006 Theodore Ts'o. All rights reserved.
• inadyn-mt - Simple Dynamic DNS client (http://sourceforge.net/projects/inadyn-mt) Inadyn Copyright © 2003-2004 Narcis Ilisei & Copyright © 2007 Bryan Hoover (bhoover@wecs.com).All rights reserved.
• XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net) Copyright © 2002 Mikhail Grushinskiy. All rights reserved.
• sipcalc (http://www.routemeister.net/projects/sipcalc) Copyright © 2003 Simon Ekstrand. All rights reserved.
• msmtp - An SMTP client with a sendmail compatible interface (http://msmtp.sourceforge.net) Copyright © 2008 Martin Lambers and others.
• cdialog - Display simple dialog boxes from shell scripts (http://invisible-island.net/dialog) Copyright © 2000-2006, 2007 Thomas E. Dickey.
• host - An utility to query DNS servers Rewritten by Eric Wassenaar, Nikhef-H, (e07@nikhef.nl).
• Transmission - Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client (http://www.transmissionbt.com) Copyright © 2008-2015 Transmission Project. All rights reserved.
• QuiXplorer - Web-based file-management (http://quixplorer.sourceforge.net) Copyright © Felix C. Stegerman. All rights reserved.
• pfSense: XigmaNAS use some pfSense code too (http://www.pfsense.com) Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006 Scott Ullrich. All rights reserved.
• VMXNET3 NIC driver for FreeBSD (http://www.vmware.com) Copyright © 2010 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
• Open Virtual Machine Tools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/).
• VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) (guest additions) (http://www.virtualbox.org/)
• LCDproc: A client/server suite for LCD devices (http://lcdproc.org) Copyright © 1998-2006 William Ferrell, Selene Scriven and many other contributors. All rights reserved.
• tmux: tmux is a terminal multiplexer. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmux/) Copyright © 2010 Nicholas Marriott. All Rights Reserved.
• iperf3: An tool to measure TCP and UDP bandwidth. (http://software.es.net/iperf/) Copyright © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.

Some of the software used for XigmaNAS are under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2, GPLv3), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Apple Public Source License and PHP License.