Rockstor Reviews

awesome,easy to use, native AFP timemachine protocol ... the best, freenas is good, rockstor it's better, ZFS wants too much ram, BTRFS not! remember just one thing ..after the installation go in web ui using https , not http (like freenas) or cat /etc/issue after reboot ;-)

Finally we have a Linux based btrfs powered FreeNAS alternative! Good job!

Is the most functional NAS platform for the primary purpose of a NAS - securely storing data, and I include Synology DSN (5.2) in that statement. This is mainly because Rockstor is based on the btrfs file system, so can do Shared Folder snapshotting. One feature it is missing is encrypted replication, but that is on the roadmap apparently.

Very promising foundation for a NAS. Easy to install, a clean UI that exploits killer features of BTRFS, and a responsive development team. Both BTRFS and Rockstor have work to do to fully realize their respective visions, but it's a very nice start.

A great NAS OS and easy to use and setup. The support is amazing as well. They know what they're doing and have excellent steps and follow up.

I have been watching this project for quite some time. They have made tremendous progress. This is very promising NAS solution on BTRFS, with some cool plugins(Rock-Ons). All the best.

It is a wonderful project, pretty easy to install, stable and mature. It is feature rich system and is being updated on regular basis.

I was one of the core contributors to RockStor. I can tell you from experience that after writing code for the product as well as using it, I have grown to both aspects of RockStor. It's a very powerful platform for storage as well as using applications in Docker containers (a newly added feature). The project is moving fast, the community is growing every day. Use RockStor. You won't regret it.

Hi, it's a wonderful project and product. It's very responsive, like its support team. if you're looking for a NAS software that is powerful, don't hesitate, RockIt! Regards Erix

I've been testing Rockstor and following the project on and off since 2.x days. It has really come a long way.

RockStor is hands down the easiest way to manage your BTRFS storage server from a neat webgui. It's got an easy intuitive feel. Plus the developer is easily approachable and puts out frequent updates.

I was one of the developers of Rockstor, and I'm happy to see the speed with which the product is progressing, and adding features and achieving stability. The community, blog and forum are very helpful. The founder and team are very focused on listening to user feedback and improving the product, and I know this both from my time working on Rockstor, as well as watching its development over the past few months. I use it at home for my own private cloud server. One of the most exciting features for me is Rockons, a convenient way to install third-party applications including file syncing and backup, and use Rockstor to provide storage for them. The best thing is that its completely free and open-source, and I'm confident that the community and adoption will grow rapidly in the months to come.

A very promising alternative for DIY NAS. It was super easy to install, setup and use. I now back up all my devices to my to NAS /rockstar box. The blog, the forum are super awesome too and very useful / helpful.

We have a long way to go, but it's great to see the community building up and glad that the product is stable for the most part. I use it in production for various project related tasks like build/release, forum etc.. and also for personal use as my own private cloud and for backups.

This is a *very* promising NAS OS that offers usability far beyond Nexenta or FreeNAS. Btrfs is a great foundation for an appliance like this, and is far more flexible than ZFS (though you do give up a few enterprise-type features).

I am a current user of Rockstor and use it to back up my iPhone and soon will be backing up my laptop to it. Even someone with basic technical knowledge can easily download and install it, and in case of issues, the development team and community is very helpful. I am very confident that this project will soon have increased visibility in the DIY NAS community and the broader storage market.

A very promising project with a very helpfull development group, and active forum. Allready fully usefull as a NAS server, I use it for my primary storage.

This is a great project in development, it is easy to install and use, has excellent features and the team is constantly pushing out updates. I use rockstar at home instead of a time capsule and it serves all my purposes and more. There is an active community around rockstor that is grown quite fast and the developers are quick to respond with support. I’m very excited to see this product take off. Major thumbs up!

Awesome product in development that is 80% of the way to being perfect. We use Rockstor in our office as a place to gather all those drives that came out of other servers, replaced drives, forgotten external disks and so on. Being able to use different size disks in a RAID is very cool and Rockstor itself is easy and straightforward to use. It is so easy that it is pretty much set and forget. We looked at freenas, unraid, openmediavault and some others. What set Rockstor apart for us was the team behind it, whose members are awesomely responsive and very knowledgable and kind, as well as the aforementioned ability to mix different sized disks. This is similar to Unraid, but unraid costs money, is limited in array size (amount of disks) and most importantly; Unraid development seems slow relative to the many iterations and versions released by rockstor!

Almost there. I really like the target of this project, along with how it is designed. Version 3.6 is still missing some features, but the community is active so this shouldnt be an issue for much longer. With minimum requirements of 2GB of RAM and a 64 bit processor, this is a viable option for replacing the embedded OS on older x86 NAS systems or for low-powered home units. With future plans for iSCSI and other enterprise features, this could very well be a viable option for scalable enterprise solutions. Very exciting, and I eagerly anticipate the future of this project.

Some background info: I’m a complete novice when it comes to anything Linux. I used Linux roughly 10 years ago since I was a frustrated Windows user, but always had problems installing software because of the wrong version of python, or dependency issues. Over the years I have accumulated a lot of pictures, videos, music etc that I’d like to store but online options like google drive/dropbox don’t have enough free space, and even the paid options may not be enough. Then I discovered Rockstor. I have an old IBM server that I keep in my bas****t closet that I decided to install Rockstor on. Install took roughly 20 minutes, and during the install you can setup a username so you don’t even need to wait for the install to be done to finish the setup. This was really nice, in fact I don’t even know exactly how long the install took, I simply setup everything and let it complete the install on its own. After the install, you just have to point your browser to the IP address and you’re in. Very easy even for a beginner like me. The GUI is very slick, giving you all the basics such as CPU usage, hard drive usage, etc. Updates install very easily as well. I plan on adding a few more hard drives and will update this review once I get everything setup correctly. It will be interesting to see how adding additional HDs and setting things up will turn out. Overall, I’m very impressed by Rockstor, it gives a lot of customization. Best of all, its free and I see there is a lot of support by the Rockstor team on github as well.