Free Unraid Alternatives

The best free alternative to Unraid is TrueNAS, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Unraid and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Unraid are Proxmox Virtual Environment, OpenMediaVault, XigmaNAS and Harvester.

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Unraid alternatives are mainly NAS Systems but may also be Virtualization Tools or Operating Systems.  Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Unraid.
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An operating system for personal and small business use that brings enterprise-class features letting you configure your computer systems to maximize performance and capacity using any combination of applications, VMs,...

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Unraid alternatives page was last updated Mar 24, 2024
  1. Incus icon
     2 likes

    Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

    16 Incus alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Container Virtualization
    2.  Container monitoring
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  2. Windows Storage Spaces icon
     2 likes

    Drive Pooling with SSD tiering built into Windows.

    7 Windows Storage Spaces alternatives
    Simple Storage Spaces with SSD partition

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Windows Storage Spaces Features

    1.  Unlimited storage
    2.  Data tiering
    3.  Extensibility
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    Windows Storage Spaces VS Unraid

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  3. EasyNAS icon
     5 likes

    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.

    9 EasyNAS alternatives
    EasyNAS

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    EasyNAS Features

    1.  Support for BTRFS
    EasyNAS iconUnraid Icon

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  4. Greyhole icon
     6 likes

    Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware...

    9 Greyhole alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Greyhole iconUnraid Icon

    Greyhole VS Unraid

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  5. PetaSAN icon
     1 like

    PetaSAN is an 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.

    12 PetaSAN alternatives
    PetaSAN screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    PetaSAN Features

    1. Microsoft Active Directory icon  Active Directory integration
    2.  SMB and NFS sharing
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  6. napp-it icon
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    A napp-it is a high-quality block- and filestorage on common and favourable server hardware from ex. DataOn, Dell, HP or SuperMicro paired with a solid server OS (preferable Omnios/ OI/ Solaris but now with ZFS and job/ snap management on Linux) with an easy online installer...

    14 napp-it alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • OpenIndiana

    napp-it Features

    1.  Support for Rsync
    napp-it iconUnraid Icon

    napp-it VS Unraid

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  7. EON ZFS Storage icon
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    What is EON? Embedded Operating system/Networking is a small operating system, built on Solaris, designed to store any amount of digital data on Intel/AMD (x86) hardware, using the amazing, enterprise class Zettabyte File System.

    Why use EON? Because it offers rock solid, reliab.

    19 EON ZFS Storage alternatives

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    EON ZFS Storage iconUnraid Icon

    EON ZFS Storage VS Unraid

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    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...

    23 ESOS alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Open-E Data Storage Software SOHO icon
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    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...

    20 Open-E Data Storage Software SOHO alternatives
    Open-E Data Storage Software SOHO screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Open-E Data Storage Software SOHO iconUnraid Icon

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