Once upon a time, Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com said:
The FreeNAS Mini from iX Systems is a good deal more expensive, but the ones I've worked with have been reliable and well suited to running ZFS with good performance.
I just retired a TrueNAS (the iX Systems "enterprise" version of FreeNAS, on hardware they sold pre-configured), and I don't have a lot of nice things to say about it. The hardware they sold was just SuperMicro, so nothing special (and with the standard SuperMicro problems).
There are some good people at iX, but I wish I hadn't had to deal with them so much.