Aaron Pierson
Cloud Computing and Backup Administrator FreeNAS is the best thing to happen to my house since linux. Creating NFS/CIFS mounts – done. Uploading my music, pictures, videos, and documents – done. Sharing my uploads with my PS3, smart TV, and tablet – done. And that’s just with my 32 bit box. Using deduplication to […]
Matt Flaming
System Admin and Instrumentation Engineer I find FreeNAS easy to implement, easy to manage with its beautiful web interface, and an overall feature-set that cannot be beat by an off-the-shelf unit. Ease of expansion in DIY projects is a must and I don’t know if I have seen the limit to what FreeNAS can […]
Robert Buggy
Technology Integration Engineer I have been using FreeNAS for over four years now and have had nothing but love for it. I started off using it as a way to have a 24/7 box to host all my music video and pictures. Then built out larger boxes with multiple drives to raid as a […]
Alan McKinnon
System Administrator In the grand free and open source tradition, I get the very best feature set I could hope for (everything) at the best possible price (nothing) 🙂 I’m a sysadmin by trade and have two FreeNAS boxes at home – one for general storage, one for permanent backups. Both just run day […]
Arno H
January #MissionComplete Best Story
The best #MissionComplete story for January was sent in by Ben Dailey who deployed a 36TB FreeNAS system at a public school as a backup solution. Ben will receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card and FreeNAS T-shirt.
“FreeNAS with FreeBSD as its base helped save our local taxpayers $36,000”
December #MissionComplete Best Stories
The best #MissionComplete story for December was sent in by David Genton at CDW who regularly uses FreeNAS to take on legacy storage solutions. David will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card and FreeNAS T-shirt. "I can safely say that FreeNAS is the #1 OS for SAN and...
November #MissionComplete Best Stories
We once again received so many great #MissionComplete stories that we had no choice but to declare a tie for November’s best!
The first Amazon Gift Card and FreeNAS t-shirt goes to Chris Amos:
“FreeNAS had become so integral to my home network, and I enjoyed the technology so much that I enrolled in the FreeNAS certification courses”
The second $50 Amazon Gift Card and FreeNAS t-shirt goes to Stephen with Spin The Yarn Productions in the United Kingdom:
“We’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone that makes FreeNAS what it is”
Read their full stories below and tell us how you have used FreeNAS, FreeBSD, TrueNAS, OpenZFS or iXsystems hardware to complete your mission!
Good luck on your next mission!
Gartner Believes That TrueNAS Should Be Considered When Evaluating Open Source Storage Software
iXsystems is pleased to announce that the TrueNAS storage array was recognized by Gartner as providing key benefits to enterprise clients in their 2015 Open-Source Storage Market Guide. Gartner stated that storage based on Open Source software, like TrueNAS, is ready...
vCenter Web Client Plug-in for TrueNAS Now Available
Last week iXsystems released a vCenter Server plug-in to provide ease of management from a single-user interface for the virtual infrastructure. The plug-in is available at no additional cost, and is available for TrueNAS software version 9.3.1 and later. Installing...