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...
Mission Complete: Spin The Yarn Productions
Has FreeNAS, FreeBSD, OpenZFS, TrueNAS, or iXsystems hardware and support ever helped you complete your mission?
Stephen with Spin The Yarn Productions in the United Kingdom wrote in with his story about how FreeNAS has become an indispensable tool in his motion graphics and animation work flow.
“Since working with our FreeNAS system “Nigel” all these months, we’re happy to say that it’s one of the most important investments we’ve made in the business so far.”
Read Stephen’s full story below and we invite you to tell your story at ixsystems.com/missioncomplete
Best of luck on your next mission!
iXsystems TrueNAS Arrays Improve Scalability to Almost 5PB per Rack
iXsystems, the industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, officially announced the TrueNAS E60 expansion shelf. Adding a TrueNAS E60 to a TrueNAS Z35 enables scaling to 3.84PB, a 150% improvement in addressable capacity, and does so in only 35U of rack space, less than half the rack space of other enterprise storage vendors. A density of over 100TB per rack unit allows for a deployment of almost 5PB in a 48U rack.