A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part III: Pools, Performance, and Cache
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part II: Hardware Specifics
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part I: Purpose and Best Practices
FreeNAS vs TrueNAS
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. View the newest version of the blog here. “What’s the difference between TrueNAS and FreeNAS? Is TrueNAS just FreeNAS installed on a server?” If you look at the software feature list, there aren’t a ton of differences. So really….what’s the difference? The first difference […]
Insane 48TB FreeNAS Build | FreeNAS Failover Demo | Other Goodies…
Hello FreeNAS Users, FreeNAS 9.3 is here and it sports a ton of great new features including a redesigned UI, a new configuration wizard, and an update manager. In addition, we’ve got a bunch of new videos for you—some instructional, some just for fun. Thanks to everyone who helped us make 2014 a success. Here’s […]
FreeNAS 9.3 Released
Here’s an early Christmas present for you all: FreeNAS 9.3! This FreeNAS update is a significant evolutionary step from previous FreeNAS releases, featuring a simplified and reorganized Web User Interface, support for Microsoft ODX and Windows 2012 clustering, better VMWare integration, including VAAI support, a new and more secure update system with roll-back functionality, and […]
FreeNAS & ZFS: The Indestructible Duo – Except for the Hard Drives
At this year’s MeetBSD, Joshua Paetzel, a core member of the FreeNAS Development Team, demonstrated the failover capabilities of FreeNAS… by pulling the drives out of two FreeNAS Minis and completely destroying them. Josh ran a build mounted from two FreeNAS Minis populated by four drives each. The compiler was projected on a screen so […]
FreeNAS 9.3 will be released on 2014/12/8
Hi folks, Just a quick update on this topic since it has been communicated (by me, even) that FreeNAS 9.3-RELEASE would come out at the end of November. Obviously, it is now the end of November and that hasn’t happened yet, so time for a quick update! First, we’d like to thank everyone for their […]
FreeNAS 9.2.1.9 is now available
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. Hi Folks! With 9.3-RELEASE just around the corner, we thought it was time to give the folks still running 9.2.1.x a little early Christmas present – an update release to the 9.2.1-BRANCH which fixes just a few strategic bugs that are nonetheless impacting folks (the […]