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NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information.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NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information.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 […]
What’s Improved in FreeNAS 9.3-BETA | State of the Union Video | In-depth OwnCloud Tutorial Video
FreeNAS 9.3-BETA is Now Out!
Today, we are very proud to announce the BETA release of FreeNAS 9.3! This FreeNAS update is a significant evolutionary step from previous FreeNAS releases. It features a simplified and reorganized Web User Interface, support for Windows 2012 clustering, better integration with VMWare, a new and more secure update system with roll-back functionality, and hundreds […]
FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 – New: FreeNAS Minecraft Server Plugin, Shellshock Patch & Tutorials
Hello FreeNAS users, Happy fall! By now you’ve probably heard of the Shellshock bug. Although FreeNAS was not affected, we decided to proactively close the vulnerability with FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 just in case. We also have a couple of tutorials for you this month including a bunch of user-created content. After several months of hard […]