FreeNAS: a Migration Story
In 2010 I was employed as system administrator, and one of my aims was to administer the file sharing service. After having tried a few different solutions, all based on Linux and well known protocols (CIFS and Netatalk), I decided to switch to FreeNAS. And while it was an old version, and therefore without […]
FreeNAS – Detachable Storage has Come of Age
While regular readers of this column will appreciate that I am long in tooth (the corollary being that I am short in memory) – I still remember 8 inch 1.2MB floppy disks that would only hold less than 1MB under CPM. My first I.T. task before I jumped ship form electronics to computing was […]
Creative Integrations: Workflow Improvements with FreeNAS and TrueNAS
“We’ve deployed FreeNAS and TrueNAS at several client locations and the visual effects people are loving the TrueNAS system and how easy it is to manage.” -Tim Nagle, Owner of Creative Integrations Creative Integrations Creative Integrations is a full service engineering/integration firm that specializes in post-production, recording, animation, and broadcast facilities. With over a […]
FreeNAS Issue of BSD Magazine
BSD Magazine, the leading publisher of BSD news and articles, is proud to present a special FreeNAS edition. In this month’s issue, readers can find a collection of insightful FreeNAS articles from iXsystems’ FreeNAS development, marketing and support teams, as well as beta-testers. Dru Lavigne, John Hixson, Mark VonFange, Annie Zhang, and Alfred Perlstein all […]
FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 is available
WARNING: FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 has been found to be fatally flawed. Please download FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p2 instead. Josh Paetzel has announced FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1: FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 made it’s way to SF Friday of last week. It fixes a couple of small issues and provides a few small updates. Serial numbers of disks are shown in the GUI. […]
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FreeNAS 8.3.1 is Released!
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE. Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE/ FreeNAS 8.3.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem, and features volume based encryption for ZFS. There have been no major changes between 8.3.1-RC1 and […]
FreeNAS 8.3.1-RC1 is Available
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RC1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RC1/ This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem, […]
Joshua Parker Ruehlig’s FreeNAS plugins
The FreeNAS team would like to highlight the efforts of Joshua Parker Ruehlig from the FreeNAS Forums who, in the true spirit of open source, recently published several new plugins for FreeNAS. Joshua had already been using sickbeard and Sabnzbd on a windows-based NAS. When he found out about the plugin system in FreeNAS, Joshua […]
FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 is Available
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.1 as it moves towards the final. FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 can be downloaded from the following location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA3/ FreeNAS 8.3.1 adds ZFS volume encryption to the features available in FreeNAS 8.3.0. BETA3 has a number […]