Category: FreeNAS
The former name of TrueNAS CORE, FreeNAS was the original iXsystems solution for cost-effective ZFS storage.
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part II: Hardware Specifics
General Hardware Recommendations I’ve built a lot of ZFS storage hardware and have two decades of experience with FreeBSD. The following are some thoughts on hardware. Intel Versus AMD FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. FreeBSD has a long history of working better on Intel than AMD. Things like (but not limited to) the watchdog […]
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part I: Purpose and Best Practices
A guide to selecting and building FreeNAS hardware, written by the FreeNAS Team, is long past overdue by now. For that, we apologize. The issue was the depth and complexity of the subject, as you’ll see by the extensive nature of this four part guide, due to the variety of ways FreeNAS can be utilized. […]
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NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information.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
Hello FreeNAS users, In case you haven’t heard the big news, FreeNAS 9.3-BETA was released earlier this week. We’ll let Jordan Hubbard, Director of the FreeNAS Project, explain more about it in his new State of the Union address: > Cheers, The FreeNAS Team FreeNAS 9.3-BETA is Now Out We know you’ve all been […]