Hi, My friend is a video editor and he's ask me if I can build him a 20TB NAS system. NAS is totally not in my territories, I normally build gaming PC. What he want is, is that the system is made of new parts and have to be as cheap as possible and also 20TB drive space in it. Can anyone help me...

Hi to All, I've been using FreeNas for a quite, and I found it great, work like a charm, even if sometimes it could be a little painful to make it work fast. But at last I've made it, expect for one thing: I'm doing the backups of some webserver's logs, and the i'm doing a gzip of the files...

I'm in the midst of designing a storage appliance to house client offsite backups which will replicate to one another bi-coastal (freenas replication). The files housed on the storage appliance would range in 10GB - 50GB in nature, typically no smaller and are 95% writes versus reads. There is...

I'm trying to use the Archive attribute on my FreeNAS system. I want people to be able to set the archive attribute, and a script will go through and change permissions for backups...blah blah. The reason doesn't matter. The point is, when creating a new file over CIFS/SAMBA, the new file has...

Linus is back with some hideous "innovative ideas". Fun thing to note - he obviously came here to read up on the drives performance and STILL went on with the unRAID solution for his tests. Enjoy. Some information presented are perhaps (if considered valid) pretty interesting to judge the long...