I'm looking to salvage parts from a failed QNAP that has some really nice hardware inside, and thinking I could salvage some of it to create a killer FreeNAS using a Mini XL+ as a base. It's time to switch to ZFS. If everything goes to plan, the hardware would look like this: FreeNAS Mini XL+ -...

Good afternoon all! I've been plagued by an issue lately which I'd like the experts' input on. I have two identical FreeNAS Mini XLs. One is in the office I work at. One is at the CEO's home and serves as an offsite backup. I send ZFS replications to the offsite FreeNAS throughout the day and...

I just purchased this FreeNAS mini XL and need to backup files to an external 4 sata drive enclouser with esata and usb3 connections. the onboard usb 2.0 is too slow so I'd like to add a esata using the one free internal sata port or add a pci expansion card in the available pci slot and maybe...

Hello, Just received my FreeNAS Mini-XL. I bought the no-drives version, and I'm installing 4 drives in there for now. My question: it seems obvious to put the 4 drives in slots 0-3, but do I have to? Is the smart thing to do? What about temperatures? Thank you.

Hello -- My FreeNAS Mini XL reported an ipmi0 error 5f and "ipmi0 KCS: Read failed on byte 7" in console, and was unresponsive over the network via http, ssh or ping. I finally had to power it down. To try to recover: 1. I removed power cable for 20 seconds and plugged it back in. The fan spun...

my FreeNAS Mini XL has two network interfaces - igb0 and igb1. igb0 has the IPMI controller. My goal is to * (a) disable IPMI entirely on igb0; or * (b) configure igb0 and igb1 to be on different subnets with each having a dedicated ethernet back to my pfSense firewall. Then, configure...

Hi everyone, I am completely new to FreeNAS and bought a preconfigured FreeNAS Mini XL through Amazon. I am struggling getting the system up and running. In the first system I received, one of the bays was not working and one of the enclosures could not be opened. iXsystems was very responsive...

Hi, I'm considering purchasing the FreeNAS Mini and one of the uses will be a Plex server. Will the FreeNAS Mini be powerful enough to transcode MKV files for 2 different clients at the same time?

Hi I would like to buy FreeNAS MINI XL ( 8x HDD bay ) Is it possible to store in FreeNAS MINI XL more than 48 TB? I would like to add 8x 8TB HDD Thanks for an answer