Hello everyone! I'm new to using FreeNAS and I'm thinking of setting up a small server to test and learn how to use FreeNAS. I know that one of the most crucial points in the hardware configurations for a FreeNAS is always the disk controller. As the idea is to use an old HP Microserver Gen8...

Hi guys, up until 2 days ago I was able to run vmware on my FreeNAS-11.2-RELEASE-U1 Im running on a Hp Proliant microserver gen 8 with 16gb ram and 4 3tb drives. I upgraded the cpu from the stock Celeron g1610t cpu to a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1265L V2 @ 2.50GHz (8 cores) with the intention of...

Hi Decided to move to this after reading reviews, but am getting really poor performance from the SMB shares, copy speeds of approx 10Mb/s, thought it may be the Broadcom onboard NIC but replaced with an interactive E1000 Nic and am still getting the same write speeds, any help. System Spec 4...

Hi all, Trying to install on my first NAS and struggling. Got a HP ProLight Microserver and the Freenas iso on a USB to install it to a SSD BUT IT always stops at this point and I have no idea why. Any thoughts?

Hi Everyone I am new to FreeNAS and have up until now relied on old synology NAS hardware that I could buy on the Danish version of Ebay (yes I have been a cheapskate). Recently my Synology DS409+ powered off on me and I were working on finding a way to get it alive again for a couple of weeks...