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+ -...

Hi and welcome to my guide to managing your Plex metadata. This guide is aimed at users who are completely new to FreeNAS and / or have little or no experience with FreeNAS, using the command line or even some of the basic commands for Unix like operating systems. If other guides out there are...

Hello, I have a laptop and would like to backup all my files on it while preserving permissions, ACLs and groups. Biggest (main) problem is that you need a 1-to-1 mapping of users/groups on FreeNAS, which is not possible for me (there are just so many users, I'd need a script to automate it)...

Good Evening, I installed FreeNAS 11.1 U7 on a virtual machine with a bridged network (through Parallels Desktop) because I want to try something and don't want to "destroy" something on my real NAS. First question, I want to install Plex Plugin through the Plugins tab but I cannot access the...

I think I fell victim to a a combination of two "bugs". No, I don't have a backup of my 24TB of data, but literally had just bought new hardware to setup as a full backup the day before and had started to copy a little bit of data over. I'm new to this so here is what happened... I added a...

Hi all, I've been breaking my head on this case, researching heavily for a good 40+ hours. I finally decided to reach out for help. TL;DR; Getting 60-100MB/s read over iSCSI dual direct wired Intel 10GBE, when we're expecting 500+MB/s read performance. I inherited this [unique?] case on a...