I am a home user, and I've got probably a TiB of stuff on different systems (some Linux, some Windows) I want to consolidate, so I decided to go all-out and ordered an FreeNAS Mini XL +. (I even asked for a second SATA DOM.) So I shouldn't have any issue with hardware. I then bought 8 WD Red...

I'm hoping someone with experience can give me some guidance/point me in the right direction (sorry if I'm using the right terminology, but I hope my background info/question will still make sense.) Background: I am a home user, running FreeNAS 8.3-RELEASE-p6 and has a RAIDZ2 pool (4x6TB Disks)...

I am in a research group at MIT considering a Certified FreeNAS system for storing the data we take regularly. This would replace the aging Windows 2008 server currently in use. For redundancy, we also backup the NAS storage to an offsite location which apparently uses the IBM Tivoli. I was...

We have been using FreeNAS for a year and a half, almost two years. We had an issue last month where the motherboard died and we had to replace it. Luckily we had no data loss, just frustration and worry until it was back up. We currently have a server running ESXI with five VMs in it. We have...