I am experimenting with FreeNAS as a cheap way to provide redundant storage in some cases. It's my first exposure to Solaris (although FreeNAs is using freeBSD) and I'm having a bit of trouble with my ...

I plan on implementing a FreeNAS server pretty soon. I have been reading up on ZFS this afternoon but I have some questions. I currently have 8x 2TB SEAGATE ST2000NM0001 6Gbps SAS disks and 4x 2TB ATA ...

What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

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Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

PC lovers tend to collect a lot of hardware as the years roll by. Instead of leaving it to collect dust, why not repurpose it as a file-slinging server? Several free and open-source operating systems ...

FreeNAS is one one of the most popular software-defined storage products available and in this article Tom Fenton shows you how he installed it on a virtual machine to provide an NFS Share. Network ...