FreeNAS comes with a web-based interface that provides a simple way to manage your data, users and groups, shares, and other settings. It also supports plugins and add-ons that extend its ...

FreeNAS 8 got installed and configured in no time on my NAS box. With my Do it yourself NAS series, recently there has been a new release of FreeNAS 8. Since I tested the 7.2 quite deeply in my small ...

There are multiple reasons behind looking for FreeNAS alternatives. Despite the software being a popular choice and also intuitive to use for sharing content across multiple platforms like Linux ...

BSD vendor iXsystems has released the latest version of its FreeBSD-derived Network Attached Storage (NAS) OS, TrueNAS 13.0. The company now offers three separate OS products. Two are based on FreeBSD ...

The same timing issues apply at shutdown. Therefore, IMHO, it's best to let FreeNAS shut down the VMs it provides. I configure FreeNAS to monitor the UPS and shut the AIO system down if the power goes ...

Earlier this week, network-storage vendor iXsystems announced the release of TrueNAS 12.0-BETA1, which will replace FreeNAS later in 2020. The major offering of the new TrueNAS Core—like FreeNAS ...

In a previous article, I showed you how I installed FreeNAS and used it to create an NFS share, and then how I used the share as backing for a virtual machine (VM). In this article, I will go a step ...

Installing FreeNAS I will be installing FreeNAS 11.3 on my vSphere 6.7 lab in a VM. If you are installing it on bare metal, you should follow the same procedures -- but only after checking The ...

FreeNAS and TrueNAS merge 1:01 pm March 9, 2020 By Julian Horsey ...

The situation is illustrated in the diagram above, but the company has decided to work on improving the development process, and FreeNAS and TrueNAS will share the same build, QA processor, ...

FreeNAS is a free and open source operating system designed for network-attached storage (NAS) devices. For much of the past decade, the project has been led by the folks at iXsystems, which has ...