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 ...

Is running FreeNAS in a virtual machine with the hope of making a not-insignificant amount of data available ever be a good way to go? As far as I can tell, even using ZFS (where the recommendation is ...

There are few things more unnerving than losing sensitive data. Whether it was by negligence or hardware failure, the sting associated with such a loss can be great. We have done our part at Techgage ...

It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound? That’s the premise behind FreeNAS, the open-source ...

FreeNAS Mini provides administrators the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of its open-source software, despite some exasperation with the Unix/Free BSD software in ...

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 ...

So you’ve taken my earlier advice and used the free and open-source FreeNAS operating system to convert an old desktop PC into a server, instead of consigning it to the e-waste heap. (If you haven’t, ...

SAN JOSE, USA: iXsystems has announced the release of FreeNAS 9.2.0. This update incorporates all the improvements made in FreeBSD 9.2, as well as a vast collection of minor and major tweaks ...

My review this week on inexpensive home office network attached storage appliances looked at networked storage from the viewpoint of the inexperienced home or small business user who needs something ...