Category Archives: FreeNAS
FreeNAS vs. WHS – Storage Server Challenge
jlebeau put a NAS server together and installed FreeNAS and MS Windows Home Server (WHS) to see which one had the best features. As so often, both product have their good and bad points: I recently put together some spare … Continue reading
FreeNAS vs NexentaStor
There has been feedback on the FreeNAS forums in the past that network transfer in FreeNAS is slow. HarryD has now tested and compared the performance of FreeNAS 0.7.1 stable (Build 5127) and Nexentastor Community Edition 3.0.2. From his conclusion it’s apparent that FreeNAS … Continue reading
Learning FreeNAS – a review
Writing books about software almost certainly means that the book will be out-of-date sooner rather than later. This is even more the case when writing open source software under active development. However, this has not stopped Packt Publishing from releasing … Continue reading
FreeNAS installation – setting up Unison (video)
Pox and Ragble explain how to use Unison to sync a Mac computer to a FreeNAS box. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored … Continue reading
FreeNAS installation – setting up rsync (video)
Pox and Ragble explain how to use rsync for mirroring data stored the FreeNAS Box. rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. YouTube Direkt
Step-by-step how to make a FreeNAS Box (video)
Pox and Ragble give an in depth guide for making your own Network Attached Storage device with FreeNAS. YouTube Direkt
FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap
Olivier Cochard-Labbé has added a roadmap page to the FreeNAS website: FreeNAS 0.8 roadmap. We can already see a positive impact from iXsystem‘s takeover of the FreeNAS project: “Refactor the build system” and the “one click binary installs”. Two features that … Continue reading
Released: FreeNAS 0.7.1
The FreeNAS developers have released a small update/bugfix vresion, version 0.7.1: Majors changes: Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.9. Upgrade istgt to version 20100125. Upgrade msmtp to 1.4.19. Upgrade transmission to 1.76. Upgrade PHP to 5.2.12 (Thanks to Xin LI). Upgrade fuppes … Continue reading
FreeNAS Development & Community activity (2009)
FreeNAS is a free network attached storage server (NAS server) that is under active development and improving with every release. Though its release number may indicate an alpha/beta product (version 0.7), FreeNAS is stable and can be used on production … Continue reading
FreeNAS ready for the next step – Future of FreeNAS
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the original founder of the FreeNAS Project, has indicated that FreeNAS is in need of some big modification to remove some of its current limitations (one of the biggest is the non support of easly users add-ons). This will probably … Continue reading
