Intel has discontinued development of, and support for, its NAS Performance Toolkit, an application that measures the performance of small network-attached storage systems. The software was handy for tests of NAS boxes intended for use in smaller-scale environments, thanks to its inclusion of tests for performance when used to open and close files from personal productivity [...]
FreeNAS is a great NAS (Network Attached Server) operating system, but it’s not the only one. “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 platform like Linux, Apple and Windows, there are always a few drawbacks that [...]
This tutorial on linuxusers.com shows how to use Arch Linux as the operating system on a Raspberry Pi file server, because it is small,and has only the minimum packages required for a working system. This means that the file server can be set up without wasting resources on a GUI and other unnecessary packages. Arch Linux [...]
The most recent release of NexentaStor Community Release is version 3.1.3.5. In this version you will find: Support for user and group quotas The ability to automatically expand pools Copy on write Checksummed datablocks and metadata for reliability. Commercial support and some optional modules/plugins, including auto-sync are not available for the Community Edition and storage [...]
FreeNAS 8.2 and newer versions have support for plugins, i.e. extentions in the form of PC-BSD‘s PBIs (Push Button Install). There’s some good plugin documentation available on the FreeNAS website explaining how to use the plugins, how to install the plugins jail, how to create, find, install, and configure PBIs, such as Firefly, miniDLNA and Transmission. If there’s [...]