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, ...

A set of POSIX-compliant shell scripts for use with FreeNAS and VMware ESXi. An All-In-One (AIO) system is a hypervisor with a NAS virtual machine (VM) providing data storage for additional VMs. My ...

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 ...

To configure the Crashplan running inside a FreeNAS jail we need to use another machine that has graphical user interface. The jail has no user interface, only text console. Below is an overview of ...

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 ...

I hope this is the right forum... I am looking to re-purpose an old computer for my home file server. My intention is to basically have a single file storage point for all my computers on my home ...

Being an Editor here at Custom PC Review, I’m constantly in need of lots of mass storage. At CES 2017, I took over 1,000 14-bit RAW images using a Nikon D800 camera which generated files somewhere ...

So I have a pretty serious FreeNAS server, and I have another server running Hyper-V. I have been using iSCSI from the FreeNAS system straight to a guest on the Hyper-V server, and it has been rock ...

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 ...