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 ...

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 ...

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 also ...

iXsystems the development team behind the FreeNAS is a free and open source operating system designed for network-attached storage (NAS) devices who also create TrueNAS the enterprise version, have ...

I have the drives set up in a RAIDZ ZFS softraid configuration. When I was testing read/write speeds, I was averaging 45MB/s reads, 16MB/s writes, decent but not great. During the tests, the CPU never ...