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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My new hardware is finally here for my FreeNAS server. The problem is I make heavy use of LVM currently. All my data including backups are multi disk LVM volumes. Am I gong to be forced to transfer ...

Call it what you will, but several years ago when the venerable Stephen Poole, chief engineer here in the Crawford Broadcasting Birmingham cluster, introduced me to open source software, he created a ...

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 ...

Backups in today's environment are in a state of flux. Tapes have been the mainstay of most organizations for years—and in some cases, decades. However, as the cost of hard drives decreases and their ...

Following up on my previous review of FreeNAS, I have had some time to play around and investigate further. Unfortunately, due to issues with the current release of VMWare Fusion (bridged networking ...

Just a few weeks ago, we considered combo NAS / media streaming set-top boxes, but what about those like our friend Matthew, looking for a HTPC that can function by itself as a NAS server without the ...