Network Attached Storage News, Reviews, and Information
This post has been around for a while, but there is a nice writeup at techradar.com about how to make a FreeNAS server using the ZFS file system. The post has good screen shots and deals with the issue of having old hard drives with different sizes, yet wanting to use them all for as an efficient a storage pool as possible:
Read more »The important part of creating your storage pool is working out how to arrange your drives for best effect.
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Another of the type of posts I like to read - this time over at "The Diary of an IT Man". In the post, Nicolas Roussi discusses building a server and player for media files in his home and talks about the hardware and software choices. Although starting out with FreeNAS, he eventually settled on Ubuntu server with ZFS as the file system:
Read more »So I saw that ZFS is natively supported in Ubuntu.
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I came across a (new to me) project that continues the FreeNAS version 7 line. The new project is called NAS4Free. The differences between this project and FreeNAS are summarized:
Read more »This project is a continuation of FreeNAS 7 series project. FreeNAS 8 is based on nanoBSD where as NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD 9.x, hence the name change.
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Catn.com has the beginning of a series comparing the three NAS operating systems - Openindiana, Nexantastor and FreeNAS. All three NAS operating systems feature availability of the ZFS file system which some believe is perfect for NAS devices.
This part of the series describes the three possibilities and then concentrates on FreeNAS with some speed testing supplied.…
Read more »I'ts not often that one of the old school "mainstream" publications gives any significant space to one of the free NAS distributions that allow you to turn a PC into a NAS. PCWorld has just posted an article that outlines how to do just that with an old PC and FreenNAS.…
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I came across a nice little post about building a NAS from scratch using an AMD E-350. The author decided to use Centos for the operating system:
Read more »In the beginning I was pondering whether to choose FreeNAS or CentOS. Both are probably good choices, but since I don’t consider ZFS as the holy grail of file systems and I’m a passionate Fedora user the final choice was the CentOS 6.2 minimal spin.
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Version 8.2 Beta 3 of the free NAS operating software (based on BSD) FreeNAS has been released. Changes since Beta 2 are listed below:
Read more »Enhancements
GUI
- A major refactoring of the plugin structure has been done.
iSCSI
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- Target reload is now supported for adding and removing (but not changing) targets on the fly.
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