I recently connected my FreeNAS 11.2 box to my ESXi 6.7 box with a peer to peer 10Gbit connection. Each box is also connected to my switch for my primary network.

According to the company, the latest versions of the operating systems (FreeNAS 11.3 and TrueNAS 11.3) already share about 95-percent of the same source code.

When FreeNAS initially boots, you’ll be presented with a simple text menu with 11 options. After booting to the flash drive, you’ll ultimately see a simple text menu with 11 options.

Setting up FreeNAS, a popular open-source network attached storage (NAS) solution, is not a difficult task. Here's how to get started and configure a working home server.

Installing FreeNAS I will be installing FreeNAS 11.3 on my vSphere 6.7 lab in a VM. If you are installing it on bare metal, you should follow the same procedures -- but only after checking The ...

I have a FreeNAS that has generally been working ok. I was messing around with the hardware that led to instability from FreeNAS's point of view. Specifically, I did a fan mod on one of the ...

Learn how to set up an FTP server, multiple user accounts, and snapshot backups on a DIY FreeNAS file server.

Installing it in FreeNAS is all done from the Terminal. You can either do this from your FreeNAS box itself, or by SSHing into it from another computer (which I prefer).

FreeNAS 8.0, the long-awaited update to the best, most secure, and easiest to use network-attached storage (NAS) solution, is now available -- and if you don't have a NAS, or you've never made one ...

FreeNAS is actually designed to run on a flash drive or compact flash card rather than one of the drives in your computer, but since many computers (especially older ones, like the one you might ...