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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaks This part of the system is distributed in releases. Minor releases are usually every six months or so with a major release approximately every 2 years.

SAN JOSE, CA --(Marketwired - September 01, 2016) - iXsystems, the industry leader in storage and servers powered by Open Source, today unveiled the BETA release of FreeNAS Version 10. This new ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. FreeNAS 8.0, the long-awaited update to the best, most ...

So I'm debating, I just found out that bhyve, the FreeBSD hypervisor, doesn't support USB pass-through, just PCI pass through. I don't particularly conceive of needing to use much in the way of USB ...

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software onto the device of ...