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HP Microserver Gen8: Alternatives as NAS in 2023?

On 17. June 2023 By Falk Jeromin In Server

For a while, HP micro servers were very popular for NAS operation, especially with FreeNAS and then TrueNAS, the small cubes offered themselves: up to 4 cores (in the cheap model by exchanging the ...

TrueNAS: Easily set up ZFS replication over Wireguard VPN

On 6. January 2021 By Falk Jeromin In Server

Wireguard has also found its way into TrueNAS (previously FreeNAS) via FreeBSD. Although there is no interface to configure it directly, a suitable configuration file can be loaded via a post-init script and then provides ...

From version 12: FreeNAS becomes TrueNAS

On 26. October 2020 By Falk Jeromin In Server

FreeNAS has been a popular storage solution for years, even for home use - I myself have been using the system with four hard disks in HP Proliant microservers for several years. With version 12 FreeNAS now becomes ...

Bandwidth management in the home office

On 28. March 2020 By Falk Jeromin In Netz, Server

If you normally upload large amounts of data while you are not at home, you may have a problem with the cloud upstream or backup replication in times of home office. Likewise, it can lead to problems when family members upload large amounts of data in parallel....

FreeNAS 11.3 released: faster ZFS replication

On 28. January 2020 By Falk Jeromin In Server

iXsystems has released FreeNAS 11.3, the latest version of the free NAS operating system. Using FreeNAS, an existing x86 system can be turned into a network attached storage with various plugins and shares. The ZFS file system is used, which together with the ...

FreeNAS: ZFS Replication via Wireguard

On 17. March 2019 By Falk Jeromin In Server

So far I have used OpenVPN to synchronize my two FreeNAS boxes. Wireguard is a fast alternative, but a bit more complicated to set up. ZFS Replication is a handy tool to synchronize data between two FreeNAS installations.

FreeNAS: Speed up SMB/CIFS collection

On 6. January 2019 By Falk Jeromin In Server

If you have set up a Windows share with FreeNAS, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to list the files in a folder. For this, some parameters have to be passed to Samba. This can be done easily via the ...

FreeNAS 11.2: new web interface & new features

On 7. December 2018 By Falk Jeromin In Server, Netz

After FreeNAS 10 "Corral" was a first - quickly failing - attempt to introduce a new user interface, there is now a new, AngularJS based UI with FreeNAS 11.2. This is also mobile optimized. Apart from the web interface, ...

Freenas 11.1: use the integrated OpenVPN client

On 18. August 2018 By Falk Jeromin In Server

For some time now, I have been using two FreeNAS boxes at two locations to back up my data using ZFS snapshots and replication. This connection should be additionally secured via OpenVPN. The idea: at both locations one Raspberry ...

FreeNAS 11.1 released

On 17. December 2017 By Falk Jeromin In Server

The FreeBSD-based NAS system FreeNAS has been released in the new version 11.1, which brings several innovations. The changes in the changelog concern OpenZFS, which is especially useful for processing snapshots and large files.