FreeNAS has been a popular storage solution for home use for years - I myself have been using the system with four hard disks in HP Proliant micro-servers for several years. With version 12, FreeNAS has now become TrueNAS - iXsystems is merging the commercial and free branches of the NAS operating system. The advantage of this is that instead of two separate [...]
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If you are looking for a simple notebook that still offers enough performance for all common office applications, you can get the HP 250 G7 with 8 GB RAM, quad-core Intel CPU and 256 GB SSD for a good 450 euros. The device is offered in a wide variety of configurations, the version we are looking at here has the memorable name "6HM83ES" and has the following computing core
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With FreeNAS 10 there are some fundamental changes, including Docker support. The new version is now in the beta stage: not yet ready for productive use, but far enough to assess the main features. FreeNAS 10 has been in development for over a year and is still in the BETA phase - the reason for this is probably the pure
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The current version 9.3 will be followed by FreeNAS 10. With the upcoming version, there will also be some new features that will further improve the free NAS operating system. FreeNAS 10, which completed its second milestone release (M2) on July 6, 2015, will not simply be a further development of the previous FreeNAS 9.x, but will also include a
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Anyone looking for a system for FreeNAS (FreeNAS 9.3.0 has just been released) should take a closer look at the HP Proliant N54L Microserver. At 2.2 GHz, the system is still fast enough to provide several clients with data and encrypt it with the help of ZFS. Four hard disk bays offer
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The FreeNAS team is currently working on version 9.3, which is currently in the beta phase. The next FreeNAS version will include some exciting features. These include the use of GRUB as a boot loader and the associated ability to start different FreeNAS versions - handy if something has gone wrong during an update and the system no longer works.
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For a long time, the HP micro servers HP N36L, N40L and N54L were the means of choice if you wanted to put together a FreeNAS server. Here is a shopping list based on the successor. The Hewlett Packard MICROSERVER Gen8 offers significantly more performance than the previous versions. Instead of an AMD CPU as before, it now comes with an Intel Celeron G1610T with 2.3 GHz and
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The FreeNAS developers are currently very active and regularly release new updates. Now FreeNAS 9.2.1.2-RELEASE has been released, which again fixes some problems. The most important changes of the new version: Samba SMB/CIFS support upgrade to version 4.1.5 Linux mails now support UFS NFS lockd starts correctly at boot serial console can be configured more easily logging to
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FreeNAS was released today in the final version 9.2.1, which brings some new features. These include support for SMB3 and a number of bug fixes. As always, the complete changelog is available on FreeNAS.org, here are just the most important new features: Samba 4.1.3 with SMB3 support Switch from Avahi to mDNSResponder, which makes it easier for Macs to find shares Improvements to the
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FreeNAS 9.2.0 has not been available for very long, but version 9.2.1 has been announced in the form of a BETA. The most important new feature is Samba 4.1.4, which, according to the release notes for FreeNAS 9.2.1-BETA, introduces the SMB3 protocol and the option of using FreeNAS as a Windows domain controller. Other exciting points from the changelog (excerpt): Bugfixing for Netatalk,
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