The former name of TrueNAS CORE, FreeNAS was the original iXsystems solution for cost-effective ZFS storage.
On November 7, 2013, the FreeBSD Vendor Summit was held at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California. The summit was attended by representatives from many companies who are interested in building commercial products and services on FreeBSD. iXsystems was well...
iXsystems’ FreeNAS Mini was recently reviewed by PC-Mag and received 4 out of 5 stars for SMB NASes. In a nutshell, the Mini was described as providing administrators “the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of open source software”. Other...
“The Z file system, originally developed by Sun™, is designed to use a pooled storage method in that space is only used as it is needed for data storage. It is also designed for maximum data integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data checksums. It...
Another week, another successful tradeshow for iXsystems. Dru and Kris recently attended Linuxcon 2013 in New Orleans where they represented the FreeBSD Project with a booth and passed out schwag. This was our first appearance at this show and Dru and Kris were kind...
The FreeNAS team would like to announce the availability of the latest plugin for FreeNAS: The Plex Media Server! Please feel free to give it a try to enjoy all your media through a single, easy-to-use interface. This is BETA software, so if there are any problems,...
SmallNetBuilder has published a comprehensive review and analysis of the FreeNAS® Mini Plus. After subjecting it to a litany of tests, they named it the number one performing NAS appliance in the Dual-Core category. The full review exercised most of the features and...
This month’s issue of BSD Magazine highlights FreeNAS, the free and open source embedded NAS operating system developed by iXsystems. iX employees Dru Lavigne, John Hixson, Mark VonFange, and Annie Zhang contributed articles, and the featured interview is with Alfred...
New issue is a compilation of articles, how-to’s, and case studies about the open source embedded NAS operating system developed by iXsystems With the recent FreeNAS 8.3.1 release, there are plenty of new features to talk about. Readers can find articles on plugins,...
FreeNAS determined to be flexible, easy to manage, and high performing, at a price that can’t be beat Network World recently assessed FreeNAS in terms of usability, features, and NFS I/O performance. In performance tests, the device under test was an iX-2212 server...
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. This is a major milestone in FreeNAS development, bringing in the plugin system with ZFS version 28. Development of the FreeNAS 8.2 branch has come to a halt, as...
