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Video Editing with the FreeNAS Mini Using the ATTO ThunderLink NT 2102T
Think you need more than a FreeNAS Mini for post-production video workflows? Guess again. Add a 10Gb network card to your Mini and a Thunderbolt-to-10 GbE converter like the ATTO ThunderLink NT 2102, and you now have a high speed, high capacity storage solution fast...
Top 10 Articles in 2016
Here is our annual list of the most read articles of this year. In 2016, our goal was to increase your understanding of ZFS technology, so we wrote a bunch of blogs and created a follow-up to the hugely popular ZFS webinar to cover some of the advanced uses of ZFS. Here is a list of the top 10 most viewed articles on iXsystems.com and on FreeNAS.org in 2016 based on our analytics. This list represents a wide range of subjects that are contained in the many articles we wrote. To read all of our articles go to https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ and http://www.freenas.org/blog/
Become a RAID hero
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. In addition to protecting data from catastrophic failure, TrueNAS® is also designed to protect the data on the array in case of a drive failure. It uses software RAID to provide redundancy for...
#ServerEnvy: Testing the Waters
We’ve built some pretty impressive systems in our decades of existence. In this edition of #ServerEnvy, we’re going to push the limits of CPU performance. This is a 2U server outfitted with a custom-built water cooling system. Many of our clients have high performance...
LISA 2016 Recap
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. This year’s LISA was a huge success and an absolute blast to attend. Despite being in Boston in the middle of December, attendance at the conference was on par with the past few years. We were...
iXsystems Selects VendOp as its Official Customer Review Platform
iXsystems recently achieved a six- month milestone since its selection of VendOp as its official platform for customer reviews. VendOp is a trusted source for professionals to share ratings and reviews on business and industrial vendors.
#ServerEnvy: Microblade
By now, you’re probably familiar with our newest product: TrueRack™. Our long-time clients (and #ServerEnvy fans) know we’ve provided top-tier racking services long before the TrueRack™ announcement. In this edition of #ServerEnvy, we’re taking a look at a specialty server that we built and plan to rack in a customer’s datacenter.
Start the holidays off with FreeNAS 10 BETA 2!
The FreeNAS development team is happy to announce the release of FreeNAS 10 BETA 2. We are also very happy to say that we are now “feature complete” and have feature-parity with FreeNAS 9.10. Anyone who’s been following the FreeNAS 10 development effort knows that...
MeetBSD 2016 Report: Michael Dexter
MeetBSD wrapped up this last weekend at U.C. Berkeley, the birthplace of BSD! This made for an amazing collection of attendees and presenters who wouldn’t make it to most BSDCons.
McGill University Selects iXsystems’ TrueNAS for Petabyte Deployment in School of Computer Science
iXsystems announced that McGill University’s School of Computer Science has deployed TrueNAS® in its various computing environments across the campus. The school has deployed multiple storage arrays to thousands of students, researchers and teachers. They use TrueNAS to share files over NFS, CIFS, and AFP.
