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Green Platform Anti-Vibration Test
A popular video making the rounds in the storage industry is a demonstration of the effects of vibration on the performance of spinning disks. We at iXsystems decided that this new discovery merits more investigation so we decided to run our own tests. The rack we're...
Setting up your first NAS with FreeNAS by Benjamin Milman
On April 27, 2014, Ben Milman gave a talk to a packed room during the 15th annual LinuxFest Northwest. The presentation taught newcomers to open source operating systems how to set up a Network Attached Storage device for their home or office using the FreeNAS...
LFNW 2014 Recap
Bellingham, we meet again! Last weekend, the iXsystems team attended the 15th annual Linuxfest Northwest conference where we staffed a booth on behalf of the FreeBSD Foundation. A record-breaking 1600 attendees showed up this year. The conference itself was very...
FreeBSD Developers’ Update
It’s been a while since we showcased some of our behind-the-scenes efforts, so here’s a quick update on what certain members of iXsystems have been working on for the FreeBSD community. Craig Rodrigues recently published a status update in the latest FreeBSD quarterly...
iXsystems Partners with FreeBSD News to Expand FreeBSD Events and Development Coverage
Combined Efforts Will Take Site to the “Next Level” Through Introduction of New and Relevant Content iXsystems, the company that brings the world FreeNAS, PC-BSD and TrueOS, is proud to announce its recent partnership with Gerard van Essen, the creator of...
Great Wide Open 2014 Recap
The inaugural Great Wide Open conference was held in downtown Atlanta. This well organized conference had over 600 attendees and 6 presentation tracks over 2 days. Most of the attendees were local to Atlanta which speaks to the breadth of the IT talent in the Atlanta...
MEGAPORT
You may remember MEGACORE, the monster of a server we built for the FreeBSD Foundation. Recently one of our clients had specific networking requirements for a 2U/4 node solution, so we came up with a custom build that fit all of their needs. Meet "MEGAPORT". To get an...
AsiaBSDCON 2014 Recap
This year’s AsiaBSDCon was a historic event. Hiroki Sato, organizer of the conference, announced that there were 139 people, including 30 speakers in attendance, and the keynotes were standing room only. This was the largest AsiaBSDCon conference since he started...
iXsystems Announces All-New FreeNAS Mini Storage Device
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. Updated Mini Features ECC RAM, Eight-Core CPU, and Hardware-Accelerated ZFS Disk Encryption iXsystems is proud to announce the third iteration of its FreeNAS Mini Home and Small Office storage...
Introduction to FreeNAS Development by John Hixson
This is the second in our series of presentations from SCALE 12x. In addition to Dru's talk (ZFS 101), John Hixson, Senior Software Developer at iXsystems, also gave his talk "Introduction to FreeNAS Development". FreeNAS has been around for several years now but...
