PC lovers tend to collect a lot of hardware as the years roll by. Instead of leaving it to collect dust, why not repurpose it as a file-slinging server? Several free and open-source operating systems ...

It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound? That’s the premise behind FreeNAS, the open-source ...

Following up on my previous review of FreeNAS, I have had some time to play around and investigate further. Unfortunately, due to issues with the current release of VMWare Fusion (bridged networking ...

I have a FreeNAS that has generally been working ok. I was messing around with the hardware that led to instability from FreeNAS's point of view. Specifically, I did a fan mod on one of the redundant ...

July 19, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google At its most basic, Network attached storage, or NAS, is a great way to share files on your local network. But it's ...

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So you’ve taken my earlier advice and used the free and open-source FreeNAS operating system to convert an old desktop PC into a server, instead of consigning it to the e-waste heap. (If you haven’t, ...