What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

I discussed in an earlier column using https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Corporation.html’s $180 Windows Home Server to turn an old PC into a media-streaming ...

Backups in today's environment are in a state of flux. Tapes have been the mainstay of most organizations for years—and in some cases, decades. However, as the cost of hard drives decreases and their ...

Tom follows up on his previous article about installing FreeNAS and using it to create an NFS share to back a VM, now creating an iSCSI target on FreeNAS and using that target as backing for a vSphere ...

We've shown you how to turn an old computer into a networked backup, streaming, and torrenting machine with FreeNAS, and even gone a little further and installed some Usenet and media management ...

I finally got 10Gbps networking setup in my home office, and I was disappointed to find out I'm only pulling down a max 300MB/s if I'm lucky from my FreeNAS box. It averages closer to 280MB/s. I ...