Monthly Archives: April 2009

ZFS & FreeNAS – A poor (and very geeky) man’s Drobo setup!

I’ve taken ZFS and FreeNAS to the next level of hard drive expansion. I’ve come up with a configuration that let’s you turn a FreeNAS using the nightly builds which includes ZFS into a Drobo. Want to use 4 different … Continue reading

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Thoughts on using FreeNAS and ZFS – Expandability

I think FreeNAS rocks and ZFS is cool too. They are working together now quite solidly using the FreeNAS nightly builds. I think I’ve come up with a setup to use FreeNAS and ZFS so you can have a safety … Continue reading

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Geeking out big time with ZFS and FreeNAS

I’ve been using FreeNAS for over a year now and it is an awesome piece of software to turn an old PC into a Network Attached Storage device.  I’ve been running it on two old PCs, one full of old … Continue reading

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