I'm looking to put together a SAN box - 6 2TB Raid Edition SATA drives, 24GB RAM, i7 quad processor. I've done this with simple rsync-and-samba servers on FreeBSD and ZFS quite a bit, but I've never ...

Is there anyone here using ZFS on top of a GELI-encrypted provider on hardware which could be considered "slow" by today's standards? What are the performance implications of doing this? The reason I ...

Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth' The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by ...

MidnightBSD 4.0 has been released. The desktop system brings new features but lags significantly behind development.

FreeNAS Mini provides administrators the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of its open-source software, despite some exasperation with the Unix/Free BSD software in ...

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have ...