Great Intro, I just installed FreeNAS today on an old machine to compare the features against my Netgear ReadyNAS NVX, and so far it looks like a close race!
NICE! I think i'll install this on my retro "frankenstein" server I made out of loads of scrap pieces for various computers. It's perfect because i'm stuck on an amd athlon slot A and 256mb of ram.
that system is well slow, guy. look at that Lag! WHy would I want FREENAS rather than just using WINDOWs .. which I already own ..It can perform all these NAS functions and many others.
@PacManJulie Thanks for your comments, but I think you have missed some keys points here:
1) The particular system I was using was intentionally low powered and it is in no way a reflection of the speed/performance of FreeNAS. In fact, it is one of the merits of FreeNAS that it runs on "older" hardware.
2) I don't think you see the point of a NAS... Windows can indeed share files but that isn't its purpose. FreeNAS is a dedicated OS just for sharing data over the network (i.e. as Network Attached Storage). In fact Microsoft don't even agree with you as there is a special OEM verison of Window just for NAS builders... Desktop Windows just doesn't cut it. Also I don't want to have a machine with 1GB of memory to run Windows 7 when I can run FreeNAS is one eighth of that.
3) Window CAN'T perform all the functions FreeNAS can.. Try getting AFS, NFS, iSCSI or RAID working on Windows 7 Home Premium. You can't (not without buying extra software at least).
4) Finally FreeNAS is FREE... It won't cost you a penny (or cent), if I want 5 FreeNAS machines on my home network I can with any problems. If I want 5 Windows machines sharing files I need to buy 5 Windows licenses... Ouch... Could be kind of expensive.
I'm thinking of re-purposing an older m?c running xp. So its still "free", plus I can use it as a media centre too, I plan to run xbmc. 90% of my stuff is SD but it will be ready for when I change up to HD. I havent actually tried this yet. (NAS + Media player) but it would be running on an athlon 2800 with 2gb of ram. The only problem I forsee is power draw, possibly noise, and the size of the Box (mid tower). FReeNAs is nice but I know Windows Xp. maybe w7 4 media centre? YMMV??
Great Intro, I just installed FreeNAS today on an old machine to compare the features against my Netgear ReadyNAS NVX, and so far it looks like a close race!
rdfiedler 1 year ago
Great overview, I just grabbed an old machine and put one together today and it's working perfectly already...
rdfiedler 1 year ago
NICE! I think i'll install this on my retro "frankenstein" server I made out of loads of scrap pieces for various computers. It's perfect because i'm stuck on an amd athlon slot A and 256mb of ram.
What a great server OS!
Nvidiaguides 1 year ago
that system is well slow, guy. look at that Lag! WHy would I want FREENAS rather than just using WINDOWs .. which I already own ..It can perform all these NAS functions and many others.
PacManJulie 1 year ago
@PacManJulie Thanks for your comments, but I think you have missed some keys points here:
1) The particular system I was using was intentionally low powered and it is in no way a reflection of the speed/performance of FreeNAS. In fact, it is one of the merits of FreeNAS that it runs on "older" hardware.
learnfreenas 1 year ago
@PacManJulie
2) I don't think you see the point of a NAS... Windows can indeed share files but that isn't its purpose. FreeNAS is a dedicated OS just for sharing data over the network (i.e. as Network Attached Storage). In fact Microsoft don't even agree with you as there is a special OEM verison of Window just for NAS builders... Desktop Windows just doesn't cut it. Also I don't want to have a machine with 1GB of memory to run Windows 7 when I can run FreeNAS is one eighth of that.
learnfreenas 1 year ago
@PacManJulie
3) Window CAN'T perform all the functions FreeNAS can.. Try getting AFS, NFS, iSCSI or RAID working on Windows 7 Home Premium. You can't (not without buying extra software at least).
4) Finally FreeNAS is FREE... It won't cost you a penny (or cent), if I want 5 FreeNAS machines on my home network I can with any problems. If I want 5 Windows machines sharing files I need to buy 5 Windows licenses... Ouch... Could be kind of expensive.
learnfreenas 1 year ago
@learnfreenas
I'm thinking of re-purposing an older m?c running xp. So its still "free", plus I can use it as a media centre too, I plan to run xbmc. 90% of my stuff is SD but it will be ready for when I change up to HD. I havent actually tried this yet. (NAS + Media player) but it would be running on an athlon 2800 with 2gb of ram. The only problem I forsee is power draw, possibly noise, and the size of the Box (mid tower). FReeNAs is nice but I know Windows Xp. maybe w7 4 media centre? YMMV??
PacManJulie 1 year ago
Well done tour / test drive. A+
utubepunk 3 years ago
Good videos, keep it up!
monsterthrash 3 years ago