Step by Step How to Make a FreeNAS Box

[sydneyweddingvideos]

I have a 4 tier NAS 3000 ...... is there any some sort of Download Manager available so when ever im overseas and access it, that it does not interupt and restarts downloading everytime the signal flactuate... I hope that made sense. Please help

[rick1r]

Thanks

[2k2kmaniac]

Why dont you guys smoke another ciggarette? All the hacking coughing and throat clearing was disgusting! What a joke!

[Jeff7181]

RAID is not a verb.

[NoriesW]

just get an old pc and use it as a free nas i took my old gateway and i am useing it as a free nas it works great and dont get all that apple software i got some good free software my freenas system is great

[hulkhatepunybanner]

That's a lot of work. If the hardware, not HDD, fails and you can't fix it immediately how can you access your data? Is the data readable on those drives by anything other than a FreeNAS box?

[MJmichand]

why no get a Drobo?

[naythechocolatehead]

What's over there on the left that's really interesting?

[Michael324335]

Thank you it has been a pain trying to get it configured and setup every video is the early version of it cant wait :)

[Michael324335]

I need help installing the new FreeNas 8.0 any videos out on this version yet everything i am seeing is totally different.

[Ragable]

@Michael324335 We haven't been able to put a video together for this yet. My roommate put version 8 on his box so I should be able to do some screengrabs from that.

[malin33]

I'm only mounting one disk, and it therefore won't let me use RAID. What file system should I be using..?

[daytripper101]

will installing FreeNAS on a machine hose the any data on that machine..? Eg I have an old netbook I want to act as a NAS. Will installing FreeNAS on it mean I lose all the old data on the netbook?

thanks

[pox98]

@daytripper101 You might be able to make a new partiton for free NAS, or install it to an external drive and boot from that.

[poo979]

What happens if you want to add another harddrive later?

[Ragable]

@poo979 Create a JBOD array which supports adding additional hard drives later. Scour the FreeNAS wiki and FAQ pages for more details.

[wileysloth84]

1)Is it possible to install printer in FreeNAS

2) Does pressing Power button shut down the system or can the system be shutdown from WebUI alone.

3) How can i upgrade or ReInstall the FreeNAS with having to format the Harddrive

[Woofers11]

@Ragable are you familiar with rysnc install and configuration from command line!

[Woofers11]

could you guys do a freenas 8 video?

[Ragable]

@Woofers11 When I get the dough to build myself another box I'll cover this.

[Woofers11]

@Ragable why not just upgrade this box? FreeNAS 8 is out now, I upgraded it is really good, but super different then 0.7x, so I think a video would be super helpful

[Ragable]

@Woofers11 Because I live in another town now. My main FreeNAS box is still at my old house; I plan on building another box with version 8 and a how-to on doing a remote Rsync seeded with an offline copy.

[ApathylovesPS]

egads! They have the audio swapped , I'm listening to the left guy on the right speaker and vice versa. /sigh only 18minutes more to go

[lesleyhenriquez]

Jetway has some really good boards. Shows how much they know. Shouldn't be too surprising since there is a Mac present.

CF cards wear out quickly, just get the cheapest SSD or use USB.

If you need a good porno for your NAS, just Google: "Japanese Whale Hunt". Great stuff, I have all volumes.

I bet the Macguy is a chubchaser and is torrenting those flicks like a motherfucker right now.

[gychang00]

thanks, nice video. what is the advantage of software raid?, if I want to access out of my home network, do I install SSH?

[MJLezan]

I can find all kinds of info for setting up freenas 7 but very little on the new version8 which makes sense. I have my system up and running and the software installed with np. I did set mine up with ZFS raidz which is their raid soft version 5 but no option to format the disk so I am a little lost. This is all new to mean I am lost but trying to learn it. If you know of any good forums LMK

Thanks

Mike

[MJLezan]

When will you guys do a how to for the new version of FreeNAS 8?

The info is great I look forward to new videos.

[Ragable]

@MJLezan I plan on upgrading my box once FreeNAS gets out of the RC release stages. There'll be issues with trying to go to the next version with my setup. I have a GEOM Mirror array, but version 8 is doing away with GEOM and pushing ZFS.

[punktilend]

Stop looking at yourselves in the monitors

[sk8ing1995]

ty this helped me alot and now i have a server

[poopmenot]

NERDS!!

[yapanuwan]

Can the NAS Box go to sleep after inactivity and Wake Up On LAN when needed ?

[pox98]

@yapanuwan That is a good question for @ragable

[Ragable]

@yapanuwan WOL support in FreeNAS is hit or miss. Try the following:

# ifconfig [drivername]0 wakeon magic

If you don't get an error, then you have WOL. Run ifconfig again to check.

If you do get an error try:

# ifconfig [drivername]0 wol_magic

If you still get an error you can assume there is no WOL support in the NIC driver. Take note of the driver name in the commands; you'll have to hunt yours down and put it in there. The example that they have is that the 3com NIC's driver name is "xl".

[yapanuwan]

@Ragable Thanks. I was just wondering if FreeNAS can be set to sleep after a time of inactivity like a regular PC.

[Ragable]

@yapanuwan From what I can see the only idling option is to spin the hard drives down after a certain amount of inactivity.

You can also schedule shutdowns with a cron script. I have mine set to reboot at 5 in the morning to coincide with a cycling of my router at that time.

If you Google around you can see other people have some scripts to look at idle times and such, and then run shutdown if the values are past a threshold. You might have luck with one of those.

[GianlucaGhettini]

@yapanuwan Absolutely yes! FreeNas comes with Wake-On-Lan support, of course your ethernet card must be WOL-enabled too,

[Ragable]

@yapanuwan Yes, I believe FreeNAS does support WOL

[tr0s3ph]

Can you use disks from different manufacturers for raid1? What about different sizes?

[Ragable]

@tr0s3ph Different vendors: yes, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Different sizes: with ZFS it should be possible. ZFS is basically like an enhanced JBOD array, but with redundancy.

[MrBoy122]

free nas not showing hard drive cant add any :S

[thehostler0]

@MrBoy122 then you didnt use the option to install freenas on a partition on your data disk.

[zmxthebest]

I just get "CPU dosen't support long mode" HELP!

[Ragable]

@zmxthebest Sounds like you download the 64bit version of FreeNAS. Try the 32bit (i386) version.

[uu35]

ive set up everything but cannot browse the FreeNas share like you did at the end. entering the IP address only brings me back to the FreeNas.local setup homepage. what am i doing wrong?

[Ragable]

@uu35 The share is accessed via Windows Explorer if you're on that system, or via Mac OS' Finder.

Inside Windows Explorer there should be a way to browse the local network. Depending on which version of Windows you have this will vary. If all else fails, in the Explorer path bar (i.e. the one that has the folder path like "C:\Program Files\") type in \\192.168.1.100, but substitute with the IP address for your FreeNAS box. The "\\" is for accessing network drives and locations.

[muchosa1]

You guys need to stop looking off camera to the left, it is very annoying.

[Ragable]

@muchosa1 You should have seen what was over there man. It would have blown your mind.

[bystander85]

Can you use multiple protocols to connect with a given, shared disk? i.e. AFP when connecting with my Mac, SMB when connecting with my Windows box...I just want to ensure the best performance.

[Ragable]

@bystander85 Yes you can. I have mine setup with a SMB and AFP share for the same path.

[thewizard99]

Just a question, can i set this up to be just storage for files, so each hard drive is used from something different? so i dont have to use 2 drives for 1 lot of infomation?

[migxp1]

use hacker with password

[jwhittlejr]

thanks! just set up my freenas box... it's fun to have an old pc lying around to play with!

[oitsonlikedonkeykong]

Is there a way I can set this up so that I can add HDD's later on when I purchase them? I want to build a 12TB NAS, but I on;y want to purchase 2 2TB a month at the moment. I was wondering whether I can over a period of time expand the size as of when I need? Or once, I set it up I can't add addtional drives? Will they be also recognised as 1 drive connected up in Windows?

[mcdomii1]

it helps me allot! nice video

[growingneeds]

No offense. You laugh louder than the commentaries. It's quite hard to listen to the video, so I pump up the audio volume. ANd then you start laughing. It's a nerve-wrecking situation.

[bvabhi]

I have a question

i'm ready to setup free nas system with my old celeron cpu with 1 gb ram and have the raid card

1)the thing is i have a lot of home vids and music that i waanna play it in ps3 is there a way in free nas to do this

2)torrenting on this server

[Felamine]

My FreeNAS box was born out of a miniITX nettop project that I wasn't happy with (the allure of having a tiny computer wore off pretty quickly). I figured that I spent so much money on the thing that I might as well put it to good use, rather than let it gather dust.

So it became a miniature home server/bittorrent downloader, courtesy of Olivier Cochard-Labbe and the FreeNAS development team. :D It's low-power too, drawing just 28 watts even while it's running an rsync backup.

[ShaneHm2]

Maybe spend time on seeing if it jetway is a good brand or whatever, cause I have had boards of that brand and not one of them die. Intel boards I had 4 out of 10 die.

So I assume you should spend less time bagging out brands you know nothing about and more in depth about doing the show properly

[hanspotato22]

lol just buy a NAS on tigerdirect 1tb is only 125$ ship to your doorstep

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[TheFilm35]

do u need a raid controller in the machine? such a good vid. cheers guys!!!

[Ragable]

@TheFilm35 No RAID controller needed. FreeNAS uses FreeBSD's software RAID, GEOM.

[TheFilm35]

@Ragable so how do you connect say, 4 hdds to the motherboard?

[Ragable]

@TheFilm35 Uh, make sure the motherboard has four SATA ports. Just check the specs for the motherboard you're looking at. Desktop boards usually sport 4 - 8. The smaller the board, the smaller number of ports.

[webvid91]

Why can't you format it as NFTS?

[gglovato]

@webvid91 it's not native BSD, it can lead to all kinds of bad shit happening

[brainscrew1983]

but my pc gives me an error to mount drive manully so what i would do ?

[kayyar1]

Thanks a ton Guys. The video was really helpful in setting up a NAS on my old home PC.

[junkmailpilot]

Thanks guys, was stuck on my install and you helped me figure out what I was missing. (creating the mount point) After that it took a little fiddling and I got it.

[pchildBeachCity562]

You guys are awesome thanks for the tutorial. Hoping for more to come :)

[matithetwatie]

how would you go about accessing the nas box on a windows network ?

[matithetwatie]

briilaint video guys amazingly helpful im starting my first nasbox soon n this helped alot

[niacinsoupbowl]

FreeNAS is great.

[thelegendarypaki]

The guy on the is really annoying with his abysmal advices.

[Ragable]

You're comment is abysmal good sir.

[rokkerguy]

so does this basically like a server right?

[pox98]

Pretty much. It's a file server

[rokkerguy]

could it host a website like HTML stuff, so that you can buy a domain and have it be a website?

[pox98]

You would be better off installing a full Linux destro for that.

[rokkerguy]

But its possible right?

[hanzouzach]

this went much better than the first try :P

[MrSavage169]

Love your videos guys, I might have to try this. Keep on cranking them out!

[RPGash]

Nice vid, interesting as usual.

I like the backdrop image, looks like something from the new Tron movie (2010).

[gadmother999]

LOL porn and things

[pox98]

I see how your mind works, I was talking about adult videos like the mechanisms of quantum physics or anything that most kids wouldn't want to watch. ;)

[gadmother999]

@pox98

nope sounds like something I would watch.

[Kazaskater123]

Could you do a tutorial on how to make those 3D goombas, or the mushrooms? I think that would get a ton of views. Great video too, by the way!

[pox98]

I just might have to to that

[Kazaskater123]

Sweet! hopefully you will. I have been trying to figure it out ever since I saw the first part o BTCP

[Ragable]

Oh hell yeah! Now you're talking! Pox could give a walkthrough on keying and motion tracking as well!

[mrcool789]

Thanks! 5/5