Video tour of the FreeNAS server
by admin on Jan.29, 2012, under FreeBSD
A video of the FreeNAS server web interface with a brief look at each management page. This video should help give you an idea of what the FreeNAS web interface looks like and a feel for the capabilities of the FreeNAS server. For more visit: www.learnfreenas.com
January 29th, 2012 on 8:35 pm
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!
January 29th, 2012 on 9:33 pm
Great overview, I just grabbed an old machine and put one together today and it’s working perfectly already…
January 29th, 2012 on 9:43 pm
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!
January 29th, 2012 on 10:21 pm
@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??
January 29th, 2012 on 10:45 pm
@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.
January 29th, 2012 on 11:26 pm
@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.
January 29th, 2012 on 11:32 pm
@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.
January 30th, 2012 on 12:06 am
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.
January 30th, 2012 on 12:53 am
Well done tour / test drive. A+
January 30th, 2012 on 1:08 am
Good videos, keep it up!