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| Date Added: April 09, 2018 05:33:59 AM | |
| Author: Gia Mahony | |
| Category: Computers: Software | |
| NAS4Free is an embedded Open Source Storage NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD. This project is a continuation of FreeNAS 7 series project. NAS4Free is based on FreeBSD 9.x while FreeNAS 8 is based on nanoBSD, hence the name change .This makes sure that users are not confused about both projects. It includes ZFS v28, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, SMART / email reports, Includes the following protocols: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI (initiator and target), UPnP, and Bittorent which is all highly configurable by its WEB interface. NAS4Free can be installed onto wide range of hardware. Anything from an actual server to an old PC you may have laying several. Please check the hardware compatibility wiki as well for more details. NAS4Free has 2 different installation methods plus a livecd mode. The livecd mode allows you to try out NAS4Free for the first time or run a NAS4Free server using your livecd via cd-rom and a usb backup windows/Floppy disk in which the NAS saves your configuration files. What this means is that every time you boot from The livecd, NAS4Free will load the required config.xml file that stores all your server settings. To update to newer revisions of NAS4Free you will have to download a new livecd iso (~154Mb). The 2 installation methods are 'full' install or an 'embedded' install. The full install allows you to install NAS4Free to an internal hard drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) with a system, data, and swap partition. With This method, you do use a valuable IDE/SATA port that could be used to have an additional storage drive. To update the system you would have to download the full livecd iso, boot from it and select the upgrade option.The embedded installation method Is truly what NAS4Free was designed for. With an embedded install you would install the system onto a USB key or a compact flash card (CF). You do but have the option of installed embedded onto a HDD/SSD, but again you lose a The other key features of an embedded install are less system writes when using embedded multiple means that the USB/CF last much longer and How you update Your NAS4Free system. With an embedded system update you download a special firmware (~76mb) that is in a .img format which is much smaller than the livecd iso. Once you download the firmware, updating is a breeze. All you do is open The webgui in your browser of choice, select firmware from the system navigation menu, enable firmware updates, browse for the image file, click update, and let the system do the rest. The system will load the file, update the system, reboot, And your done. NAS4Free: Features All NAS4Free versions: Multiple arch: i386 or amd64 Full Web Management Interface (WebGUI) Base OS=FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE ZFS v28 Software RAID 0,1,5 and mix (1+0,1+1, etc...) Disk encryption (using cryptographic accelerator card if present) Filesystems: ZFS v28, UFS, Ext2/3, FAT, NTFS Partition: MBR and GPT iSCSI initiator SMB/CIFS (Samba) AFP (Netatalk) NFS FTP (ProFTPD TFTP (tftp-hpa) RSYNC (client/server) Unison SCP (SSH) iSCSI target UPnP server (FUPPES) iTunes/DAAP server (Firefly) Webserver (lighttpd) Network bandwitdh measure (Iperf) Bittorent client (Transmission) 802.1q vlan tagging Wireless Link aggregation Wake On Lan S.M.A.R.T (smartmontools) E-mail alert SNMP Syslog UPS (NUT) | |
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