Immediately after installing Madsonic you should change the admin password to secure the server. Update FreeBSD System: sudo freebsd-update fetch install; Update FreeBSD Ports: portsnap fetch update. Synology installation. Activate User home service; install Perl module; install JavaManager module; download. Nov 20, 2016 - Home About Contact Links Privacy Folding@Home. I'm going to show how to setup Plex inside a jail because I believe it is. You are using the 64 bit installation of NAS4Free, version 10.2. Portsnap fetch extract. How to Build a Budget NAS Machine How to Install Gitlab on a Raspberry Pi 2+.
Dedicated NAS Devices The most obvious — though not necessarily best — way to get a NAS is just to buy a pre-made, ready-to-use NAS device. Head to a website like Amazon and and you’ll find a bunch of devices marketed as a home file or media servers. Essentially, these devices have built-in hard drives and some basic server software that can connect to your Wi-Fi or wired network and provide a NAS file server. They’re all-in-one solutions so you can just grab a box, plug it in, and start using it. Generally, such devices can be controlled via a web interface, like your router can be. You can then access the files using a variety of different applications and even run different bits of software on the NAS itself, such as media-server solutions for streaming media and BitTorrent clients for downloading directly on the device.
Many types of back-up software can back up directly to the network storage. Routers With Built-in Hard Drives Rather than getting a dedicated NAS device and tacking it on to all your other devices, you can actually buy higher-end Wi-Fi routers that come with built-in hard drives. These devices function as your typical network router, but they also have all that fancy NAS server software and a built-in hard drive so you can get a NAS without adding yet another device to your household. For Apple users, Apple’s is a wireless router with built-in network storage that Macs can easily back up to and use for network file-sharing. This may be the most well-known type of router with a built-in hard drive, but there are many similar routers available to those not interested in Apple products, too. Editor’s Note: At the How-To Geek office we use (and recommend) the to backup our Macs and the 802.11ac Wi-Fi access is blazing fast everywhere. It’s compatible with Windows as well, although you’ll need to download the to manage it or access the hard drive. Because the hard drive is internal, you don’t have to deal with the slow USB 2.0 speeds that you might get connecting an external drive to another router.
Of course, if you’re happy with your existing router, you shouldn’t need to grab an entirely new one. But upgrading can be a smart idea if your router is older and doesn’t support the latest-and-greatest Wi-Fi networking standards and their faster speeds and lower Wi-Fi interference. Routers With USB Ports RELATED: Many routers don’t include built-in hard drives, but they do offer something almost as good. Quite a few routers — especially higher-end ones — include USB ports. Plug an external hard drive or even a USB flash drive (preferably not a flash drive if you intend on using it heavily) into the USB port. The router has built-in NAS software that can do the rest, exposing it to the network as a NAS. You can enable the NAS server and set everything up. For Apple users, the standard wireless router works this way, offering a USB port you can connect external drives to you.
Many, many routers — especially the higher-end ones, as the low-end, bottom-of-the-barrel ones don’t want to splurge on USB hardware and the extra software — include USB ports so they can function as a NAS in this way. This is often a pretty good option, although it may be a bit slow if you’re using USB 2.0 drives — especially compared to internal drives. You can get much faster speeds if you use a USB 3.0 external drive along with a router with a USB 3.0 port, though.
External hard drives can get a much larger than typical USB flash drives can. Network-Attached Drive Enclosures Rather than buying a pre-made NAS or attempting to use your router as a NAS, you can always buy a network-attached drive enclosure. These are dedicated NAS devices with the appropriate server software, designed to be connected to a network. They generally don’t come with any built-in drives. You’ll need to buy an appropriate hard drive (or multiple hard drives) separately and insert them into the NAS to get the storage you’ll need to use it.
These can potentially be cheaper if you can get a decent deal on the hard drives. Or, if you already have some old internal hard drives lying around, you can easily turn them into NAS storage without spending too much.
But they’re particularly convenient if you want to insert more than one hard drive into your NAS and get a much larger amount of storage. Old PCs, Repurposed RELATED: Why buy a new device when you can repurpose some old hardware you have lying around? Well, there are definitely some reasons to leave your old PC in the closet — a modern NAS device will consume much less power and be quieter and smaller than that old Pentium 4 you have in the closet. But, if you’d like to repurpose old hardware you have lying around, you can use a software solution like the popular FreeNAS to. This option isn’t for everyone — it’s not even for most people — but this is How-To Geek, and it’s an interesting option for geeks. Heck, you could even turn an old laptop (like ) into a home NAS if you really wanted to!
NAS Devices Built From Scratch RELATED: Better yet, you could even build your own NAS if you’d like to do something geeky. We’ve covered how to. It’s a bit like turning a general-purpose PC into a NAS, but it’s a better option because it’s smaller, quieter, and will use much less power. Raspberry Pi devices are pretty cheap as well, so this could be a good option if you want a little project to take on. You’ll need to provide the storage, of course. But you’ll save money in electricity costs over using an old PC! Not everyone needs a home NAS.
If you don’t feel a need for a centralized home file share or backup location, you don’t need to buy a bunch of hardware. If you do go this route, be sure to always have backups of your important data so you don’t lose it if your NAS bursts into flames. Image Credit:,.
Hello, My goal is to create a NAS storage system. I had decided that it would be better to build one then to buy a limited one so i acquired all the parts i needed and formulated a plan. My idea was to install FreeBSD as the host operating system, and then setup the shares as a raid-z array and a raid 1 array. (one for pictures and the other for data) I then wished to install virtualbox so that i can run a virutal windows machine so that i could guarantee that video could stream from the system to my PS3s and my XBOX 360. At first i used an older 240GB HDD and ran into problems downloading and compiling the bash shell. I thought that was odd, but continued with the installation and setup as per Sub Mesa's guide.
I got to the end (without the bash) and everything seemed to be working. Then i realized i was using IDE mode instead of AHCI. So i re-installed everything after changing the BIOS setting.
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I got it all installed and setup, then tried to install virtualbox. Virtualbox requires some 32 bit libraries but they would not install and error out every time. I had made some changes to the system so i decided lets try this again. So i re-installed everything and chose to install the lib32 ports as well.
This time when i tried the portsnap install it errored out each time. So i tried it again with the same result. So i was told it might be a hardware issue. I ran a memory scan and it came back clean, so i tried a different hard drive. This time things seemed to install properly.
I decided that it might be easier to configure later on if i had a GUI so i tried to install XORG. After about 45 minutes of downloading and extracting it errored out. I don't think there is anything physically wrong with any of the parts of the system but the software continues to error out. I am using an AMD Phenom 3.2Ghz Quad core CPU 8 GB RAM Asus M4A87T-E motherboard and a SAS controller card to allow me to connect 8 more hard drives. At this point im not really sure what i should do.
I would like to run FreeBSD with ZFS and have a windows virtual machine running on it so that i can use it to do background tasks and moves and such. Should i switch and use a Windows Server 2008 install with FreeBSD as the virtual machine? There's probably nothing wrong with your hardware it's probably either a config or software issue.
Frankly, Linux should be much easier to setup but it doesn't have ZFS. That's good and bad ZFS is cool but Oracle has just about decided to kill it so it's future is in doubt.BSD's usually very stable and very secure but it's a lot more difficult to use than Linux. With Linux you'll be able to do all kinds of streaming which should work with your PS3s and xbox VLC should handle all that for ya pretty easily.
I would say im stil newish to linux and such but i know enough to get things to work and how to make changes on the fly. The only other linux OS i have used/liked is Ubuntu. The apt get install makes it really easy to install packages and get things going. I think i would really like BSD if i could get it to work properly. I wish there was a snapshot utility so that i can try a few configs and installs and if it fails then restore it back. Anyway i guess i'll try freebsd again but maybe ill do a more complete installation and try to install virtualbox again.
I'm not sure why you're having problems installing FreeBSD. Normally it just works. Be aware though that ZFS on FreeBSD isn't straightforward and can be unstable with a Generic kernel. Have a look at. I'm not sure that installing Windows Server in a VM and then accessing the rest of the system from there is such a good idea. If you really need Windows (I'm not convinced that you really do) then I would go for a pure Windows system. I think you will lose many of the advantages of ZFS if you try to run FreeBSD within a VM.
Edit: Correction - apparently ZFS is vastly improved in FreeBSD 8, so my first comments probably no longer apply. The only caveat is that low memory can cause problems; this obviously isn't the case with your setup.