One of the most important decisions I had to make when building a home NAS was choosing the operating system. I ended up trying pretty much every major option out there, but the one I keep coming back ...

HexOS has been doing the rounds recently thanks to a spate of updates which have brought it ever closer to it's 1.0 milestone. The first "Powered by TrueNAS" operating system, HexOS is essentially a ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

The memory shortage made the decision for me.

iXsystems has announced that its two open source operating systems for network attached storage are unifying. Moving forward, FreeNAS and TrueNAS will merge into TrueNAS Open Storage. Despite the ...

TrueNAS 25.04, codenamed “Fangtooth,” was recently released (download here), and with it comes a full embrace of Linux as the underlying base. While previous versions of TrueNAS were confusingly split ...

Server system maker iXsystems ventured further into enterprise storage with a unified open source file system for its TrueNAS networked appliances. Up to now, iXsystems offered two open source storage ...

The current TrueNAS CORE 13 will be the last FreeBSD-based NAS from iXsystems. From now you will see the OS of the popular NAS software switch to Debian, but it’s necessarily bad news unless you are a ...

FreeNAS is a free and open source operating system designed for network-attached storage (NAS) devices. For much of the past decade, the project has been led by the folks at iXsystems, which has also ...