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FreeNAS is great, but one of the pain points is having to boot off USB disks if you don't want to use an entire SSD (or worse NVMe M.2 SSD) as the OS disk when it only needs ~8GB. While looking into converting an existing FreeBSD box to FreeNAS I realized that it's actually quite simple to make...

I'm beginning to think this is a fantastic fake story. It works beautifully for everyone involved (directly or indirectly) except SuperMicro (the victim), who just happen to be the ideal fall guy. SMCI clearly has some issues - they've been delisted from the NASDAQ, for accounting problems...

I've had a RS720Q-E8-RS12 for a couple of years running ESXi on two nodes and compute tasks on the other two. I think I was a fairly early adopter, and the install was a bit rough, with one of the node motherboards being bad and needing RMA - I had the same issues above, with ASUS even accusing...

Hi all, I wanted to share a post about a minimal FreeNAS box that I built a few months ago. It has been working really well for me, although I'm not sure I would recommend this as a production build (see the details below). Some background: I am very experienced with FreeBSD (and computers in...