A Major Life Change and Moving Forward With a New Research Project

by wwarren | Nov 29, 2021 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source, PFSense, Storage

My friend Erik Mikula death…for a while really took the wind out of my IT sails. I have the server i ordered right before Erik died….and frankly..it’s been a painful reminder of his sudden removal from this world. I finally came to realize Erik would...

Another Wrinkle with TrueNAS

by wwarren | Jul 24, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Open Source, Storage

 One of a clients backups are using 5-8 terabytes of disk space on a cloud backup. the disk usage on the NAS itself(due to zfs native dompression is 2.7 TB. It’s taken a while to figure out but it turns out Rclone(which is what truenas uses for it’s cloud...

When Hardware Gets a Mind of It’s Own: R520 Fan Edition

by wwarren | Jan 3, 2021 | Dell, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hardware, Open Source, Storage

I have had a Dell R520 server here at my location for a bit now and it’s been a great upgrade for my business.  In addition to providing network storage it also has been the final testbed for my new network attached storage product I recently announced.  I have...

Windows 20h2 Bug Eats Partitions, TrueNAS Core Saves Data Again

by wwarren | Jan 2, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, General, Hardware, Open Source, Storage, Windows, Windows 10

I had 1909 on my machine and it decided to upgrade to 20h2(mainly because i forgot to disable feature updates after some windows maintenance). Things immediately went downhill from there. I knew something was funky when it kept saying my E drive(my iscsi gamecache)...

The end of CentOS and my moving to BSD.

by wwarren | Dec 9, 2020 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hosting, Linux, Open Source, PFSense

RedHat announces the death of CentOS. To quote the article: In the past, CentOS has been a community build of the current RHEL source, providing a robust production distro for those willing to do without Red Hat support. When RHEL gets a fix, the project aims to have...

ETC Maryland Officially Announces Affordable, Ransomware Resistant Network Storage for Micro and Small Businesses

by wwarren | Dec 4, 2020 | Annoucements, Free/TrueNAS, Hardware, Open Source

Remember this post? This has been 4 years in the making.  I have tested this extensively at my office and at a clients remote location.  With ransomware going nuts I am targeting this launch towards protecting against ransomware and offering an affordable, onsite...