ive been using yumi from pendrive linux instead of rufus unless it requires dd i prefer the multiboot feature . freenas is basically a stripped down debian so whynot just install ubuntu and configure that as a nas? other than the support as you point out that many downloads anything that can go wrong probably has and been solved and posted so just needs searching for to have a solution thanks for the video
@@mobiousenigma yes you can definitely go that path and go through all the hassle of installing needed stuff but thing is if you haven't used FreeNAS yet, I wonder how you would get its web interface and also support for many types of shares already built-in. yes you can definitely do it the hard way :) or just install FreeNAS specifically made for this job. unless you plan of using your debian box for other things aside from NAS then why....
@@timytimotius4679 as long as you can configure bios to boot from somthing other than its harddrive .as long as the hardware meets minimim specifications. any linux operating system can be installed. free nas is just a linux os where services are configured and packages installed to preform this task and almost no others whereas any linux os should be able to be configured to do the same thing as well as function in other capicities. to install any os 1 check minimum hardware specifications linux 1 ghz cpu 1gb ram and storage to install and run it from15gb minimum some will run on less. 2 configure bios to boot from install media whatever that is. 3 boot the install media and install the system. 4 remove install media reboot system and configure. thats the process the devil is in the details word of caution backup any data of value to a seperate storage device beforehand as any errors in partitioning will lead to data loss..the install process deletes everything on its partition during install so be correct in that process
Freenas is the best..been using it for years..easy raid setup..tons of features..built in virtualization is also a great feature if your into that also..
@@vinay2641 me too! She's like when my daughter spilled gallons of paint on her hair, she was crying but we told her it was ... "Beautiful" Hehe! Our hope is she will be an adult and laugh at those childhood moments!
I am replacing my 10 year old HP Zeon based workstation, and thought crossed my mind to set up a NAS. THANKS for making it clear how straight forward and easy this is to do!!!
This is exactly what my father and I have done. He is retired, and no longer needs his old pc. Which isn’t bad for its time at all: ivy bridge i5, 16gb of ram...we’ve now got 5 discs in it 😀 and it acts as nas, and Plex server.
Nice job! I have been storing my music collection of 1000 CDs (compact disc) on a Windows 10 laptop that was dedicated only for music. What a disappointment it was trying to access my music with Windows. If I didn't access the music computer regularly, I would have to wait and wait for system updates and antivirus, and advertisements, etc. You have given me a new tool to access my music again. Thanks so much!!
I completed the creation of a TrueNAS server last night (FreeNAS has been replaced). I tried to install the application on a RAID1 boot drive (2x120gb drives) and it failed twice. It does not like a RAID1 boot drive, to bad because I really wanted the protection. I removed the raid and installed the application again. This time it worked. I then added a RAID1 8TB pool and shared it. This all works perfectly. The problem is I cannot add an existing drive, with data, to the machine to be able to copy the data to the new pool. I now have to pull the drives out and attached them to my desktop and transfer the data across (unless somebody knows a way around this). Overall a good video, very helpful.
Honestly, I'd rather use a Chromebook than a school computer. Chrome OS is so light that it runs a lot better on really cheap hardware so you are probably gonna have a better experience on the Chromebook than the school computer running Windows.
@@drabberfrog They're quite limited and terrible. No photoshop, no specialty programs for different classes. Internet goes down? Then no computing for you. Just chrome. I'd rather carry a Raspberry Pi 400 and a cell phone battery around with the quaint 7" display. and the Pi mouse.
@@imperiumcommentingnetwork4677 but at my school at least, there's no way those windows laptops or all in one's could run Photoshop they take long enough to even boot and open Chrome. The only decent school computers in the entire school are in the computer classroom because they are used to run actual applications like Photoshop.
Good video Free Nas was built for sharing files over the network. The only disadvantage is of course that your NAS needs to be turned on at all times. With a cloud storage provider, you can also share files without being worried about the electricity bill. Here in Belgium Electricity is very expensive a the moment. 😔
@Cavi587 the size of power supply is not what determines power draw, it is the power rating of the components. For power supply you would just want it to be a reasonable standard of efficiency.
Thank you so much for putting together this awesome tutorial! Very simple and easy to follow! Your hard work will NOT be oversighted! Thank you! Thank you! Bless your heart! ♥️👍 p. s I love your Filipino accent. Maraming salamat sa iyong pagsusumikap! Pagpalain ka ng Diyos!.... Keep those videos coming. Ibinigay kong maging tagahanga at subscriber sa iyong channel! 🙏
thank you for the explanation, this will help to make a DAS Storage System from an old pc. I still have a good old pc with 4 hard drives in it. I will only use this system in my home music studio. I am very grateful for the explanation
If you are primarily using a windows machine and have one of these NAS devices set up on Linux-based OS like FreeNAS, Openmediavault, don't use it unless you want to waste your time. Once I had to remove a hard drive from NAS in order to transfer files locally to my machine but it took about 30 min worth of effort to do so, involved a hook up on Pi, a lot of command typing, mount unmount, etc. Had it been a file format easily recognized by windows, it would have been like a minute of a deal.
now this is the OS I'm going to use for deploying 5 servers,all running a mix of Enterprise and consumer hardware (mostly due to LTT). though I'd be adding quite a lot of 16tb hard drives.
Thanks for the information, I really wanted to create my own server atleast😅....This advise was so good and very easy to setup and understand. God Bless you bro..!
Please help me:: I am not running it at 24/7. And I don't have external Keybaord and Monitor to Put with the Server PC, so When I restart the Server Pc after shutting that down, How will I click the Option of FreeNas by Click 1 that says Boot Free Nas.. is there any way to bypass that message and directly boot ?
Groups are for resources not users. For example a group called modem used to be used to control which users where allowed to access the modem. Likewise, I used to have a group called software which were users allowed to install files into /use/local for other users to access. I actually went further and created accounts for each software package who were all members of the group software so that all files installed by that "package" could be easily identified by their userid. Using groups to group users instead of identifying resources is the most common mistake in Unix. administration.
Thanks! Although it's not intuitive, I see what you mean. But say, Legal docs or say, household inventory would then each be considered a "group", is that correct? Then each group would have permissions for specific users? Am I right? Thanks! Also, I have noticed during Windows network set up that there is a choice to make a home network a group. I think its called "home Group". Not sure - but should the same rules apply to windows networks?
Iv made a hub can have 8 usb sticks in, two sata slots, two nvme slots and a 3.5” hdd, power supply to the wall (custom) and all data connected to the same network cable to the router. Would this work??
TY for the very short and informative introduction to FreeNAS. Can I access this over the internet when this was installed at home? can you give some tips or tutorial again on how to do that? TY very much in advance Torogi Pro.
Thank you for the video. How long can we leave the old PC/NAS powered on? Are the motherboards/power supply capable of handling continuous power supply for days?
There are a couple of things to have second thoughts about in the video. The power supply being on all the time could mean it is worthwhile getting a better (at least bronze rated) PSU. Many a USB mass-storage-device NAND pen-drive (even good brands) have problems getting hot when plugged in for long periods of time when FreeNAS is on. There are at least two commonplace alternatives to this. Either use an external USB SSD (and install your nix distro the right way), or construct a usb device with a M2 device in a usb convertor whilst also using heatsinks on the NAND chips. It tends to be the SSD route people choose. There are sometimes other options though: Be mindful what "old PC" means depending on the user. Not all virtualisation instruction-set features will be desired by some people. It is perfectly possible to have a 16GB RAM hexacore PC with a 3.5inch floppy disk drive (and DVD) so as to run FreeNAS (or similar recompiled distro) booting from the optical drive and saving settings to the FDD. You can flash the BIOS on the DVD drive so as to slow down the speed on the DVD so that it remains quiet and cool. There are battery-backed-up RAM devices that (not the RAM in the PC) that have enough storage to load the (DVD) ISO and then those devices can plug into the USB or be converted so as to do that. Those are nifty but a bit messy for some people... and yes, you'd use a FDD too. The PC in the video is not exactly the most energy efficent (which frankly I think is fine for personal preference), and as such, using a PC that is not fully energy efficient (like the hexacore) can be forgiveable. You might, for example, have it run some graphics-cards tricks too, thereby making it all worthwhile.
hi sir i like your work i have 1 question that we need static ip to stay connected to the internet or we can control this with giving extra to our network provider
once i installed the Freenas, can i join it to an exisiting domain? planning to use this as a storage for a scanner in my office. Is there any limit on number of session? Btw, your tutorial is crystal clear , appreciate it!
This is so awesome!!!! I have an old desktop that I am going to do this with. I will shop around for a 2TB hard drive so I can have all the room, well maybe 1TB and see what happens. I'll set this up in my office with the ethernet. Btw, you don't need to have anything on the hard drive right? a clean one is fine I'm guessing. Thanks for the all the help!
Love this video, it helped a lot. Though now 11.3 is out, it doesn't allow you to edit pool permissions right off the bat anymore. Got a little stuck, any workaround for those hitting the same wall?
Useful! Thanks for sharing,.I have one request, if you can do a video connected to this, on how to remotely access FreeNas over the internet? Is it possible to port forward? Or by DDNS?
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ive been using yumi from pendrive linux instead of rufus unless it requires dd i prefer the multiboot feature . freenas is basically a stripped down debian so whynot just install ubuntu and configure that as a nas? other than the support as you point out that many downloads anything that can go wrong probably has and been solved and posted so just needs searching for to have a solution thanks for the video
@@mobiousenigma yes you can definitely go that path and go through all the hassle of installing needed stuff but thing is if you haven't used FreeNAS yet, I wonder how you would get its web interface and also support for many types of shares already built-in. yes you can definitely do it the hard way :) or just install FreeNAS specifically made for this job. unless you plan of using your debian box for other things aside from NAS then why....
Sakto po ito sir, But we are currently trying to implement this in the production.
Hello. I have an unused laptop at my house. Can i install the FreeNAS OS and use it as a NAS server? Or is it has to be a PC? Thank you.
@@timytimotius4679 as long as you can configure bios to boot from somthing other than its harddrive .as long as the hardware meets minimim specifications. any linux operating system can be installed. free nas is just a linux os where services are configured and packages installed to preform this task and almost no others whereas any linux os should be able to be configured to do the same thing as well as function in other capicities. to install any os 1 check minimum hardware specifications linux 1 ghz cpu 1gb ram and storage to install and run it from15gb minimum some will run on less. 2 configure bios to boot from install media whatever that is. 3 boot the install media and install the system. 4 remove install media reboot system and configure. thats the process the devil is in the details word of caution backup any data of value to a seperate storage device beforehand as any errors in partitioning will lead to data loss..the install process deletes everything on its partition during install so be correct in that process
I have been researching DIY NAS for so long and finally I have found an easy to follow tutorial. Thank you.
Love your hair colour💖
Freenas is the best..been using it for years..easy raid setup..tons of features..built in virtualization is also a great feature if your into that also..
@@RetroGFX-uOS Hello i have a question. can i use ordinary HDD for this set up ?
@@rockyflores8413 you can for storage..i recommend installing the operating system on a flash drive
@@vinay2641 me too! She's like when my daughter spilled gallons of paint on her hair, she was crying but we told her it was ... "Beautiful" Hehe! Our hope is she will be an adult and laugh at those childhood moments!
nice.. simple and straightforward.. no useless chatter.. it's a perfect guide for newbies..
I am replacing my 10 year old HP Zeon based workstation, and thought crossed my mind to set up a NAS. THANKS for making it clear how straight forward and easy this is to do!!!
did you do it how it went
This is exactly what my father and I have done. He is retired, and no longer needs his old pc. Which isn’t bad for its time at all: ivy bridge i5, 16gb of ram...we’ve now got 5 discs in it 😀 and it acts as nas, and Plex server.
How much power draw the server has?
@@Spark_Plug17 I ok o oo 99
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Nice job! I have been storing my music collection of 1000 CDs (compact disc) on a Windows 10 laptop that was dedicated only for music. What a disappointment it was trying to access my music with Windows. If I didn't access the music computer regularly, I would have to wait and wait for system updates and antivirus, and advertisements, etc. You have given me a new tool to access my music again. Thanks so much!!
did you do it, how it went any problems?
there is only a word for this video : perfection
I completed the creation of a TrueNAS server last night (FreeNAS has been replaced). I tried to install the application on a RAID1 boot drive (2x120gb drives) and it failed twice. It does not like a RAID1 boot drive, to bad because I really wanted the protection. I removed the raid and installed the application again. This time it worked. I then added a RAID1 8TB pool and shared it. This all works perfectly.
The problem is I cannot add an existing drive, with data, to the machine to be able to copy the data to the new pool. I now have to pull the drives out and attached them to my desktop and transfer the data across (unless somebody knows a way around this).
Overall a good video, very helpful.
Dude.. Thanks. I have about 20 old machines so I'll dump FreeNAS onto my Dell T3500 as a network drive. Nice.
Thank you. Have an 80 TB NAS but also several computers I'm not using. You have given me an idea.
excellent... I've been looking for an inexpensive but reliable system...but now I've found a use for my old box!
Thanks for great information on Free NAS. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Excellent tutorial!. Planning to build NAS systems for my home and ministry. Your guide is really easy to follow. Thanks.
did you do it how it went?
Just brilliant ☺. I can't remember the last time I came across a more informative video. 😎
My old school: *Has 20 desktops laying around*
Also school: *Proceeds to replace them all with chromebooks*
Me: *Is glad I graduated a year later*
God ikr I think it’s cause chromebooks are passively cooled so they heat up faster causing it to slow down to prevent overheating
@@EyesOnlyTeam86 what exactly do we mean by RAID2?
Honestly, I'd rather use a Chromebook than a school computer. Chrome OS is so light that it runs a lot better on really cheap hardware so you are probably gonna have a better experience on the Chromebook than the school computer running Windows.
@@drabberfrog They're quite limited and terrible. No photoshop, no specialty programs for different classes. Internet goes down? Then no computing for you. Just chrome. I'd rather carry a Raspberry Pi 400 and a cell phone battery around with the quaint 7" display. and the Pi mouse.
@@imperiumcommentingnetwork4677 but at my school at least, there's no way those windows laptops or all in one's could run Photoshop they take long enough to even boot and open Chrome. The only decent school computers in the entire school are in the computer classroom because they are used to run actual applications like Photoshop.
This is the best tutorial for FreeNas!
Good video Free Nas was built for sharing files over the network. The only disadvantage is of course that your NAS needs to be turned on at all times. With a cloud storage provider, you can also share files without being worried about the electricity bill. Here in Belgium Electricity is very expensive a the moment. 😔
Thankfully though such NAS doesn't require a lot of power. You can make one with a small power supply and it shouldn't consume much when mostly idle.
@Cavi587 the size of power supply is not what determines power draw, it is the power rating of the components.
For power supply you would just want it to be a reasonable standard of efficiency.
This is a real deal... Subscribe right now.. Thank you for sharing this.
This is good. Thanks for sharing. Atleast I can do something for my old PC haven't use for long time.
Thank you so much for putting together this awesome tutorial!
Very simple and easy to follow! Your hard work will NOT be oversighted!
Thank you! Thank you!
Bless your heart! ♥️👍
p. s I love your Filipino accent.
Maraming salamat sa iyong pagsusumikap! Pagpalain ka ng Diyos!.... Keep those videos coming. Ibinigay kong maging tagahanga at subscriber sa iyong channel! 🙏
Great video! We've subscribed!
Thank you for your support. Just a friendly reminder that FreeNAS will soon become TrueNAS CORE.
It's also access by mobile phone?
Great tutorial , had our business NAS setup in a few hours and everyone connected. Thank you 👌👌
thank you for the explanation, this will help to make a DAS Storage System from an old pc. I still have a good old pc with 4 hard drives in it. I will only use this system in my home music studio.
I am very grateful for the explanation
If you are primarily using a windows machine and have one of these NAS devices set up on Linux-based OS like FreeNAS, Openmediavault, don't use it unless you want to waste your time. Once I had to remove a hard drive from NAS in order to transfer files locally to my machine but it took about 30 min worth of effort to do so, involved a hook up on Pi, a lot of command typing, mount unmount, etc. Had it been a file format easily recognized by windows, it would have been like a minute of a deal.
your video makes my day. beautifully explained with good graphics. Thanks for this.
*Congrat for 100K SUBSCRIBERS!!*
This is what I'm looking for!
Clean and simple instruction
Salamat po
I was thinking of built one for myself bqz i need a lot of storage thanks it helped a lot
@@EyesOnlyTeam86 i do follow them 👍
big help for beginer like me, thanks for sharing this
now this is the OS I'm going to use for deploying 5 servers,all running a mix of Enterprise and consumer hardware (mostly due to LTT). though I'd be adding quite a lot of 16tb hard drives.
Fantastic presentation. You rocked guiding how to set up a NAS from an old computer.
Cool, but what if this one hard drive fails?
Thanks for the information, I really wanted to create my own server atleast😅....This advise was so good and very easy to setup and understand. God Bless you bro..!
Thank you for sharing this. It's straight to the point and well made. I subscribed to your channel for more contents.
I found your explanation the best
Great video, thanks for your help. Created a server and a share for my Mac.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, awesome tutorial!
Thanks so much for a great tutorial. Let's give old tech new life!
Very clearly explained for beginners..Kudos👍🔥
great, the entire explanation was very clear, thank you
Thanks for sharing this video ... Your tutorial was simple, clear, good organized and really helpful ... I'll give you a BIG LIKE.
Thanks so much for the tutorial, man! Appreciated!
Clean, neither to much nor to less in presentation. Thank you.
thanks for the tutorial mate, been looking into home servers lately and ur vid definitely helped!
A video on connecting to it remotely would be good
Use openVPN to do that
Nice! Thanks! What's it the power consumption like?
Please help me:: I am not running it at 24/7. And I don't have external Keybaord and Monitor to Put with the Server PC, so When I restart the Server Pc after shutting that down, How will I click the Option of FreeNas by Click 1 that says Boot Free Nas.. is there any way to bypass that message and directly boot ?
Random Question. Would this work on an android box of 2GB ram?
Good job man, I needed this
Thanks man!
Are you able to set up RAIDs with FreeNAS?
Good video !!
Groups are for resources not users. For example a group called modem used to be used to control which users where allowed to access the modem. Likewise, I used to have a group called software which were users allowed to install files into /use/local for other users to access. I actually went further and created accounts for each software package who were all members of the group software so that all files installed by that "package" could be easily identified by their userid. Using groups to group users instead of identifying resources is the most common mistake in Unix. administration.
Thanks! Although it's not intuitive, I see what you mean. But say, Legal docs or say, household inventory would then each be considered a "group", is that correct? Then each group would have permissions for specific users? Am I right? Thanks!
Also, I have noticed during Windows network set up that there is a choice to make a home network a group. I think its called "home Group". Not sure - but should the same rules apply to windows networks?
Iv made a hub can have 8 usb sticks in, two sata slots, two nvme slots and a 3.5” hdd, power supply to the wall (custom) and all data connected to the same network cable to the router. Would this work??
Nice job!!! Subscribed.
Thanks...very informative contents. Keep it up.
Thanks for very easy perceived information.
Very good job.
God bless you
Nicely done, great video! Thanks!
Thank you, good work, What difference between FreeNAS and Synology NAS ?
Thanks! Good tutorial. Does free as support raid? Thinking about doing that to An old raid1 machine.
thanks, explained so simply
Thanks for the primer!
TY for the very short and informative introduction to FreeNAS. Can I access this over the internet when this was installed at home? can you give some tips or tutorial again on how to do that? TY very much in advance Torogi Pro.
Thank you for the video. How long can we leave the old PC/NAS powered on? Are the motherboards/power supply capable of handling continuous power supply for days?
There are a couple of things to have second thoughts about in the video.
The power supply being on all the time could mean it is worthwhile getting a better (at least bronze rated) PSU.
Many a USB mass-storage-device NAND pen-drive (even good brands) have problems getting hot when plugged in for long periods of time when FreeNAS is on. There are at least two commonplace alternatives to this. Either use an external USB SSD (and install your nix distro the right way), or construct a usb device with a M2 device in a usb convertor whilst also using heatsinks on the NAND chips. It tends to be the SSD route people choose.
There are sometimes other options though:
Be mindful what "old PC" means depending on the user. Not all virtualisation instruction-set features will be desired by some people. It is perfectly possible to have a 16GB RAM hexacore PC with a 3.5inch floppy disk drive (and DVD) so as to run FreeNAS (or similar recompiled distro) booting from the optical drive and saving settings to the FDD. You can flash the BIOS on the DVD drive so as to slow down the speed on the DVD so that it remains quiet and cool.
There are battery-backed-up RAM devices that (not the RAM in the PC) that have enough storage to load the (DVD) ISO and then those devices can plug into the USB or be converted so as to do that. Those are nifty but a bit messy for some people... and yes, you'd use a FDD too.
The PC in the video is not exactly the most energy efficent (which frankly I think is fine for personal preference), and as such, using a PC that is not fully energy efficient (like the hexacore) can be forgiveable. You might, for example, have it run some graphics-cards tricks too, thereby making it all worthwhile.
Thanks for the tips
Great tutorial! Thank you Torogi Pro!
Malinaw na malinaw! Salamat!
Great lesson.
Thanks mate. That worked like a dream.
Great video, totally gonna try it.
It's a lot of work setting it up but it's probably worth it if one needs it.
@Torogi Pro Great video, but I have a question, is there a way to access a drive outside of your local network? Thanks!
Perfect!
How to increase the storage?
If this pc if OFF, possible to access?
Is there anyway of sharing file using a li k on freenas ? For example like you would see in Dropbox or gdrive.
Great video 👌👌👌👌
Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful
NICE TUTORIAL
your old pc is still better than my current pc
This will be good for my home storage server. Thank you!
Hey, great video! Thank you! I am now going to research how to mirror data between two 4tb drives using this software.
Hi
thanks for the great tutorial
Is freenas now called truenas
what are the specs on the computer you are using
motherboard and processor
Good video thanks for making it.
I do have a question for you.
How would a person add a sata card and its drivers for more storage?
explained it beautifully
hi sir i like your work
i have 1 question that we need static ip to stay connected to the internet or we can control this with giving extra to our network provider
once i installed the Freenas, can i join it to an exisiting domain? planning to use this as a storage for a scanner in my office. Is there any limit on number of session? Btw, your tutorial is crystal clear , appreciate it!
Thanks for this great video sir. I would like to ask, how would I be able to access it thru a mobile phone or tablet easily?
Torogi Pro: This Will Take Around 5 To 10 Minutes.
My Computer: 30 to 45 Minutes.
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Thank you for a good content! :)
This is so awesome!!!! I have an old desktop that I am going to do this with. I will shop around for a 2TB hard drive so I can have all the room, well maybe 1TB and see what happens. I'll set this up in my office with the ethernet. Btw, you don't need to have anything on the hard drive right? a clean one is fine I'm guessing. Thanks for the all the help!
i can add more harddisk without formatting it or can't? please tell me.
great great video. thank you so much for the excellent step by step guide.
Do we need a separate router to use it on a smartphone via wifi?
awesome video! thank you!
Amazing video. Thank you.
Thanks! Great Information and Video!
Love this video, it helped a lot. Though now 11.3 is out, it doesn't allow you to edit pool permissions right off the bat anymore. Got a little stuck, any workaround for those hitting the same wall?
You are good. Does it matter if clients have different operating systems. Like Linux and Windows files.
Awesome.. how if we open in online or other network
one of the best video❤
Great Tutorial!!
Useful! Thanks for sharing,.I have one request, if you can do a video connected to this, on how to remotely access FreeNas over the internet? Is it possible to port forward? Or by DDNS?
Excellent information