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!
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.
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!!!
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!!
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.
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.
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! 🙏
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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 ?
Actually, you can use the OS of your choice. Aside from FreeNAS, you can use NAS4Free (a fork of FreeNAS) or OpenMediaVault (a Debian-based NAS operating system). Fact: Seagate SV35 series HDDs are designed for CCTV DVRs or IP-CCTV NVRs (superseded by Seagate SkyHawk HDDs). Also it is better to have 2 NICs (1 dedicated to the management WebUI access) that have 2 different IPv4 addresses.
Mark, First, how do you set up 2 NICs (assuming you are using two NIC cards) using FreeNAS? The second question will be: Once you set up your NAS, let's say, you found some old drives with data that you want to add to your NAS server. Can you simply plug those drives into any available USB ports in that PC without reformating the drives and losing all old data?
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??
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?
I use 2pcs 500 gb hdd with both 4% health use 1 as the o.s and 1 for storage and amd a4 6400 4gb ram it succeeded thanks a lot i will do this at home im at work now 😅
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.
Interesting. It appears that the end result of this exercise is an NTSF-formatted directory accessible from the local area network. I can do this same by installing a vanilla-flavored Linux system and invoking a few simple shell commands. What do I gain with "freeNAS" (and all those dashboards and dialogs) that makes it better than simple Linux? I ask because I don't see any of the things I usually associate with NAS -- RAID configuration, backup, etc.
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?
Thanks the video was very informative. I managed to create the NAS, as instructed. The issue is, when creating pools, I am prompted to erase the disk. I don't want to do this. These are data drives I moved from a recent PC and I need the data. How can I get around this? Thanks and keep doing a great job.
Torogi Pro, I hope you still check in here now and then for I need help. I can't seem to get past making a bootable usb stick. After Rufas my ubs doesn't boot? Your tutorial here is awesome. I really want to get past this ubs business. My computer is gpt. I've tried both mbr and gpt but neither works. Any idea? They would be appreciated.
I would consider two drives to be an absolute minimum for a NAS, and I would recommend at least four for proper redundancy. Ideally, these would be NAS-specific drives that are designed to withstand vibration from other nearby drives. And then, you should make regular backups (one of which should be offsite) for that because redundancy is not backup. That doesn't necessarily mean you need another NAS, although that's ideal. If you can back everything up to a USB hard drive and then take that drive offsite, that's a decent option as well. Ideally, you would want two USB drives so you can regularly swap them out to make new backups. For my personal data, I keep one of the USB drives in my desk drawer at my office.
Daniel, First, how do you set up 2 NICs (assuming you are using two NIC cards) using FreeNAS? My second question: I have two 128GB SSDs (brand new) for having two root FreeNas drives (just for a bit of FreeNas redundancy). How do you set these two drives using the FreeNas installer? My third question: Once you set up your NAS, let's say you found some old drives with data that you want to add to your NAS server. Can you simply plug those drives into any available USB ports in that PC without reformating the drives and losing all your old data? Any help is greatly appreciated.
When I saw this, I thought it must be a very old video. Now that there are so many built in features and apps which allow network discovery and sharing, I see very little reason to use an old tower as a NAS. (*Especially when it can do so while performing as a fully functional computer without installing new crap!) However, if you have a DEAD computer and wish to re-purpose the tower, consider buying a $29 raspberry pi compatible NAS module from someplace like SparkFun. Why? It's a very low power option. Your raspberry can initiate power to the desired connected drive when it is needed (as opposed to always on), all the data can be accessed over wifi and you can hide the pi anywhere you like, or you can connect it directly via ethernet to your router, if using ethernet and your router has PoE, then the Pi can be powered by the router (which makes sense, no router=no sharing anyway). Furthermore, you can set up your Pi to actually create a local area network if your router goes down so you can access your files even though you might not have internet.
Just go into 'Turn Windows features on or off' , then expand 'Internet Information Services' and make sure the 'FTP Server' box is checked. On the client windows box do the same but instead go to the bottom of 'turn features on or off' and tick the TFTP Client box. Go to 'thisPC' (on client) in the file manager and right click , go to Add Network Location. In the text box enter, ftp://server-ip , last create a friendly name for the shortcut. Then you can either drag & drop to share in the GUI or access your files from CMD/Powershell/WSL with ftp terminal client . With linux this functionality is built into most file managers , food for thought.
Same here, tried freenas and nas4free, didn't do well as you have to know how to configure and troubleshoot a Linux system. Currently I'm working with Win7 pro with shares visible to specific IP range and it's golden 24/7.
@@KooYu knowlege is power..take the time learn somthing configuring linux isnt impossible just requires access to google.. as for works 24/7 a microshaft os work.....define work i dont believe we expect the same things.. its pre backdoored on instilation..streaming government sponcered malware laden spying devicethat also expects you to generate them income with advertising ,,windows for directx gaming linux for anything else
nice video man!!!! i have a question, i want to put my media and my work as a graphic designer on it, but i have to leave it on all the time or i can turn it off?
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?
Dead BIOS battery... But u can install and use an OS anyway. The problems come if u change some parameters on the bios and leave the machine without energy, that's results in a reset to defaults parameters bios. Anyway this is a extremely cheap problem to solve
i had an old pc setup as a NAS but my new router has usb3 so i purchased and attached an external HDD (NAS). i have another usb external HDD which backs up the one attached to the router. new technology makes obsolete equipment very obsolete.
Fantastic! Just what I was looking for … except I have an old Dell that I have 2 1tb drives and a 500gb drive in. One of the 1tb drives has ALL of our music, pictures and videos on. Will I lose this converting it to a DNS? Thanks soooo much
4GB is okay BUT is not RECOMMENDED. If you have more storage to install then you need more RAM because Freenas is using ZFS to setup the various RAIDs and it is really need some RAM to run smoothly. (also the CPU in order to operate between the CPU and RAM).
good video...i am going to try this out because i am using an almost 10 yr old Lenovo NAS drive now which is worrying me and i refuse to pay $4-5 hundred dollars to replace 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!
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!
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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..
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?
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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
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?
Dude.. Thanks. I have about 20 old machines so I'll dump FreeNAS onto my Dell T3500 as a network drive. Nice.
there is only a word for this video : perfection
excellent... I've been looking for an inexpensive but reliable system...but now I've found a use for my old box!
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.
Thank you. Have an 80 TB NAS but also several computers I'm not using. You have given me an idea.
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.
This is what I'm looking for!
Clean and simple instruction
Salamat po
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?
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! 🙏
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.
Torogi Pro: This Will Take Around 5 To 10 Minutes.
My Computer: 30 to 45 Minutes.
Me: F*CK!
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.
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?
This is the best tutorial for FreeNas!
This is good. Thanks for sharing. Atleast I can do something for my old PC haven't use for long time.
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
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 👍
Great tutorial , had our business NAS setup in a few hours and everyone connected. Thank you 👌👌
Cool, but what if this one hard drive fails?
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.
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Thank you for your support. Just a friendly reminder that FreeNAS will soon become TrueNAS CORE.
It's also access by mobile phone?
your video makes my day. beautifully explained with good graphics. Thanks for this.
This is a real deal... Subscribe right now.. Thank you for sharing this.
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
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I found your explanation the best
Fantastic presentation. You rocked guiding how to set up a NAS from an old computer.
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..!
Great video, thanks for your help. Created a server and a share for my Mac.
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 ?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, awesome tutorial!
Clean, neither to much nor to less in presentation. Thank you.
Actually, you can use the OS of your choice. Aside from FreeNAS, you can use NAS4Free (a fork of FreeNAS) or OpenMediaVault (a Debian-based NAS operating system).
Fact: Seagate SV35 series HDDs are designed for CCTV DVRs or IP-CCTV NVRs (superseded by Seagate SkyHawk HDDs).
Also it is better to have 2 NICs (1 dedicated to the management WebUI access) that have 2 different IPv4 addresses.
Mark, First, how do you set up 2 NICs (assuming you are using two NIC cards) using FreeNAS? The second question will be: Once you set up your NAS, let's say, you found some old drives with data that you want to add to your NAS server. Can you simply plug those drives into any available USB ports in that PC without reformating the drives and losing all old data?
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??
Thank you for sharing this. It's straight to the point and well made. I subscribed to your channel for more contents.
big help for beginer like me, thanks for sharing this
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?
I use 2pcs 500 gb hdd with both 4% health use 1 as the o.s and 1 for storage and amd a4 6400 4gb ram it succeeded thanks a lot i will do this at home im at work now 😅
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.
Thanks so much for a great tutorial. Let's give old tech new life!
Thanks...very informative contents. Keep it up.
Malinaw na malinaw! Salamat!
Very clearly explained for beginners..Kudos👍🔥
Interesting. It appears that the end result of this exercise is an NTSF-formatted directory accessible from the local area network. I can do this same by installing a vanilla-flavored Linux system and invoking a few simple shell commands.
What do I gain with "freeNAS" (and all those dashboards and dialogs) that makes it better than simple Linux? I ask because I don't see any of the things I usually associate with NAS -- RAID configuration, backup, etc.
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?
Can you use the usb ports for external storage ? Or do you have the SATA connections on the board?
Thank you for this simple and clear video. My question is: Will FreeNAS be able to create a RAID if I put two identical hard disks in my computer?
I am also waiting the answer
Why not google it easily answered.
You could set the raid setup in the bios for 2 hdd and more.
Are you able to set up RAIDs with FreeNAS?
Good video !!
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?
Very good job.
God bless you
Thanks for very easy perceived information.
Thanks for sharing this video ... Your tutorial was simple, clear, good organized and really helpful ... I'll give you a BIG LIKE.
great, the entire explanation was very clear, thank you
Thanks the video was very informative. I managed to create the NAS, as instructed. The issue is, when creating pools, I am prompted to erase the disk. I don't want to do this. These are data drives I moved from a recent PC and I need the data. How can I get around this? Thanks and keep doing a great job.
Did u get around that problem?
@@George-mk7lp Did some reading. Yes, TrueNas will clean the drives before creating the pool, so I am the Noob here.
thanks, explained so simply
A video on connecting to it remotely would be good
Use openVPN to do that
Torogi Pro, I hope you still check in here now and then for I need help. I can't seem to get past making a bootable usb stick. After Rufas my ubs doesn't boot? Your tutorial here is awesome. I really want to get past this ubs business. My computer is gpt. I've tried both mbr and gpt but neither works. Any idea? They would be appreciated.
Random Question. Would this work on an android box of 2GB ram?
Thanks! Good tutorial. Does free as support raid? Thinking about doing that to An old raid1 machine.
Thanks so much for the tutorial, man! Appreciated!
I would consider two drives to be an absolute minimum for a NAS, and I would recommend at least four for proper redundancy. Ideally, these would be NAS-specific drives that are designed to withstand vibration from other nearby drives.
And then, you should make regular backups (one of which should be offsite) for that because redundancy is not backup. That doesn't necessarily mean you need another NAS, although that's ideal. If you can back everything up to a USB hard drive and then take that drive offsite, that's a decent option as well. Ideally, you would want two USB drives so you can regularly swap them out to make new backups. For my personal data, I keep one of the USB drives in my desk drawer at my office.
Daniel, First, how do you set up 2 NICs (assuming you are using two NIC cards) using FreeNAS? My second question: I have two 128GB SSDs (brand new) for having two root FreeNas drives (just for a bit of FreeNas redundancy). How do you set these two drives using the FreeNas installer? My third question: Once you set up your NAS, let's say you found some old drives with data that you want to add to your NAS server. Can you simply plug those drives into any available USB ports in that PC without reformating the drives and losing all your old data? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Daniel, any help is appreciated...Thnx
Nicely done, great video! Thanks!
When I saw this, I thought it must be a very old video. Now that there are so many built in features and apps which allow network discovery and sharing, I see very little reason to use an old tower as a NAS. (*Especially when it can do so while performing as a fully functional computer without installing new crap!) However, if you have a DEAD computer and wish to re-purpose the tower, consider buying a $29 raspberry pi compatible NAS module from someplace like SparkFun. Why? It's a very low power option. Your raspberry can initiate power to the desired connected drive when it is needed (as opposed to always on), all the data can be accessed over wifi and you can hide the pi anywhere you like, or you can connect it directly via ethernet to your router, if using ethernet and your router has PoE, then the Pi can be powered by the router (which makes sense, no router=no sharing anyway). Furthermore, you can set up your Pi to actually create a local area network if your router goes down so you can access your files even though you might not have internet.
Just curious, how many 4T HDDS can you connect to that raspberry?
Please make a UA-cam video if possible. Your idea is excellent.
Nice instructions! However I am using windows on both or more computers, then I click on "attach network drive" - I have additional storage.
map network drive network neighbourhood under options menu i believe microsoft keeps moving the important things lol
Just go into 'Turn Windows features on or off' , then expand 'Internet Information Services' and make sure the 'FTP Server' box is checked. On the client windows box do the same but instead go to the bottom of 'turn features on or off' and tick the TFTP Client box. Go to 'thisPC' (on client) in the file manager and right click , go to Add Network Location. In the text box enter, ftp://server-ip , last create a friendly name for the shortcut. Then you can either drag & drop to share in the GUI or access your files from CMD/Powershell/WSL with ftp terminal client . With linux this functionality is built into most file managers , food for thought.
@@DDBAA24 sftp is wiser option i did say there were many ways to do this
Same here, tried freenas and nas4free, didn't do well as you have to know how to configure and troubleshoot a Linux system. Currently I'm working with Win7 pro with shares visible to specific IP range and it's golden 24/7.
@@KooYu knowlege is power..take the time learn somthing configuring linux isnt impossible just requires access to google.. as for works 24/7 a microshaft os work.....define work i dont believe we expect the same things.. its pre backdoored on instilation..streaming government sponcered malware laden spying devicethat also expects you to generate them income with advertising ,,windows for directx gaming linux for anything else
Perfect!
How to increase the storage?
If this pc if OFF, possible to access?
nice video man!!!! i have a question, i want to put my media and my work as a graphic designer on it, but i have to leave it on all the time or i can turn it off?
Thank you, good work, What difference between FreeNAS and Synology NAS ?
Nice! Thanks! What's it the power consumption like?
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?
Hey, great video! Thank you! I am now going to research how to mirror data between two 4tb drives using this software.
7:06 CMOS fail, why did you skip over that? :D
Dead BIOS battery... But u can install and use an OS anyway. The problems come if u change some parameters on the bios and leave the machine without energy, that's results in a reset to defaults parameters bios. Anyway this is a extremely cheap problem to solve
Nice job!!! Subscribed.
i had an old pc setup as a NAS but my new router has usb3 so i purchased and attached an external HDD (NAS). i have another usb external HDD which backs up the one attached to the router. new technology makes obsolete equipment very obsolete.
Nice work bro! Could you pls share how to access the drive from Android phone using WiFi?
possibly by installing KODI or twonky
Fantastic! Just what I was looking for … except I have an old Dell that I have 2 1tb drives and a 500gb drive in. One of the 1tb drives has ALL of our music, pictures and videos on. Will I lose this converting it to a DNS? Thanks soooo much
Hello sir. Can i use this NAS Setup as CCTV Storage? Thanks.
thanks for the tutorial mate, been looking into home servers lately and ur vid definitely helped!
Is there anyway of sharing file using a li k on freenas ? For example like you would see in Dropbox or gdrive.
Great video 👌👌👌👌
What are the difference between FreeNAS and TrueNAS? Which one should I use? Thanks.
@Torogi Pro Great video, but I have a question, is there a way to access a drive outside of your local network? Thanks!
Great lesson.
What's the power consumption on your NAS device ?
4:55 How much Ram do you need? Do you only need 4 GB? Thanks for the great information. I learned a lot.
4GB is okay BUT is not RECOMMENDED. If you have more storage to install then you need more RAM because Freenas is using ZFS to setup the various RAIDs and it is really need some RAM to run smoothly. (also the CPU in order to operate between the CPU and RAM).
@airscrew1 Thanks for all your information.
wow , tq for the tips. .no need to buy separate NAS..
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?
good video...i am going to try this out because i am using an almost 10 yr old Lenovo NAS drive now which is worrying me and i refuse to pay $4-5 hundred dollars to replace it
Hi
thanks for the great tutorial
Is freenas now called truenas
what are the specs on the computer you are using
motherboard and processor
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!
Can you please share the R/W speed test demo results...
great great video. thank you so much for the excellent step by step guide.
explained it beautifully
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!