Syncthing on FreeNAS Setup Video | Graphite & FreeNAS | 36TB FreeNAS Build | Issue #29

Hello FreeNAS Users, It's our first newsletter of the year and we're starting out with a bang. In case you haven't entered yet, the FreeNAS logo contest is still open. Also in this edition, we have a few tutorials, reviews, and a FreeNAS build to share. Here's to a new year with fresh opportunities. Cheers, The FreeNAS Team FreeNAS Logo Contest The FreeNAS Logo Contest is still accepting submissions. One winner will receive a cash prize or a FreeNAS Mini. The winning logo will be seen by millions of people around the world in all of our highly-visible branding efforts including the website, the GUI, and this very newsletter. Act soon, the contest ends January 20th. Read more >> How to Set Up Syncthing on FreeNAS Syncthing is an Open Source file-syncing application that enables you to share folders and files across multiple devices. Check out this user-created tutorial video to learn how to set up the program on your FreeNAS system. Watch now >> Using Graphite with FreeNAS Graphite is a real-time graphing system you can use to track custom metrics on FreeNAS using a webUI. This helpful tutorial from FreeNAS user, Chris H., demonstrates how to set up Graphite on FreeNAS. Read more >> 36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build John R. shared an excellent, in-depth writeup of his FreeNAS hardware build featuring 6 x 6TB drives in a RAIDZ2 configuration with 32GB ECC RAM. His article details the full list of specs and parts he used in his build and a detailed explanation of his burn-in process. Check it out >> FreeNAS Mini Review - Darville IT Jamie Darville recently reviewed our FreeNAS Mini and gave it high marks. After running the Mini through several performance tests, he concluded, "In the 4-6 bay prebuilt NAS market, there are a lot of options now, Thecus, QNap, Buffalo, Synology and various other brands. I have tried several of these other options and can honestly say, performance-wise, they do not come close." Read more >> December #MissionComplete Stories The best #MissionComplete story for December has been chosen! Congratulations to Dave G. who received a $100 Amazon gift card and a FreeNAS t-shirt. "FreeNAS is the #1 OS for SAN and Storage bar none!" Has FreeNAS, TrueNAS, OpenZFS, or iXsystems hardware ever helped you complete a mission? Tell us your story! 6 Reasons Why TrueNAS is replacing NetApp and EMC - Free Webinar We invite you to join Matt Olander, Co-Founder and CSO of iXsystems, in a free webinar about TrueNAS. Find out why people are making the switch from big-name, legacy storage vendors to TrueNAS. Read more >> FreeNAS Certification Classes We offer a free Intro to FreeNAS class that runs every day. For those of you interested in learning more about advanced topics, we also offer paid, fully interactive classes. Read more >> Live Events January 21-24, 2016 - SCALE 14x in Pasadena, CA April 23-24, 2016 - LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA TechTip #25 Want to see your disk performace in real time? Open the Shell from the left menu and type 'gstat' to see your color-coded disk activity. 'gstat -a' will only show the active disks. Join the Team iXsystems, the company that sponsors FreeNAS, is looking for a few good people to join our team. Interested? The full list of available positions can be found on our website. Links of the Month BSD for the desktop user: A review of PC-BSD via Opensource.com Episode 123: ZFS in the trenches via BSD Now FreeNAS Mini Review via The Ill-Tempered Audiophool Faces of FreeBSD: Erin Clark via The FreeBSD Foundation © 2016 iXsystems, Inc. | 2490 Kruse Drive San Jose, California 95131 United States iXsystems proudly sponsors the development of FreeNAS. If you're thinking about using FreeNAS in an enterprise environment, why not send us a quote request? All purchases help support the developers of FreeNAS, allowing us to add more features and improvements to the project. Unsubscribe | Change Subscriber Options