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iXsystems, Inc.
Company blog · ixsystems.com/blogsystemshardware
iXsystems, Inc. is the company blog at ixsystems.com, writing about systems and hardware. Since 2011, 56 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Since 2002, iXsystems Inc. -- now doing business as TrueNAS -- has been working towards creating the worlds most trusted Open Enterprise Storage Platform to
Most-linked posts?
- /freenas-mini/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-08-25
- /storage/freenas/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-02
- Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-28
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-23
- FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard leaves Apple to join iXsystems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-27
- Starting Our Next Open Source Project – TrueNAS Scale (Linux Based)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
- To SLOG or Not to SLOG: How to Best Configure Your ZFS Intent Log2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-23
- FreeNAS Mini XL 8-bay NAS Released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-04
- Visualizing ZFS Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-04
- FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-05
What Hacker News says?
I'm not sure if this fits your use case, but it's what I plan on ordering soon https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/#buyawesomefreenasmin...
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on “Helm: Personal Email Server”Submitted FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying as a story · 221 points
HN discussionI also like both FreeBSD and Debian (have no real experience with the others). But on performance it varies a lot by workload. To take two examples: over the years at any given point in time, FreeBSD has had a better networking stack than Linux, but worse scalability to large numbers of cores. Though there is some ongoing sponsored work on the latter [1,2]. [1] http://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/freebsd-foundation-a…
Comment linking /whats-new/freebsd-foundation-and-ixsystems-collaborate-to-further-the-cause-of-high-performance-computing-on-freebsd/
on “"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"”Submitted OpenZFS vs. Btrfs and other file systems (2017) as a story · 165 points
HN discussionI highly recommned this: https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ You get FreeNas on good hardware by people who know what they are doing. I have been running this for years and I have no complaints exept that the 8 slot variant did not exists when I bought mine.
Comment linking /freenas-mini/
on “WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities”Submitted FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard leaves Apple to join iXsystems as a story · 14 points
HN discussionYou don't have to do it yourself. Why not just buy one of these: https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ I have won and its pretty awesome, running for years, have replaced the disks multible times by now. Its very upgradable as well, you can put in more ram, caches and so on. Open Hardware is pretty much a no-go at the moment, but iXSystems does support a lot of Open Source. I would recommend this setup above any o…
Comment linking /freenas-mini/
on “WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities”Submitted Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFreeNAS + voidlinux nuc running grafana + prometheus. Tbh I run hot and cold about self hosting since after work, I really really want to be able relax at home. Not wonder why the hell my nuc hasn't come up after a reboot. Or why is it so hard to increase the disk space on my FreeNAS https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/upgrading-storag...
Comment linking /community/threads/upgrading-storage.79357/
on “Ask HN: What do you self-host?”Submitted FreeNAS Is Coming to Linux as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> but it's not contributing back and it doesn't have much influence. I understand the former. But with how Apple operates, it's really hard to believe they'd pull downstream from something they don't have some kind of soft power over. They do still pull downstream AFAIK? Maybe that's changed? >Ix systems I did some reading and saw a FreeBSD contributor ended up going to Apple until 2013 before he founded this compan…
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on “A year of funded FreeBSD development”Submitted Starting Our Next Open Source Project – TrueNAS Scale (Linux Based) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTrueNAS (was FreeNAS) is pretty decent: https://www.ixsystems.com/truenas Also, it's Open Source.
Comment linking /truenas
on “Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store”Submitted Fast Dedup Is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"There is no less information about BSD than "Linux", it is simply that BSD has no advertisement or companies behind pushing it.." Which is ironic since huge companies like netflix, sony, citrix, netapp and others make appliances based on FreeBSD and contribute a ton of code (Note, i am not at all disagreeing with your statement, i just find it ironic). IX Systems does push behind it a lot and does advertise it: htt…
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on “FreeBSD 12.0 is now available”Submitted TrueNAS 12.0 Is Released as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere is a list of known SMR drives [1]. The newer WD##EFAX ones are SMR but if your drive is a few years old then it's probably a WD40EFRX which is NOT a SMR drive. [1] https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-of-known-...
Comment linking /community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/
on “On WD Red NAS Drives”Submitted The first version of TrueNAS SCALE (FreeNAS for Linux) released as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOr indeed PC-BSD. (-: PC-BSD's installer understands ZFS. It creates an all-ZFS system, including the root volume. The boot manager uses ZFS for "boot environments". * http://download.pcbsd.org/iso/10.2-RELEASE/amd64/docs/html/i... * https://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/2013/10/31/the-revamped-... * https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/
Comment linking /whats-new/2013/10/31/the-revamped-life-preserver/
on “ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04”Submitted iXSystems Migrating FreeNAS to Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOoh, these FreeNAS boxes for the home are very nice: https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ When I built my home NAS there wasn't an off the shelf FreeNAS option and it was definitely a "research all the things, build your own system" with the huge caveat of "Did you put enough RAM in that?". The 8-bay one is particularly good value, rivalling similar systems by QNAP, and I personally do have a QNAP and if I were t…
Comment linking /freenas-mini/
on “FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System”Submitted OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Report as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Hardlocking when removing ZIL You cannot remove the ZIL, it's an integral part of ZFS. I assume you mean a SLOG[1]. That said, do you have an issue link? I'm curious. I know people have had some issues with importing pools with a bad or missing SLOG device, though most couldn't be reproduced. [1]: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/o-slog-not-slog-best-configur...
Comment linking /blog/o-slog-not-slog-best-configure-zfs-intent-log/
on “ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon”Submitted OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI ran into similar problems with my custom built FreeNAS too. It's still a great setup, but more work than I would like. When my server eventually dies, I'll probably replace it with one of the official FreeNAS Minis. https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/
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on “FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying”Submitted Visualizing ZFS Performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI will just share my experience with a usb stick. I have used a usb stick (SanDisk Ultra Fit) for the Freenas O.S.. That drive died in 6 months (24/7). In general Freenas suggests to use 2 mirrored, quality, name-brand USB drives as they can `wear out or fail unexpectedly`[1]. They not suggest USB drives for data storage and I never tried. [1] https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.3-U4/intr...
Comment linking /documentation/freenas/11.3-U4/intro.html
on “Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB”Submitted To SLOG or Not to SLOG: How to Best Configure Your ZFS Intent Log as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ ? but I think they've been using it for quite some time.
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on “A straight talk about btrfs”Submitted Open ZFS vs. Btrfs – and other file systems as a story · 3 points
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