Author Archives: Mitchell

pfSense – What it is?

Tweet What is pfSense? “pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and … Continue reading

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ZFS File Server – Harddrive Upgrade

Tweet The server was purchased with 5 x 1.5TB drives.  4 of which are Western Digital Green drives and the other was a Seagate 7200rpm drive.  In order to make sure the Seagate drive won’t cause a problem later, I … Continue reading

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ZFS File Server – Memory Problems

Tweet After booting the server an error was displayed that two of the memory modules had failed the memory test and I could press F1 to continue.  I continued to install Freenas and didn’t think much of it.  The available … Continue reading

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