r/freenas is a subreddit with 44k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses freenas, truenas, true, pool, and zfs, and they frequently recommend/review backup solutions.
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Popular Themes in r/freenas
#1
Pain & Anger
: "System shuts down while trying to boot the installer from a thumb drive. This thumb drive works perfectly fine on to other systems and this particular system can install any other lyrics distribution just fine as well. System is able to run rocky full load so I know it’s not power."
40 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Is there a way to do this ?"
30 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "How Necessary is ECC?"
28 posts
Popular Topics in r/freenas
#1
Freenas
: "New to Freenas, stuck during setup."
20 posts
#2
Truenas
: "The r/freenas community has moved to r/Truenas!"
14 posts
#3
True
: "ZFS on Unraid - Setting up a TrueNAS VM - PT1"
11 posts
#4
Pool
: "Error while attempting to replace a device int he boot Pool"
7 posts
#5
Zfs
: ""Tiered" Storage Capabilities? (I know Zfs doesn't natively do it)"
6 posts
#6
Raid
: "FreeNas for ISCSI and File Server. 10X 4TB Drives, Raid Z2 or Raid 10?"
5 posts
#7
Backup
: "How do you Backup TrueNAS DATA to another server that is not ZFS"
5 posts
#8
Server
: "Same day I added 10 disks to a newly built system, device is removed"
5 posts
#9
Hardware
: "New install on new Hardware except 4 older disks. Every time I run a scrub, I get a single checksum error on all 8 disks. 4 disks are on one HBA, 4 are on another. ECC RAM. What can cause this?"
5 posts
#10
Setup
: "Creating a stripe of mirrors"
4 posts
Products Discussed in r/freenas
Backup Solutions
5 reviews
#1
Google Business account
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Google Drive
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Syncthing
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/freenas
#1
Question
: "If I have FreeNAS create periodic snapshots and I'm attacked by ransomware, can the snapshots reverse the damage, or are the snapshots themselves held for ransom?"
57 posts
#2
Tech Support
: "System shuts down while trying to boot the installer from a thumb drive. This thumb drive works perfectly fine on to other systems and this particular system can install any other lyrics distribution just fine as well. System is able to run rocky full load so I know it’s not power."
18 posts
#3
Solved
: "Is there a way to do this ?"
8 posts
#4
Help
: "I screwed up badly, tried to modify /etc/fstab to add a NFS ended up with empty fstab."
8 posts
#5
iXsystems Replied
: "r/freenas is moving to r/truenas"
1 post
#6
SpeedTest
: "TrueNAS Network Performance Test using OpenSpeedTest Server 2.1 (Optimised for 10GbE)"
1 post
#7
iXsystems Replied x2
: "Migrating to r/truenas in One Month"
1 post
#8
Official iXsystems
: "Join us over on r/TrueNAS and say "Hello"!"
1 post
#9
HelpiXsystems Replied x4
: ""pkg update" in jails always running at 8.2kB/s, taking hours to update anything"
1 post
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+117 members(0.3%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026