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."
25 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Is there a way to do this ?"
14 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "How Necessary is ECC?"
11 posts
Popular Topics in r/freenas
#1
Freenas
20 posts
#2
Truenas
: "The r/freenas community has moved to r/Truenas!"
14 posts
#3
True
11 posts
#4
Pool
: "Trouble importing Pool after hardware failures"
7 posts
#5
Zfs
: "Are Zfs snapshots full backups of your freenas server?"
6 posts
#6
Raid
5 posts
#7
Backup
: "Are ZFS snapshots full Backups of your freenas server?"
5 posts
#8
Server
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
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
: "How Necessary is ECC?"
25 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."
12 posts
#3
Help
: "My First Freenas Effort. Would someone please make recommendation for HBA Card?"
4 posts
#4
Solved
: "Is there a way to do this ?"
2 posts
#5
iXsystems Replied x2
: "Migrating to r/truenas in One Month"
1 post
#6
Official iXsystems
: "Join us over on r/TrueNAS and say "Hello"!"
1 post
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Yearly
+195 members(0.4%)
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Last updated: October 2, 2026