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."
20 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Is there a way to do this ?"
11 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "How Necessary is ECC?"
9 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
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
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
: "Does anyone else have this issue with the height of the jails window? I have tried resizing the window but no luck."
47 posts
#2
Tech Support
: "Hiding unused NICs on the dashboard"
17 posts
#3
Help
: "I screwed up badly, tried to modify /etc/fstab to add a NFS ended up with empty fstab."
11 posts
#4
Solved
: "After you fix that memory leak 😩"
8 posts
#5
iXsystems Replied
: "Preview of Application Catalog Coming in TrueNAS SCALE 21.04"
2 posts
#6
Official iXsystems
: "TrueNAS 12.0-U3 is now available for download!"
2 posts
#7
iXsystems Replied x2
: "TrueNAS SCALE 21.06-BETA now available!"
2 posts
#8
update news
: "OH MY GOD CHEAP 2.5G ETHERNET IS FINALLY SUPPORTED"
1 post
#9
Story to learn by
: "Here's a little story about a piece of technology that's overlooked"
1 post
#10
SpeedTest
: "TrueNAS Network Performance Test using OpenSpeedTest Server 2.1 (Optimised for 10GbE)"
1 post
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+39 members(0.1%)
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Last updated: June 16, 2026