Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Welcome to DIY Tryin, a brand-new show about do-it-yourself solutions and maker culture from the Tekzilla team! Here on DIY Tryin, we live by the motto; "Why buy when you can make?"

Got an old PC? Install FreeNAS and you'll have a bomproof box to serve your media files and back up your computers... on this episode of DIYTryin, we should you how build a FreeNAS, the tricks behind configuring it, and explain why using FreeNAS's ZFS will save your data if one your hard drives dies!

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