TrueNAS CORE 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

TrueNAS CORE

4.8

(53)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About TrueNAS CORE

TrueNAS, the world's most deployed storage software, is a universal data platform that allows users to easily adopt a modern, open source approach to store and protect their growing data. TrueNAS harnesses the power of the legendary ZFS file system to provide unified storage (File, Block Object, and Apps) with the reliability and performance demanded by virtualization, backup, and many other data-heavy needs for your organization.

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TrueNAS CORE Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

TrueNAS CORE Features

Popular features found in Backup
Backup Log
Backup Scheduling
Cloud Backup
Compression
Continuous Backup
Incremental Backup
Local Server Options
More features of TrueNAS CORE
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Backup and Recovery
Data Recovery
Data Replication
Data Storage Management
Disaster Recovery
Remote Access/Control
Remote Server Options
Reporting & Statistics
Two-Factor Authentication

TrueNAS CORE User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

83%

15%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.7

Brendon C.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Best bang for the buck

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

TrueNAS CORE's wide hardware compatibility make it relatively simple to build a system much more powerful than the NAS appliances from Synology or QNAP by reusing parts laying around in the parts box.

Cons:

ZFS file system cannot grow a volume like Synology's Btrfs can, by simply adding a drive. This requires more planning.

Marcin K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

BSD-based WebUI-using storage appliance

Basically fulfills all its core goals pretty well, can be had for free for own deployments or can be a paid solution for supported enterprise/business customers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

ZFS has been implemeted great - its stable and performant in the BSD variant (Core), but it has issues in its linux based variant (Scale) due to how ZFS dataset is used as storage filesystem for Docker/Kubernetes functionalities. It's also rather resource prudent.

Cons:

It is BSD-based in the Core guise, so any BSD issues or support apply here as well. In its linux-based variant (Scale), the ZFS datatset for applications results in thousands of snapshots reported in the UI, due to each layer of each container in use, plus a history of those for rollbacking purposes is saved and shown without any useful filtering option in the snapshots pane/page of the UI and by extension in the CLI. By default, SMB/NFS shares do not expose snapshots of the filesystem in the shares for ease of data recovery upon accidental deletes etc.

Reasons for choosing TrueNAS CORE

Scale was still in very alphs atges and was unusable at the time, and Qnap costed more and still used MD-ADM under the hood so potential rebuild of the array would be hours/days long.

Reasons for switching to TrueNAS CORE

OMV was using MD-RAID which meant lengthy array rebuilds.

M S.

Verified reviewer

Retail

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

TrueNAS review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Really good NAS OS, have the control over everything. ZFS pool is great for our usage and the capabilities of creating docker within TrueNAS is a plus

Cons:

Can be hard to understand how TrueNAS works at the beginning. You have to prepare yourself before starring with it

Nicholas F.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

In the past 8 years I have deployed dozens of systems running FreeNAS and TrueNAS core. With the use of periodic SMART test schedules, ZFS scrubs, built in alerting, TrueCommand monitoring, and a whole host of maturity in the ZFS filesystem itself, I have never lost data because of a flaw in the product. It does exactly what it is designed to do, stops you from making poor decisions and keeps your data safe and uncorrupted.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have used TrueNAS to solve a host of issues. We use TrueNAS as an iSCSI target for workloads such as video surveillance and VDI. For this workload we have been able to bring new life to existing hardware we already own in order to extend it's useful life longer than we otherwise would be able to. TrueNAS, both CORE and SCALE, have a wide breadth of hardware support. This is something becoming decreasingly common, with major hypervisor players end-of-lifing hardware long before it's useful life has ended. We also use TrueNAS for it's filesharing capabilities. With immutable snapshots and replication, we are able to have warm backups on multiple hardware nodes for important datasets. This is an very easily implemented layer in our backup and DR policies. TrueNAS leverages ZFS which is a COW file system, making snapshots simple and TrueNAS layers on an easy to expose Volume Shadow Copy feature in Windows.

Cons:

ZFS's implementation of deduplication leaves alot to be desired. TrueNAS CORE and SCALE do not natively support Fibre Channel. TrueNAS SCALE's UI for managing VMs needs maturity and improvement. TrueNAS SCALE's hypervisor needs clustering, HA and "DRS" like feature sets to be competitive at "scale".

Andy L.

Verified reviewer

Photography

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

Powerful NAS but simple to manage

Very happy with my TrueNAS setup. The only down time has been a major powercut!Day to day the system is "invisible" - it just works and I feel confident my data is safe.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Open source software that is designed to do the job whilst making it easy to install and maintain. Prior to installing this software I had no experience of setting up a NAS system. The extra ability to run VMs with in it makes it ever better.

Cons:

Very little to dislike. TrueNAS core is based on FreeBSD, which is a little different to the Linux which I am very comfortable with but in day to day use it makes no difference.

Pam K.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Biggest Bang for Buck for Branch AND Home Office

We have been using a SAN/NAS since the early 2000's, and had been a Left Hand Networks fan, until they were bought out by HPE. The quality of HPE software declined in subsequent versions, until HPE removed all LHN technology from their products completely. TrueNAS Core is going back to the roots of how a SAN/NAS is supposed to be managed. We will never go back to HPE's bloated, over processed, non-private offerings, thanks to TrueNAS.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Learning how to navigate the menu selections took considerably less time than competing companies (HPE specifically).

Cons:

The more difficult issue we have come across is losing the IP address of the iSCSI connection on cold restart (power loss from storms), otherwise it's been a solid product.

Reasons for choosing TrueNAS CORE

Pricing, Quality, Support.

Reasons for switching to TrueNAS CORE

Pricing, quality, support.

Patrick M.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

TrueNAS Core For Pros and corporate users.

The benefits from running TrueNAS are the ability to scale, implement and recover data. Ease of use and the maintainability of the software makes TrueNAS a no brainer.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, scalability and the ease with which we can customize a solution for each customer.

Cons:

Is there really something I don't like? No, there is nothing I do not like about TrueNAS.

Verified

Reviewer

Utilities

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Truenas Core (and SCALE)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Nice UI, reasonably easy to set up once you have the appropriate hardware.

Cons:

Restrictive hardware requirements, but there is a good reason for this. It is well worth complying with the recommended system requirements.

Reasons for choosing TrueNAS CORE

Performance, cost, flexibility

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Hardware

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

TrueNAS for the home user

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

easy to setup and use. Will help any unexperienced home user to set up a nice productive server. One that can be adapted to any file sharing for any home use

Cons:

what it does above and beyond what windows file sharing does