--- title: "TrueNAS CORE Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of TrueNAS CORE Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/truenas-core-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [File Sync Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sync/) / TrueNAS CORE Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/truenas-core-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/truenas-core-profile/alternatives/) # TrueNAS CORE Review Custom quote Free version 1 plan Wondering if TrueNAS CORE is right for your organization? Our File Sync Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview TrueNAS CORE 4.8 [(53)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/truenas-core-profile/reviews/) 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. Do you work for TrueNAS CORE? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/truenas-core/claim_requests/new?auto=true) Wondering if TrueNAS CORE is right for your organization? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## TrueNAS CORE Features - Popular features found in File Sync Backup and Recovery Conflict Tracking Real Time Synchronization Remote Synchronization Synchronization Scheduling Two-Way Synchronization - More features of TrueNAS CORE Activity Dashboard Activity Tracking Backup Scheduling Cloud Backup Compression Data Recovery Data Replication Data Storage Management Disaster Recovery Encryption Local Server Options Remote Access/Control Remote Server Options Reporting & Statistics Two-Factor Authentication ## TrueNAS CORE User Reviews ## TrueNAS CORE customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 53 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 44 reviews (83%) - 4 stars: 8 reviews (15%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 4.9/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.7/5 --- ### Best bang for the buck - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brendon C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### \ - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nicholas F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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". --- ### BSD-based WebUI-using storage appliance - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Marcin K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Powerful NAS but simple to manage - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andy L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Biggest Bang for Buck for Branch AND Home Office - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Pam K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Defense & Space - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### TrueNAS Core For Pros and corporate users. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Patrick M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Great inexpensive option for backups for a small company. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: James H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros TrueNAS Core was extremely easy for us to integrate into our company, we managed to get our limited truenas servers up and running within a single day, and within a couple of weeks we were backing up our customers crucial data. A few things that made this process really easy for us was the supported file sharing protocols such as NFS and SFTP which gives us ease of access from our clients servers, and gives our clients easy access to their backups, additionally the built in rsync server made it very easy for us to automate backups for all of our clients in a very short timeframe. #### Cons For us, the main drawback of TrueNAS is that it is lacking a built in software firewall, in our client infrastructure's, which are mostly based on cloud providers such as OVH, private networking isn't always available which can make TrueNAS insecure and therefor in these environments we're unable to use it. --- ### Truenas Core (and SCALE) - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Utilities - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### TrueNAS for the home user - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### ftw - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Miran H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Printing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered all ok #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Good software, easy to use and undestand #### Cons all ok other than that i cant say anything --- Showing 1 - 10 of 53 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/truenas-core-profile/reviews/) ## TrueNAS CORE Popular Comparisons [IDrive vs TrueNAS CORE](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/idrive-profile/vs/truenas-core/)[Salesforce Backup vs TrueNAS CORE](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/salesforce-backup-profile/vs/truenas-core/)[Cove Data Protection vs TrueNAS CORE](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/solarwinds-backup-profile/vs/truenas-core/)[NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs TrueNAS CORE](https://www.softwareadvice.com/server-backup/nakivo-backup-and-replication-profile/vs/truenas-core/)[MSP360 Backup vs TrueNAS CORE](https://www.softwareadvice.com/disaster-recovery/msp360-backup-profile/vs/truenas-core/)[Comet Backup vs TrueNAS CORE](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-machine/comet-backup-profile/vs/truenas-core/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/truenas-core-profile/alternatives/) ## Other Top Recommended File Sync Software [Contentverse](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/contentverse-profile/) **4.1** (19) Recently recommended **4** times [Dropbox](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/dropbox-profile/) **4.5** (21715) Recently recommended **0** times [Google Workspace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/google-workspace-profile/) **4.7** (17717) Recently recommended **0** times [Progress ShareFile](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/sharefile-profile/) **4.4** (442) Recently recommended **0** times Stuck Between Options? 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