I also have nothing bad to say about TrueNAS CORE. As a community-driven, FOSS, ZFS supporting storage and backup solution (though RAID is not a backup), iXsystems has done a great job in educating me in the ways of NAS/SAN solutions and boy do I appreciate them for it! TrueNAS is great tool for redundancy for when I accidentally mess something up in the development environment, I have a system I can rely on to restore my mismanaged files. It has actually helped me while getting hacked as I took it offline to prevent any further damage to my data. My scope is fairly limited, as I am expanding my network for future scalability. I am directly addressing the business problem of needing a backup solution (though NAS/SAN are not necessarily backup solutions) while expanding my storage capabilities. The proprietary setup used by Unraid was also another barrier to my entry, as I prefered to support, the newly established TrueNAS philosophy of FOSS.

I also have nothing bad to say about TrueNAS CORE. As a community-driven, FOSS, ZFS supporting storage and backup solution (though RAID is not a backup), iXsystems has done a great job in educating me in the ways of NAS/SAN solutions and boy do I appreciate them for it! TrueNAS is great tool for redundancy for when I accidentally mess something up in the development environment, I have a system I can rely on to restore my mismanaged files. It has actually helped me while getting hacked as I took it offline to prevent any further damage to my data. My scope is fairly limited, as I am expanding my network for future scalability. I am directly addressing the business problem of needing a backup solution (though NAS/SAN are not necessarily backup solutions) while expanding my storage capabilities. The proprietary setup used by Unraid was also another barrier to my entry, as I prefered to support, the newly established TrueNAS philosophy of FOSS.

I also have nothing bad to say about TrueNAS CORE. As a community-driven, FOSS, ZFS supporting storage and backup solution (though RAID is not a backup), iXsystems has done a great job in educating me in the ways of NAS/SAN solutions and boy do I appreciate them for it! TrueNAS is great tool for redundancy for when I accidentally mess something up in the development environment, I have a system I can rely on to restore my mismanaged files. It has actually helped me while getting hacked as I took it offline to prevent any further damage to my data. My scope is fairly limited, as I am expanding my network for future scalability. I am directly addressing the business problem of needing a backup solution (though NAS/SAN are not necessarily backup solutions) while expanding my storage capabilities. The proprietary setup used by Unraid was also another barrier to my entry, as I prefered to support, the newly established TrueNAS philosophy of FOSS.

It helped me in using an old server at work to make a new datastore and NFS archive. I was able to move everything to it as we replaced our old synology server. This made it so that our users didn't even realize I was doing this in the middle of the day. This also saved our company alot of money on overtime.

It was easy to use, the software is free. You can set it up on many different types of hardware. It does not use / require an actual raid cared. the ZFS file system is amazing and fast / pact with features. You can run VM's on this software provided you have the RAM / Storage. It runs plugins that behave like docker apps like GUAC. One of the most important features for me was the availability of a DARK MODE. Your eyes will thank you so much.

The networking setup if not using DHCP was a bit finicky but not difficult. You have to wrap your head around the fact that it does not use a RAID card. Do NOT use RAID for this software. The software manages all of that directly. Make sure you have a good UPS and you'll be golden.

negative

I didn't like it. While it had all the features I needed I ran into many many hardware compatibility issues. Such as network cards not being detected.

Bad hardware compatibility and I need 40 characters.

TrueNAS has bringed its experience to the storage technology. We used it on the past has a simple NAS system. But today we are planning on our project to use it as a SAN for all our servers.The flip-over was done because it's simplicity on management, the easyness to configure high availability, and the support excellence that is provided to us.We consider TrueNAS has a an indispensable partner for our daily business.

- High Availability - Storage Management - Access Policy Management - Detailed Statistics of the Managed Storage

- Integration with Hyper-V (if it already exists, I didn't found it) - A WHMCs module to connect with the API - File Change Backup (like do a backup of every file change)

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend TrueNAS to anyone.

Dashboard is great, and the layout is better than some of their competitors.

The HA implementation isn't as user-friendly. Before really hashing everything out and learning the qwerks, I had a lot of issues with a two-node pair losing sync. I think this has been fixed in the latest releases, though.