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Ajay
Verified reviewer
Computer & Network Security, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Tried, true, and tested by the community! TrueNAS CORE!
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.
PROSI 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.
CONSI 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.
Reason for choosing TrueNAS CORE
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.
Robert
Construction, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2022
TrueNAS Core, truly a great place to start your companies storage.
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.
PROSIt 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.
CONSThe 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.
Reason for choosing TrueNAS CORE
Unfortunately this time around we had already ordered a Synology Device. Going forward we will be choosing TrueNAS. We did not learn about their awesome support options until AFTER the synology had already been ordered. It was not returnable either.
Jesus
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2022
I just wrote this because they made me
negative
PROSI 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.
CONSBad hardware compatibility and I need 40 characters.
Reason for choosing TrueNAS CORE
I didn't
Bruno
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2022
Excellence in Network Storage
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.
PROS- High Availability - Storage Management - Access Policy Management - Detailed Statistics of the Managed Storage
CONS- 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)
Reason for choosing TrueNAS CORE
User Friendly. High Availability. Centralized Backups with 3-2-1 schemas. Pricing
Steven
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Fantastic Solution for both Enterprise and Homelab
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend TrueNAS to anyone.
PROSDashboard is great, and the layout is better than some of their competitors.
CONSThe 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.
Reason for choosing TrueNAS CORE
I had used FreeNAS in the past, and I like to support companies that are pushing FOSS.