TrueNAS CORE Reviews

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.

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

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

The fact that TRUENAS uses ZFS as a base filesytems means that it includes a lot of great features out of the box

Being based on BSD means a lot of great things but unfortunately two major downsides:
1: the ecosystem is somewhat than for example Linux, meaning That there may not always be a convenient way to install the application you need

BSD is also stingy when it comes to hardware comptibility, meaning that you might have to do some research if you want to make sure your hardware is supported

What I liked most about TrueNAS scale was the ability to have a ZFS storage management solution and Hypervisor in one product. This made it an easy decision when choosing a server os for my homelab.

The lack of a GUI solution to k8 pod information. I also do not like that when saving a k8 config or updating the pod, will auto start if offline.

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.

While I'm accustomed to using the terminal, I welcome the in-browser graphical UI which anyone can use. Remote administration has never been easier for me and my colleagues, with even those unfamiliar with Linux being able to pick up on things very quickly due to the intuitive design. We deploy NAS and server solutions for clients which can be remotely accessed by us for easy maintenance and administration.

TrueNAS Scale is not as mature as TrueNAS Core, but I have experienced no stability issues thus far.

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.

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.

Does not require a lot of RAM to run this software.It does support Windows, macOS and Linux systems.Easy to set up.

Can't expand the storage.Does not come with WiFi support.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

what it does above and beyond what windows file sharing does

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.

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

We use TrueNAS to maximize the value of our existing datacenter hardware into new storage solutions. While there is a still a place for Nimble and 3Par, TrueNAS gives us the flexibility we need to create data pools from our un used physical inventory for staging, deployment, backup, or other various activities with the datacenter.

ZFS, is a core technology that I use to build flexible arrays. When we tested drive failures we found that we needed to plan for additional time in when resilvering the array. We found TrueNAS performance in this area to meet the standards we expect. For the uninitiated this could be undesirable.

Easy to setup/deploy. ZFS is a superior file system. SMB works great with Windows and integrates the snapshots with shadowcopies easily. Can even virtualize VM's on TrueNAS (provided you have enough CPU/RAM). Scalable!

There is nothing I like least about TrueNAS

Extremely feature rich out of the box, it's extremely stable, builds on top of the very stable ZFS & FreeBSD foundations.

Some weird quirks in the web UI, for example the terminal doesn't use the whole screen and can't be resized. Nothing deal breaking as I mostly just SSH into the server.

Good software, easy to use and undestand

all ok other than that i cant say anything