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TrueNAS CORE

Free, open storage operating system (OS) for enterprises

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TrueNAS CORE - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

TrueNAS CORE overview

What is 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 workloads.

Starting price

Alternatives

with better value for money

Pros & Cons

iSCSI

Storage

Hardware Support

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User Interface

TrueNAS CORE’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.8

(53)

TrueNAS CORE pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

3-4(9)

5(44)

What do users say about TrueNAS CORE?

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.

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Who uses TrueNAS CORE?

Based on 53 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services

Computer & Network Security

Computer Software

Photography

Others

Use cases

Backup

TrueNAS CORE's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from TrueNAS CORE users:

Backup scheduling

4.9

(31)

Compression

3.5

(2)

Local Server Options

4.6

(8)

Cloud backup

4.1

(29)

All TrueNAS CORE features

Features rating:

4.7

(53)

Activity dashboard

3.5

(2)

Activity tracking

2.0

(1)

Backup and recovery

4.9

(37)

Backup scheduling

4.9

(31)

Cloud backup

4.1

(29)

Compression

3.5

(2)

Data recovery

4.6

(30)

Data replication

4.5

(10)

Data storage management

4.8

(29)

Disaster recovery

4.6

(31)

Local Server Options

4.6

(8)

Remote access/control

4.5

(2)

Remote Server Options

4.5

(2)

Reporting & statistics

2.0

(1)

Two-Factor authentication

4.5

(15)

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Value for Money

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Ease of Use

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Value for Money

4.7

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TrueNAS CORE pricing

Value for money rating:

4.9

(53)

Starting from

Free

Pricing details

Subscription

Free trial

Free plan

Pricing range

User opinions about TrueNAS CORE price and value

Value for money rating:

4.9

(53)

To see what individual users think of TrueNAS CORE's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“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!”

Ajay S.

Student

“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. ”

Brian O.

Sr. Linux System Administrator

TrueNAS CORE integrations (4)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 53 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as TrueNAS CORE integrations and how users feel about them.

Nextcloud

Integration rating: 4.5 (2)

“I tag the trailer videofile inside the nextcloud universe, and I implement a little magic, so a few seconds later you see the file inside xibo. And vice verca.”

Martin S.

Systemadminstrator