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TrueNAS CORE

Free, open storage operating system (OS) for enterprises

Last updated: October 2024

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TrueNAS CORE - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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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 from

Free

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TrueNAS CORE's key features

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

Backup and Recovery

4.9

(37)

Encryption

4.7

(27)

Cloud Backup

4.1

(29)

Disaster Recovery

4.6

(31)

Data Storage Management

4.8

(29)

Backup Scheduling

4.9

(31)

All TrueNAS CORE features

Features rating:

4.7

(53)

Activity Dashboard

3.5

(2)

Activity Tracking

2.0

(1)

Data Recovery

4.6

(30)

Remote Server Options

4.5

(2)

Reporting & Statistics

2.0

(1)

Data Replication

4.5

(10)

Local Server Options

4.6

(8)

Compression

3.5

(2)

Remote Access/Control

4.5

(2)

Two-Factor Authentication

4.5

(15)

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TrueNAS CORE

4.8

(53)

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Free

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Free version

Ease of Use

4.4

Features

4.7

Value for Money

4.9

Customer Support

4.5

IDrive

4.6

(1.1K)

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Starting from

2.95

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.5

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.7

Customer Support

4.5

Dropbox Backup

4.3

(25)

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Starting from

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.3

Features

4.1

Value for Money

3.7

Customer Support

3.8

Comet Backup

4.7

(60)

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Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.4

Features

4.4

Value for Money

4.7

Customer Support

4.5

TrueNAS CORE pricing

Value for money:

4.9

Starting from

Free

Pricing details

Subscription

Free trial

Free plan

Pricing range

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TrueNAS CORE integrations (4)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 53 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as TrueNAS CORE integrations, and what is the users perception.

vCenter Server

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

“This controls all our vsphere servers and our datastores on the truenas core servers. ”

Robert Anderson

System Administrator

vSphere

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

“This is where all of our VMs run and they also connect back to vcenter to the truenas for storage and backups. ”

Robert Anderson

System Administrator

Other top integrations

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Flaneer

TrueNAS CORE support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

TrueNAS CORE reviews

Overall rating

4.8

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend9.27/10

Rating distribution

Pros

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

Bart W.

Rust Engineer

I love how easy it is to manage everything in one place. I love being able to run containers and VMs on the same system and assign their data and permissions easily.

Kevin H.

Cloud Engineer

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

Steven B.

CEO

Cons

Bad hardware compatibility and I need 40 characters.

Jesus H.

Software Engineer

There are some hypervisor functionally currently missing that might get added in the future.

Kevin H.

Cloud Engineer

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.

Pam K.

Sysadmin

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