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TrueNAS CORE is an open storage OS designed to help enterprises manage, store, and share data across the network. Built on an OpenZFS file system, the system allows businesses to facilitate block, object, file, and application storage on cloud or on-premise environments.

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Rust Engineer

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

Cloud 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.

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

Senior Network & Cyber Security Administrator

It does everything including SMB, NFS, iSCSI - all of which I have used with great results. I have never had an issue with it, and it has been very stable even during upgrades, and migrations.

Senior Systems Analyst

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 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.

Software Engineer 

Bad hardware compatibility and I need 40 characters.

Very good integration with Microsoft Active Directory.

Worship Pastor | Global Production Director

The great community plugins and ability to run multiple VMS.

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

Sr Centralized Services Manager

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).

Director

Great inexpensive option for backups for a small company.

Sysadmin

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.

System Administrator

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.

Beekeeper

The software is a little demanding as far as computer memory.

Huge community to help setup and troubleshoot.

iCloud

Debian

Windows 10

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Very happy with my TrueNAS setup. The only down time has been a major powercut!Day to day the system is "invisible" - it just works and I feel confident my data is safe.

Powerful NAS but simple to manage

I have the flexibility to run multiple VMs and add more RAM.The upgrade from FreeNAS to TrueNAS CORE is free.

Optimal backup solution

My overall experience with [SENSITIVE CONTENT]  has been rock solid and I’ve been looking forward to trying it out even more powerful hardware to further explore its potential

BSD storage made simple

Free and Simple to Use

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.

Tried, true, and tested by the community! TrueNAS CORE!

I have moved away from traditional Raid  arrays for TrueNAS and is the best thing I have every done.

Why you need this

Basically fulfills all its core goals pretty well, can be had for free for own deployments or can be a paid solution for supported enterprise/business customers.

BSD-based WebUI-using storage appliance

We have been using a SAN/NAS since the early 2000's, and had been a Left Hand Networks fan, until they were bought out by HPE. The quality of HPE software declined in subsequent versions, until HPE removed all LHN technology from their products completely. TrueNAS Core is going back to the roots of how a SAN/NAS is supposed to be managed. We will never go back to HPE's bloated, over processed, non-private offerings, thanks to TrueNAS. 

Biggest Bang for Buck for Branch AND Home Office

I used FreeNAS from 2010 to 2022 in my home lab. I've run a test lab at a former employer from 2015-2017.

In 2022 with the release of TrueNAS Scale, I switched to gain the benefits of beter virtualization, and the ability to run containers.

TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS Scale

 I've implemented both for my university and have deployed 5 systems over the past 5 years.  

Initially replaced two Isilon NAS units with TrueNAS Core systems. Our first ixSystems' hardware replaced an EMC SAN in a remote campus using iSCSI with ESXi as primary storage. Since then we've deployed M40's running TrueNAS for primary and archival storage with Veeam. The only time we've had to touch them has been to upgrade the OS. 

The best open storage solution

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. 

TrueNAS Core,  truly a great place to start your companies 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.

Excellence in Network Storage

TrueNAS for the home user

The benefits from running TrueNAS are the ability to scale, implement and recover data.  Ease of use and the maintainability of the software makes TrueNAS a no brainer.

TrueNAS Core  For Pros and corporate users.

Great Alternative 

Great, flexible storage solution

Truenas Core (and SCALE)

The overall experience has been great. After the initial os config and pod configuration, the system runs very reliably.

TrueNAS Scale

I just wrote this because they made me

Reliable NAS

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend TrueNAS to anyone.

Fantastic Solution for both Enterprise and Homelab

In the past 8 years I have deployed dozens of systems running FreeNAS and TrueNAS core. With the use of periodic SMART test schedules, ZFS scrubs, built in alerting, TrueCommand monitoring, and a whole host of maturity in the ZFS filesystem itself, I have never lost data because of a flaw in the product. It does exactly what it is designed to do, stops you from making poor decisions and keeps your data safe and uncorrupted.

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