TrueNAS

After exploring lots of other options and coming quite close to making a bad decision, I was able to avoid compromise and buy a TrueNAS system for my storage needs. I'm using this for software engineering support but the bulk of the usage is video production where TrueNAS both stores the data coming off of cameras but is also referenced by the NLE when doing all the edits/prints.

I've been using TrueNAS for about 5 years now, mostly in lab environments. It's been running solid for those 3 years, through upgrades from FreeNAS 11 to the current TrueNAS release. I use it only with storage and sharing in mind, no VM's or jails and on my older Dell R510 system, it's run flawlessly.

We are mainly using TrueNAS as a Storage Service Provider for our local network. Storing Data, Sharing Data and processing Data through various channels. The management of ZFS Storage is kept really simple in the UI and can be left untouched when it is all setup.<br>Therefor providing a higher level of management without that big of a learning curve.

My organization uses TrueNAS Scale to run file servers for local data storage and backup and host Windows virtual machines. This solution is far superior to manually setting up a Linux server distro with all the packages and configurations for file shares and virtual machines. 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.

I setup TrueNAS Scale on a decommissioned engineering desktop I salvaged from being recycled in order to replace a 15 year old NAS appliance that was being decommissioned. It was incredibly simple to install and get going off the bat. I've had no performance issues with my setup, and am pleasantly surprised with the various applications (containers) I was able to get up and running with relative ease having never used a TrueNAS system before. I can't wait to really get into the weeds and test out the more advanced features of the system (potentially even serving as a sandbox hypervisor environment)!

I teach the next generation of students who go out directly after education to work in Networking and SMB solutions. FOSS has been a large focus, and TrueNAS is part of a core segment of our criteria on Raid, Storage, and Networking. I use it at home and also at the large server lab, where we have around 20 servers running TrueNAS Scale.

I use TrueNAS as the main on-premises storage solution for my organization. My typical use cases involve photo and video media storage for both PC and Mac end-users. I wanted a storage solution that offered both speed and cost effectiveness, and with SSD-based caching, 10GB Ethernet port and available free PCI-E slot, I have a good balance and am able to add additional network connectivity for LAG and teaming as needed.

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.

If you just want it to work and be expandable without having to reference dozens of help files and web pages to get it configured, try TrueNAS.<br><br>TrueNAS provided an automatic solution after the team spent several days trying to make other solutions work on top of RedHat. Configuration and control is a breeze through the web-based GUI, and it is easy to expand the storage and add other applications to the Jails.

I've been using TrueNAS / FreeNAS (in earlier years) for out companies iSCSI Datastore in VMware.
It allows me to make use of older hardware to make secondary / primary NAS /iSCSI Servers.

I also use these servers to do nightly backups of all our VMs. The ability to use TrueNAS Core software
has really helped us out in the last 3 years especially.

We don't have to wait on new expensive hardware to get a new NAS / iSCSI server running. The chip shortage
has made it a very scary proposition to try and acquire new hardware in the face of such a shortage should we
have a failed server. It has let me leverage previous investments in hardware to cover any shortages in storage
availability.

I have been using TrueNAS Core at home now for the past 12 months, as means to manage my business data and as a home media server. To be honest it took me a little bit of time to get my head around it, but once I understood the fundamentals the rest was like learning to bake a cake. I have an old HP Proliant dual processor box which handles it very well, I stacked it full of SSD and away I went. TrueNAS Core just made itself at home, no glitches and of it went. I love it, and I love that it is free more than anything else.

Currently, we are using TrueNAS as a backup/sync server for our fileserver which replaces the HP tape backup. By doing so we can do snapshots and reduce file recovery time. My next step is to move our fileserver from windows to a second TrueNAS which will be integrated into our Windows AD domain.

I am just using it as a home server at the moment but am looking at helping the typical home user to set up and use it for server backup use as it's so simple to use. It basically solved all the issues with Windows file and folder share that never works with Windows.

We use a redundant set of TrueNAS M40 all flash as our primary datacenter storage devices. Most of the usage is general office files. I also have a scratch-built system running TrueNAS core as a secondary data storage device. Both work very well, they are fast and robust and have had no issues in six months of operation. We definitely noticed a performance improvement over our old HP MSA unit, and they are much easier to manage as well. Salespeople from the parent company (iX Systems) are also excellent, they were never pushy and wanted us to find the right fit for our business instead of overselling us. I also had a great experience with their support teams, both with the included setup service and post-setup support. They're quick to respond and fix any issue.

We've been using TrueNAS Core for a couple of years now and I can confidently say it's the best NAS solution we've found so far. Out of the box it supports all the file sharing protocols we need and use such as NFS and even has rsync server built in so that we can manage backups for all of our clients automatically. So far it's been great and I'd highly recommend their products to any of my customers, or other businesses.

I have used TrueNAS (Previously FreeNAS) on a personal and professional level for years now. TrueNas has a truly intuitive interface; it allows me to "spin up" a virtual machine for testing and sandboxing, it has plugins for many common uses (need a Plex media server? Select it and click "Install"!), and the support for multiple filesystems and sharing protocols allow for a lot of versatility. I use it for my Macbook TimeMachine backups, also for backing up my windows machines, storing documents and downloads, and even backing up my media. You can even define part of your storage as an iSCSI device, so you could run a separate ESXi host, or mount the iSCSI drives as drives on your workstations. Security integration means that my ActiveDirectory, LDAP, and Kerberos networks all play nice with file or folder-level security. The ZFS Filesystem insures that your data is safe in the event of a hard drive failure (yes, I've had it happen, and yes, I was able to get back up to 100% functionality in a short amount of time!). Additional uses for my TrueNas box include USB integration with my UPS, so I know when the power goes out at my home. For quite some time, I was running a ZoneMinder instance as well on my TrueNAS box and monitored and recorded several home security cameras. For work, we use TrueNAS not only for long-term file storage but also to spin up virtual machines for testing. Want to test out that hot new web server? Spin it up. When you're finished, click "Delete" and it all magically goes away. Or keep it running, your choice. You're only limited by storage, CPU, and RAM. Home system: IBM Server, 32 GB Ram, 8x 3TB HDDs Work system: 32 cores, 256GB RAM, 64TB total HDD (and I *LOVE* TrueNas on this box!!!) Overall, I can't imagine a time when I would not want a TrueNAS device running in my home or business.

I currently do not have any production workloads deployed with TrueNAS, however, I do use it as the storage backend for my Homelab cluster, and the performance, the ease of configuration, and the straightforward configuration wizards make this product a solid reliable option in low-cost high-performance NAS systems -- and I would highly recommend that anyone looking for inexpensive enterprise-grade storage in a small form factor turn to one of these devices. Disclaimer: I have the TrueNAS scale product installed on a Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation Pro - but the solid software and user experience have me excited to save up the money to buy an actual piece of TrueNAS hardware.

We use TrueNAS as the back end for our Nextcloud server (which is running on TrueNAS in a jail). This has allowed us to get rid of Dropbox subscriptions, have a scalable file share with a greater level of control, and expand our collaboration through tools like Nextcloud's talk application. It has done all this and reduced costs significantly for our organization.

TrueNAS has brought its experience to storage technology. We used it in the past as 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 of its simplicity of management, the easiness to configure high availability, and the support excellence that is provided to us. We consider TrueNAS an indispensable partner for our daily business.

Our old NAS was long in tooth and backups were very slow. We were also bumping up on a storage capacity cap. We use our TrueNAS server for mission-critical backups and the speed and power are excellent.

I'm a busy professional as well as the guy in a small office responsible for all our IT services, even though I've got other stuff to do. TrueNAS allowed us to build and configure a NAS far more powerful than the NAS appliances available from Synology and QNAP, at a fraction of the cost. Honestly, the simple assembly of the parts took more time than getting the configuration completed, and since we turned the machine on and went live I haven't had to touch it in more than a year. That means a lot — it's as reliable as an appliance without the limitations and cost of the appliance.

This review is based on my home use of TrueNAS HW and software for my storage needs. TrueNAS has been the primary storage my homelab (VM storage, centralized backup), and a few lightweight services run on the TrueNAS mini XL+. The biggest need was solved throughput for the VM storage (10Gbe and more performant iSCSI implementation).

While I do not use TrueNAS as an admin at a company, I do use TrueNAS at home and have been doing so for the past few years since FreeNAS. The scope of my use case for TrueNAS is to serve as a home for my large amounts of data >50TB and to use it as a media server and file sharing device between my devices. TrueNAS blurs the line between ease of use and hard-to-learn but powerful. For those that need something simple for the home, you can get up and running in about an hour of your time if all goes well. If your use case has more specific needs you can get lost in the settings and menus that are offered for you to configure. Thankfully, iX does a pretty good job documenting it all and offers a Forum Community that I have referenced more than a handful of times when things go wonky.

TrueNas has been the best solution we have experienced in terms of data security,functionality, speed and reliability.in the past we had to run Docker containers or virtual machines which were not very efficient,and we found TrueNas to be the better option.it also enables us manage, store,and share data across the network.

We use TrueNAS in our local data center, and it's by far the best storage solution we tried because it allows us to easily add more storage if we need to scale, and it makes everything easy to manage, it also makes data sharing a very simple task and before implementing it that was one of our biggest issues but now TrueNAS solved it for us.