TrueNAS

I have run TrueNAS Core on small desktops to enterprise servers, in a home environment to an enterprise datacenter. Obviously better performance on the enterprise hardware, but even the small desktop deployments weren't slow.

I use TrueNAS Scale at my own since a stable release of 2 year ago, it fits perfectly my needs, it is very reliable and ongoing through the various releases demostrates a great effort to make always a better product each time. I use the containerization and it is excellent for my purposes as the NAS feature also are. I believe that actually this great piece of software can be valuable for a wide range of needs starting from the very advanced NAS capabilities to virtualization and containerization features. It's reliable and the upgrade process between the releases it's fast and effective. It's great product that works really.

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.

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).

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.