TrueNAS, the cost effective and reliable solution for small to large business!
Updated July 19, 2022

TrueNAS, the cost effective and reliable solution for small to large business!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS

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.
  • Storage
  • Media Server
  • Self-Hosting Solution
  • More focus on jails for TrueNAS CORE
  • GPU Passthrough
  • Data Security
  • ZFS
  • Ease of access to support from the community
  • Fantastic support team
  • ROI
  • Automatic SMART testing
  • Ease of use for setting up permissions for groups

Do you think TrueNAS delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with TrueNAS's feature set?

Yes

Did TrueNAS live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of TrueNAS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy TrueNAS again?

Yes

While TrueNAS is still being actively developed, I have learned that sometimes I need not let my excitement get in front of my needs. On occasion, there is a bug that prevents my Jails from working after an update. Thankfully, iX always fixes it in the next update. TrueNAS brings a pseudo-all-in-one solution to the table that can store and protect my data (a NAS is not a backup) while also being able to host my home media server and any other service that I can think of. Please keep in mind that my review is for TrueNAS CORE, iX's FreeBSD-based version of TrueNAS. I have not yet tinkered with TrueNAS SCALE (yet).