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TrueNAS Synopsis from my brief experience with the product: YMMV
August 06, 2022

TrueNAS Synopsis from my brief experience with the product: YMMV

Brett Rutherford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS

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.
  • iSCSi
  • ZFS pools
  • Scalable
  • High-performance
  • Networking configuration
  • 3rd party SSL certificate installation and configuration.
  • Sometimes the error messages are less than useful.
  • Reliability
  • Price
  • Protocol options
  • n/a
  • Investment was zero so I can't really speak to this.
  • I'm cheap
Unfortunately, I have to give the edge to Pure and Nimble simply due to the availability of enterprise-grade hot-swappable redundant power supply units - as much as I love the TrueNAS hardware solution until that particular annoyance is addressed, I can't really consider these products ready for anything beyond SOHO or Homelab environments. They would function, but speaking from experience, a little more money in high availability will keep you warm and comfy in bed and is worth the price of not being paged at 2 am for a PSU failure.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of TrueNAS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy TrueNAS again?

Yes

Recommendation: IT Shops looking for block and file storage in a small footprint high performance unit - at a REASONABLE price. I won't go as far as to say "inexpensive" -- but "reasonably priced" -- If you're looking for drag and drop point and click configuration there are significantly more user-friendly alternatives out there. This product definitely requires a bit of nerd feng shui, IYKYK.