TrueNAS Synopsis from my brief experience with the product: YMMV
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.
Pros
- iSCSi
- ZFS pools
- Scalable
- High-performance
Cons
- 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
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