Item: TrueNAS
Rating: 10
Author: jason edhouse

Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Security is its best function. By utilising the jail system.
Encryption throughout the entire system. Most diverse.
It's not built on Linux.

Cons

More functionality for video cards and hardware rendering
Have a TrueNAS Core GUI
Better HELP options.

Most Important Features

data backup security
it is a trouble free OS
snapshot ability

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

C++Builder, Dental4Windows, DATABASICS Time

Likelihood to Recommend

I was previous an unRAID user. I found that unRAID users were particularly unhelpful and I was very frustrated with it. Someone suggested that I try TrueNAS Core for my media server needs. I installed it and found that it worked well and graphically displayed very well how my storage pools were coping with space, my various processor cores etc basically how my server was functioning which unRAID didn't do particularly well at the time.

Comments

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TrueNAS Core: Certainly Value for Money.