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Freedom to build and deploy anywhere
August 09, 2022

Freedom to build and deploy anywhere

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

Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS

We use TrueNAS to maximize the value of our existing datacenter hardware into new storage solutions. While there is a still a place for Nimble and 3Par, TrueNAS gives us the flexibility we need to create data pools from our un used physical inventory for staging, deployment, backup, or other various activities with the datacenter.
  • ZFS datapools
  • Nested Virtualization
  • iWARP, RDMA
  • iSCSI
  • Virtualization support could use more features
  • User and group management is a unique challenge
  • Access to more detailed configuration options
  • OpenSource and Free to use
  • Virtualization
  • Freedom in design and use
  • Resilver times associated with ZFS can be lengthy.

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

HPE Nimble Storage, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, QES (QNAP Enterprise Storage)
TrueNAS is best suited for creating flexible data pools from just about any combination of storage architecture. Something that is unmatched in traditional hardware accelerated RAID, A the while, you can still use TrueNAS to build upon RAID arrays, its strength is building arrays in combinations that your old RAID controller can not.

All the while, its biggest strength comes with a little extra cost when rebuilding or resilvering a ZFS array in the event of a problem. Complicated arrays or arrays on older hardware will take quite a bit of time.