FOSS in Education is excellent with TrueNAS Scale
August 27, 2022
FOSS in Education is excellent with TrueNAS Scale
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS
I teach the next generation of students who go out directly after education to work in Networking and SMB solutions. FOSS has been a large focus, and TrueNAS is part of a core segment of our criteria on Raid, Storage, and Networking. I use it at home and also at the large server lab, where we have around 20 servers running TrueNAS Scale.
- Scale allows for Apps to utilise TrueNAS to run in containers
- Software raid in TrueNAS is really flexible and stable
- Scale being based on Linux has now meant integrations are growing rapidly
- TrueNAS Scale just needs time, IMO. It's maturing quickly
- Security of DATA (GDPR)
- Ease of use for new users
- Flexibly
- FOSS adoption has grown
- Quality of education on RAID, Storage has improved a lot
I like all three for different reasons. But TrueNAS fits the FOSS criteria perfectly, obviously. QNAP and Synology operate differently and fit different clients and/or different builds, and have a corporate entity supporting them. We have all 3, and TrueNAS likes friends. I would probably choose TrueNAS most; however, it depends on the hardware also and the budgets involved.
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