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TrueNAS Review
September 15, 2022

TrueNAS Review

Colin Mackay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS

I've been using TrueNAS for about 5 years now, mostly in lab environments. It's been running solid for those 3 years, through upgrades from FreeNAS 11 to the current TrueNAS release. I use it only with storage and sharing in mind, no VM's or jails and on my older Dell R510 system, it's run flawlessly.
  • ZFS is an amazing filesystem. Saved me from accidental deletes.
  • NFS / CIFS sharing works as expected.
  • UI interface is solid, but could use more robust sharing options; using the 'exports' formats right in the GUI
  • ZFS filesystem
  • SImple GUI configuration
  • Since we've been able to constantly upgrade it, replacement hardware is required less often.

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

About the only place I couldn't see it running as well, is where entire array deduplication would be required. Otherwise, it's pretty solid for just about everything, save SAN.