TrueNAS

Score9.5 out of 10

47 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for TrueNAS are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Robust and Reliable File System: Many users have praised the ZFS file system in TrueNAS for its robustness and reliability, providing them with peace of mind for their storage needs.

Seamless Integration with Mac and Linux Machines: Several reviewers have appreciated the seamless integration of TrueNAS with Mac and Linux machines. This integration allows for easy sharing of data through protocols like SMB and NFS, enhancing collaboration among different operating systems.

Flexibility and Stability of Software RAID: The flexibility and stability of the software RAID in TrueNAS has impressed many users. They have highlighted how it allows for customizable storage configurations, providing them with a reliable solution for their specific needs.

Reviews

39 Reviews

Highly recommended. We use it everywhere

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TrueNAS for storage of production data as well as a backup destination. We've also begin heavily using it's virtualization and container features.

Pros

Data Integrity
Replication
Snapshots (Immutable)
Performance

Cons

Virtualization

Likelihood to Recommend

We have many TrueNAS units deployed and they've served us well everywhere. Our most common use case is using it as storage backing for virtual machines. We have Proxmox talking to it, as well as having it acting as the hypervisor. We've never lost data with it, even when faced with multiple disk failures. We've also always found the performance to be robust and able to handle the needs of our clients. Our clients range from libraries, to medium sized enterprises and we've always been able to make it work, and work reliably.

Joseph Brower

Owner and Lead Developer in Information Technology at Binary Cocoa (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

10 years of experience

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TrueNAS as a really NAS customizable Solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 15, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

recover files & folder information from shadow copy after delete o r damaged file, folder or disk from user computer. its a really useful dataset features. Other awesome feature is the plugins either from IXsytem or from the community. this last has a extensive apps catalog that the user can install and customize.

Pros

plugins some like backup
Dataset from shares with shadow copy
Shares : SMB NTF iSCSI

Cons

more graphical interface to admin features like plugins, jails, list are well but a tiles aproach will be better
allow bulk upload/download/update to Groups or user accounts from SMB shares.
some script language template featured to create/config/change/delete storage pools /dataset or shares .

Likelihood to Recommend

freebsd with linux or windows based ecosystem give to the TrueNAS the fiability and resilience to the system deployment with featured integration, network security from the basic to enterprise grade requirements. and a very compromised community support and development.

Jorge Arturo

Asesor de tecnología de la información in Customer Service at Sistemas Contino (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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TrueNAS in Higher Education

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 11, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Over the years I have used several large enterprise storage solutions and TrueNas is Top of my list. I started with downloading the software on older enterprise hardware, and with this next project we are deploying 3 TrueNas hardware solutions along with 3 Host servers all purchased from TrueNas. A Mini-R storage solution is serving NFS shares directly, and the other solutions, a M30 and Mini-R will run all of our virtual infrastructure and backup-storage. Having a dual controller option was an absolute must on this project. I would highly recommend checking out TrueNas, or at the very least give the sales engineers a call and talk through your project to see if TrueNas is a good fit.

Pros

Ease of Use
Production Speed
Reliability and uptime
Cost to operate

Cons

Better explanations on how Caching works with RAM and SLOG

Likelihood to Recommend

In my honest opinion, TreuNAS is well suited for all areas of service from the small mom and pop, to full scale enterprise. I have had a lot of fun with using TrueNas as a simple place to drop FTP files to now getting ready to deploy full scale Virtual environment on a HA storage appliance purchased from TrueNAS.

Sean Gordon

Director of IT Operations in Information Technology at Western Seminary (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Scalable solution for new businesses that will literally scale as you grow

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 10, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is the canonical source for all our data in our network. This solution has been a solid solution that we have used for over 10 years. It was straight forward to implement. The most challenging task was to plan the pools and grouping of disks in those pools. I have no need to look for another solution as this provides sufficiently for our current needs.

Pros

web GUI or CLI for administration
provides for Linux, Windows, Mac client interoperability
easy basic deployment

Cons

web GUI in managing ZFS. You wind up on the CLI to administrate the devices and the pool.
With Scale, it provides the capability with for clustering storage, though seems to be growing in maturity. Core does not provide that due to FreeBSD limitations. Given having to migrate to Scale, I look forward to having a solution in hand as the need for clustering becomes a need in the future.

Likelihood to Recommend

Storing bulk data that is shared by one or more people. Makes backups simpler and avoids data duplication across a network of storage devices as it is administrated in one place.

Being able to host jails/containers on top provides for one less server and access to the data is virtually local.

Verified User

Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

TrueNAS Mini - Fantastic piece of equipment

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 10, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the TrueNAS Minis in our branch offices for file shares. Excellent little units. We couldn't be happier with them.

Pros

Ease of use
Ease of setup / install
Community support

Likelihood to Recommend

The TrueNAS Mini boxes have been fantastic file servers for branch office needs. The minis will probably not work for high performant front line needs like a database server, but that's not their intended audience either.

Jeff Cox

IT Support Specialist in Information Technology at GTG Peterbilt (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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A Robust and Reliable Storage Solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've been using TrueNAS for a bit now, and honestly, it's a game-changer for me. Before diving into TrueNAS, I was juggling external drives like it was my job. Enter TrueNAS, and suddenly, all my storage woes seem like a thing of the past.
A few reasons I like it are:

Find My Stuff: Everything’s in one place. Movies, music, work files – you name it. I can get to it from any device at home, which is super handy.

ZFS is Magic: Heard about ZFS? It's this techy thing that basically makes sure my data doesn’t get corrupted. Knowing my files are safe is a big relief.It Grows with You: Started with just a couple of old drives I had lying around. As I needed more space, adding more was a breeze.

Snapshots keep several versions of your files so you get a layer of protection incase things go really bad. Which is a huge +

Pros

Snashots for data protection
Easy to setup
Streaming media
Upgradability
Features

Cons

Initial setup
How to setup Jails (In general)
R Sync

Likelihood to Recommend

Any mild short comings are more things that take a little more work rather than big deal breakers. Simply put its possibly the best system that just works all the times and allows you to get into it for home Lab and extend that knowledge to the work force which is a HUGE deal!

Dejan Tunjic

Mr. in Information Technology at Avant IT (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Satisfied TrueNAS user for years

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Runs on anything
Reliable on reliable hardware
Lots of ways to connect

Cons

Maybe too steep of a learning curve for Joe User
UI not as slick as Synology yet
No tiering storage levels yet (hot, cold tiers)

Likelihood to Recommend

I have run TrueNAS Core on small desktops to enterprise servers, in a home environment to an enterprise datacenter. Obviously better performance on the enterprise hardware, but even the small desktop deployments weren't slow. The expandability through jails is a really nice feature, to be able to add on Plex, Nextcloud, etc. with just a few clicks is very attractive.

Jesse Furr

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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TrueNAS a powerful solution that scales from small needs to large

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 23, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize TrueNAS as a replacement for multiple legacy file servers. TrueNAS's ability to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory seamlessly allows us to create SMB and NFS shares for our users and groups. TrueNAS's ZFS replication has enabled us to have off-site data copies to ensure we can recover from a hardware issue or if there is a site catastrophe.

Pros

Multiple methods for data sharing
Easy to navigate interface
Ability to replicate data

Cons

Backup agents for desktop backups
Ability to load balance between multiple servers

Likelihood to Recommend

The ability to run an Opensource solution or have Enterprise support is really where TrueNAS shines for us. We can use the software for small projects as well as spin-up test systems to test configurations and features. Then ultimately implement in our hardened and supported Enterprise solution.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

A honest point of view as independent user

Rating: 10 out of 10

March 21, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use TrueNAS Scale at my own since a stable release of 2 year ago, it fits perfectly my needs, it is very reliable and ongoing through the various releases demostrates a great effort to make always a better product each time. I use the containerization and it is excellent for my purposes as the NAS feature also are. I believe that actually this great piece of software can be valuable for a wide range of needs starting from the very advanced NAS capabilities to virtualization and containerization features. It's reliable and the upgrade process between the releases it's fast and effective. It's great product that works really.

Pros

NAS features
Containerization
Hardware compatibility
Low hardware requirements

Cons

none in my honest opinion

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for every storage needs, I use TrueNAS Scale, from home to business,it's great for the containerization features that permits the deploy of various applications and can be usable either in a home lab or a development lab and either to run a business enviroment used on small to large hardware.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

TrueNAS is great for creatives

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 20, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a digital retoucher I use TrueNAS as my main online storage solution, it is reliable, solid and trouble free. I also use TrueNAS as a Plex Media server, in a jail. The whole iteration backs up to Backblaze. I built my own NAS and this has proven to be a very cost effective route to having immediately available storage.

Pros

Cross platform availability
Easy functionality
Customizable to end user needs

Cons

Setting up permissions/ACL could be easier

Likelihood to Recommend

Online backup. Media server. You can do pretty much anything you want with jails - Plex media server, Nextcloud, reverse proxy, ad blocker etc., I have a LAGG connection to double throughput out and this helps with network speed, even on 1 GB. There is a great online community too.

Verified User

Director (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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