TrueNAS Reviews

Summary: I used it when it was called FreeNAS. Since then the updates went flawless. It took even years why I need a update. Not for the working of it all, for the security it seems.

Positive: You turn it on, and it works. It works for days and days and so one. It is like switching a lightbulb-switch.

Negative: If I see a feature that seems to work for me, installing it with all the parameters is difficult for me. There are questions that has no ringing bells for me. Even looking at several YouTubers.

Summary: Flawless performance and reliability. Blows the competitions away. Excellent value proposition. TrueNAS is truly the most scalable and reputable software available presently.

Positive: Tried many services for my requirements and found TrueNAS. A very stable and robust OS which gives peace of mind when comes to safety of your data. Tried and trusted by many...

Negative: Would like to see more addons. And would like to have a customizable theme also.

Summary: I was looking at Synology for a while but I'm a FOSS person and a long time Linux user so I chose TrueNAS over Synology. I also had an older Dell computer that I re-purposed and it's working wonderfully. My only out of pocket costs were the NAS hard drives which I would've had to buy if I had gone with the Synology.

Positive: After getting it up and running it just works. Does everything a good NAS should do. I set it up mainly for my Plex media server and secondarily as a backup storage for my wife's accounting files. It's part of our 3 location backup.

Negative: For a novice like me it was a little tough to figure things out but several great YouTubers give simple step videos explaining how to do things and I got it up and running in short time.

Summary: Great NAS options and features.
Awesome community and forum help.
Get help from administrators that know the products, features and how to’s

Positive: Fairly easy setup, little more complicated than most options but way more robust and versatile.
Awesome community help.

Negative: Basic setup was fairly easy, a little more complicated and less intuitive to do certain tasks.

Summary: Perfect. I am running it on a 5 year old server as a media box and couldn't be happier. I advise using ECC Ram for extra safety but it is not a hard requirement.

Positive: TrueNAS is an amazing product. It allows you to run and administer a NAS with the ease of a home user product but provides reliability in line with industrial grade servers.

You can run it on just about any hardware and the learning curve is less than a week. If you are a Unix user, it is less than a day! Best of all the ZFS files system provides ultimate data security so you can feel safe.

Negative: It is truly hard to find any negatives, but I will try, so here goes: I am not overly fond of the UI Themes and feel bored to customise them. There. :-)

Summary: I love this system. All my computers and devices automatically backup. The system just works, what more can I say?

Positive: System is powerful with ZFS. Fully scalable as your system grows. System has been running for years without a hitch whatsoever. I expand my system usually once a year when I add/upgrade a Hard Drive when they go on sale. While I have the system open I vacuum the inside. That is the extent of my maintenance pretty much (plus vacuum the outside every 2 months). Love it!

Negative: The VMs are not as easy to setup, nor are they as powerful as other systems. But there are overhead solutions for that...

Summary: Overall very easy setup with some minor hiccups. Nothing google couldn’t resolve. Once it’s setup also it works and runs like a charm.

Positive: Relatively straightforward to setup with some valuable plugins. The UI is very nicely laid out. Tutorials are pretty easy to follow along with.

Negative: Initially understanding pools and jails wasn’t super straightforward during the initial setup but that was pretty quickly cleared up with some reading.

Summary: Would recommend without hesitation to everybody who needs a NAS. Self build/ hosted or using the possibility to buy via TrueNAS itself.

Positive: The sheer customizability of the OS while using it on my HP Microserver Gen8 including the possibility to use Docker containers.

Negative: TrueNAS indeed has a steep learning curve, but thats not really a problem, as the documentation and forums are helping.

Summary: A good system for a home NAS or enterprise hardware. Based on your knowledge you can do more or less simple things.

Positive: Easy and stable solution to use in a small system or in a enterprise environment. With the linux based version there are a lot of plus.

Negative: The linux-based version is still new and some functions may not work properly.

Summary: I am very happy to use TrueNAS now. Compared to QTS by QNAP, it is light years better. I never want to go back.

Positive: ZFS is just great, nice that an open source distro of linux makes it accessible now. Docker is there too.

Negative: Docker has been crippled to k8s and no access to docker-compose easily.

Summary: Excellent product for a Home NAS. TrueNAS has a lot of features to safely store your data and experiment with lots of apps.

Positive: Excellent product for a Home NAS. TrueNAS has a lot of features to safely store your data and experiment with lots of apps.

Negative: User interface to create VM is rather difficult and tedious.

Summary: While getting started was a struggle for me many years ago, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and have now been enjoying a rock solid NAS platform for over 9 years!

Positive: Comprehensive, scalable and customizable. Able to be set up to suit exactly what you a looking for in a NAS.

Negative: Steep leaning curve for a beginner but well worth the effort.

Summary: Great product for the features offered. I use it for personal use too. Plex Media Server is excellent.

Positive: I use TrueNAS Core for my Business storage.
It's fast, has great features and excellent add-ons.
Community Forums and assistance is fantastic.
Plex Media Server works great.
OpenVPN connectivity works great.

Negative: Tech documentation can be very detailed and sometimes hard to follow and need to refer to the Community forums. They are excellent with a good source of information and great user base to assist in the problem solving.

Summary: I trust my data to iX Systems and TrueNAS Scale (and previously Core). Performance and reliability have been rock solid since day 1.

Positive: I love that I can run the software on my own hardware and get the same, rock solid performance as the enterprise offerings. I can learn at home and apply everything in the enterprise.

Negative: The one gripe I have is related to applications on Scale. Having the ability to run Linux containers was a huge draw for me and generally they work well, but the k3s implementation is very limiting.

Summary: Overall, it has been a great adventure. I am taking my time at configuring my hardware and with the installation of pools and jails. Very satisfying to have so much support and, as a newbie, to set sale with this product.

Positive: Lots of help online. Especially appreciate the YouTuber "Black Beard" and his tutorials. he has been my primary teacher.
Installation was understandable and easy.
The interface seems very good.
Ability to put up Jails for Plex and the programs that feed it.

Negative: There is a ton of stuff to learn.
Sometimes difficult or involved if you make a mistake: example, changing the name of a pool.