TrueNAS Reviews

Summary: I really have enjoyed TrueNAS and recommend it to everyone who is interested in a NAS server. It has been a great experience.

Positive: I love the software raid that TrueNAS allows as well as how easy it is to setup docker containers with specific apps. I mainly use this for plex and it works perfectly.

Updating is easy and it's easy to install and setup.

Negative: I haven't seen any cons with this currently so I don't have much to say.

Summary: I would recommend anyone who wants/needs a home NAS to first give TrueNAS a try. I love it and have used it for many years.

Positive: For a home user - it has free open versions. I have just moved to TrueNAS Scale for the improved virtualization as I use TrueNAS first as a NAS and secondly as a VM host.

Negative: It has a learning curve - but is well worth it. I could have purchased a Synology NAS, but then I have noticed they have had security issues.

Summary: Very positive experience. I purchased a system from iXi and it has been solid and their support has been quick.

Positive: Easy to administer.
Robust data redundancy.
Plug- in store has many apps.
Responsive community who are quick to help.

Negative: No much. Designing my pool layout took some thought but you only have to do it once.

Summary: I have had very few reasons for support but when it was needed the support was great! Looking forward to when we can use AD for logging into the web interface.

Positive: Stability and versatility and moving to scale will make it even better! Also I love the development path and the ability to scale out in the future.

Negative: All the cons that I had for TrueNAS will be fixed in scale. Moving to kvm for virtualization and inclusion of helm for containers.

Summary: There is a reason its my preferred storage. I've used Compellent, EMC, Pure, VSAN, Promise and others, but TrueNAS is my go to solution for storing data.

Positive: Rock solid implementation of just about any storage protocol you want. Complete flexibility with disk/pool options as well. Grow a pool/array, simple replication to offsite storage vendors or other TrueNAS boxes. The pricing is also awesome!

Negative: So far, I don't really have anything negative to say. I've been using the product for a very long time and if I could complain about anything, it would probably be that on occasion I have to watch one of the numerous youtube videos they have when it comes to configuring something. I suppose that's not really a negative so much as it is a positive as it concerns to their documentation and videos showing how things work, but whatever ;)

Summary: Stable and free, what more do you need?

Positive: Like the product and used for years.

Negative: N/A.

Summary: I think TrueNAS is a great open source software for people new in server hosting or professionals to help them accomplish what they are seeking to do.

Positive: Ease of access.
Easy to Navigate user interface.
Learning Tool.
Great customer Service.
Large and helpful community.

Negative: There really isn't anything about TrueNAS that i don't like.

Summary: Love it.

Positive: Ease of use.
Very reliable.

Negative: Nothing.

Summary: Great, I've been using it for approx 8 years and my needs have evolved because of capabilities, initially for NAD only I now extensively use its virtualization with bhyve capabilities to run BSD and GNU/Linux flavors for testing/labs and experimentation.

Positive: Aside from storage and onsite backup it has enabled me to experiment with my own virtualized cloud/lab, it is great fun has is surprisingly stable!

Negative: It makes me want to spend a lot more money on server grade hardware to do more virtualization.

Summary: They have become a very powerful alternative to other companies who charge a mint for their software not so much the hardware.

Also, a fine point I've noticed is that almost all their devices I've use have Supermicro boards in them. I'm quite fond of Supermicro enabled servers.

Positive: I love that TrueNAS is free.

Big fan of their quick support on the enterprise side. even thought we operate the smaller systems.

I've effectively cut down my microsoft licensing by operating smb shares on our system at work. No need for a file server running expensive MS licensing.

The Bluefin / Scale version allows for many apps / dockers to setup with relative ease.

Negative: Core runs on BSD that's fine but its irritating that they cannot copy to usb 3.0 devices.

Scale can, but cannot be fully supported with enterprise support so we are stuck with the enterprise version.

This isn't a concern for the average customer using TrueNAS Scale though.

Summary: It's been a solid trouble free ride with a plethora of knowledgeable individuals on the TrueNAS forums that are more than willing to help you out.

Positive: It just works with Plex and UniFi Controller running in separate jails and a strong community to help out.

Negative: Not really anything to dislike as far as my use case goes.

Summary: Been using it for years! While there have been bugs those bugs generally get ironed out and the community is super helpful!

Positive: Easy to use.
Flexible.
Open source.
They don't hold back to much on the open source community.
Even more bells and whistles with their core product.
Good community.

Negative: I don't really have any complaints.
While there have been minor problems in the past they've been ironed out, generally by the community.

Summary: Truly enjoyed making my own NAS server to host my media collections and store important data; ease of mind.

Positive: Easy to install, lots of guides online to follow thru setups or use to troubleshoot. Step by step installations are also available on YouTube.

Negative: None so far, been using for 2yrs + and have not had any issues.

Summary: My overall experience has been super great even my wife likes it and my dog and my kid Frodo likes it too.

Positive: Ability to use my own hardware. Ease of management. Well put together interface. Options to configure storage.

Negative: It's blue a lot of the time. Super duper rectangular.

Summary: I've been using TrueNAS (fka FreeNAS) for over a decade. I am quite happy with it and constantly recommend it to others.

Positive: Both of the TrueNAS products (CORE and SCALE) are easy enough to use to stand up your own NAS at home and get it using. Its management interface is easy enough to use.

Negative: TrueNAS is an appliance OS and it's understandable, but still frustrating, when you try and push beyond the boundaries of what can be done.

TrueNAS SCALE's containers implementation seems restrictive and frustrating compared to other products. Both TrueNAS CORE and SCALE's virtualization are quite basic.