Item: TrueNAS
Rating: 10
Author: Alexander Baese

Overall Satisfaction with TrueNAS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are mainly using TrueNAS as a Storage Service Provider for our local network. Storing Data, Sharing Data and processing Data through various channels. The management of ZFS Storage is kept really simple in the UI and can be left untouched when it is all setup.
Therefor providing a higher level of management without that big of a learning curve.

Pros and Cons

Pros

SMB Shares
Video transcoding via GPU and Docker Containers
Hosting mulitple fundamental network Services

Cons

Heavy loads on the host can interrupt container services heavily. "Always reserved ressources" option might be helpful

Most Important Features

File Sharing
Container Technologies

Return on Investment

Free License no impact

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of TrueNAS go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy TrueNAS again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Limited by your own capabilities. TrueNAS offers a wide range of possibilities to extend your usage of your appliance / hardware. Centered around a NAS / Storage Device you can implement various sharing services, virtual machines and containerized workloads. So far it handles all our usecases pretty good and you are only limited by what you know about those technologies.A real keeper and a alternative to virtualization focused products.

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