TrueNAS

“it also creates a ZFS snapshot after a successful TimeMachine backup which is really nice”

“it won't fall in weird ways like the hard drive part here will just fail to mount one night”

“Pretty cool for those who are not running something like TrueNAS/FreeNAS/Proxmox”

“pay iXsystems a few thousand dollars to think about all the underlying compatability and configurations and security features for me”

“FreeNAS was commercialised as TrueNAS, which is now having some of the source pulled.”

“I can count on TrueNAS being around and getting updates because they have a proven revenue stream.”

“TrueNAS works great sans a couple of quirks with external storage boxen”

“My Truenas setup runs on a i7-3770 with 16GB DDR3, still good tbh.”

“I'd take an old Xeon server with 64 GB of ECC memory, run its CPU in powersave mode, and slap TrueNAS (with ZFS) on it any day over buying a dedicated NAS”

“Right now I got it chugging along with TrueNAS + 2 USB disks in ZFS Mirror”

“people insist on doing truenas on top of proxmox and then introducing a networking layer between everything they do”

“Truenas for example add replication, external cloud sync, gui”

“You can have immich on truenas that has the whole pool encrypted”

“It really is a locked-down appliance. Good luck installing custom software on the base OS.”

“TrueNAS was major source of the myths ... because part of the company wanted you to buy their certified systems”

“it wasn't very effective and just too much time spent tweaking and testing”

“Works pretty well, just gotta put tailscale to make it accessible from anywhere”

“At this point I will not purchase additional TrueNAS equipment as I feel I was "rug pulled."”

“Even TrueNAS realized it's a dead end for reaching wide audience needs and migrated to Linux”

“The evolution of FreeNAS/TrueNAS demonstrates things have been going in the opposite direction.”

“I ended up fighting the abstraction layer way more than I benefited from it”

“I'd like something like TrueNAS for my NAS, a distribution that completely turns the hardware into an appliance”

“Selfishly I like getting more utility from my server so this was a welcomed change.”

“I decided to stay away from truenas for my recent nas build precisely because it smelled of enshittification”

“The nice thing about TrueNAS is that all the ZFS management stuff is nicely integrated into the UI”

“Using an older Gaming PC you already have is actually a very good option for TrueNAS or OMV.”

“TrueNAS works perfectly as a VM eg on Proxmox with passing through a SATA controller”

“I'll admit I've still stuck with the original FreeBSD based TrueNAS, and still am kinda bummed they swapped it.”

“NAS systems running Unraid or TrueNAS with community apps”

“Building big storage servers is actually much cheaper than you think nowadays.”

“You don't need a lot of RAM to run TruNAS. 16gb should be sufficient unless you are planning lots of VMs.”

“TrueNAS sort of half-accomplishes this but as soon as you have to start configuring Redis and Postgres parameters”

“everything got slower, harder to maintain and even managed to somehow screw up one of my old disks when I added it to my pool”

“eventually you run into a bug with their (bolted on) interface and you have to dig inside the guts anyway”

“Everything crucial to the base experience works perfectly out of the box”

“it just is crazy fast, no matter what type of tasks I do”

“the tuned performance defaults made things a lot better for me”

“the heavy features that came with TrueNAS' move to Linux (Kubernetes, etc.)”

“TrueNAS made the software side trivial. It's basically plug-and-play and almost entirely configurable from the web interface.”

“TrueNAS with ZFS feels faster than Open Media Vault(OMV) did on the same hardware.”