TrueNAS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“TrueNAS has been pretty good so far, been running this for many years already.”
“I use TrueNAS as a Time Machine destination for multiple Macs running Tahoe. Seems to work fine”
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“I am grateful for Truenas, Jellyfin and pihole.”
Caveats and dissent
“which is now having some of the source pulled”
“It really is a locked-down appliance. Good luck installing custom software on the base OS.”
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“I decided to stay away from truenas for my recent nas build precisely because it smelled of enshittification”
“they all felt like they traded 'easy UI' for the ability to actually keep the stack in tune”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals 1 mention
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- item 49877097 1 mention
- Custom home server built from spare parts 1 mention
- FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued 1 mention
- Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team 1 mention
Data: truenas.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 17
“I began learning ZFS (TrueNAS and the macOS-plugin)”
“At home: truenas and gitlab.”
“I connected my TrueNAS box to Graphite and Grafana.”
“if you insist on running TrueNAS (or whatever) just stash it in a container or KVM box.”
“which is now having some of the source pulled”
“I recently installed Plex on my TruNAS.”
“Have a TrueNAS server at home with a bunch of drives in a RAID-Z array.”
“As truenas apps for rustfs/garagefs.”
“It really is a locked-down appliance. Good luck installing custom software on the base OS.”
“I've had the hardest time making my TrueNAS ZFS server fast when it was filled with HDD spinning disks.”
“I decided to stay away from truenas for my recent nas build precisely because it smelled of enshittification”
“TrueNAS has been pretty good so far, been running this for many years already.”
“they all felt like they traded 'easy UI' for the ability to actually keep the stack in tune”
“I might give TrueNAS a try”
“I use TrueNAS as a Time Machine destination for multiple Macs running Tahoe. Seems to work fine”
“I am grateful for Truenas, Jellyfin and pihole.”
“I recently switched my TrueNAS setup from a bunch of HDDs to a 8 NVMes”