--- title: TrueNAS Reviews meta_title: 'TrueNAS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 167 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how TrueNAS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.8 review_count: 167 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-26' parent_category: name: IT Hardware url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-hardware --- # TrueNAS Reviews **Vendor:** iXsystems **Category:** [Storage Systems Hardware](https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 167 ## About TrueNAS TrueNAS, the world's most deployed storage software, is a universal data platform that allows users to easily adopt a modern, open source approach to store and protect their growing data. TrueNAS harnesses the power of the legendary ZFS file system to provide unified storage (File, Block Object, and Apps) with the reliability and performance demanded by virtualization, backup, and many other data-heavy workloads. The TrueNAS CORE edition (formerly FreeNAS) is based on FreeBSD for unified scale-up storage. The TrueNAS SCALE edition is based on Debian Linux for either scale-up or scale-out solutions, and offers Linux Containers, VMs (KVM), and scale-out ZFS storage capabilities. Both versions are free to use and work well on a variety of hardware. Join the millions already using TrueNAS, including the majority of Fortune 500 companies, and experience why TrueNAS is so highly rated for yourself. ## TrueNAS Reviews ### 1. TrueNAS - NAS OS Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris B. | I, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** TrueNAS has a very easy to use interface with a robust file system (ZFS). If speed is a concern, you'll have no complaints here. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** There is a learning curve - It is not the most intuitive software to use. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** ZFS in TrueNAS Scale allows for very quick transfers in a large and secure array. The new Debian backend also allows for Docker containers. ### 2. Great Enterprise Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reed V. | NOC Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The support and performance of this product is best in class. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** That more people haven't adopted using it either personally or professionally. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use them as NAS solutions, SAN solutions, and everything in between. I use Truenas at home as storage and the backend for a bunch of services with the use of jails. ### 3. Great experience with TrueNas Scale **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The GUI is fast and responsive. Using the applications available. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Permissions changing on datasets with some applications or manual changes in datasets **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I came from using a couple of QNAP devices. This has been faster and offers a better way to secure the device and not overridden with security issues. ### 4. TrueNas really works - well! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Berold B. | Consultant **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** It's a simple, concise and comprehensive package that is fit for purpose **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I have not found anything to dislike in the product. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed software that would help us consolidate our storage needs. It's helped us protect our data and sharing the data is easy so we're more productive. ### 5. Great storage solution! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The UI provided by Truenas makes configuring volumes, NFS and samba shares, and scheduled jobs wonderfully easy compared to digging through configs on a console **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I haven't had enough in-depth time with the platform to find anything that I dislike about it yet. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** A single interface to configure almost everything needed in a homebrew NAS ### 6. Perfect solution for a open source NAS Framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Koralp S. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The Software is open source, with great data architecture **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I am not sure what I dislike, there is nothing what I dislike **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using TrueNAS to backup my data, pictures, movies and a lot of other stuff. It is also great to administrate your own server ### 7. Best Free Storage system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Radu Stefan C. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** -Free product - Support offering (speed and answers offered) - Quality of the product (stability and updates if bugs appear) **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** -Small adoption in enterprise (I haven't seen or heard of any enterprise using TrueNAS) - **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Reliable storage solution for a very low cost and high performance ### 8. Easy to use! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I found installation and setup pretty straightforward. The web GUI is super handy to check up on my system as well! **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** This is the first time setting up a NAS, so I was pretty impressed. I find the amount of users/logins/etc a bit confusing, but I made it work! **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data management for photo and video footage as part of my profession. It is a constant backup and dumping grounds, removing the need to swap HDDs out of a bay and label them, etc. ### 9. TrueNAS core / scale great for the home **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Larry W. | Backend Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** It provides fast / reliable storage that can be shared by the entire family! **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** The enterprise versions with the hardware seem a bit pricey when compared to what can be built with custom hardware. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing entire family access to a large amount of shared storage. ### 10. Great device and overall experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The easy setup of the preconfigured M30 appliance we purchased was a fantastic experience. The system went from first power on to production ready in less than two hours. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** The only thing I do not much care for about truenas, but am coming around, is the upcoming change from FreeBSD to Linux. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a rather significant requirement of providing fast storage for scientific instruments. TrueNAS and FreeNAS have been invaluable in delivering reliable and highs performance storage while keeping TCO low. ### 11. Great NAS solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Free and easy to get started. ZFS changed the game for me. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** It can be a little tricky to get started if you're not very familiar with the command line and ZFS. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** A great way to quickly run up a NAS with hardware you have lying around. ### 12. User friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I like how easy it is to find support online about truenas. As someone new to server management, it helps me very much. I like that it can be set on any machine that fit minimal requirement. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** It's most likely because I'm new to this kind of stuff, but I would like to have every little setting to be explained. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted to manage my own network storage and access it wherever and whenever I need to. ### 13. Amazing software for my storage needs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** It has a simple-to-use interface. Don't have to worry about issues. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** No issues with it. It just works. If anything, better reporting would be nice. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to feel comfortable that all my files are stored securely and to have backups incase of a drive failure. ### 14. High performance server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin H. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I like the ability to manage high availability storage in a rack system and a virtual machine with different configurations, and share data between systems and servers. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Adding additional functionality to the software and server outside of the base system is difficult and buggy. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Work server and high availability, data redundancy and activity control to share data between systems and applications communicating. ### 15. It's a reliable solution for storage. With versatilty and community support. Plus, it's open source **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Once you get everything set up you can forget it's there. Things just work and keep working **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Getting things to work requires know-how. And can be a little tinkery **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data backup seamlessly plus cloud syn overnight so it does not slow down the internet ### 16. TrueNAS has been the best ZFS experience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Overall, TrueNAS has been the best ZFS experience for NAS applications I have experienced. ZFS is my preferred filesystem for photo storage. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** More expensive than other NAS options, even though they don't have as good of hardware. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage ### 17. I love the solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Itamar B. | Enterprise Security Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I have been running it as my home storage solution for more than 2 years now and I no problem what so ever. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Nothing, it all working fine for me OOTB **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Home storage and cloud backup ### 18. Best option for free storage system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Redundancy and stability for the storage system. Intuitive and easy-to-use UI UX web. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** TrueNAS System is still in the experimental version. Hope this will be going final this year. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** High stability and availability storage ### 19. TrueNas, a big storage capacity with a tiny hardware capacity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerson Obed P. | Especialista de redes y servidores, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** It''s simple, it's fast and super easy to configure **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** TrueNas could increase the compatibility with some services like Active Directory **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** A safe place to keep my most important data like all my backups. ### 20. Very fast and reliable storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian P. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** All options available in the admin panel **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** The manual and tweaking options could be a bit more detailed. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main online storage, it offers a fast 100gbe connection to my production network. ### 21. Easy to use and full of features. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ephraim C. | Support Worker, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** It is truely customisable for your needs. There are comprehensive guides. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** It can get a little tricky to get something working at times. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have in house storage capacity ### 22. Great Performance! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Fast, affordable, reliable, support, universal features **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Scale as a single node is not ready for use **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** providing a great product/software package that is reliable and supports multiple deployment types ### 23. TrueNAS is great continuation to the FreeNAS software. Can definitely recommend it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I enjoy the ease of configuration since beginning of the TrueNAS and FreeNAS software. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I do not know if there is anything I dislike. Maybe the lack of support regarding various containers but I may be wrong. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data management and holding those data for myself and others. So far is it used for backup purposes as well as production server where we put the workfiles. ### 24. So mush power under the hood **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I have TrueNas Scale running on a home server. The documentation is vast, the community support is strong and the sheer power of the program is amazing. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I've lost two boot drives in 3 months of operation **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its my main home storage, its my main server and hypervisor. I am running NextCloud, PiHole and a Wordpress site off it. Also fun to play around with ### 25. FTW **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miran H. | Admin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** its really easy to setup and comprehend, even for a newbie like me **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** nothing really, as much as use TRUENAS there were no problems. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** bigger compounded drives ### 26. Reliable storage for a reasonable price. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The user interface is very easy to use and understand. However, if/when you need it they have the full power of the OS available. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** There are so many options to look at and configure. It can be overwhelming at first. But they have great documentation. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed reliable storage that was easy to use. They provide both of those in a great overall package. ### 27. Fantastic for reusing end of life but good hardware **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon J. | Technical and Project Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Ease of setup. Easy Linux install and a lot of system data **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Windows based permission setup could be easier **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supported the software for EOL hardware ### 28. ISCSI SANs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay L. | Engineering Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The systems seem to be very fast as iSCSi **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** The GUI Pages could be slightly more user friendly. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost of having shared VMWare storage. ### 29. TrueNAS makes storage simple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Easy configuration of ZFS, Samba, and ACLs. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** The shell/terminal could use improvement, but it might just be a BSD thing. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** ZFS replication, stability, and ease of administration ### 30. TrueNAS the solution to Data Availability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Using TrueNAS has made my work life immeasurably less stressful. Once set up I know that my data is secure from bit rot, highly avalible. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** There was a small learning curve that I had to train colleagues on, but that was minor. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hardware agnosticism. Not having to invest in specialized hardware for a robust NAS was a dream come true. ### 31. Been using free/TrueNAS for years now for home and business work and it just works. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** It is a great storage platform, it is easy to setup and maintains. It is set and forget. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** It would be nice to be able to optimize the dashboard more. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a great storage platform and easy to integrate. Snapshots are a great backup tool along with being able to link online cloud backup services. ### 32. Powerful, easy to use platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Great selection of plugins, and a great community for support **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Really nothing so far. Any problem I have run into was easily solved with help from the community **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We relied heavily on Dropbox in our organization. TrueNas allows us to have a lot more control, more storage and spend a lot less on subscription fees. ### 33. TrueNAS is a truly fantastic product, strong NAS and overall server. Wish the UI had better GFX. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The horsepower behind the servers and customization that comes out of the box are great for any application. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Wish the user interface had better graphics and was laid out more like Synology, however, perhaps it's because of my own bias. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** TrueNAS is great to run jails, network storage and plays nicely with other systems. ### 34. TrueNAS truly has made an unbelievably reliable and product. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The learning curve is not that large and the community of professionals and hobbyists makes that curve even smaller **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Users and user groups still baffle me. I'm not sure that's a TrueNAS issue as much as it's a me issue, though. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** TrueNAS is providing me with full home backups and media server performance. ### 35. TrueNAS is an excellent tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** TrueNAS is a simpler way to set up and use a ZFS based NAS. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Have not run in to too many downsides, slightly less flexible than running a base server OS but the ease of use makes up for it. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple set up of a NAS that has the reliability of ZFS for backup and file storage. ### 36. A NAS That Just Works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** TrueNAS allows a simplified deployment and management strategy without all the excess and unnecessary bloat. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** TrueNAS has a learning curve for anyone not familiar with concepts of ZFS or Linux. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** TrueNAS allows me to deploy NAS's using commodity server hardware in environments where large NAS appliances are a poor fit. ### 37. Simple and straight forward solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Simple nature of the solution makes it easy to onboard and managed **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Not much except the look and feel of the UI **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** This helps me garantee I have a storage solution that I can scale and manage easily without directly impact the rest of my stack ### 38. Excellent software, excellent support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** As a company, TrueNAS works really hard to support their customers, both with free and paid options. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** The hardware price is a little high for home users, but competitive for businesses. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** With TrueNAS, I have a reliable shared drive, easily accessible from multiple devices. ### 39. Great product. Fun to learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The apps you can install. Use it to have a great opportunity to use m files **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Hard to use for beginner. Need lots of reading but easy to find information on internet **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all my files in one place. Easily available on network ### 40. Best NAS software out there! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Very practical and superb support make it a wonderful experience **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Nothing! It's a great product even in its free truenas core offering **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it mainly for iSCSI and it's a breeze to setup, making it ideal for my use-case ### 41. Easy use for basic configurations. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The basic configuration (RAID, cache drives, ZFS, pluggins/addons...) are easy to use with low knoledge. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Some configurations may be difficult to understand for begginers. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use an old PC as a NAS and as an addblock at the same time. ### 42. TruNAS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** ZFS IS MAGIC. This is a easy to manage and run. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I would like to see an ARM instance. That would be helpful for lowpower remote sites that might just be storage for a backup solution. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage for backups. ### 43. Great NAS Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Ease of setup and hardware flexability allow for custom solutions based on the use case. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Nothing stands out as being negative or a con. Solution is great experience OOB **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inexpensive storage array with many built in solutions and capabilities ### 44. Fast and lightweight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** I like the fact that it's constantly upgraded and it's fast and lightweight **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** At first it's complicated to understand how to create datastore **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it on an old server to store the backups from the new server ### 45. Best NAS out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Quick easy install, straightforward GUI and forums offer a lot of help **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** very little; perhaps more widgets and more built in help **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its providing an easy backup solution using gitlab ### 46. TrueNAS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** An excellent home lab option for understanding NAS features like iSCSI. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Some things like needing to commit interface ip addresses was not immediately apparent for a beginner. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Useful as a test bed and inexpensive SAN for non-production ### 47. TrueNas **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Super easy to use and just works. Easy to install different applications. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Some settings are hard to find in the gui **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me to store all my data ### 48. High performance but needs better support for commodity network hardware **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Easy to install, high performance, support for heterogenous disk configurations **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Commodity network hardware support is lacking **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reliable and robust backups of personal data ### 49. Server data warehouse with high performance system **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriela P. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2021 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** Open Source System, security updates and development of new protocols. NAS and SAN block protocols. union of different storage disks to a single disk with immediate response. **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** I have no problems with my system, it is reliable and stable for all my activity. **Recommendations to others considering TrueNAS:** Different configuration and storage options for home and business. Enjoy a stable and Open Source system. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Join multiple storage disks for true capacity, automatic backup, and redundant storage. ### 50. Excellent product with a long history and vibrant community **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirk M. | It consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about TrueNAS?** The ui is easy to use, it's feature set includes everything you need or want in a storage system. ZFS that it's based on is the absolute best file system for file storage. Also the logging capability is excellent! **What do you dislike about TrueNAS?** Without paying for their hardware you can't really get redundant controllers so there is no downtime when doing updates, however this is not unexpected and is easily manageable. **Recommendations to others considering TrueNAS:** It is the best solution you will find in the industry. Just be sure to set it up properly and understand ZFS before you put it in production. **What problems is TrueNAS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Central redundant storage for virtualization and file shares. ## TrueNAS Discussions - [will truenas & freenas be separate again](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37933-will-truenas-freenas-be-separate-again) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is there a way of having a centralized media transcoding plugin?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/37106-is-there-a-way-of-having-a-centralized-media-transcoding-plugin) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is FreeNAS a RAID software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-freenas-a-raid-software) - 6 comments - [What is the difference between FreeNAS and FreeNAS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-freenas-and-freenas) - 7 comments - [What OS does FreeNAS run on?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-os-does-freenas-run-on) - 2 comments - [View TrueNAS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/truenas/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-07+06%3A30%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9be6f718-5038-4eaf-b340-ea8131b48bfb&secure%5Btoken%5D=3fc5f06785c851cede055ebb9cd2c9126f90a5fd4e65e44483ff3a3af051942e&format=llm_user) ## Top TrueNAS Alternatives - [Pure Storage FlashArray](https://www.g2.com/products/pure-storage-flasharray/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (10 reviews) - [IBM Storage FlashSystem](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-storage-flashsystem/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (239 reviews) - [HPE Nimble Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/hpe-nimble-storage/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (15 reviews)