The Convergence of Storage and Compute

For years, we ran a dedicated NAS and a dedicated hypervisor. But with TrueNAS Scale, the line has blurred. Based on Debian Linux (unlike Core’s FreeBSD base), Scale brings the power of KVM and Docker (via Kubernetes) to your storage array.

ZFS is Still King

The primary reason to use TrueNAS is OpenZFS. Its data integrity guarantees are unmatched.

• Copy-on-Write: No data corruption during overwrites.
• Snapshots: Instant, atomic backups.
• Scrubbing: Proactive bit-rot detection.

The Apps Ecosystem

With Scale, deploying a Plex server, Nextcloud instance, or Home Assistant container is trivial. However, for production workloads, we still recommend a separate compute node. Don’t starve your storage controller of RAM just to run a Minecraft server.

Our Configuration

We are currently running a RAIDZ2 pool with 6x 14TB IronWolf Pro drives, giving us redundancy against two distinct drive failures.

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