Running TrueNAS scale on home NAS - bad idea?

[derzahla]

Hey guys. So I've been playing around with TNScale for a few weeks in a VM. Switched from QNAP os to FreeNAS on my QNAP TVS-873. But my hardware doesn't play nice with FreeBSD and I haven't found any stable workarounds besides disabling SMP completely.

So given that I want to run ZFS my current options I see are:

1. run a crippled version of BSD based Free/TrueNAS
2. run another version of linux with ZFS and forgo the slick NAS ui
3. run TrueNAS Scale

I've been pretty impressed with the quality of TNScale so far. From my understanding, there should not be a greater risk of data loss going with TNScale versus running debian 11 or say, Arch linux with ZFS. The "development" quality of the software would relate mostly to the testing version of the OS and the UI - rather than the underlying ZFS layer. Or am I missing something? If I go this route, is there anything I can do to minimize risk? Are there any ZFS enabled by default I should be wary of and switch off? Thanks!

 

[Ericloewe]

TrueNAS Scale is still missing important bits such as proper support for SMB shares, a lot of stuff around Samba is still being worked on. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other major bits missing at the moment.

 

[derzahla]

Good to know. I only use NFS so no worries there