winnielinnie
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I can't wait for the second book to be published!
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Would have never guessed.I'm not an IT pro of any sort; I'm a lawyer.
I don't have much experience, but I do feel the current system is a bit intricate and detached.Handling of bug reports, though, has been very much a mixed bag.
I'm not sure if that was serious or facetious--so well played.Would have never guessed.
It was actually pretty decent for a short time in the then-new-now-current GUI, but was soon broken....and this is something that's been broken for many (over ten) years, with many complaints.
As a moderator I feel the need to intervene, but I am so confused I don't really know my options, much less the way forward. Uhh... keep it professional?Wait... what website am I on again?
I am a Truenas (and Truenas Scale) home user newbie, and I have successfully built and gone live with my (Terramaster F5-221) Truenas Scale server, and having migrated the bulk of my data over, I am working towards getting all the odds and ends with special requirements migrated. Whilst I would readily admit that I am not the most knowledgeable person about Truenas, I am a highly experienced IT professional and have contributed a lot to various open source projects over the years - and I have successfully created and run on-IT businesses. So I have been around, I understand development, systems integration, commercial reality and the ups and downs of open-source projects.
To all the whiners and gripers who have posted here, I would say the following:
1. There is nothing stopping you from building a NAS using Debian Linux (or some other distribution), ZFS, Samba, Kubernetes etc. You would pretty much get all the same server functionality but without the nice GUI and with having to put a lot of effort into installation, integration and configuration before you had a working system. Just imagine what technical skills you might need, how much research you would need to do and how steep the learning curve mighty be etc.
2. What you get as a non-Enterprise, non paying user is that you can:
So, you have a choice, but since you are here, it is pretty much a given that you have already chosen option 2.
- Download, install and use Truenas FOR FREE
- Have an integrated system that has the base configuration of the component parts already done, and the vast majority of bugs and integration issues already ironed out FOR FREE
- Get a WebUI that makes it much, much, much easier to set the whole thing up FOR FREE
- Get support from both the community and to a considerable extent from ixSystems FOR FREE
IME (based on several open-source projects lead by commercial organisations) ixSystems are also incredibly open to feedback, bug reports etc. from home users - believe me, we could be much much much worse off.
So if you are going to post here about issues with TrueNAS, please do so in the context of all the benefits you get before whining and whinging about how ixSystems are not supporting home users. ixSystems has salaries and bills to pay, and focusing primarily on their paying customers is what allows them to thrive and be able to provide all the stuff FOR FREE for the rest of us.
If anyone from ixSystem is reading this, personally I am grateful as heck, and I thank you for making this great software available to me FOR FREE.
The topic of this thread is "TrueNAS might not be for you if you are home user", but in summary my position is the absolute opposite: If you ARE a home user, TrueNAS may be the best choice you ever made.
I think I can. At least for now. I compare TrueNAS CORE plus Proxmox for Apps on another host with TrueNAS SCALE.You cannot compare Truenas Scale as an all-in-one with Truenas Core stand-alone. You need to compare Truenas Scale as stand-alone with Truenas Core standalone, or compare both as all-in-one.
If you are not very technical, you are probably better off with Synology or QNAP.if you are a not very technical home user and you want just a NAS and are starting with a new install, my personal opinion is that you would be much better off starting with Scale than with Core.
...which I think points to an important fact: to handle a NAS right, and store your data safely, is going to take a certain amount of technical know-how. There are things that can be simplified, but there's some irreducible complexity involved, and when you try to simplify too much, you end up with a system that just can't do what you think it can.Now that I think about it, looking at the Synology users I know and how many times they lost data, most of them are probably better off with Dropbox or OneDrive
Not sure I completely agree with this statement. TrueNAS is much loved because of FreeNAS (CORE) years of stability. SCALE is unlikely to change that anytime soon if at all. They are both different products for different use cases.The reality is that Truenas Scale is the future
I think it's really going to depend on what iX does with CORE going forward. If they continue to actively develop it, I'd agree. If they relegate it to "maintenance mode," where there will be no new features, just occasional bug fixes and security updates--or if they just EOL it entirely--that would be a different story. And frankly, it doesn't look like they have any interest in doing the first of these possibilities.SCALE is unlikely to change that anytime soon if at all.
If that happens, I do hope someone forks it and keeps maintaining it.I think it's really going to depend on what iX does with CORE going forward. If they continue to actively develop it, I'd agree. If they relegate it to "maintenance mode," where there will be no new features, just occasional bug fixes and security updates--or if they just EOL it entirely--that would be a different story. And frankly, it doesn't look like they have any interest in doing the first of these possibilities.