TrueNAS Education Solutions
Data Management & Storage
Deployed at schools and universities of all sizes, TrueNAS is a trusted partner for students, educators, and researchers. Every TrueNAS system ships turnkey and ready to deploy.
Address Real World Education Challenges
Academia has a wide range of needs – from day to day requirements of virtualization, CCTV and backup, to bespoke solutions for research in science for high performance data delivery/capture and archival retention. TrueNAS Enterprise has the range of capabilities to address these disparate departmental requirements in a platform that lets you easily select storage protocols and ratios of flash and disk to meet your performance, capacity, and budgetary objectives.
Easy to Deploy
Administer and manage TrueNAS systems through a modern, intuitive web UI. TrueNAS integrates into existing Windows, macOS, and Linux environments and provides datastore and file-sharing capabilities over block (iSCSI or FC) or file (SMB, NFS, S3) interfaces. TrueNAS supports interconnect speeds from 400GbE down to 1GbE. Whether you need a single system for a small school or a distributed solution to support research across multiple campuses, there’s an ideal TrueNAS solution for you.
Reliable Backups
TrueNAS provides the essential tools to manage and store your data. Redundancy is provided at the system level with high-availability (HA) configurations, and RAID-Z provides efficient data redundancy against drive failures. Built-in integrity checks safeguard against corruption. Unlimited snapshots and replication make it easy to back up and restore data to recover from a disaster. Volume-level encryption and Self-Encrypting Drives protect against unauthorized physical access.
Streamlined Procurement
Public education institutions can purchase TrueNAS through the GSA Schedule 70 or any number of contracting vehicles to simplify the buying process and ensure compliance while getting the best value for any budget. GSA-approved products provide pre-negotiated pricing with government agencies and can reduce the buying cycle by up to 50%.
The Platform For Modern Education
“In real-world use, the performance, stability, and reliability of our TrueNAS is simply another level beyond anything we’ve used in the past. As older storage units age out, it is highly likely we will again be looking at TrueNAS appliances.” — Alan Brown, University College London
Consolidate individual file servers into a single platform. TrueNAS supports block, file, and object storage across SMB, FC, NFSv3/v4, S3, and iSCSI. TrueNAS integrates with major backup software including Asigra, Veeam, HYCU, Commvault, and Nakivo. Authentication services such as Active Directory, LDAP, and Kerberos are fully supported.
A single TrueNAS system can hold over 740 high-capacity drives. Grow from a few terabytes to 30 petabytes and beyond. Scale compute, capacity, and performance independently, so you never pay for more than you need.
TrueNAS supports the major hypervisors and virtual environments including Citrix, Proxmox, VMware, Hyper-V, and OpenStack. With networking up to 400GbE, a single all-flash TrueNAS can deliver sub-millisecond performance and support over 5,000 VMs, managed via vCenter and True Connect — alongside non-virtualized workloads on the same system.
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The OpenZFS file system provides bit rot protection and copy-on-write to ensure data integrity from creation to deletion. Built-in compression and deduplication extend capacity on the same hardware.
Achieve up to 99.999% uptime with a TrueNAS high-availability system. Dual controllers in an active-standby array minimize failover times; if a failover occurs, services restart automatically on the second controller and users keep access to their data. Snapshots, replication, and native cloud sync to Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, and more to cover ransomware and disaster recovery scenarios.
Smaller labs can use TrueNAS cost-optimized systems to stay within budget while integrating seamlessly into a TrueNAS Enterprise environment reserved for important data and workloads.
Want more?
Explore the TrueNAS Education White Paper — Sharing Billions of Files.
Protecting academic data belongs in the same conversation as running it.
TrueNAS Enterprise in Academia
Globaly Supporting Major Research Universities as well as K-12.
Case Studies
Because the storage demands for this research are expected to be very high and the work that will be done with the data very intensive, the TrueNAS M40 was the one to beat.
— Scott Dungan
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Cambridge University's choice to provide storage for its research needs is TrueNAS.
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What we were looking for is something that had solid state performance. We looked at several vendors, but TrueNAS came with a lower acquisition cost, more storage, and better performance.
— Preston Fisher
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We've been very pleased with TrueNAS as our storage solution.
— Say Ho Tan
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What really did it for us was the TrueNAS Web Interface, in terms of its flexibility.
— Michael Mitchell
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Unlike traditional RAID systems, when TrueNAS detects an error from a hard drive it not only corrects it but simultaneously writes the correction back to the hard disk.
— Alan Brown
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I’d recommend TrueNAS to anyone doing large-scale backup. If you’re managing petabytes of unstructured data, this is the right tool.
Let’s Find the Right Fit
We’ll help you quickly identify the right solution, tailored to your workflow.