TrueNAS Scale Or TrueNAS Core In 2024?

TrueNAS Core VS TrueNAS Scale 2024 forum post

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00:00 intro
00:54 Why We Still Use TrueNAS Core
02:58 TrueNAS Scale Or TrueNAS Core Feature Comparison Chart

#truenas #NAS

[MaddMo]

Was looking for this video a few days ago. Thank you for posting.

[andymok]

Still running Core. For TrueNAS is just a NAS. Using SMB and NFS and I require the best file transfer.

[ronaldvargo]

Running Core as a destination for my Synology backups and has been solid, I did have to migrate the S3 service to their jails because of deprecation of S3 from the base services.

[alexfischer]

I run a 16tb nvme scale system on a ryzen 5 5600. Definitely overkill, but the asus hyper card made this so easy and I can expand to 9 HDDs with the case I got. Love the videos Tom! You've been a great help with learning to use PFsense, truenas, and proxmox in a home setting, so thanks!

[VirendraBG]

Definitely I am in Team Core. ❤
Thanks Tom. 🙏🏻
I asked for this video sometime back.

[bikerchrisukk]

I prefer what I know, and that's Core. But I do periodically (every 3-6 months) try Scale and it's certainly getting better.

[redskyskytv]

I failed to configure SMB Shared with complex group policy in TrueNAS-Scale (those option does not exist) So I rolled back to TrueNAS-Core where those policy (group-wise read/write policy with granular control) works just fine.

[blender_wiki]

The primary factor for our continued use of Truenas Core over Scale relates to inconsistent performance observed with ARC, L2ARC, and LOG functionalities under Linux. During our testing phase on the new storage setup, consisting of 45 HDD drives, dual 40Gbe connections, 128GB of RAM, and 3 NVMe drives each with a capacity of 4TB for L2ARC, along with 2 additional NVMe drives each with a capacity of 4TB for LOG, we encountered peculiar behavior under heavy loading conditions, particularly when our workstations were processing large image sequences of .exr files for VFX purpose.

[Tappotuoppi]

I have always prefered core on my boxes but i would like to go all in on scale. What prevents me is just the huge work in reconfig. I have a bunch of minecraft servers that need huge rework to run well on scale. btw minecraft servers get a huge performance boost from the zfs caching, chunk load times are next to none on truenas hosts :)

[gordonfreeman]

I've been using core for multiple months with pretty good results. Because of my setup I had to deploy it on windows11 and hyper-v which is not officially recommended. It worked fine until few weeks ago where the host win11 would have strange performance issue with the truenas. Both smb transfers and iperf (tcp only, udp was fine) were capped at less than 0.5Mbps however comms between truenas and other devices on my network were completely fine.
It strangely was fine when I detached my pool but the problem would come back after re-importing it.
Instead of trying a fresh install of core I decided to give scale a go and I was blown away with the performance. Perhaps linux is just more compatible with hyper-v than bsd but not only I can use my nas again, it performs better.
I have some issues with containers but it's not a deal breaker since I have a separate device with proxmox for this reason.

[CardinSU]

I just installed truenas scale just 10 mintues ago. this is perfect!!

[jeffself]

Been running Core on my home built NAS for the last 7 years. But I figure when its finally time to upgrade my hardware, I'll probably move over to Scale. Basically, my system is a NAS for my photography work as well as a Plex Server for my home entertainment. I currently have a 32TB (8x4TB) and I'd like to double it in my next system.

[adamdarrah]

I'm running Core in my home lab. Running VMs for Zentyal and windows. Playing with Ubuntu server. Most of my issues are user ignorance because I am still learning. I am also running Plex, Asigra, and I am hoping to get next cloud up. I wish I had more time to dedicate to it.

[etienneb]

As always, timely video again Tom. Still running Core, after coming from Freenas. In the video I see that Core has an “older” version of ZFS compared to Scale? And to what extend is hardware support better/worse in Scale? E.g. 10G network cards. Thanks again for this content!

[lucabranda]

I've been using Core since I built my nas and I have to say it's been rock solid even with multiple vms running. A friend of mine had to use scale for the hardware compatibility and he had some difficulties with the virtualization and the applications. I guess it's a bit of a tradeoff right now.

[RebootTechnologies]

Just upgraded to scale and I do like the look of it but the more I use it the more I start to miss core. Think they need to fix a few things in scale, expecially with apps and vms as you mentioned.

[karelsantana]

Still using core on my main server, but running scale on VM and i must say have a great UI

[lifefromscratch]

"Pulverizing topics" are my favorite!

Don't worry Tom, I know what you actually said, what my ears hear was just funnier in this instance. 😆

[MrFTW]

I realize when watching this that I am really out of my depths here - but still want to learn. I could not understand the different technical differences - but would like to know which one for a beginner like me who will use it as a NAS - but equilly using quite a few media apps and survaillance station with AI? I think I heard that the core was more app-friendly, but I guess time will tell. Still, seems I will get back to this channel quite often in the future. ;)

[bananabear]

I am in media production. Any possibility that you can make a video on TrueNAS for storing photos and video footages? That would be great if you can suggest what are the options for that specific purposes.