TrueNAS

TrueNAS CORE is a free, open-source NAS OS developed by iXsystems based on FreeBSD, and uses the ZFS filesystem. TrueNAS can run on virtually any consumer hardware, and is capable of data-center level data protection through using a combination of RAID, Replication, Snapshots, and much more advanced features.

Hardware

Hardware Options

Hardware Consideration

TrueNAS CORE can run on just about any hardware. iXsystems have a very detailed hardware guide ov...

Installation

Getting Started

Preparation

Download and Prepare Installation Media Once you have decided on your hardware and built the mac...

Start the Installation Process

Plug the USB installer into the machine, and boot into TrueNAS. After a while, you will ...

Storage Pool

Where the data will lie

Creating a Storage Pool

Before you can store any data on the drives in TrueNAS, you need to first create a storage pool. ...

Creating Datasets

After a storage pool is created, but before data can be store on the pool, you will need to creat...

Users, Groups, and Permissions

Creating users, groups, and setting Access Control Lists (ACL)

Creating User Groups and Users

Navigate to the TrueNAS WebGUI, and login. Creating Groups It's a good idea to create differ...

Setting Permissions on Datasets

Permission settings in TrueNAS are applied onto Datasets in a Pool. Think of datasets as a folder...

Network Shares

Sharing Datasets over the Network

Creating SMB Share and Setting ACL Permissions

If you want to access your TrueNAS dataset on a Windows client machine, chances are, you will wan...

Automated Tasks

Cron Jobs, Snapshots, Backup, SMART Tests, etc

Snapshot Tasks

A snapshot is a read-only copy of a dataset or volume at a specific point in time. It is a powerf...

S.M.A.R.T. Tasks

S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a storage drive health monitori...