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CORE's final releases are on the shelf and SCALE (now TrueNAS Community Edition) is the only line still moving. Here is the 2026 state of play, what staying on CORE costs, and how the one-way migration actually works.

Three popular home NAS operating systems, three different philosophies. How TrueNAS SCALE, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault differ on filesystem, data

TrueNAS CORE hit its final release in 2025; SCALE is the Linux-based future with native apps and VMs. Here is how to pick the right one for a home NAS in 2026.

A dataset is a filesystem; a zvol is a virtual block device. How they differ on TrueNAS, what recordsize and volblocksize mean, and which to create for

The three ZFS tunables that actually matter for a home NAS: ARC sizing, dataset recordsize, and compression. What each does, when to change it, and what

RAIDZ vs mirrors for your TrueNAS pool: a clear breakdown of usable capacity, rebuild risk, and IOPS so you pick the right vdev topology the first time

How ZFS scrubs and SMART self-tests work together on TrueNAS, the right schedule for a home NAS, and which SMART attributes warn you before a drive dies.

Snapshots protect against accidents. Replication protects against fires. Here is a practical TrueNAS snapshot schedule and replication setup for a home

TrueNAS exposes storage three ways: SMB, NFS, and iSCSI. File sharing vs block storage, which clients each suits, the performance trade-offs, and how to

A step-by-step guide to creating SMB shares on TrueNAS SCALE — dataset layout, user permissions, ACLs, and the gotchas that make SMB look broken when it isn't.

Replace a failed disk in a degraded TrueNAS pool safely: identify the drive by serial, swap it, run the resilver, and verify ONLINE on SCALE and CORE.

Recover a TrueNAS zpool that won't import: decode UNAVAIL vs FAULTED vs DEGRADED, fix missing devices, run safe read-only and dry-run imports, know when

TrueNAS SCALE Apps run Plex, Jellyfin, Nextcloud and more directly on your NAS via Docker. Learn how the app system works, the storage layout to set up

A practical guide to the best budget NAS build for home use: Intel N100 platforms, ZFS-compatible drives, TrueNAS SCALE setup, and the backup plan

Comparing TrueNAS SCALE and Unraid for Plex and Jellyfin home media servers — storage models, app ecosystems, hardware requirements, and which one to pick

Complete technical guides for Proxmox VE hypervisor, ZFS pools, and LXC containers.

ECC RAM, HBAs, drives, motherboards, and power. A practical hardware guide for building a TrueNAS server at home: what to splurge on and what is fine.

A practical step-by-step guide on how to set up TrueNAS SCALE — hardware, installation, pool creation with RAIDZ, datasets, SMB shares, and backups.

Add a vdev, replace drives one by one, or use RAIDZ expansion to grow a TrueNAS pool without rebuilding. Compare the trade-offs and pick the right path.