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Also known as FreeNAS

TrueNAS is a family of enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) products developed by iXsystems Inc., dba TrueNAS. The products consist of TrueNAS Enterprise and TrueNAS Community Edition. TrueNAS Enterprise is a family of storage appliances, with fully integrated software and hardware, that is sold as a commercial product with enterprise support. TrueNAS Community Edition can be installed for free on commodity x86-64 computers. The operating systems include components released under a proprietary license, GPL and BSD licenses.

Key facts

Software.name
TrueNAS Legacy
Software.developer
iXsystems
Software.operating system
FreeBSD
Software.platform
x86-64 (v9.2.1.9 was the last release that supported 32-bit.)
Software.genre
Computer storage
Software.license
BSD licenses, Proprietary
Software.caption
Screenshot of the TrueNAS 11 web interface
Software.latest release version
13.3-U1.2
Software.discontinued
yes

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TrueNAS is a family of enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) products developed by iXsystems Inc., dba TrueNAS. The products consist of TrueNAS Enterprise and TrueNAS Community Edition. TrueNAS Enterprise is a family of storage appliances, with fully integrated software and hardware, that is sold as a commercial product with enterprise support. TrueNAS Community Edition can be installed for free on commodity x86-64 computers. The operating systems include components released under a proprietary license, GPL and BSD licenses.

Built around the OpenZFS file system, TrueNAS provides a number of built-in file and block-storage services as well as an OS-level virtualized app store (Linux containers and FreeBSD jails respectively) and virtual machine hypervisor to host additional services.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “TrueNAS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.