Is TrueNAS Scale the NAS Upgrade I Never Knew I Needed? (OMV User Edition)

I used omv for 5 years, i switched to Scale 1 year ago. I don't like it. The containers suck, they fail to update always and if its not in the store its super complicated to set up.

It also is a pain in the ass to setup smb and ftp on the same user.

Not sure why, but i get the impression he's pushing users towards OMV...

Guy developer did not learn the most important lesson coming from TrueNAS Core:
Save entire config in ONE FILE!

So does it wan you to erase all discs or only the one where the OS is installed on? It‘d be completely counter-productive if one couldn’t mount discs with data if e.g. you migrate to TrueNas from OMV or somewhere else.

As a pure NAS/storage server... TrueNAS is my choice by far. The ZFS, disk, and overall storage management features, like snapshots, are more straightforward to me. If I'm looking for an application server that also can do storage, OMV (or Unraid if I'm willing to pay).

Tried both myself. Found Truenas scale to just be overly complicated to do anything. OMV is much simpler.

Thank you Jeff for all your vids and actually introducing the omv to me. But btrfs almost near miss lost all of my data. Which made me switch to truenas. And I remember it was all so foreign and unusual compared to omv. But now, I never looked back . It just works. Glad to see you trying it.

My man you gotta keep your core and scale names straight. Intro was core then to scale and on and on....

Having used both (more core than scale) OMV is the simpler and easier to use (kind of like unraid) where Truenas UI is a bit more clunky and you have to understand what you are doing to get the most out of it. I have a background in IT and kind of have a thing for storage so I kind of love truenas as it made a lot of people aware of ZZFS but at the same time totally understand that a lot of people just want something simple and easy. The great thing is there are pretty good options for a range of wants/needs now a days, find what works best for you!

OMV on raspberry pi 5 is good for me. Thank you for your effort...

TrueNAS CORE user here, I do not want to switch to SCALE but someday I'll have to because iX will stop the CORE's development and that makes me sad

former OMV user here, was running OMV since 3.x. tried out truenas scale but didn't like it and went over to unraid. its just so much better then everything else.
The "app store" is a docker repo of all kinds of apps with super easy config windows. Currently running unraid on 3x DL380 G10's.

Thanks. I tried both TrueNas but failed to properly use Docker images especially with Kubernetis. I came back to OMV 7.0 and the new compose process to run docker images works so far well.

I have only used OMV for the most part. Tried CasaOS, not terribly thrilled with that. I've considered TrueNas and ProxMox as other choices for a NAS setup, but with the limited amounts of time I have during a day to do IT for my home and trying to setup something for my veterinary clinic, they seem a bit more involved to setup and maintain. So far, OMV has been fine, even with the recent changes and interface issues they had. That has been ironed out well enough to make it functional again.

I found the initial video intro a bit confusing as to what was going to be compared. Truenas Core is based on FreeBSD, is very mature, and geared towards enterprise use as a stable platform. Truenas Scale is based on Debian, is newer, more compatible with hardware, and is where the ongoing development is taking place. Scale is not as mature or bug free as Core is. The two versions have similar features but are not identical in operation. Selecting either OMV, Truenas Scale, or Core is more of a preference and what the end use case is. I like both OMV and Truenas but use Truenas in our business.

i switched to truenas around omv5 because i wanted better zfs support.

Thanks for your continuous engagement showing/teaching us interesting topics. Right now I'm using OMV on three amd64 systems and am very satisfied with them. A couple of days ago I shortly thought about deploying a TrueNAS SCALE host as a dedicated Docker host, but as SCALE relies on Kubernetis I dropped that idea. Nonetheless I'm looking forward to future content regarding TrueNAS SCALE.

OMV user, I was looking forward to Scale, but watched a lot of videos and if you want a JBOD system and use docker OMV wins every time. I prefer using compose.yml files rather than the true charts thing. Also is seems Scale docker is kubernetes and seems to break on updates, plus there is a plugin now for k8s on OMV. You can also run lxc and vms on OMV, with the KVM plugin.
I'll be sticking with OMV for the time being.

Thanks Jeff, This series about the various NAS-OS-Options, is very interesting. For me it highlights that choosing an NAS-OS is about finding 'what fits your current and near-future-needs best'.

I switched from OMV to TrueNAS Scale a few months ago. OMV is simpler but TrueNAS is much more powerful and seems to be developing at a quicker rate, so always new features and Apps are being added

Hi Jeff, greetings from Geneva, Switzerland, you taught me how to work with OMV and I only use OMV because it's very simple, I'm going to try this TrueNas and then I'll comment again, good job and keep making the videos because they help a lot of people💯💯👍👍

OMV user here .I have a dell server PowerEdge t320.I installed OMV about 2 years ago .Working great ,low specs demanding,fast ,easy

Thanks for doing this, i would probably be in same boat (Scale- totally Not intuitive), i tried OMV, but stopped - not ready to clear my drives yet

The UI seems better on TrueNas but OMV isn't resource heavy. You can also run any docker container through portainer

I just prefer the TrueNAS UI