About TrueNASGuide

Store it right the first time.

TrueNASGuide covers TrueNAS at home: ZFS fundamentals, datasets against zvols, snapshots and replication, RAIDZ layout and pool expansion, memory sizing, share protocol choice between SMB, NFS and iSCSI, drive selection, and the storage decisions that are painful to undo later.

It is written for people who want to build the pool once. Drive, memory and controller figures come from manufacturer datasheets and the OpenZFS documentation.

What is covered here

• Applications
• Data Protection
• Getting Started
• Guides
• Hardware
• Sharing
• Storage Planning
• Troubleshooting
• ZFS Fundamentals

23 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.

How these articles are produced

Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.

Everything here is published under the TrueNASGuide Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.

Corrections

Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email hello@truenasguide.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.

How this site is funded

Some articles link to products on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate this site earns from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Those links are the only revenue this site carries: there is no sponsored content, no paid placement, and no display advertising. Product picks are made by reading specifications and published measurements, not by testing the products.

The full position is on the disclosure page. Read it before acting on anything here that reads like a buying recommendation.

Related sites

TrueNASGuide is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:

• SelfhostRealm - Your data, your infrastructure.
• Docker Homelab - Docker Compose Stacks, Container Resource Limits & Macvlan Bridge Networks
• MiniLabHQ - Big homelab, tiny footprint.

Contact

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