TrueNAS

TrueNAS is a versatile application for personal and business use, meant to help all kinds of users who need to privately store, back up, and share their data.

To its core, the tool is a free and open-source network-attached storage utility. TrueNAS is different from its predecessor, FreeNAS. Essentially, both tools are intended for the same purpose, however, there are some significant differences.

For example, TrueNAS is a purpose-built instrument for situations when configuration, storage, and functionality should be close to perfection. If you can't afford storage downtime or hardware/third-party misconfiguration, most likely, you need the commercially-supported TrueNAS application, as it is a stable tool with a scalable architecture.

Generally speaking, both FreeNAS and its successor, TrueNAS, are perfect for handling a bunch of administrative tasks, managing devices' storage configuration, backing up important data, full-disks software encrypting, and others.

As a standalone app, TrueNAS is an incredibly-powerful program, with added options and improvements. Having an intuitive user interface and advanced shareability and storage capabilities, this multi-platform operating system enables access to fusion pools, for speeding up metadata operations by creating a mix of more media types; fusion pools can support any kind of flash device that can be recognized by existing hardware devices.

With TrueNAS, you also have native data encryption. This type of encryption happens at a low-level, at the dataset layer, which further ensures data integrity and enhances systems security.

The tool offers native VPN support (client and server network for handling data remotely), TrueCommand integration (for monitoring, migrating, and backing up datasets across different systems), and many other features.

For a deep dive into TrueNAS's capabilities, check their documentation.

To conclude, TrueNAS is a go-to for all users who need a solid application for protecting and managing their data and backups and for storage configuration.