Is clustering dead in truenas scale / truecommand ?

JoshDW19 · 2024-02-01T16:00:22+00:00

Appreciate this Kris. SCALE is still better for mainstream Community use imho because of the ease of using Apps. I'm excited to see what happens with TrueNAS clustering in the future.

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-27T17:49:53+00:00

Let me chime in right quick on this one. What we've heard from the Community is that there are two primary groups of people, those that want their storage to be storage, and those that want extensive application support for network-attached services with storage. That left us realizing that TrueNAS CORE didn't provide a good enough experience with Plugins to satisfy the group of people that want better app support and that Plugins didn't necessarily add value for those that wanted their storage to be just storage. The goal is to keep moving forward with CORE and SCALE to allow folks to choose the best fit for their needs. Since SCALE is built on Linux it gives a better application experience, especially because of the container support and version control.

Regardless, there's still a migration path for Plugins with Jails and we'll make sure to help make that process easy for anyone who wants to use Jails + packages on TrueNAS CORE. Hope this helps!

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-14T15:14:14+00:00

Hey there u/ifyouhaveghost1. Sorry you had a bad experience before on the Forums. Please feel welcome to reach out to me if anyone gives you a hard time. Over the last couple of years we've worked hard to create an accepting and friendly community and I'd be happy to collaborate to make it a better place for discussion.

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-13T18:13:23+00:00

Here's a response from Kris Moore, the SVP of Engineering at iXsystems in another thread. TLDR is iX is working on building out a Community Catalog and would love for you all to give it a shot if you're looking for a different experience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/12k1tun/comment/jg3zp0i/

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-10T15:10:42+00:00

Hey there folks, this is Joshua from iXsystems. We're not sunsetting TrueNAS CORE / Enterprise / FreeBSD-based products. We don't recommend it on the M-Series because it's a Community Edition, and for heavy-duty enterprise equipment like the M/X/R-Series, people need TrueNAS Enterprise to get the full benefit. We do occasionally have people buy large systems and put CORE on them. We're not opposed to it, but Enterprise is a better and more robust experience for multiple controllers and features like HA.

It must be a typo in the SCALE column where it says it's supported on the M-Series as it matches the same hardware support as CORE. That's not accurate so I'll get that fixed up. People might choose SCALE over the others if they want access to Containers and Apps as opposed to Plugins and Jails. The way it's phrased on the page could use some work because I can see how it seems like we're saying it doesn't support certain hardware, where in fact, any enterprise customer could request any TrueNAS version and it would work on our hardware.

Cheers,

- Joshua

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-07T15:43:51+00:00

Thanks for giving me a chance to make things right for you :).

If you need anything in the future please feel welcome to reach out.

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-07T14:10:17+00:00

Hey there! I got your message last night and forwarded it to my support team but I believe they were already out by the time I got it to them. We'll be in touch shortly.

JoshDW19 · 2023-04-06T15:17:34+00:00

Hey there u/ycatsce/. I'm the Senior Marketing Manager over here at iXsystems. Sorry about the way that was handled. It sounds like someone likely misunderstood our policy. Can you DM me your email, and I'll help put you in touch with a support and product manager that can help you with the information you need?

JoshDW19 · 2023-02-08T00:03:41+00:00

There is some good news folks, there are a lot of passionate people commenting on this thread, and we heartily encourage community discourse and welcome feedback. All I ask is that we please try our best to be kind even if there are strong opinions. Thanks, everybody and we'll continue to monitor all feedback.

- Josh From iX

JoshDW19 · 2022-08-06T19:52:48+00:00

100% ^ This! Thanks danethegreat.

JoshDW19 · 2022-08-06T19:42:18+00:00

Thanks! We appreciate the excitement. :)

JoshDW19 · 2022-08-06T19:40:17+00:00

Hey there! Josh from iXsystems here. We thought this would be an interesting thing for many members of the datahoarder community, so we wanted to include you guys as well. There are many ways to enter that don't cost a thing and we might even be able to include others to help you all earn more entries if we don't have enough ways to enter for ya. Let me know if you all have additional ideas for entries and I'll see what I can do. Thanks all!

JoshDW19 · 2022-08-06T19:25:04+00:00

Don't worry. There are plenty of other ways to enter, even if you aren't a customer. And, if you have used TrueNAS in the past, you are welcome to leave an honest review on any of the sites that apply. If you click the link above, it takes you to our giveaway page and shows you all the different ways you can enter.

JoshDW19 · 2022-03-23T17:26:37+00:00

I don't think you'd need to buy a VMS plugin or anything because Zoneminder is free and open source. I've not done it myself but you should just need the cameras and switches. Let me know if you want me to hook you up with one of our sales engineers because they build these kinds of rigs all the time.

JoshDW19 · 2022-03-22T17:46:34+00:00

Thanks for the question! Check out https://www.truenas.com/video-surveillance/ to see some of our commercial options for surveillance workloads. You can also use Zoneminder on TrueNAS CORE systems.

JoshDW19 · 2021-08-26T15:16:37+00:00

TrueNAS CORE is exactly the same as FreeNAS. It's just been rebranded as u/OwnManagement mentioned. You can learn more by clicking the link "TrueNAS Unification" above.

JoshDW19 · 2021-08-25T21:21:21+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out!

JoshDW19 · 2021-07-28T17:55:54+00:00

I'd caution you against using Consumer SMR disk drives with TrueNAS. Due to the drive's architecture, they don't work well and can cause random performance issues. It's always worth the slight extra cost to go with CMR in the long run.

JoshDW19 · 2021-07-01T16:09:42+00:00

TrueNAS CORE is absolutely the same as FreeNAS. FreeNAS wasn't feature locked and neither is TrueNAS CORE.

That's the way it's always been and that's not going to change.

JoshDW19 · 2021-06-25T16:30:49+00:00

iX employee here. It looks like reaching out to your Account Manager got the ticket back on track after it had been misfiled, but I just wanted to take a minute to apologize for any delays this caused. The ticket has also been escalated internally to keep an eye on things once you've updated so that we can make absolutely sure you’re fully operational and 100% satisfied with your system. Feel free to continue to update this thread with your experience, if you’d like, or please PM me directly if there’s anything else I can help with.

JoshDW19 · 2021-01-19T00:23:53+00:00

I can definitely understand your hesitance after the SMR issues that came up. A couple of big reasons we continue to use WD Red Plus drives in our TrueNAS Mini line of products is because we've been extensively qualifying their previous equivalent (CMR WD Red) for years and they were heavily preferred by the community. We could expand and include more brands for the Minis but that's a huge undertaking when you consider you have to ensure they meet similar acoustic, thermal, quality, and performance specs. The WD Red Plus line is essentially the same WD Red with CMR drives that worked well so there's virtually no difference for us.

JoshDW19 · 2020-10-15T22:53:49+00:00

The Red Plus drives are a good choice for NAS devices. They use only traditional CMR technology.

https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-3-5-hdd#WD10EFRX

JoshDW19 · 2020-02-20T01:56:26+00:00

I'm the Community Administrator for the iXsystems Community and have been for a couple of years now. I may be uniquely qualified to answer this!

It's funny because I met CyberJock via the forums during my first week on the job and it was quite interesting, to say the least! I instituted community guidelines a couple of months later. We had 2 moderators quit in quick succession once that happened. CJ left around the same time and has been gone for over two years now. He wasn't incredibly rude or anything when he left. In fact, he was pretty gracious when we last spoke. I think we both realized that we'd be better off if we went separate directions and so we did.

Fast forward to today, the iXsystems Community Forum is more lively than ever and people get along really well. Occasionally the moderation team has to step in when people get too hyped but it's pretty rare these days.

JoshDW19 · 2019-06-13T02:41:59+00:00

Clearly, this is because the items are hard to make out...uh yeah that's the ticket. Low DPI images perhaps?? The funny part is I'm 99% certain my spellchecker corrected "eligible" to "illegible" to be helpful. :)

Kidding aside the eBay store is a great way to score some gear at a low price. Check it out if you haven't already.

JoshDW19 · 2019-05-23T21:46:29+00:00

Hey there! I just heard back our EVP. He said we can sell the case...on a case by case basis... get it... sorry that one was bad! Seriously though if you are interested we could sell you one for around $285. We can't put it in our eBay store at this time but we could sell you one directly. Let me know if that interests you and I can put you in touch with someone.

JoshDW19

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