TrueNAS may have become a solid home lab distro, but I'll stick to Proxmox for my server experiments ...

They just aren't interchangeable ...

[Michael Lynch] recently replaced his Synology NAS with a self-built solution built on ZFS, a filesystem with a neat feature: the ability to back up encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.

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The TrueNAS Mini X+ is a much more performant machine than any of the comparably-size Syno or Qnap stuff, to my knowledge. Part of the desire for TrueNAS is ZFS; BTRFS is kind of trash from what I've ...