Here's 7 things worth checking before you make a purchase decision on enterprise storage, from protocol coverage to what "effective capacity" actually means on a quote. Full breakdown on the blog: truenas.com/blog/what-to-loo…

We are back again with Storage Horoscopes! It's officially the month of Libra and you know what it means. Eleven months of NAS research, still no purchase, one external drive that maybe backs up on Tuesdays.

Most post-production shops size flash storage to their whole media library, not to what's actually being worked on. Fox's Newman Scoring Stage does it differently: active sessions run on flash, delivered work sits on disk, and OpenZFS checksums and snapshots cover both. See how it's built: truenas.com/case-studies/fox…

VMware's licensing pushed you onto Proxmox. Your storage shouldn't have to make that same forced jump. The new TrueNAS Proxmox Plugin provisions and snapshots TrueNAS-backed VM disks directly. No manual iSCSI LUN management. Learn More: truenas.com/open-storage-for…

At #IBC? Come by the TrueNAS booth to meet the team and grab a stroopwafel.

If your database VMs feel slow despite plenty of storage, check how the pool is laid out before you blame the drives. Picture a 12-wide RAIDZ3 pool built from drives rated at 250 IOPS each. That pool still delivers 250 IOPS total, the same as running on one drive alone, no matter how many disks you add. All that extra capacity. None of the extra IOPS. Mirrors don't have that ceiling. Every mirrored pair adds its own IOPS to the total, which is why database and VM storage gets mirrors while wide RAIDZ is better saved for backups and file shares, where streaming speed and capacity matter more than raw IOPS. Read the full breakdown here: lnkd.in/gehH8ftp

A ZFS snapshot can't be altered because of how the filesystem writes data in the first place. ZFS writes every update to new, empty space instead of overwriting the old, so a snapshot's contents can never be edited or overwritten again. That permanence only covers the contents, though. The snapshot itself can still be deleted under normal retention policy, unless someone's placed a Hold on it, which only a Full Administrator can release. For ransomware recovery, that gap is the point: the accounts handling daily snapshot work aren't the accounts that can erase your last copy. Read more - truenas.com/blog/truenas-imm…

New series: Storage Horoscopes. Every month, we roast a zodiac sign's approach to data. First up Virgo season. If you've ever written documentation for your own naming convention, this one's for you. 👀

Storage vendors have told customers to keep ZFS pools under 80% full for over a decade. Most people repeat the rule without knowing why. It comes down to how ZFS handles free space. As a copy-on-write filesystem, it writes new data to open space and releases old blocks after, so free space gets more fragmented as the pool fills. On spinning disks, writes also get pushed to slower inner tracks once the faster outer tracks are used up. The right number depends on the workload. A backup repository of write-once files can run at 95% with no issues. A database or VM host doing constant overwrites can start to slow down before 80%. Read the full breakdown here: truenas.com/blog/zfs-80-perc…

"What I liked about TrueNAS was that it wasn’t the typical ‘we can do everything’ pitch,” Fröhling, MoovIT founder, says. “It was an understatement. They said, ‘We have a reliable system, try it for yourself.’ MoovIT, a systems integrator and software developer based in Germany, has been supporting major global football tournaments and European football events for 15 years. Their workflow involves assets moving in all directions between editors, broadcasters, sponsors, and rights holders. Throughout this flow, speed, capacity, and reliability are paramount. MoovIT first deployed TrueNAS systems during a major global football tournament in Qatar, putting the platform to the ultimate live production test. Now, MoovIT is expanding its TrueNAS footprint and positioning TrueNAS to replace an existing EditShare scale-out cluster. hubs.ly/Q04sp49Y0

A PBS station lost access to 50TB - 70 years of archives - because their cloud storage vendor went defunct. The twist: the data's fine. It's sitting with a data center that won't release it without a court order over who legally owns it. Data loss is the easy version of this problem. Read the story here: hubs.la/Q04s-FVy0

When one of the world’s largest grocery retailers moves to migrate 40,000 server workloads off its hypervisor stack while suing its software vendor for more than £100 million, enterprise IT takes notice. The bigger lesson goes beyond one vendor dispute. When storage is tightly coupled to the hypervisor, changing platforms becomes a much bigger infrastructure problem. Keep storage independent, and you keep more options open. Read the full story here: Lessons from the VMware Exodus. hubs.la/Q04sJBt70 #Virtualization #EnterpriseIT

TrueNAS is heading to IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, September 11–14. At Stand 1.C12, we’ll be talking about the storage challenges behind modern media and entertainment workflows, from 8K editing and VFX scratch to active archives, AI pipelines, and broadcast production. The common thread: more data, bigger formats, tighter timelines, and a growing need to know exactly where your data lives and who controls it. Come meet the #TrueNAS team to see how OpenZFS-based enterprise storage can support high-performance media workflows with open protocols, immutable snapshots, flexible flash and hybrid architectures, and infrastructure you control. Bring us your workflow. We’ll talk storage architecture. Meet us there: hubs.la/Q04sB8400 #IBC2026 #Media #DataStorage #OpenZFS IBC - International Broadcasting Convention

Research at public universities is, more often than not, based around grant cycles and one-off funds. This means that the storage infrastructure for these projects is also based around the specific funding opportunities. This research university needed a system with long-term reliability but no long-term contracts, recurring license fees, or expensive, required upgrades. TrueNAS started by deploying systems on old, repurposed hardware over a decade ago, and now, the university operates 12 to 16 TrueNAS systems that adapt to yearly shifting IT security requirements. Read the full case study here: hubs.la/Q04snDHJ0

If you can't see into your infrastructure, do you really own your data? According to our poll last week, 44% of IT leaders view black-box infrastructure as the single biggest threat to data sovereignty, followed closely by proprietary lock-in and cross-border regulations. True data sovereignty requires complete visibility. That’s why TrueNAS is engineered around total transparency, robust OpenZFS data integrity, and freedom from vendor lock-in. This gives you complete control over where your data lives and how it's protected.

We’re heading to Ai4 in Las Vegas. The TrueNAS team will be there to talk about the infrastructure behind successful AI deployments. Attending? Schedule an Infrastructure Design Review with one of our Solutions Engineers to discuss performance, scalability, data protection, and your future AI storage needs. See you there! Schedule an Infrastructure Design Review here: hubs.la/Q04rKRNH0

"Compression saves space, but it costs performance." That math made sense when CPU was scarce and every cycle mattered. It doesn't hold anymore. In fact, with modern hardware, ZFS compression can actually increase real throughput and pack more data into your existing ARC RAM—saving you serious storage costs. Here’s how TrueNAS turns spare CPU cycles into lower costs and higher performance. Read the full article here: hubs.la/Q04rttKN0

Today, Kris and Chris put a live walkthrough of installing TrueNAS using TrueNAS Connect WebInstall to the test - can they get a system running and ready in under ten minutes? While it's installing, they'll talk about the technology behind the new method - why "the cloud" isn't in the data path, how secure WebSockets keep prying eyes out of the system even before the install, and confirm that no, the classic console-based setup isn't going anywhere! hubs.la/Q04rv1pf0