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TrueNAS SCALE is ZFS with a web interface and the surrounding machinery done properly: snapshots, scheduled replication, SMB and NFS shares, S3-compatible object storage, and disk health it actually tells you about.
In one line
A storage appliance on your own metal. ZFS with a web interface, replication, and shares that just work.
On the menu
Installed from the upstream image, unmodified, with no agent and no vendor account on it. What you get on first boot is what upstream published.
The facts a chooser compares
Machines it runs on
Every price on this estate is the price. No setup fee, no minimum term and no first-month discount that doubles in the second.
How it gets there
No ticket, no identity documents, no call. The image list is on the configurator itself, one field below the plan, and a virtual machine is live in about fifty-five seconds.
One TrueNAS machine is storage. Two, in different jurisdictions, replicating to each other, is the architecture the resilience article argues for: off-site, versioned, on hardware you control, held by a different company in a different country.
ZFS replication is incremental and snapshot-based, so the second copy is append-only in the way that matters — something that destroys the source does not destroy the history on the target.
Storage is the one product where the hardware specification is the decision. Drive count, controller, whether you want spinning disks for capacity or NVMe for speed, and how much RAM ZFS gets. Custom builds exist for exactly this — a 4U chassis with thirty-six bays behind an HBA is a normal request rather than an exotic one.
If you would rather not run the appliance at all, object and block storage are sold directly, priced per terabyte with no per-gigabyte egress fee.
Yes, and it is a sensible thing to do — two machines in two jurisdictions held by two separate companies. Every region is the same price, so the choice is legal rather than budgetary.
SCALE. It is the Linux-based line and the one under active development; CORE is the FreeBSD-based predecessor. If you want the FreeBSD side, run FreeBSD and build it yourself.
What it is genuinely good at
Choose a different one if
That list is here because a page that cannot name a situation where something else is the right answer is an advertisement. Every image on this estate is included in the price of the machine, so there is nothing to sell you here — only the one that fits.
Versions and support dates are checked against upstream when they change. Last revised 30 juillet 2026.
Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue
What you install on bare metal when the machine is going to be a platform rather than a server.
