 Tom here from Orange Systems and TrueNAS 13 has been released. Now, I was testing it since the beta and I want to remind people TrueNAS scale is cool, but TrueNAS 13 isn't gone. I bring it up like that because there seems to be the fact that they have an upgrade path that, well, the word upgrade was used, to transfer from TrueNAS core to TrueNAS scale that people keep thinking TrueNAS scale is the only future. Both of these products are being developed in parallel. They each have their own use cases. I'll leave a link down below where I talk about the differences between them and, you know, they are important distinctions. Now, currently in TrueNAS 13 being the latest release is stepped ahead even more in terms of performance. That's one of the things I've noticed with TrueNAS scale is, you know, people keep asking about using it. And a lot of my consulting, a lot of what we do in the enterprise and business space with TrueNAS has everything to do with it being a storage target that needs to be absolutely the most performance oriented system. And that's most of what these updates are going to be for TrueNAS 13. It's not visually dramatically different. They didn't change much in terms of the way it looks, but they did a lot of enhancements on the back end that we'll talk about that, you know, help bring the performance level up. Now, I didn't do any benchmarking because I've been testing the beta here for a while. And by the way, this video was recorded as were several other of my ones all on TrueNAS 13. Well, beta until this particular video where it's recorded on the full release, but I've not really had any issues at all that I can think of on there. I've seen a few people mentioning some ACL issues in terms of permissions with Samba. But I think people seem to always have those issues, which is why I asked, we'll leave link down below my most recent video on how to set up permissions in TrueNAS. This is where a lot of people get confused about how some of those things work. Nonetheless, before we dive into the rest of the details about TrueNAS 13, let's first Are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering, storage or virtualization project? Is your company or internal IT team looking for someone to proactively monitor your system security or offer strategic guidance to keep your IT systems operating smoothly? Not only would we love to help consulting your project, we also offer fully managed or co-managed IT service plans for businesses in need of IT administration or IT teams in need of additional support. With our expert install team, we can also assist you with all of your structure cabling and Wi-Fi planning projects. 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They do a lot of contributions upstream so everyone in FreeBSD community can benefit from it so when they base their OS on it it's very stable and has a lot of influence from both IX systems and as the other product I've mentioned quite a few times on my channel, NetGate and PF Sense. These changes when FreeBSD 13 has come along, it is just a lot of more fine tuning in here. We also have OpenZFS 2.1, Samba 4.15, iSCSI Targets on TrueNAS 13 includes support for larger native IO sizes and general performance improvement. Now the iSCSI Targets and NFS server improvements are both really important, especially in the space we work in a lot with the storage consulting we do, specifically around virtualization. TrueNAS is a really popular platform for both VMware, XCPNG and occasionally some Hyper-V. I don't do as much Hyper-V but we do a little bit of that because you know it's in the market but the performance gains that are given from 12 to 13 I'm hoping to dive into some benchmarks with a few systems I haven't upgraded yet because I'm curious about how much more performance it is. This is something where our clients are extremely concerned because this is why they have them. They're not running jails, they're not running usually even Samba shares on some of these, well some do if they tie a tag to directory and that's a different use case but these are really popular as storage targets and that does include in the Windows world because mounting an iSCSI target is a great way to present the storage to Windows. So you have the back end provided by the TrueNAS core system and iSCSI target provided by presented through Windows so you can use all your standard Windows file sharing. This is a popular configuration and even how I'm running my system and I've talked about this in a couple other videos where I have my Steam library all on an iSCSI target attached to my TrueNAS and that's still true right now and it works quite well. Now scrolling down there's a little other details they have in here and they say you know TrueNAS is the highest performing TrueNAS version even they admit it and also still offers single node and HA deployments. I've talked about their dual failover systems. This is still the bread and butter of how TrueNAS 13 and TrueNAS core works. This is different than a way scale. Scale is building things out as a clustered file system with cluster FS. That's where the roadmap is taking them for scale. That's really not exactly on the roadmap for the TrueNAS core. It's really as I said built for the performance oriented. Now I'll make sure I also leave the release notes here the release date was May 10th 2022 for 13 and there's a lot of little details here but as you can see none of these are anything more than like grouping things together minor improvements to the main dashboard and a few minor fixes. Lots of them actually quite a few. This one is one particularly that annoys me because this is what I have is a mini 3.0 plus and let's talk about that little bug and why it annoys me. And it's this. It just happens to show that enclosure one is empty but it's not. It has a drive in there. They're aware of it so there's nothing I have to do. This is going to be targeted for the U1 release. This is the only thing I can complain about moving to the 13 beta that this was a problem and it's still a problem in the release but if that's all I'm complaining about that really isn't much. As far as everything else yeah it looks mostly the same. So this is my Trunas mini 3 as I said 64 gigs of RAM in there. The caching works perfectly fine. All the drives are online. I'm not using too much of this. This is all solid state storage for this particular pool. You can see there's a little bit of difference. These little blue icons weren't blue before so really minor stuff the way they did the grouping but overall it's a welcome improvement because it feels snappier too but that's all very not as easy to quantify. It just feels better to Tom when he's using it but that's a like I said that's kind of an opinion thing or I'm going to dive into benchmarks later. But more importantly and to the point should you upgrade? Yes. I don't see any reason not to. I've done only a few systems that I have including my one technically it's production even though it's my production of my video editing and it's my Steam library for my games and those are things I care about working so I trusted enough to upgrade it. Of course I have backups and everything but I will be testing some of our main systems before I do the switching on those because they're still at 12 u8 I never did any beta testing on some of the other ones at my office. I will do a before and after test and you know I want to dive more into the performance and compare because there's been an updated release of scale as well since I did my last performance testing and this is where things get a little tricky is there's a lot of systems to test and it's a lot of time put into putting these benchmarks and this is something that I'm you know trying to balance my staff to doing these benchmarks and all the actual work they have to do. That's why sometimes it's a little slower for me to get all those testing done and out but hey if people bug me about it in the comments and talk about it in the forums enough it usually encourages me to go all right I really need to put more effort towards some of this testing but I can guarantee you it's at least on my to-do list. So if you're thinking about upgrading big thumbs up to do it if you're confused about how permissions work I have a video on that down below if you want to learn more about ZFS and why we call ZFS a cow or people who say I'm part of the cult of ZFS which I have a shirt for that yeah there's links down below to all of those things and thanks and thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video. If you've enjoyed the content please give us a thumbs up if you would like to see more content from this channel hit the subscribe button and the bell icon. 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