 Tom here from Orange Systems and TrueNAS Core U4 was released on March 2nd of 2023 I loaded it on March 4th of 2023 and today is March 6th and all is well nothing exploded So if you're wondering, yes, it's fine to update I also want to remind people that boot environments are still a thing on both TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS Scale So if you ever have an update that just well doesn't work you go back and reboot and choose the previous boot environment That's pretty simple. Now this release is just a minor update very stable So it wasn't expecting much other than a lot of bug fixes and of course there's a lot of bug fixes linked in the description below I want to also address though the question that comes up every time of is this the end of the road? Will this be the last update for TrueNAS Core or is it a dead project? This is just a repeated question and I can assure you it is not but it is a very focused project now I did a video recently comparing TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS Scale and you can see they're pretty on par for performance There's some nuances, but nonetheless that video is linked down below If you are still thinking about which NAS to get let me explain to you from my Enterprise consulting and also my engagement with the home lab and home user community What my thoughts are on this and that's really simple if you are looking for a home user NAS That can not only be a NAS but run lots of applications and everything else You're gonna go to TrueNAS Scale if you're looking for just a NAS I want it to store files. I want it to be reliable and I'm fine with the hardware support offered through free BSD TrueNAS Core is still a good go-to once you get to the enterprise market pretty much what you're looking for is predictability and Stability just I want a predictable path. I don't need a lot of changes. I want absolute rock solid stability And TrueNAS Core because it's not as actively developed We're trying to bolt on more features outside of NAS means every update is usually gets a little bit less exciting But less exciting is very good for the enterprise market that are running petabytes of storage or using this as part of their sand part of it with a Let's say M50 because we are a reseller IX systems hardware where you get the high availability and the Solid nature of that. This is where You just really don't want to rock the boat because it's running usually as a target for their virtualization storage whether it's ESXI XCPNG or something else and companies just want Predictable that if there's an update it may fix some little bug They have with the UI which actually a lot of these bug fixes are small little UI elements and you know minor nuances But that's fine because what we really want is to not have our whole servers go down or worry about any stability They're not worried about extra applications are not worried about adding some extra functionality to it So TrueNAS Core is still the go-to for a lot of enterprise environments. It's extremely stable and predictable TrueNAS scale for the home users. Hey, it's great If you are just really wanting to throw those applications on there and look for the latest applications That may be available through Docker and all the tinkering that comes with it I've got videos where I've talked about this that is also a good solution But it's just not something you see as much in the enterprise world because the enterprise world Separates each one of the servers to its own task your application tasks over here and the storage device over here So that's kind of the status update of TrueNAS core And as far as our current use case for our TrueNAS core system, which is of course right on this latest version here It's just that for us It's pretty much a virtualization target if we go over here to the storage and we look at the pool usage Yeah, we have our LTS office things where we have a little bit of storage for other things such as the Docker storage container Which is probably becoming a future video talking about how you may want to set up your Docker storage for your application storage versus How you may attach things and that's separate because there's no Docker running on this. This is TrueNAS core But we have all their tools folders We have our Zen folders here which are related to the iSCSI folders these and ISO storage off-site backups Production backups now search interoperability. Yes, you can have mixed environments. That's still working perfectly fine That's for the reason when I load these I wait a couple days to make sure I had no issues replicating because each of these this S3 Synology hyper backup because yes, we do synchronize our synologies to this once again just as a backup target as an s3 emulation using min I o and then we Make a copy of it and each one of these other machines that is making a copy to some of them on-site Some of them off-site some of them going over VPNs such as the off-site production backup This one goes over VPN and lands off-site This is all working perfectly fine. So the interoperability is still kept both ways between TrueNAS core and TrueNAS scale So for anyone wondering or if you have a mixed environment like I do. Hey, it's still working great So in conclusion, I plan to keep running TrueNAS core on least a few machines And we'll continue supporting it and selling it to businesses that have that really focused need as far as like I o cage goes though. I'm not really pushing people who want to use I o cage apps. They're there. They exist I o cage is a good system. It's just not as popular as the Docker containers and all the application support you're gonna get with TrueNAS scale So let me know your thoughts. Let me know what you think of the project Let me know which one you went with down in the comments below And as long as these are interoperable they can live in the environments as I do switching back and forth in terms of Doing replication between the two different systems. So yeah, it's easy to maintain these two systems in the same environment So you don't have to choose one But if you only have one NAS, which one would you go with let me know your thoughts down below and thanks