TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3)

It’s a software release episode today! The latest beta of TrueNAS 26 is out – from improved virtualization to storage status, refined ACLs to smoother upgrades, find out what BETA.2 can do for you. There’s also important security fixes for TrueNAS 25.10 users with the new 25.10.4 release – make sure to stay protected against the new batch of CVEs. There’s also Kuberne...

Chris and Kris take a break from traveling to sit down in the studio, bringing you the latest news on TrueNAS development. With TrueNAS 25.10.3 freshly out the door, and the BETA.2 release of TrueNAS 26 approaching soon, find out what’s here now in the current release – and what the big features are that will be landing in the next version. The post T3 Tech Talk Ep.59: Tech Updates &#8...

Chris and Kris are back on TrueNAS Tech Talk to talk about backups – World Backup Day was March 31st, and it’s time to level up your data protection. They’ll go through the concept of air-gapped systems, how to implement a “virtual air-gap” with TrueNAS, and the components of a solid, resilient backup and replication architecture that you can build yourself. A couple...

Chris and Kris take this episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk to respond and clear the air about recent changes made to the build scripts repository on GitHub, and this means for TrueNAS users. They’ll talk about the “Enterprise-First” focus, how feature requests are reviewed and sorted, and where Community Edition is headed. The post T3 Tech Talk Ep.57: Clearing the Air on the Build Scr...

Today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk brings the (tentative!) release schedule for TrueNAS 26 – from BETA1 to the .0 release, find out when you’ll be able to get your hands on the next generation of TrueNAS software, as well as some of the key features that will be included. Kris and Chris also talk about one of those key features, the new dataset tiering functionality coming to TrueNAS 26....

Today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk is short but sweet – there’s a quick hotfix for TrueNAS 25.10.2, an official TrueNAS Proxmox storage plugin is available for Community testing, Docker network support is landing in the App catalog – and an update on plans for SMART options for monitoring drive health. The post T3 Tech Talk Ep.55: TrueNAS Hotfix, Proxmox Plugin, Docker Networks, and...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, TrueNAS 25.10.2 is out – Kris and Chris will go through the fixes and improvements included in both this latest release as well as recap the features of 25.10. Kris has also been hard at work in the lab – the TrueNAS Labs, launching today with the first experimental project, the Model Context Protocol server. Hear about how Kris has been t...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, raise the alert flags – and badges, and modal dialogs – it’s time to start unveiling the UI and UX overhaul work in progress for TrueNAS 26. Today’s focus is the new Alert system, now with greater details, suggested actions, links to the documentation, contextual highlighting, and more! We’ll also take on four (or five, d...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris confirm what some of you were guessing – TrueNAS 26 is dropping the decimals! Find out the details about our new annual release cycle, how new features will be added, and the fish is cooked, no more codenames. We’ll look at some of the technical news from the past week – from Intel’s ZAM to WD’s “Dual...

On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris will revisit the three virtualization technologies that you can use to run non-storage workloads on TrueNAS – Docker, LXC, and KVM. How do they impact performance and functionality, and which one’s right for you? They’ll also tackle some viewer questions about VDEV removal, and make suggestions around L2ARC and Special VDEVs for...

On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, it’s another round of technical information. Chris goes into the details on some of the additional VDEV types and how they interact with the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) – should you make room for an extra SSD or two in your system? Kris also reveals the upcoming changes to the LXC Container ecosystem in TrueNAS 26 – now merged in the n...

On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Chris and Kris take on some SSD truisms and myths – does old data on SSDs “go stale” and actually read slower than freshly written? It does, and they’ll tell you how to help prevent both performance and data loss on your TrueNAS SSD pool – the best part is, you’re probably already doing it! We’ll also tidy up some of the...

With the AI-driven component price bubble in full swing, hybrid storage is making a comeback. Now if only there was a software-defined storage solution with a filesystem that handled hybrid SSD/HDD systems really well – anyone know one? Chris and Kris go through some of the existing and upcoming options to enhance your hybrid TrueNAS solution by combining SSD VDEVs with your HDDs. Later on,...

On today’s holiday episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris have an early holiday gift – a preview of the upcoming WebShare feature coming to TrueNAS 26.04! We’ll walk through some of the features enabled, from photo viewing with location integration, to sharing files with users directly over HTTP without a TrueNAS login. Handle ZIP files directly, and even do simple document...

Kris and Chris are back, after a busy November, just in time to detail the key features coming up in the first point release for “Goldeye” – TrueNAS 25.10.1 – already at over 55,000 installs. They’ll also talk about the new Valve hardware announcements, and what this could mean for the adoption of Linux on the desktop, as well as better support for x86-on-ARM translat...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris tackle the TrueNAS 25.10 update feedback head-on. They’ll explain the details behind the NVIDIA driver update, the SMART testing change, and even drive spin-down being not the best choice for your ZFS powered TrueNAS. There’s even more viewer questions coming today on native S3 services in TrueNAS, Intel GPU support for 26.0...

On this special Birthday episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk; Wait, Kris and Chris have been podcasting for a whole year already? Time has flown, and we’re talking about the TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” launch, some tidbits from the OpenZFS Developer Summit, and yes – they will talk about the SMART changes! NVIDIA drivers, MinIO changes, and lots more viewer questions are all coming up...

On this week’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, it’s all about the API – the Application Programming Interface. Kris and Chris look under the hood to talk about the control system that even TrueNAS itself has to play by, and how you can develop your own custom scripts and integrations. They’ll tackle more user questions, from “will special vdevs help for media browsing” to a...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris do a quick review of the latest 25.10-RC1 update, along with an answer to the question of “What’s that new icon in the toolbar?” – introducing the public preview of TrueNAS Connect, available for use now alongside 25.10-RC1! From inventory management to custom enclosures, enhanced alerting to headless, web-driven...

On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris digs into a major feature in the upcoming TrueNAS 26.04 “Halfmoon” release – Spotlight search support for MacOS. Find out how the new “truesearch” service will work to index and catalog your files to give lightning-fast search results, in a common back-end DB, so that additional search protocols can extend the functionality in...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 is just a few weeks from deployment, and there’s a few helpful fixes since the Beta release – then Kris and Chris will dig into the big news; OpenZFS 2.3.4 is in 25.10-RC1, and despite the small version number bump, it’s bringing a big list of fixes. Kris and Chris will go through some of the highlights of the relea...

Tom Lawrence joins Kris and Chris on today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk! From on-site video production in RVs to a special-interest server streaming two million images a day, come find out how Tom has leveraged TrueNAS both personally and professionally – plus, hear the team weigh in on the growing desire for data sovereignty, how open source development needs a complimentary busines...

On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, it’s BETA Release Day! TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” makes its first public appearance, and it’s time for Kris and Chris to go on a technical deep-dive. From A to Z – Apps to ZFS, they’ll talk about the new features and changes in Goldeye. Whether it’s NVMe-oF for high-speed block storage, Access Based Enumeration f...

TrueNAS Tech Talk returns from hiatus with a guest star and an exciting new software build! TrueNAS user and Community member Joel May, software engineer by day, has compiled and released the first ARM developer builds for TrueNAS Fangtooth (25.04)! Find out about what enticed Joel to build TrueNAS for a completely different platform, the challenges he had along the way, and speculate on the futur...

On TrueNAS Tech Talk episode 36, Kris and Chris dig into the pull request for the upcoming ZFS AnyRaid feature, which will allow mixed drive sizes to be used in a pool. Find out how “Tiles” will enable increased flexibility when building a pool, and whether or not it’s the right fit for your requirements. TrueNAS 25.04.2 makes it out the door, bringing back Virtualization Classic...