Why it's Time to Move off TrueNAS Core... [YouTube Release]

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Thinking about migrating away from TrueNAS Core? In this video, I break down the current state of TrueNAS Core, what’s happening in 2025, and how to plan your upgrade or migration. With TrueNAS Community Edition coming this April and TrueNAS SCALE becoming more robust, it’s time to talk strategies for both homelab enthusiasts and business deployments.

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Chapters
00:00 Why it’s Time to Move off TrueNAS Core…
01:40 What WILL NOT migrate from TrueNAS Core
05:55 Virtual Machines
07:22 Exporting TrueNAS Core Settings
08:39 ISO TrueNAS Install and Importing Settings

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Since I will probably need to do this during the summer, going to ask a question:

With the clean install, let’s assume that you decide to replace the boot disks because they are old, so you do the clean install, import the config and things are really broken. Do you know if we could then reinstall the old boot disks, and boot to have a functioning system?

I’m guessing the answer is yes, because that’s the way it has been for a very long time, but worth asking for confirmation. Yes my boot disks are fairly old and I should replace them, and this may be the perfect time to replace them.

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As long as you don’t update the ZFS version of the pool then the answer is yes you can go back.