A home lab enthusiast shares why they chose Proxmox over TrueNAS Scale when repurposing an old gaming PC. TrueNAS Scale is purpose-built for NAS setups with ZFS storage management, making it less ideal for general-purpose home labs. Proxmox, as a hypervisor-first platform, offers complete hardware flexibility, easy LXC container and VM management, and a large community knowledge base covering GPU passthrough, backups, and networking. The author notes TrueNAS is still superior for pure storage management and can even run inside Proxmox as a VM with disk passthrough for the best of both worlds.
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TrueNAS Scale didn't fit the hardware I hadProxmox gives complete control regardless of hardwareThe community support lines up with what home lab users actually wantTrueNAS is genuinely better for managing storageSort: