TrueNAS SCALE tried to do everything, so I gave it one job and moved the rest to Proxmox

A homelab enthusiast shares their experience running TrueNAS SCALE as an all-in-one solution before splitting responsibilities between TrueNAS (dedicated NAS/storage) and Proxmox (VMs, containers, apps). The key insight is that consolidating everything on a NAS creates a single point of failure, limits experimentation, and strains resources. Separating storage from compute via Proxmox nodes makes the setup easier to manage, diagnose, and scale, while TrueNAS retains its strengths as a dedicated storage platform.