Published Apr 29, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him inside a chassis somewhere. Home lab enthusiasts have had a clear choice when it came to using TrueNAS and Proxmox. One is perfectly suited to storing lots of data on the network, and the other is great for running countless containers and virtual machines. TrueNAS 26 is almost here, with a beta available, and it has made the operating system more akin to Proxmox than ever before. Previously, it wasn't uncommon for TrueNAS to be run within a virtual instance on Proxmox, but now the TrueNAS developers have made it much more feasible to run the NAS OS alone. Running earlier releases of TrueNAS on a system made it a pain to run an entire home lab. It was possible, sure, but one had to leap through hoops to get everything up and running.…