Published May 6, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. TrueNAS has been my go-to platform for storage servers ever since its Core days, and the Community Edition (or Scale, as we used to call it back in the day) has been a massive improvement over its FreeBSD predecessor. And between WebShare and NVMe-over-TCP, ixSystems has added a bunch of cool features in the last couple of updates. My favorites are the enhanced virtualization provisions and LXC support, which essentially turn the king of ZFS NAS distributions into something more viable for general-purpose home server projects.…