On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris will revisit the three virtualization technologies that you can use to run non-storage workloads on TrueNAS – Docker, LXC, and KVM. How do they impact performance and functionality, and which one’s right for you? They’ll also tackle some viewer questions about VDEV removal, and make suggestions around L2ARC and Special VDEVs for a user building a budget system in the midst of RAMmageddon.

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On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, it’s another round of technical information. Chris goes into the details on some of the additional VDEV types and how they interact with the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) – should you make room for an extra SSD or two in your system? Kris also reveals the upcoming changes to the LXC Container ecosystem in TrueNAS 26 – now merged in the nightlies and ready for testing.

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On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Chris and Kris take on some SSD truisms and myths – does old data on SSDs “go stale” and actually read slower than freshly written? It does, and they’ll tell you how to help prevent both performance and data loss on your TrueNAS SSD pool – the best part is, you’re probably already doing it! We’ll also tidy up some of the questions around TRIM, why autotrim is off by default, and where you might find some pain points. Plus, we’re looking for your insight, comments, and suggestions on how to further enhance TrueNAS to help mitigate some of the issues of the component price crisis – from the mundane to the madhouse, we want to hear your ideas – even if you want to use a USB boot device again!

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With the AI-driven component price bubble in full swing, hybrid storage is making a comeback. Now if only there was a software-defined storage solution with a filesystem that handled hybrid SSD/HDD systems really well – anyone know one? Chris and Kris go through some of the existing and upcoming options to enhance your hybrid TrueNAS solution by combining SSD VDEVs with your HDDs. Later on, by viewer request, Kris digs deeper into the guts of WebShare – security design, back-end architecture, and the languages used. Plus, our first sponsor spot – it’s us! Get your TrueNAS swag at truenasmerch.com

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On today’s holiday episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris have an early holiday gift – a preview of the upcoming WebShare feature coming to TrueNAS 26.04! We’ll walk through some of the features enabled, from photo viewing with location integration, to sharing files with users directly over HTTP without a TrueNAS login. Handle ZIP files directly, and even do simple document editing – all this and more coming to the next version of TrueNAS.

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Kris and Chris are back, after a busy November, just in time to detail the key features coming up in the first point release for “Goldeye” – TrueNAS 25.10.1 – already at over 55,000 installs. They’ll also talk about the new Valve hardware announcements, and what this could mean for the adoption of Linux on the desktop, as well as better support for x86-on-ARM translation. And in honor of Valve acknowledging the existence of the number 3, they’ll take a trio of viewer questions. All this and more today on T3.

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On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris tackle the TrueNAS 25.10 update feedback head-on. They’ll explain the details behind the NVIDIA driver update, the SMART testing change, and even drive spin-down being not the best choice for your ZFS powered TrueNAS. There’s even more viewer questions coming today on native S3 services in TrueNAS, Intel GPU support for 26.04, and how you can figure out what API version to call without calling the API.

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On this special Birthday episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk; Wait, Kris and Chris have been podcasting for a whole year already? Time has flown, and we’re talking about the TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” launch, some tidbits from the OpenZFS Developer Summit, and yes – they will talk about the SMART changes! NVIDIA drivers, MinIO changes, and lots more viewer questions are all coming up next!

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On this week’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, it’s all about the API – the Application Programming Interface. Kris and Chris look under the hood to talk about the control system that even TrueNAS itself has to play by, and how you can develop your own custom scripts and integrations. They’ll tackle more user questions, from “will special vdevs help for media browsing” to a user who asks if they can have Enterprise features on their home system; as well as a reminder about the upcoming OpenZFS Developer Summit next week.

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On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris do a quick review of the latest 25.10-RC1 update, along with an answer to the question of “What’s that new icon in the toolbar?” – introducing the public preview of TrueNAS Connect, available for use now alongside 25.10-RC1! From inventory management to custom enclosures, enhanced alerting to headless, web-driven installation – find out what Connect brings to the TrueNAS experience. They’ll also tackle some viewer questions from the comments on Spotlight search, a built-in file manager, and how feasible rebootless updates might be in the future. All this and more ahead today!

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