TrueNAS CORE 12 Performance Review - HPE MicroServer

We really like the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus that came out a little over a year ago. The idea was to pack the capabilities and power of a server into a tiny form factor that can be used in edge locations or just in offices that don’t have spaces for an entire rack setup. We went into some depth in our first review as well as a video on our YouTube channel. A few months later, we took this tiny server and installed TrueNAS CORE to get impressive NAS capabilities into a small footprint that can handle it. While we know TrueNAS CORE 12 runs on the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus, this review specifically looks at the performance the small server can offer and the impact certain features such as deduplication have on it.

Overall, TrueNAS CORE 12 when installed on the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus can offer a very impressive storage solution. The server features four non-hot swappable LFF drive bays in the front that can be populated with either SATA 3.5” HDDs or SATA 2.5” SSDs, giving us a few options to build out a NAS with. Though very compact, you can equip the microserver with some pretty high-end enterprise-grade components, including Pentium G5420 or Xeon E-2224 CPUs and up to 32GB of ECC RAM to help take advantage of most features TrueNAS CORE has to offer.

TrueNAS deployments can be used for several things with some need deduplication and some not. We decided to look at both. Not only that we outfitted the “NAS” with HDDs and SSDs. Of course, this doesn’t cover everything but it gives users a good idea of what to expect. Instead of rehashing the above, let’s look at some of the highlights for each media and ZSTD compression with and without deduplication. While we’re highlighting the high points, make sure you look over a performance section to get an idea of how the configuration you need will perform.

With the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus, we were able to build a powerful 4-bay NAS with a tiny footprint for a reasonable price. To be fair, expansion capabilities are limited and the drives aren’t hot-swappable. And while the hardware itself is warrantied by HPE, you are on your own for support of the software and the system as a NAS. For those who want a standard solution procurement and warranty experience, iXsystems, and others offer fully built and supported systems. But as it is, these little configs are excellent for so many use cases ranging from edge computing to personal homelabs.

There’s a lot of ways to 4-Bay NAS. Synology and QNAP offer fantastic bundled solutions that are dead-simple to operate but are limited in terms of performance and tunability. If you need a lot of performance and capabilities in a small NAS, installing TrueNAS CORE 12 onto an HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus is a great, moderate-compromise, way to do it.

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