Published Oct 27, 2026, 2:30 PM 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.

I tend to use both TrueNAS and Proxmox in my home lab, with the former serving my backup, archival, and file-sharing tasks, while PVE handles all my self-hosted tools, DevOps experiments, and wacky DIY projects. But even if both platforms have their own distinct roles, I often use them in tandem. For one, I’ve got a TrueNAS rig running Proxmox Backup Server, and it accepts snapshots from my experimental PVE cluster.

Likewise, I’ve got another pre-built chassis that runs TrueNAS as a VM within Proxmox, but it’s mostly for random experiments and not something I use for everyday tasks.…