Today, we’re capping off our TrueNAS H-series platform line with the upgraded TrueNAS H30. With support for 60 TB NVMe drives in each of its twelve bays and 100 GbE connectivity, the H30 delivers new levels of performance and capacity in the compact 2U storage market.

Powered by the newly released (TrueNAS 24.10.2) “Electric Eel” software and under active testing with the new TrueNAS 25.04 “Fangtooth” software, the H30 navigates effortlessly through a variety of enterprise workloads, from the edge of the cloud to the heart of your datacenter.

Like its H10 and H20 siblings, the H30 is a compact, low-power 2U platform designed for Edge workloads. With tri-mode technology to enable NVMe SSDs or SAS HDDs in each of its 12 bays, the H30 offers incredible advances in efficiency over previous-generation hardware, increasing performance and capacity by over 300%

All H-Series systems can be configured as either single controller or dual controller High Availability (HA) and offer expansion up to 114 drive bays in a 6U footprint. Upgrades from H10 and H20 to H30 can be done without data migration, and without downtime in HA systems. With network connectivity options from 1 Gbps through to 100 Gbps, the H30 is ready to be integrated into any network..

TrueNAS 24.10 delivers File, Block, Object, and Docker Apps services with HA using the highly reliable OpenZFS 2.3 as the unifying file system. 24.10 is now the most widely installed version of TrueNAS, with over 100,000 adopters in less than three months. The new TrueNAS H30 inherits all of the robust Electric Eel capabilities, including TrueSecure, with its federal FIPS 140 capabilities.

All TrueNAS platforms come with industry-leading Enterprise support, which is one of the highest rated on Gartner Peer Insights.

TrueNAS Fangtooth is preparing to enter its BETA release, adding several new capabilities to the TrueNAS H30 including:

• 16 Gb and 32 Gb Fibre Channel for SAN migration
• Fast Deduplication of NVMe flash storage for improved data reduction
• Support for LXC containers and VMs through new Incus integration

Apps, Containers, and VMs enable TrueNAS storage systems to add new services, software. These can include MinIO, Nextcloud, backup software, and data migration tools like SyncThing. Integrating applications and storage reduces the cost, power, complexity, and space for Edge deployments like retail storefronts, and allow workloads with heavy IO demands to run directly adjacent to high-performance storage.

WIth tri-mode capability allowing NVMe, SAS SSD, or HDDs in its twelve integrated bays, and additional SAS expansion up to 114 bays, the TrueNAS H30 delivers a broad choice of storage media:

• Hard Drives (HDDs) from 8 TB to 22 TB
  • Expansion from 12 Bays (2U) to 114 Bays (6U)
  • Max HDD Capacity: 2.5 PB + 100 TB Cache
• NVMe Drives from 3.2 TB to 60 TB
  • Max NVMe Capacity: 720 TB + Dedup/Compression

Monster-sized NVMe SSDs have proven very popular for M&E companies looking to edit 8K videos and other content. These new 60 TB SSDs will enable even larger systems while increasing capacity-per-watt and per rack unit. Existing 30 TB SSDs have also proven to perform well for virtualization workloads. For customers with specific security requirements, self-encrypting and FIPS-compliant drives are available as well. To discuss available options in detail, contact a TrueNAS sales representative.

HDDs are growing in size more slowly than NVMe SSDs, but can still deliver 75% lower cost per usable terabyte. For backup, archive video surveillance, and other use cases, spinning disks still offer the best capacity per dollar. Unlike flash-only systems, TrueNAS can seamlessly back up and replicate flash to HDDs without any change in web UI or API. Each TrueNAS H30 can start with low-cost HDDs and add NVMe flash as performance is needed.

The TrueNAS H30 delivers 8-10 GB/s of all-NVMe performance and well over 100,000 IOPS for each primary protocol (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3) twice as fast as the H20, with 20 cores vs 10 cores and greater RAM capacity. Even with this high performance on tap, the H30 is energy-efficient, consuming approximately 400W when equipped with dual controllers.

TrueNAS F-Series Also Grows NVMe Capacity

For those looking for even more performance than the new H30, our all-NVMe F-Series delivers up to 4×100 Gbe performance. With 60 TB SSDs, the all-NVMe TrueNAS F-Series can accelerate even more data with up to 10 PB capacity in 14U. Both the TrueNAS F60 and F100 can be expanded with NVMe-powered expansion shelves with the same robust enclosure management support as traditional SAS expansion.

TrueNAS F100 with both Flash and HDD Expansion Shelves

Ready When You Are

Talk to a TrueNAS sales representative if you need more information on any of our TrueNAS Enterprise systems. Our experts will match your use case requirements with the most cost-effective and future-proof platform. The H-Series platforms start from under $10,000 and grow based on performance and capacity needs.

The latest release of TrueNAS 24.10.2 is available now and is ready to download or update from the Web UI.

Monitor the Software Status page to see when your use case aligns with the updated version. When you’re ready, join the 100,000+ users already powering up with Electric Eel, and don’t forget to stop by the TrueNAS Forums to share your knowledge and experience.

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