TrueNAS has launched the TrueNAS V160, a dual-controller enterprise storage system designed to run all-flash, hybrid (NVMe plus HDD), or HDD-only configurations under a single platform. The company is pitching the V160 at teams trying to balance performance targets with storage media price volatility, especially for architectures that have standardized on flash.
TrueNAS says the V160 scales to more than 35 PiB of raw capacity in both hybrid and all-flash configurations. At maximum configuration, the platform supports more than 1,400 drives. Bandwidth scales with configuration up to 60 GB/s, and the system supports up to 400GbE connectivity.
The practical design point here is flexibility: a chassis and controller platform that can be rebalanced toward NVMe or toward disk without swapping to a different array family. In real deployments, that can matter more than a headline performance number, because it determines whether you can respond to budget shifts by changing media mix rather than re-architecting tiers and migration plans.
TrueNAS ties the V160 to AI, machine learning, and database use cases by putting active models and high-throughput queries on NVMe while staging training data and large reference datasets on HDDs in the same system. It also calls out media and entertainment workflows, including 8K editing, and virtualization deployments at scale.
On virtualization, TrueNAS lists validation with VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Xen, OpenShift, and Kubernetes, alongside “thousands of VMs” and high availability with failover. The V160 is built on the fifth-generation TrueNAS controller and uses a dual-controller high-availability design.
The V160 ships “fully licensed from day one” with TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10. TrueNAS also states there are no per-TB licensing penalties, no feature upsells, and no renewal surprises. The system supports file, block, and object storage, and includes inline compression and deduplication for data reduction.
“Enterprises running flash-only storage today have no architectural way out when flash prices move—and prices have moved dramatically,” said Brett Davis, CEO of TrueNAS. “The V160 was built to solve that. Run all-flash, all-HDD, or any mix in between—across more than 1,400 drives, at a price point no comparable platform matches.”
TrueNAS says the V160 is available now. More details are posted at TrueNAS’s V160 write-up.
Source: TrueNAS
