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Amazon books (2025) about TrueNAS worth something or nonsense? Were they written by AI?
TrueNAS in Depth: Configuration and Management for Modern Storage : Wang, X.Y.: Amazon.de: Books and TrueNAS Administration and Configuration : Johnson, Richard: Amazon.de: Books
Iâd argue that anything you could want to know about TrueNAS, ZFS, ACLs, Virtualization, Docker, etc. etc. could likely be found online & for free.
This does little to answer on if these books are AI-nonsense, but Iâd argue that theyâd still not be worth the money. Especially considering that updates are fairly frequentâŚ
Exactly my thought. They are out of date when they get printed. How many YouTube videos can you find, that were made in the last year, that are grossly out of date?
Were you looking for something in particular?
I am a lady from a different generation. I was a Sys Admin at university for Solaris 2.1. To get started with Solaris, I read a book. I had experience with Solaris long before version 10, when ZFS came along. Things like ZFS change very little, a lot of the Sun Microsystems code and concepts are still in TrueNAS.
Please answer the original question. Thank you
Look at the authors on those you posted and the books under their names. I would go with known, good publishers of âITâ books. They should be vetted and fact checked already.
Do you know ZFS or is that what you are trying to learn? You might take a look at FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (IT Mastery) & FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (IT Mastery).
TrueNAS is more of an GUI on top of ZFS. A lot can be learned by reading the documents or white papers or articles by TrueNAS (formerly iX Systems)
Certain features are only in TrueNAS Enterprise. Fiber channel is an example in
Well, the front cover art looks like it was generated with AI.
Note the logo is neither right, nor consistent.
I do NOT count the time spent wetting an online source as âfreeâ.
So I certainly understand a desire to find reliable information in printed form. Verba volant, scripta manent. Unfortunately, I have no opinion on the quality of these books.
Publication date â: â 29 Jun. 2025
Kubernetes on SCALE?
Yeah, right 
Not different from my generation. I also prefer to read a book or technical manual. That is how I learn to program in machine code way back when, or design computer hardware for the very obsolete S100 bus. Dropping $60 on a book was not cheap but to get good info, that was the way to do it. Also the internet was barely born so no online searching for me.
What books are generated with AI, I havenât a clue. Trying to find something that is recent that would be a good text book on TrueNAS, very tuff since I really believe they are all outdated. TrueNAS has changed a lot over the past several years. Just look at the differences from 24.04 and 25.04, 1 year and a lot of changes.
The TrueNAS in Depth book has a very nice table of contents. There are some out of date references but it seems to cover a lot of key topics. What I couldnât say is if those topics are covered adequately in depth.
The TrueNAS Admin and Config book looks to have been written even before the first listed book based on the table of contents.
I purchased an Amazon book on Python programming, looking at it from the sales page it look really good. When it arrived, it had a few good bits of information for me but it was not technical enough for me and a great deal of the book was âfluffâ. I was disappointed. I found much better information searching the internet afterward, but like you, I really like a physical book.
Best of luck to you choosing, assuming you purchase one.
IMO, TrueNAS at this point is a sufficiently fast-moving target that thereâs no way a book would get written in sufficient depth, and through any sensible pre-production process, in time to be relevant.
I miss the old OâReilly booksâŚ
