On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris go over the latest TrueNAS update adoption, and talk about the final update for CORE 13.3 - which begs the question, can SCALE and Community Edition be a “NAS Only” solution just as well as CORE? The new Apps Marketplace launches at apps.truenas.com, and a new feature in development sprouts up in time for spring - learn more about what the ‘zfs rewrite’ command will do for the future of ZFS!
Its obvious. People want NAS-only because they don’t want to pay for all the additional features they don’t even use.
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Oh wait… 
With all the discussions about apps and virtualization these days, a new user browsing the (new) forum might be forgiven to overlook the fact truenas offers NAS functionality as well 
I think they just don’t want it to become too bloated taking more and more resources. Some things only run when you turn them on but others actively take resources.
But I love what truenas is and it’s doing.
Do you have any examples of things that actively takes resources when not used or turned on?
No examples. I know some things only run when you turn them on but maybe other system functions run in the background. I don’t know if it does or doesn’t. Do you know if none run in the background?
I was just curious of things to look for. I’ve never noticed any wasted resources by simply running NaS functionality alone.
The answer to this is no. Services you don’t use aren’t sitting there consuming resources unnecessarily. The middleware has its usual list of housekeeping things it does generically for the system as a whole, but that’s on us to keep as minimal and lightweight as possible. We care greatly about the overheads as well like you do 
Thanks for the clarification and great to know.
