Introducing TrueNAS V160: Versatile Mission-Critical Storage

TrueNAS is built differently than legacy vendors – it’s built on the premise that the right platform gives you the ability to have both choices.The V160 joins the rest of our TrueNAS Enterprise appliance family to extend into the bigger, more demanding, and more dynamic workloads of the future.

Performance Without the Flash-Only Tax
When NAND prices surged over 300%, flash-only architectures became budget liabilities for teams locked into single-tier designs. TrueNAS gives your storage architects direct control over the cost-performance profile.

The V160 is powered by a pair of fifth-generation TrueNAS controllers, built around AMD EPYC processors with PCIe 5.0 connectivity and up to 768GB  of DDR5 memory each.

TrueNAS Hybrid flash combines that memory bandwidth with up to 24 TiB of adaptive cache, delivering up to 60GB /s for workloads that demand it.

Behind the cache, you mix NVMe and SAS HDDs across 24 bays in whatever ratio your workload and budget require, and expand with over 1400 additional drives in one system.

When flash prices move, you adjust the media mix without re-architecting, repurchasing, or renegotiating.

For teams ready to expand beyond the head unit, the V160 supports up to six NVMe flash shelves or fourteen 102-bay SAS HDD shelves, reaching 20 PiB of flash or 35+ PiB of HDD capacity. And with no capacity-based licensing, your company can grow without worrying about running into artificial limitations.

One Platform for File, Block, and Object
Platform sprawl has a hidden cost beyond the invoice: different tools, APIs, support relationships, and upgrade cycles for each silo. Operational drag compounds.

The TrueNAS V160 runs file, block, and S3-compatible object storage on a single platform, with no protocol gaps and no piecemeal licensing.

Add a workload without rebuilding your infrastructure or retraining your staff. Your team learned the TrueNAS platform once, and it stays learned.

• For virtualization at scale, the V160 is validated with VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Xen, OpenShift, and Kubernetes, with seamless failover and HA for thousands of VMs
• For media workflows including 4K and 8K video editing, live ingest, MAM, and playout, it delivers the throughput to edit in place and keep GPUs fed without proxy workflows
• For AI and ML environments, you can serve active models from NVMe at full speed while staging training data and reference material on cost-efficient HDDs

Dynamic Data Reduction is included with the V160, with support for both TrueNAS Adaptive Compression and Fast Deduplication. Intelligent, always-on compression saves you capacity in your performance tier, while TrueNAS recognizes and skips over incompressible data, delivering maximum throughput. Fast Deduplication further increases data reduction rates for compatible workloads, aggressively removing redundant copies of data before they ever land on your disks.

Predictable Spend Across a Seven Year Lifecycle
The V160 runs TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10, fully licensed from day one. Snapshots, replication, multi-protocol access, and TrueCloud backup integration are all included. There are no feature upsells, no per-TB penalties, and no renewal line items that weren’t in the original model.

Standard deployment lifecycles run for seven years, with no forced refresh cycles – so capital stays where you planned it. Better economics here isn’t a pricing discount on a quote; it’s a function of platform architecture, all-inclusive licensing, and a media mix you control.

Your Data, Your Format, Your Exit
Proprietary data formats aren’t a technical requirement. They’re a business model. The lock-in isn’t what you buy; it’s what makes leaving expensive. TrueNAS changes this dynamic.

The V160 runs on OpenZFS, the gold standard of reliable, cross-platform compatible filesystems. Your drives are portable across any TrueNAS system, and even to non-TrueNAS systems running OpenZFS. Because you control the data format, you truly own your data. At every renewal, you’re choosing to stay because TrueNAS accelerates your outcomes, and never because the cost of leaving is prohibitive.

Available Now. Ready for the Future
The TrueNAS V160 is available for order today, and comes with all features fully enabled by the latest version of TrueNAS Enterprise 25.10. Our next software solution, TrueNAS 26, is currently in its first BETA, and will be ready for Enterprise release later in 2026.

Verify Before You Commit
TrueNAS is the only enterprise storage platform where you can download the free TrueNAS Community Edition, test it on real workloads, and verify our claims before procurement.

When the V160 reaches your shortlist, you’ll know exactly what you’re buying – because you’ve already run it.