I stopped obsessing over RAID and realized snapshots are what actually protect my data ...

ZFS needs a cache to work properly, and the default might be robbing your VMs of performance ...

I've been testing a zfs pool using 3 drives I had left over from a computer that I got rid of. Two of them are 160G and the other is 400G. Is it possible to raidz or JBOD them together using the whole ...

We've got a new system that is going to act purely as a backup target for a GlusterFS system we run. I've got two Chenbro 60 disk enclosures plugged into a Dell frontend. One enclosure is full and the ...

Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

If you need to expand your cloud solution storage options, a ZFS storage pool might be ideal. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data collection ...

You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. It is Sun's invention, yet Sun has opened it to the world, including ZFS ...

The CRN Test Center this month took a close look at the ZFS Storage Appliance 7420, Oracle's latest low-cost, flash-optimized storage hardware for high-performance transactional systems. In the ZFS, ...