Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyone's attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. It's ...

ZFS is better at protecting data than any commodity RAID card, any other open-source software RAID, or Windows software RAID (I believe I hit all the free and cheap RAID solutions - that was my goal).

A mirror only lets you use one disk in a stack in usable space (50%, or less if for some reason you want a double redundant mirror, i.e. three disks). A RAID-Z ...

The Zettabyte File System (ZFS), as a back-end file system to Lustre, has had support in Lustre for a long time. But in the last few years it has gained greater importance, likely due to Lustre’s push ...