Tag: ZFS

The iXsystems FreeNAS Mini E+ brings twice the core count, higher clock speeds, and more memory expansion to the lineup while the older gen is retired

Our FreeNAS Mini XL+ review shows how this 8x 3.5" + 2x 2.5" NAS performs and how it is uniquely adapted to run FreeNAS at the edge and remotely managed

Our Intel Optane DC P4801X 100GB U.2 NVMe SSD review shows why this Intel Optane drive has a narrow niche to play in as a low cost but high cost per GB SSD

In our Intel Optane DC P4801X review, we show how this drive performs compared to other options as a ZFS ZIL or SLOG device or other write cache applications

We show you how to setup Docker on Proxmox VE using ZFS storage as the backend, even using a rpool backend for Docker storage

There is a bug in the current ZFS on Linux 0.7.7 impacting the RHEL/ CentOS communities that has the potential to cause data loss.

We show how you can easily fix the Proxmox VE cannot import rpool no such pool available ZFS boot issue so you can use mirrored SSDs in a ZFS pool for boot

We present a case as to why you should use ZFS compression on your storage servers as it provides tangible benefits even at a relatively low performance impact. In some cases, it can improve performance.

We use a new FreeBSD tool for simulating ZFS ZIL SLOG performance to test Intel Optane and NAND based SATA, SAS and PCIe NVMe SSD options

We go into what the ZFS ZIL SLOG is. We also show a few common choices as ZFS ZIL SLOG devices, how they work and what makes a good one