But what if the NAS goes offline? Heck, even if the storage drives and the underlying OS can be restored using some tech ...

This has been a long while in the making—it’s test results time. To truly understand the fundamentals of computer storage, it’s important to explore the impact of various conventional RAID (Redundant ...

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 ...

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 fundamental problem is that unless your OS vendor coordinates ZFS updates with kernel updates, the burden falls on you to ...

In this video from SC16, Brad Merchant from RAID Inc. describes the company’s new Lustre ZFS Building Block. RAID Inc. offers a suite of building block product families that can be purchased ...

Today RAID Incorporated announced the launch of Pangea, the first turnkey Lustre on ZFS appliance in the market. Pangea is a high-performance, secure, ZFS-based Lustre appliance that leverages the ...

In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

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 ...

QNAP has recently officially launched the latest version of its ZFS-based NAS operating system, QuTS hero h5.1.0. This new release is packed with features and updates that enhance the system’s ...