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 ...

What were your mdadm parameters? You spent some time tweaking ZFS, but no time tweaking mdadm? mdadm out of the box does not have very convincing performance, as we ...

Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

Its Copy-on-Write ensures my data remains untouched even during failed write operations, while checksums and scrub tasks can detect corrupted files – and even fix them using redundant RAID copies.

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 ...