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

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 ...

Hi- I am building out specs for a forensics workstation (meaning I have separate tasks with separate read/write transfer speed needs). My other requirement is maximizing performance of some ...

When you are setting up a storage repository on Linux you have a lot of choice in configurations, more so than on a Windows server. ZFS is a go to for many as it incorporates a logical volume manager, ...

I’ve been interested in NAS-centric tools ever since I built my first storage server using an old PC. Network shares are a good example, and after learning of their individual merits, I’ve started ...

ZFS and Better File System (Btrfs) are two popular modern file systems. Both are designed with advanced storage features and offer snapshot capabilities, data integrity protection, and highly ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...