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 ...

I currently am running a 4x750gb raidz, and am running out of room. I was considering adding 1TB or 1.5TB disks to the array. If I add x >= 3 drives that are each larger than 750gb to the array, would ...

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 ...

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 ...

RedShark Replay: Phil Rhodes explains the background and the (then) latest developments in the ever-evolving world of RAID (first published in July 2013). I can't wait until my computer contains no ...