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ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon

Enlarge / OpenZFS supports many complex disk topologies, but “spiral stack sitting on a desk” still isn’t one of them. (credit: Jim Salter) OpenZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens merged one of the most sought-after features in ZFS history—RAIDz expansion—into master last week. The new feature allows a ZFS user to expand the size of a […]

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TrueNAS R-series hyperconverged appliances Combine storage and Calculate

Expand / / There is a whole lot to unpack in this infographic, that functions as a fairly succinct description of that which exactly TrueNAS SCALE does and is –or certainly will, if it is fully finished. (charge: iXsystems) Now, storage seller iXsystems is starting a brand new R-series hyperconverged infrastructure blower because of the […]