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Why would you put ZFS on a laptop? How many drives can you fit into a laptop? I’m running FreeNas at home with 6x4TB WD Red drives. All my computers back up to
by wil421 7y ago
Why would you put ZFS on a laptop? How many drives can you fit into a laptop?
I’m running FreeNas at home with 6x4TB WD Red drives. All my computers back up to FreeNas. My Plex server reads/writes all its media from it as well.
I’m going to switch FreeNas to a Linux server with ZFS at some point.
- 0xcde4c3db 7y ago> Why would you put ZFS on a laptop? Data validation, snapshots, compression, zfs send (for backups)?
- pm7 7y ago> Why would you put ZFS on a laptop? How many drives can you fit into a laptop? Checksums, compression, snapshots (so easy and fast incremental backups using send/receive). ZFS is much more then RAID. Also, even with only one drive we can increase our chances a bit using copies=2.