To me, FreeBSD represents the OS that gave me a realistic path I could travel to achieve my computing dreams. I knew that to really achieve my ambitions, I'd n

To me, FreeBSD represents the OS that gave me a realistic path I could travel to achieve my computing dreams. I knew that to really achieve my ambitions, I'd need a way to store 50-100TB of data with high resilience and well-managed replication. Until I discovered FreeBSD and ZFS, I simply considered that kind of thing outside the realm of affordability and practicality. But please know, fellow readers - it is affordable and it is practical. FreeBSD makes it so.