- They added fast metadata storage devices to their zfs pools. Since failure of these metadata device groups mean the whole storage pool is lost, they've set th

- They added fast metadata storage devices to their zfs pools. Since failure of these metadata device groups mean the whole storage pool is lost, they've set them up to have a similar level of redundancy to the rest of their system (i.e. it's fine as long as 4 devices don't all fail in a very short span of time). - Chia is a cryptocurrency that made drives ~double in price for a while, but that's mostly stopped, though they're still a little more expensive than they were before. Also, reading between the lines, Chia looks really, really scammy/pyramid-schemey, even by cryptocurrency standards. - A 3rd party SQLite streaming replication project added SCP as a transport mechanism, so now it works with rsync.net - Rsync.net supports lots of their-side checksumming tools and they're really like it if you'd stop using computationally expensive ones if all you're doing is verifying data integrity.