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Optimizing NAS Drives for ZFS: What to Know
Selecting hard drives for a ZFS-based NAS requires understanding various technologies and features. This guide compares drives from MDD, Seagate, and Western Digital, explores SMR vs. CMR recording, and explains key features like TLER, vibration resistance, and helium filling to help you make an informed choice. Read More
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The Path to NAS
Follow along as I start to spec out the cheapest NAS system in my journey to have multiple backup servers to ensure that data is not lost to drive failures and protected after theft. Read More
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History of Data Loss
I talk about many of the storage failures that I ran into over the years including water damage, RAID failures, bit rot, corrupt drives, theft, unresponsive NAS, and bad firmware. Read More