We can already hear conventional RAID fans grumbling that their hardware RAID would outrun that silly ZFS, since it's got a battery or supercapacitor backed cache and will therefore handle sync ...

However, the fall of hardware-based RAID over the last decade remains a ... built-in RAID provisions available in TrueNAS ...

ZFS will only be slower when you have very few drives and very slow CPU compared to a very good hardware RAID with very fast drives. If you are going to bother with a ZFS setup at all, you might ...

Here are the key hardware considerations ... Understanding RAID levels is essential when configuring ZFS. While RAID-Z enhances data protection, it reduces usable storage capacity.

In this video from SC16, Brad Merchant from RAID Inc. describes the company’s new Lustre ZFS Building Block. RAID Inc. offers a suite of building block product families that can be purchased ...

ZFS is designed to protect, store and access data in the most demanding enterprise environments. Using standard, low-cost components: disk drives, enclosures, adapters, cables. No RAID arrays ...