100TB Storage Server for $110: Why You Want to Use ZFS Instead of EXT4 RAID

May 14, 2023 @ 12:53 pm

Piotr is back with an intriguing video about a 100TB storage server! This system was only $110/month on auction.

Once you’ve got 100TB worth of drives, the question is how do you organize them? Should you use EXT4 with RAID or venture into ZFS?

What if I told you that Piotr’s benchmark shows that ZFS performs 90 times better than EXT4 and RAID?

Amazing. Check this out!

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