Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyone's attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. It's ...

ZFS is the successor to the Unix File System used in Solaris, and is an advanced file system equipped with snapshot, copy-on-write, and RAID functions. The open source implementation of ZFS could not ...

Hi- I am building out specs for a forensics workstation (meaning I have separate tasks with separate read/write transfer speed needs). My other requirement is maximizing performance of some ...

Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems – and now owned by Oracle – due to licensing issues. As ...

When youâ re assembling your perfect NAS, there are several things youâ ll need to consider. Once youâ ve chosen the hardware and drives, youâ ll have to pick an operating system for your storage ...