hdds are cheap. you can have over 10tb in a single drive and even the worst motherboards have at least 4 sata ports. most consumer hardware support maybe 32gb ram and some meme matx/itx boards even less. the server parts would cost at least as much as the drives would.
Ubuntu is going to make it easier than ever to use ZFS!
Landon Martin
Luke Lewis
The more platters a disk has, the higher the risk of failure: getting 10 TB disks is irresponsible without some highly redundant scheme such as RAID.
Also, double the cost to consider space needed for backups and their own redundancy system.
Average consumer hardware has 4 RAM slots, and 16 GB sticks are not rare, so you can easily get to 64 GB total.
Dominic Brooks
what
Angel Sullivan
It's almost as if you WANT to lose your lifes.
Ayden Miller
I wish people would stop being so scared of btrfs. The RAID 5 and 6 modes are still flagged as "experimental" but I've been running btrfs in RAID 5 mode for about 6 years now without issue. It's even been through an HDD failure and several expansions/replacements and one drive removal, and has run on kernels between 3.2 up to 4.14 and I've yet to lose any data. not 1 corrupted file in 5.5tb of both frequently read/written and archival data in 6 years. The only problem I'd worry about is if it's doing frequent small writes like databases, or if you live in an area with very inconsistent power, you should either disable CoW or get an UPS.
Caleb Phillips
if you don't know anything at all, you'll need to ask better questions than that.
Brandon Cooper
ext4 is enough for me so I don't need ZFS.
Mason Rogers
I don't really expect a file system to do much other than these:
Does ZFS satisfy all these use cases? I'm on ext4 right now though mostly because it came by default with my distribution of choice.
Liam Carter
ZFS
ext4
There you go.
ZFS is incredibly fast for reading if you give it enough ram because you're essentially running everything off a ramdisk.
Is what everyone should be doing. It's cheap, and commies are purging all wrongthink from the internet.
how retarded
Alexander Bell
its the other way. ext for long term so you dont need some crazy expensive hardware and zfs for something that you need to access often.