Can You Have Too Many VDEVs? A Practical Guide to ZFS Scaling
ZFS is built to scale. With the right VDEV layout, adding VDEVs delivers more IOPS, quicker rebuilds, and consistent behavior as your pool grows.
Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) is an SSD endurance metric that estimates how many times a drive’s full capacity can be written each day over its warranty period. This article explains how DWPD is calculated, why vendor ratings can be misleading, how NAND flash wear actually works, and which factors — including bit density, overprovisioning, and usable capacity — better predict real-world SSD lifespan and performance.
How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI
Turn commodity hardware into a fault-tolerant SAN. This ZFS pool setup with iSCSI shows how to combine mirrored storage and FreeBSD jails for high availability without vendor lock-in.
Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS
Build enterprise-grade storage on Proxmox that outperforms costly arrays. With ZFS, you get snapshots, replication, and self-healing — full control without vendor lock-in.
Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation
OpenZFS doesn’t just guard against accidents. With encryption, replication, and delegation, it adds powerful defenses to keep your data safe from attackers. Read on to learn how.
Leveraging OpenZFS for The Future of Your Infrastructure Storage
Learn how OpenZFS delivers scalable, high-performance storage with unmatched data integrity. This whitepaper from Klara Inc. provides practical insights, case studies, and best practices to optimize your IT infrastructure.
OpenZFS Data Protection – Replicating Data Quickly and Safely with OpenZFS
Join us as Klara co-founder Allan Jude and ZFS expert Jim Salter discuss reliable data replication with ZFS send and receive, the perfect solution for ensuring data integrity and optimizing performance across machines or continents.
OpenZFS Environment Design and Migration
Deep Dive Into the Challenges of Designing and Migrating Data Storage.
OpenZFS – Understanding ZFS vdev Types
ZFS pools are built from virtual devices (vdevs), and the topology you choose directly affects performance, redundancy, rebuild times, and scalability. This guide explains ZFS vdev types including mirror, RAIDz1/2/3, dRAID, LOG, CACHE (L2ARC), SPECIAL, and SPARE vdevs, along with the tradeoffs of each configuration for different workloads and hardware environments.
FreeBSD vs. Linux – Which Operating System to Use for OpenZFS
Age-old discussion: ZFS running on Linux or FreeBSD? We’re not going to set out to tell you which operating system you should use. Both choices are excellent — but we’ll lay out how different (or alike) it is to run OpenZFS on either to help anyone on the fence decide which OS to use beneath our favorite filesystem.