Webinar Overview
As storage hardware becomes more expensive and harder to replace, many organizations are looking for ways to get more usable capacity out of the drives they already own. Traditional RAID-Z layouts are designed around matched drive sizes, which can leave additional capacity unused when mixed-size disks are combined into a pool.
AnyRAID enables using mixed-size drives together efficiently, helping organizations reclaim stranded capacity, expand storage incrementally, and spread out costly hardware replacement cycles. In some configurations, usable capacity can increase by more than 50% compared to traditional RAID-Z layouts.
Join Allan Jude and Jon Panozzo, CEO and Co-Founder of HexOS, for a technical discussion on how AnyRAID works, where it delivers the biggest gains, and the tradeoffs administrators should understand before deploying it in production.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why traditional RAID-Z struggles with mixed-size drives
- How AnyRAID unlocks more usable storage
- The future flexibility AnyRAID enables
- How to choose the tradeoffs between flexibility, redundancy, and performance
- Mixed-drive deployment strategies and use cases
If you're responsible for database performance on ZFS, this will give you a clearer, safer way to optimize it.
Date: June 25, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM EDT
Duration: 50 minutes.
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Meet the Panellists
Co-founder and Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A core ZFS developer, FreeBSD contributor, and co-author of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, Allan is a community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through. He enjoys spending his time improving ZFS, advancing FreeBSD, and making open source code better.
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Co-Founder and CEO of HexOS, Jon Panozzo is a technology entrepreneur and self-hosting enthusiast focused on making advanced storage and server technologies easier to deploy and manage. His work centers on simplifying home server infrastructure through automation and flexible storage design.
Jon is a strong advocate for practical, user-friendly infrastructure and frequently speaks on self-hosting, storage architecture, and modern homelab environments.
Learn about HexOSFAQ
Open source storage supports European data sovereignty by giving organizations full control over their infrastructure, data location, and security policies without vendor lock-in. Transparent, auditable code allows EU organizations to verify how data is handled and maintain compliance with European regulations.
Klara helps enterprises design and deploy ZFS-based storage architectures that ensure operational independence, security, and long-term control.
Vendor lock-in restricts data portability, limits transparency, and can expose organizations to foreign jurisdiction risks. When storage platforms control architecture decisions, organizations lose flexibility over where and how data is stored.
Open source storage removes these constraints by enabling infrastructure portability and independent governance. Our team helps organizations build sovereign-ready storage platforms based on open technologies.
ZFS supports compliance and security with end-to-end data integrity checks, native encryption, controlled snapshots/replication, and predictable operational behavior in production. When correctly designed, it improves resilience and auditability for regulated workloads.