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A bit more background:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-...

The company was founded by Don Brady, who worked on the Apple ZFS for OSX project until it was cancelled.

Sadly, their website includes only marketing-buzzword compliant "tech specs" and contains no benchmarks, and there's no support for booting from ZFS. Hopefully they'll either get their act together or someone will pony up the $20 and post benchmarks and details (assuming, of course, that's not against the license).



Even on non-boot drives, ZFS can be a real boon. I used it for a 1U appliance on a solaris machine on two disks, and it saved me the cost of a RAID card.


Right - ZFS is awesome even as a non-boot storage pool. But one of the main drawbacks of MacZFS (the open-source competitor) is that it can't be booted off of, and this product doesn't seem to offer that feature as a competitive advantage.

Presumably this product offers support for the latest zpool version and is based on a much more recent ZFS codebase (and hence should perform better as well), but because their site is so devoid of benchmarks, it's hard to tell.


Looks like Silver does mirroring, but not RAIDZ. I <3 RAIDZ. RAIDZ with snapshots helped me sleep at night.




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