Editorial desk
ZFS Storage Hub Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes ZFS Storage Hub. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
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- Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them.
- Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
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Posts (7)
- storage-architecture
RAID Z1 vs Z2 vs Z3: Pick by Bay Count and Drive Size
RAID Z1 vs Z2 vs Z3 for a home NAS: the parity level to buy for 4, 5, 6 and 8 bays, how drive size shifts the answer, and when Z3 is worth it.
- storage
ZFS Compression LZ4 vs ZSTD: Which to Use per Dataset
Keep lz4 as the ZFS default and use zstd-3 on logs, documents, backups and archives. Published benchmarks, early abort, recordsize and commands.
- filesystems
ZFS vs Btrfs for a Home NAS: Which One Should You Run
Btrfs ships in the kernel and reshapes on the fly. ZFS gives you parity RAID its own maintainers stand behind. How the two compare on a home NAS.
- storage
ZFS ARC Size: Check Usage and Tune Cache Limits
Understand ARC defaults, check real memory pressure, set and roll back Linux cache limits, and decide whether more RAM or L2ARC would actually help.
- hardware-selection
ZFS Hardware Requirements: RAM, HBAs and Disks
ZFS RAM requirements depend on workload, not a 1 GB per TB rule. Budget memory for ARC and applications, then choose suitable HBAs and disks.
- storage-architecture
RAIDZ1 vs RAIDZ2 vs RAIDZ3: Choosing Parity
How RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2 and RAIDZ3 differ in capacity, failure tolerance and rebuild risk, plus which of those choices you can still change after creation.
- pool-operations
ZFS Pool DEGRADED: Diagnose and Replace a Failed Disk
Read zpool status, distinguish a failed disk from a cable or controller fault, replace the right device, and verify the resilver safely.