Need to know about ZFS, Please Help.

[fischer04]

Hello,

I have, or used to have a 18TB Storage (6x3TB) build in RAID 5 Nas4Free. Some of my disks appeared to have some problems and maybe dead, but then i saw in a lot of posts people talking about using ZFS instead of RAID.

How it works? What ZFS offers me that's different/better than RAID5?

I'm about to buildi a new storage with 4x2TB disks thinking about make 2 RAID0 with 2TB disks, and build RAID 1 with this 2 Raid0 that i'll build.

BUT, if ZFS is better than RAID i think i'll change everything..

Someone could explain this to me? I need to be clear about all the information, because if it's good, i'll probably migrate from RAID to ZFS.

Thanks.

[raulfg3]

YES ZFS is better, please read this post to understand how ZFS works: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?th ... oobs.7775/


And google a bit "RAID vs ZFS" eg: https://www.ateamsystems.com/tech-blog/ ... or-vs-zfs/

[fischer04]

YES ZFS is better, please read this post to understand how ZFS works: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?th ... oobs.7775/


And google a bit "RAID vs ZFS" eg: https://www.ateamsystems.com/tech-blog/ ... or-vs-zfs/

thanks, i'll take a look.