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[Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes



On 7/10/2015 3:08 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> But like many nice ideas, this one only goes so far: after a few cycles
> you can't get matched replacement disks and a bit later technology
> likely changes enough you need to rethink everything.

This is one way that ZFS and Btrfs are superior: they don't require 
matching drives like traditional RAID.

-- 
Rich P.



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