ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner

This has been a long while in the making—it’s test results time. To truly understand the fundamentals of computer storage, it’s important to explore the impact of various conventional RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) topologies on performance. It’s also important to understand what ZFS is and how it works. But at some point, people (particularly computer enthusiasts on the Internet) want numbers.

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