When it comes to building a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), there's always the potential to choose the wrong RAID type. This shouldn't cause any issues with storing data, but it could ...

While you're right that you don't normally want RAID-5/6 or RAIDz1/2/3 on a working array, the extra capacity, and/or extra redundancy, are ideal for a backup array. It's what I'm aiming to do at home ...

OpenZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens opened a PR for one of the most sought-after features in ZFS history—RAIDz expansion—last week. The new feature allows a ZFS user to expand the size of a ...