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1Tb Maxtor basic drives & ZFS

Published on June 28, 2009 By SUNWfrk

I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.11 ZFS with ‘on access’ virus scan

Published on April 19, 2009 By SUNWfrk

Although at home I only work with Macintosh and OpenSolaris computers and the risk for virusses and malware are rather slim, my files could be infected with pc virusses and I could send pc virusses to friends without me knowing. It is also very stupid to think that Macintosh computer are just safe and don’t [...]

Shouting at disk arrays is not supported by Sun

Published on January 2, 2009 By SUNWfrk

Offcourse it comes down to two big innovations brought to you by Sun: ZFS & Dtrace The Fishworks team made a very nice gui wich combine the two and it is available in the newest Sun 7000 Unified Storage Systems.

Solaris as your Mac-NAS

Published on November 14, 2008 By SUNWfrk

If your first question is ‘why not linux?’ is that I truly think Solaris is a better and more mature operating system. Solaris has native ZFS wich is still a major issue with the GNU part of linux. Solaris is also very ready for what you expect from a NAS and you can download it [...]