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The formatting of Oracle-branded HGST SSDs (2021)
A little tale from the world of enterprise computing (again). Well, I needed something to do alongside filing my taxes, and I recently received a bunch of hardware, so there’s that. I ordered…
The original ZFS RAID volume that kept *ALL* my data crashed via some obscure file system bug, and since I’m not a paying Oracle customer (not that they would help me out – everything is plastered with “restore from backup” notes), I finally migrated to Ubuntu and OpenZFS. Back when I started with ZFS, Oracle was clearly ahead, but nowadays file-system encryption without any additional inner or outer layer such as geli is present in OpenZFS. Okay, those folks aim for 100% uptime so that’s no priority, but this just shows that open source works well for a broad audience since it’s not necessarily driven by the needs of commercial customers.
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