I have an Ubuntu-based backup server at home (Intel NUC). It uses a single USB 3.0 8TB drive for backup storage. My configuration is: Daily, all computers in the house back up to the server via SMB.

We're talking 200TB size range and doing this with either open source or FreeNAS. Nexenta would work but they are ethically challenged so do not with to even consider that option. This will be ...

ZFS has earned its reputation the hard way. It's one of the few filesystems that genuinely delivers on promises like end-to-end data integrity, self-healing, snapshots that don't feel like a hack, and ...