Comparing RAID, SMR and dual-actuator behavior

Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

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We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica

Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation