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I do the same and use an HP ProLiant microserver (it was dirt cheap). ZFSOnLinux just worked out of the box and has kept working ever since.

Word to the wise: Read about the block size of your disks, mine are newer and needed a block size different than the default but I didn't know about it, and now they are slower than they could be. I don't remember details, but you will definitely find it in a cursory search.



Newer disks use 4K instead of 512 byte sectors like older drives, so when you partition your disks you need to take care to align them accordingly.


Exactly. ZFS has a parameter for this, which you need to set manually.




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