2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise
Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.
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Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks
November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages
News/discussion
Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Your Home NAS Server?
Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve
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We were asked about using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.
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