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forums.lawrencesystems.com/t/zfs-drive-layouts-explained-choosing-the-right-design-for-your-workload/26432

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ZFS Deduplication
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Chapters
00:00 What is ZFS?
02:37 ZFS RaidZ Types and Mirrors
03:36 VDEV Width
05:25 ARC Adaptive Replacement Cache
06:28 How Many VDEVs should you have?
07:39 Mirrored VDEV
08:36 RaidZ1 vs RaidZ2 vs RaidZ3
09:59 Special LOG VDEV
12:24 Special Metadata VDEV
15:05 L2ARC
16:53 Deduplication
19:25 Capacity VS Performance Tradeoffs
20:32 What About dRAID?