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Why would you put ZFS on a laptop? How many drives can you fit into a laptop?

I’m running FreeNas at home with 6x4TB WD Red drives. All my computers back up to FreeNas. My Plex server reads/writes all its media from it as well.

I’m going to switch FreeNas to a Linux server with ZFS at some point.

> Why would you put ZFS on a laptop? How many drives can you fit into a laptop?

Checksums, compression, snapshots (so easy and fast incremental backups using send/receive).

ZFS is much more then RAID. Also, even with only one drive we can increase our chances a bit using copies=2.

> Why would you put ZFS on a laptop?

Data validation, snapshots, compression, zfs send (for backups)?