Alek Pinchuk of Datto talked about Pool Layout Considerations.

Discussion of these devices after the talk may lead to enhancements to ZFS to better support these new larger flash devices that use larger logical sector sizes.

After a very nice lunch, Orlando Pichardo of Micron talked about the future of flash, and their new 7.5TB SATA SSDs.

Then Steven Umbehocker of OSNEXUS talked about their products, and how they manage large numbers of ZFS nodes.

I provided him some helpful hints to optimize his setup and improve the throughput of his backups

Then our friend Calvin Hendryx-Parker presented how he solves all of his backup headaches with ZFS.

The talks started with Matt Ahrens discussing how the 2nd most requested feature of ZFS, Device Removal, has now landed, then pivoting into the MOST requested feature, RAID-Z expansion, and his work on that so far, which included the first functional prototype, on FreeBSD.

One entire wall was made of lego base plates, and there were buckets of different coloured lego embedded in the wall. Attendees met for breakfast on the fourth floor, in a lunchroom type area just outside of the theatre.Allan’s recap of the ZFS User conference, first impressions of OmniOS by a BSD user, Nextcloud 13 setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on a fanless desktop computer, an intro to HardenedBSD, and DragonFlyBSD getting some SMP improvements.

Samsung ssd for mac mini late 2012