#Maczfs vs zevo mac os
#Maczfs vs zevo update
#Maczfs vs zevo full

For me current data protection far outweighs any future incompatibilities.

So anyone running a MacPro with its ECC ram should check out ZFS. I wouldn't have the same confidence in HFS. There have been other instances of hardware failures and ZFS has completely recovered with no data loss. When I reattached the cable, there were a few errors in the pool but ZFS quickly repaired and resilvered the pool with ZERO DATA LOSS. For example, on one occasion an internal sata data cable running 4 of the 8 disks in my ZFS pool became partially detached on my eSata tower rendering the pool inoperable. Not only is my data protected but ZFS is incredibly robust.

#Maczfs vs zevo mac os

I have gotten nearly two years of ZFS use on Mac OS now and the experience has been wonderful. I just completed a scrub using OpenZFS 1.2.7 under 10.9.3 on a 9TB, 8 disk mirrored pair ZFS pool and it completed in 10 hours - 2 hours less than ZEVO.

I am testing OpenZFS on 10.9.3 and it is running great. zfs isn't hard you are just going to have to get comfortable at the command line. Solaris/UNIX/Linux admin at a large university for the last 20+ years. You're going to have to get into it and learn it. Having ZFS plus OS X Server is the best of both worlds. ZFS gives you snapshots, compression and dedup. The nice thing about ZFS combined with OS X Server is that you gain the ability to build RaidZ fault tolerant volumes and also build them with a ZIL cache (I use an SSD drive for ZIL) as well as L2ARC cache (also SSD). It was really hard for me to decide to leave it and go OS X Server but I couldn't give up ZFS.

#Maczfs vs zevo full

FreeNas is BSD based, supports AFS, Timemachine, CIFS, iSCSI and NFS, does snapshots and really is a full featured NAS. Even tho I could do a lot of it with FreeNAS (BSD) Jails. I like having a 'more usable' Server for other things than FreeNas offered. Presently I've settled on OS X Server with ZFS. I've been back and forth between FreeNAS (also ZFS based) and OS X Server with ZFS. ZFS works well without any issues on my MacPro 2008/3,1 Home Server. and that's coming from a Sun bigot of 20+ years. Since Oracle bought Solaris I can't recommend Solaris anymore. I'm running it side by side with the original AirVideo for now, due to a few bugs (it doesn't like FLAC audio, for one), but it's pretty ok. They released it as a new app, forcing existing users to pay again, but you might find it worth checking out.

#Maczfs vs zevo update

Kinda off-topic, perhaps, but since you mentioned AirVideo: Inmethod finally released their major update AirVideo HD a few days back. Haven't encountered any serious issues yet, although transferring large amounts of data leads to a seriously jumpy mouse pointer since I enable compression (gzip -9), making it rather difficult to work on anything else. On Mountain Lion, ZEVO works fine for me though. Theoretically I could switch to the MacZFS Prototype, which should be able import storage pools created with ZEVO, but I'm not sure it's stable enough for normal use. The project is kinda dead, and the current version does not work under Mavericks beta releases so far. I personally went with ZEVO at the time, which turned out to be an unfortunate choice. ( feature comparison - found this one over at ZEVO forums, not sure if biased) It kinda depends on what solution you choose.