Datto's Z Series: world's first on / off-site backup solution to use ZFS

Datto earned a round of golf claps with its Backup NAS by bringing comparatively affordable off-site storage to the small businesses of the world, but it's giving itself a round of applause with the Z Series. Hailed as the "planet's first on and off-site backup solution to use ZFS," these units provide up to 1TB of local and off-site storage, optional RAID 1 local redundancy, twin gigabit Ethernet ports, OS X / Windows / Linux compatibility and the obligatory rock-solid stability that ZFS is known for. You'll also get a rapid recovery promise, which enables you to sleep easy knowing that your data can be restored within 24 hours should disaster strike. The units range in capacity from 250GB ($499) to 1TB ($1,149), while the required service packages demand anywhere between $35 per month to $1,000 a year.

[Romesh @ Jul 29th 2008 10:07AM]

I could have sworn the Netgear Storage Central (SC101) I had a few years ago used ZFS for local NAS...?

[Jason @ Jul 29th 2008 12:03PM]

Actually, the SC101 used a proprietary file system called SFS. ZFS is an open source file system out of the Solaris camp. Now it was available 'a few years back, but if you had reformatted it to use ZFS and you somehow got RAID to work, then you are now bald for your trouble.

[Xenoterranos @ Jul 29th 2008 11:52AM]

At first glance those things looked Server-HUGE! Go Go Frame Of Reference!

[Chris @ Jul 29th 2008 2:21PM]

I think it kinda looks like a fridge.

[Eric @ Jul 29th 2008 12:34PM]

Required service package? $1,000? Are they nuts?

I'll just download the developer package for OS X that lets me create my own ZFS pools (using Terminal, not for GUI-dependent users). I did it last year with an earlier version, and not only is ZFS lightning fast, even with slow USB 2.0 drives, it's pretty reliable already. I can see why Apple's ready to add it to OS X officially with the next version. Time to use a file system not born in the 90s. :-D

With that, I can buy a couple 1TB drives and support them myself for $0.00.

[BlowURmindBowel @ Jul 29th 2008 1:49PM]

And that would protect your data in the event of a structure fire; how?

[thenetavenger @ Jul 29th 2008 2:56PM]

Awesome, ok, not so much...

At the very least you could just download ZFS yourself and build a small storage server.

Or if you understand FS technology, you could just use any Windows Box or NTFS supported storage server.

In terms of FS's the only thing that comes close to features and reliability of NTFS is ZFS. People don't seem to get that NTFS is something the OSS and UNIX community has been shooting for in terms of speed and features for a long time now.

ZFS is cool, but only because it is the first OSS/UNIX FS to offer these level of abilities, with acceptable performance, even though it does fall behind some of NTFS's features, and vise versa. - Go Wiki this stuff.

They both are journalled FS's with Copy on Write abilties, putting them ahead of the 99% of what others are using, and these features are key to both data stabilitiy and advanced features like volume/file level versioning.

[Jason @ Jul 29th 2008 11:24PM]

"People don't seem to get that NTFS is something the OSS and UNIX community has been shooting for in terms of speed and features for a long time now."

Hey can anybody give the netavenger a ride back to the 90s? He's had one too many. Thx.

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 29th 2008 11:58PM]

Wait so ZFS is out of beta testing??? Can I give it a go on my linux box already!? Is it worth it?

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