Every second week, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our storage products. If there is anybody on our team that likes to bust myths in the storage world, its our very own Mitch Hall! For this week's tech tip video, Mitch wants to talk about mythbusting some of the "storage wisdom" surrounding ZFS. Anyone who uses ZFS would have likely heard "you will only get the IOPs of a single drive in a RAIDZ vdev". Is this statement true? Or, can this myth be BUSTED? Check out today's video to find out. -- Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - Understanding ZFS Reads and Writes 01:25 - Understanding Asynchronous Writes vs Synchronous Writes 02:08 - What is the "Raid Write Hold"? 04:16 - Understanding how zpool is committing data in random writes 05:50 - Running a FIO test for 4K block size 07:20 - Why are the IOPs la rger than what we expect? Why random writes aren't really random with ZFS async? 09:20 - Turning on Sync and Running a FIO test for 4K block size 13:30 - Adding a SLOG with NVMe for Random Writes 14:20 - Understanding Random Reads and Drive IOPs 15:18 - Conclusion Visit our website: Check out our GitHub: Read our Knowledgebase for technical articles: Check out our blog: #45drives #storinator #stornado #storageserver #serverstorage #singleserver #storagenas #nasstorage #networkattachedstorage #proxmox #virtualization #cephstorage #storageclustering #virtualmachines #cephcluster #storagecluster #proxmox #ansible #nasstorage #prometheus #samba #cephfs #allflash #ssdstorage #ssdserver #allflashserver #allflashstorage #zfs #ransomwareprotection #linux #linuxtraining #nasstorage #selfencryptingdrives #jbod #justabunchofdisks #justabunchofdrives #serverexpansion #esxi #migratevirtualmachines #ssd #ssdtrim #sed #dataencryption #harddrives #harddrivehandling #seagate #westerndigital #nvme #vmware #esxi #zfs #raidz #vdev #zpool