The second article of our short series on ZFS discusses storage pools and deduplication.

Backing up is even more important if you are using Windows 8.

The first article of our short series on ZFS introduces this lesser-known, but powerful file system.

The third time around designing a Petabyte-capacity storage module shows that details still count. Like using desktop instead of "enterprise" drives.

Try iSCSI if you want to speed up the small file performance of your NAS.

A storage pool of double-digit Terabyte size may sound like a good idea... until the time comes to recover it.

It helps to know the real RAID level before you attempt recovery.

Windows 8 Server's Storage Spaces will require data recovery tool makers to step up their game.

This data recovery case study shows how recovery of Virtual Machines can be much more difficult than you think.

In Part 2 of our series, we cover things you don't want to do when attempting data recovery.