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How to Save the World With ZFS and 12 USB Sticks: 4th Anniversary
Video Re-Release Edition

January 24, 2011 | In Solaris
| 2 minute read |by Constantin Gonzalez
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About 4 years ago, a few colleagues and myself got together and we
created a short video about the coolness of two of the most
innovative products from Sun of the last decade: ZFS and the X4500
Server.

Today, nearly 4 years later, the video has been downloaded more than
100,000 times (across the original German and the English dubbed
version, plus the full resolution downloadable files) and shown to a
lot more people during tradeshows, customer demos, etc.

Now YouTube and Google Video (remember?) don't allow for highest
video quality and the old Sun Mediacast server, where we hosted the
original MP4 file, no longer exists. Instead, Vimeo has emerged as my
video hoster of choice for a variety of projects (check out my video
collection on Vimeo) and so it was time to give this video a new
home.

For your viewing pleasure.

Watch the English dubbed version:
Vimeo video thumbnail
Play Video

Or if you understand German (or have a taste for movies in original
language), watch the original:
Vimeo video thumbnail
Play Video

The original CSI:Munich blog post explains some of the technical
background of the video, as does its German counterpart post "Solaris
ZFS auf 12 USB-Sticks: Ein "Thumper" fur Arme!".

It's amazing to see how far ZFS has made it today. Still, there's no
other file system I know of that can be configured in seconds,
provides data integrity at mathematically deep levels, implements
database-like transaction safety, comes with a high-end featureset
and gives you so much as ZFS.

And the possibilities of ZFS continue to expand. Stay tuned.
cool raid-z sticks usb video zfs
 
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