430: All Good Things
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It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS. Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF. Links: What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation Fedora 32 ChangeSet Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32 TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight Find Jim on 2.5 AdminsFind Wes on LINUX UnpluggedTechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!) TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017) TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan TechSNAP 348: Chris is back! TechSNAP 389: Jim's first time as a guest TechSNAP 390: Jim's second guest appearance TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show
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