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How much safer your data is when using BTRFS over Ext4?
I have read just about every published ReadyNAS review, as well as relevant Netgear materials, including this forum. I have prety good understanding of file systems, NAS concepts, RAID, etc. Yet I am ...
ReadyNAS OS 6 has been around for close to 18 months now. So we've been shipping products using BTRFS for quite a while now and we continue to have confidence in this filesystem.
Over time I expect you will see major Linux distributions shifting to using BTRFS as the default filesystem.
Regardless of what RAID level you use or what filesystem it is still important to note that backups are important. No important data should be trusted to a single device. While unlimited snapshots with BTRFS helps to protect you against common human error (such as accidentally deleting a file), there are some things that you still won't be protected against such as too many disk failures, fire, flood, theft etc.
The ReadyNAS 516 has ECC memory which you may also be interested in.
We do also have our ReadyDATA products which use the ZFS filesystem for those who want that.
Over time I expect you will see major Linux distributions shifting to using BTRFS as the default filesystem.
Regardless of what RAID level you use or what filesystem it is still important to note that backups are important. No important data should be trusted to a single device. While unlimited snapshots with BTRFS helps to protect you against common human error (such as accidentally deleting a file), there are some things that you still won't be protected against such as too many disk failures, fire, flood, theft etc.
The ReadyNAS 516 has ECC memory which you may also be interested in.
We do also have our ReadyDATA products which use the ZFS filesystem for those who want that.
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