> It has a hardware raid1 enclosure, with 2TB formatted as ext4, and the really important stuff is sent to the cloud every night. Should I honestly bother learning zfs...?
It depends on whether you’re interested in it or not. There are multiple benefits with ZFS over your current setup, such as snapshotting, compression and the fact that it’s a virtual volume manager similar to LVM, ie more control over the things I just mentioned on a subset of the storage.
I also avoid hardware raid controllers like the plague for the simple reason that you are then ”vendor locked”, which you wouldn’t be with ZFS, you could easily move the disk(s) to another chassi.
It depends on whether you’re interested in it or not. There are multiple benefits with ZFS over your current setup, such as snapshotting, compression and the fact that it’s a virtual volume manager similar to LVM, ie more control over the things I just mentioned on a subset of the storage.
I also avoid hardware raid controllers like the plague for the simple reason that you are then ”vendor locked”, which you wouldn’t be with ZFS, you could easily move the disk(s) to another chassi.