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It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.

Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.

We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.

Jim finally gets his hands on an AMD Ryzen 9 laptop, some great news about Wi-Fi 6e, and our take on FreeBSD on the desktop.

We take a look at Cloudflare's impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.

We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root.

Cloudflare recently embarked on an epic quest to choose a CPU for its next-generation server build, so we explore the importance of requests per watt, the benefits of full memory encryption, and why AMD won.

We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC.

We take a look at a few exciting features coming to Linux kernel 5.6, including the first steps to multipath TCP.

We explore the latest round of Windows vulnerabilities and Jim shares his journey adding OPNsense to his firewall family.