# ES Cluster on ZFS with PCIe3.0 SSD/SATA SSD

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-on-zfs-with-pcie3-0-ssd-sata-ssd/41911>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 16, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-on-zfs-with-pcie3-0-ssd-sata-ssd/41911 "2016-02-16T16:50:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-on-zfs-with-pcie3-0-ssd-sata-ssd/41911/11 "2016-02-17T18:05:07Z")

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While you're at it, here is the best summary I know of what has to be planned before using ZFS, a little old, so some facts are outdated, but most points are still valid:

> **[ZFS: Read Me 1st](http://nex7.blogspot.de/2013/03/readme1st.html)**
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> Things Nobody Told You About ZFS Yes, it's back. You may also notice it is now hosted on my Blogger page - just don't have time to deal w...

For what it's worth, I have never been able to set up ZFS to match the performance of XFS under Linux.

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