>I can't come up with what role this machine might have — a workstation? Why so much storage then?
It's my computer. I do computer things with it.
>30 Tb seems too much for there to be any redundancy
It's 3x18Tb with one parity drive.
>why bother with zfs at all?
Because I use ZFS almost everywhere. It's pretty cool and has lots of nice features.
