Comment by _gea

OpenZFS on Windows has reached release candidate state (rc11) with some remaining bugs around volume mount (nothing serious, avoid encryption atm). Development is very fast (a new rc every few weeks to fix remaining problems)

Paired with Storage Spaces to pool disks of any type or size with location, redundancy or tiering defined per Space, Windows is now a premium storage platform.

With a Windows Server ex a cheap 2022/2025 Essentials you additionally can use SMB Direct/RDMA with a performance up to 10 Gbyte/s over lan and virtual harddisks .vhdx as a zero config and faster alternative to iSCSI.

This is why I have ported me ZFS web-gui napp-it cs from Solaris to Windows to manage Storage Spaces and ZFS and remotely OpenZFS servers like Proxmox (free for noncommercial use)