This week on our weekly video tech tips series we are talking about network bonding on CentOS and why it's useful. Check it out below to learn more. Hey guys, Mitch here with 45Drives, welcome back to our weekly tech tip video. Today I'm going to be talking about network bonding on CentOS and why it's useful. Network bonding is…
Ever wonder how we make our storage servers so fast? Well, you're in luck! In this weeks tech tip, our lead engineer Brett Kelly is talking about the architecture of our Storinator storage servers. Check out the video below to find out how we wire our storage servers and how we make them super-fast! The Storinator is essentially a bunch…
We're back this week with another tech tip! Did you know you can back your Storinator up to the cloud? Chris tells us all we need to know in this weeks 45Drives tech tip. Having a duplication of your data backed up to a cloud service provider enables you to work and collaborate from anywhere in the world. We have lots of…
Each week we release a 45Drives Tech Tip from one of our team members. These short tech tips videos cover some of the most frequently asked questions we receive from storage users, customers. fans and followers. We cover topics such as network bonding with CentOS, Storinator on the Cloud, using Ansible for your IT infrastructure, and the direct-wired architecture of…
We build some pretty awesome storage servers or at least that’s what our customers and fans say about us! We like to think it’s because our Storinators solve their storage issues by holding huge amounts of data, they’re incredibly fast and …wait for it… they are affordable! So, after hearing some feedback from our fans it was only a matter…
How to build a Petabyte cluster using GlusterFS with ZFS running on Storinator massive storage servers If you checked out our recent video on clustering, you may have seen me keep a high-speed file transfer going, while I did just about everything I could think of that would give a system administrator nightmares. I was pulling out drives, yanking out network cables…
Hard Disk Drives (HDD's) are one of the most impressive and important electromechanical devices ever created. When I think about it, it is really amazing that these things actually work, let alone work so well! These disks must quickly and precisely position heads slightly above very narrow tracks on rapidly spinning platters. If there is an error in the angular position…
At 45 Drives, we make really large capacity storage servers. When we first started out, our machines were relatively slow, and focused on cold-to-lukewarm storage applications; but our users pushed us to achieve more performance and reliability. This drove the evolution of our direct-wired architecture, which delivers enterprise level speed (read/write in excess of 3 Gigabytes/second) and reliability, without losing the simplicity…
At 45 Drives, the FreeNAS network attached storage operating system is a popular choice to run our high performance massive storage pods. It combines the advantages of the modern ZFS copy on write file system, with the simplicity of a purpose-built GUI driven NAS appliance shell. Until today, whenever a customer received a Storinator running FreeNAS it would be configured with a…
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