Did you know your Storinator has the power to be both, a local storage target and a high-performance server that can manage your video recording software? Even if you may already have an existing infrastructure in place that handles things like camera management and local monitoring, your company may be required to store more footage than your current infrastructure will allow. Check…
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…
How to Protect Your Data Using ZFS A question often asked in the server industry is, ‘what’s better - software RAID or hardware RAID?’ If you research this topic, a lot of the information about RAID suggests that a hardware RAID card is preferable to using a Software RAID. But I don’t agree. In my opinion is that, for most…
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…
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…
Thomas Kay founded Tom's Computer Support in 2001 with the goal of providing the type of professional IT support larger companies enjoy to small businesses in Pennsylvania. Applying his experience working in marketing, sales, as well as IT at many local companies, Thomas quickly built a reputation as being a knowledgeable and trustworthy IT industry expert. He shares his expertise…
Thomas Kay founded Tom's Computer Support in 2001 with the goal of providing the type of professional IT support larger companies enjoy to small businesses in Pennsylvania. Applying his experience working in marketing, sales, as well as IT at many local companies, Thomas quickly built a reputation as being a knowledgeable and trustworthy IT industry expert. He shares his expertise…
A common question we get asked here at 45 Drives is, “What RAID should I use with my Storinator?” Our answer: “What are you trying to do?” Choosing which RAID level is right for your application requires some thought into what is most important for your storage solution. Is it performance, redundancy or storage efficiency? In other words, do you need…
As a NAS operating system, FreeNAS has been out there for a decade. Working on the beautiful marriage of FreeBSD and ZFS, it's been tried and tested by many users within the storage community, to great success. But if you're one of those people who is more into Linux and Btrfs, you may be yearning for an alternative. Over the…