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The 45Drives Story

Before 45Drives became its own company, its sister company, Protocase, began working with Backblaze, a cloud storage provider. Backblaze prototyped a large, wooden open design storage pod and engaged the services of Protocase to help bring th

2021-06-24

Our Best Decision Ever – Direct Wired

Before we dive into why we decided to use direct-wired architecture – let’s talk about what direct-wired actually is. So, what is a direct-wired architecture? In a server with direct-wi

2021-06-23

The Story of 45Drives

Before 45Drives became its own company, its sister company, Protocase, began working with Backblaze, a cloud storage provider. Backblaze prototyped a large, wooden open design storage pod and engaged the services of Protocase to help bring th

2021-06-03

How To Recycle Hard Drives With The Destroyinator

Data Recycling: What does that mean? For this blog and the topic moving forward, when we say data recycling, we are referring to the process of wiping hard drives clean of any pre-existing data tha

2021-05-10

Data Protection: It’s as easy as 3, 2, 1…

Data loss is a universal problem. Data loss happens every day, all day. Imagine a counter that keeps climbing and climbing, tallying the sheer amount of data that is lost daily. The numerical size

2021-04-12

Ceph Geo Replication

We here at 45Drives really, really love Ceph. It is our go-to choice for storage clustering (creating a single storage system by linking multiple servers over a network). Ceph offers a robust feature set of native tools that constantly come in han

2021-03-08

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