 Tom here from Warren Systems, and I'm wearing my 45 drive shirt because I want to talk about 45 drives very specifically a project We did in November of 2021, which was the Stornator XL 60 Pedabyte project now I'll leave a link to the video I did where I reviewed the Stornator itself because you know people are curious what a 60 base server looks like and why 45 drives was the choice and This is the follow-up to that to say that 45 drives was a great choice because here We are in June of 2022 and the project has gone really well The client is loaded up quite a bit of data now Let me give you an overview of how this works This company that I cannot name but is a pretty large brand and they have a data problem But they did not want to use the normal I would say off-the-shelf solutions a lot of people may propose for this so they contacted us This is where we work a lot with internal IT teams provide a solution like this They wanted a large storage server 45 drives They did not need high availability 100% 999 of uptime with a complete failover because basically they have lots of data To process and they just need it stored somewhere and if for some reason the server were to have a failure It does have redundant power supplies as you may have watched from the video on that But it doesn't have redundant motherboard or some of the high availability features because that's not necessary for what they're doing They have all this data that comes out of their lab then they have a series of Compute modules essentially a whole bunch of computers that are all connected at 10 gig to it to process said data sets now The stornator itself has a 25 gig connection and we built this out by putting it in two racks with a connection between them And then yes, we did use a unify aggregation switch So we can connect the stornator at 25 gigs and connect all the compute modules at 10 gig and it's been working Well now they only have right now about 200 terabytes of data We were thinking and so were they that they might fill it up a little bit faster But here we are and the follow-up we did with them was just to make sure everything's working And they do need a few more switches for another project that we're gonna be working with them on But one of the important things I wanted to talk about though is that the system works well We loaded true nas on this we had no issues with it and the client is still happy I think this is an important thing I try to bring on my channel is Talking about the solutions that we provide but then following up it did those solutions provide what they were supposed to and That's just really key when you're thinking about the project's long term because it's hard to find a lot of good Information of will this work until you start doing it? But then people who are doing it don't always come back and share whether or not the solution worked Seven or eight months later, but I want to talk real quick about how we priced it because I know that's gonna be a common question How do you a price a petabyte of storage and we're gonna jump over to 45 drive site for that And this is one of the reasons they make it easy to provide as a solution. Here's your stornator XL 60 Please note. I'm not logged into anything special on the site We're just going to go click the build button and Start pricing it out choose the color, you know if that matters upload your own custom logo Yes, we did that for the client unfortunately had to put tape over it because we can't see the name of the client choose your operating system Choose where you're shipping it to Hit next Choose memory the particular one we built we had 256 gigs We also use the Intel Xeon 42 16 16 core 32 thread processor Epic was pretty new at the time, but yes, they do offer epic systems on here. So scroll down. We have a dual 25 gig Network card in there just one that's fine for that This is the important part is the drives at the time 18 terabytes were the most available I don't remember that the 20 where well in stock It's not as much about availability and how many do we put in 60 of them? Which does add a little bit to the price you got about $25,000 with the drives scroll down next and Warranty go for a three-year warranty on there we don't really need any configuration because we were the OEM on this and Did all the integration application support same thing We did all the application support and get an configuration and now you have a price $44,000 to get a petabyte of storage. So now you know how much it costs But let's talk about one more detail of running true nas on there lots of people were saying why didn't you make it a Ceph cluster. Why would we make it a Ceph cluster? That would only add a layer of complexity to it people ask a lot about different storage types And you want to start with because when it comes down to support you want to be able to support it the simplest Possible that will solve the solution So we built this out there literally just using SMB shares because there's not a whole lot of users tied to this It's not even tied to Active Directory because it doesn't need to be it is a lab that does Will is a scientific data processing and the compute modules talk to the server with the same user because they're all doing the same project the Data comes in from the other side where they actually gather the data in another lab and push it across the 25 gig connections to fill it up and That's really it. It's that simple adding extra layers on that would only add to the complexity of things like updates and You don't want complexity in environments You want higher availability as you add complexity to things like that the software update process could possibly go wrong It's not that there's not ever a need for clustered storage solutions like Ceph or Gluster or any of those It's just about doing it in the most simple way that gets the job done and no more complicated than that There are times you want to make things more complicated depending on the needs But for this particular need there is not and the fact that they've only got 200 terabytes used so far They are going to extend a life a little bit longer before they need another one to do more processing And if they're doing archival things once they process all the larger data it breaks it down to smaller data sets So there's a lot of other factors in there But none of it required that extra layers of complexity now The last thing I want to do is talk about 45 drives themselves and please take some time to check out their YouTube channel Which is linked in the description below Give it some love because they put out a lot of great information on ZFS on storage solutions They are some storage experts. I've worked with their team on other projects and we continue to love working with them as a solution provider For storage they have just a wide array of options not just running true NASA I've covered before their Houston OS and I'll leave a link to that video as well But check out their site where they talk about it because they dive deep into the questions people ask Especially about things like Seth and clustered storage or experts on that so when a petabytes not enough and you need something substantially larger You need to cluster it across several racks of data storage units Then yeah 45 drives has a couple videos on that topic where you can dive into it So the project went well, this is kind of just a follow-up to say yes, it works This is how we deployed it. This was a follow-up from the customer. I just got an email from them two days ago That's why I'm doing this video But I also want to just kind of talk about this as a solution in case some of you are curious does it work? Does it hold up? Did you have any problems? We've had no power supply failures Motherboard failures or anything like that and if you're curious I also have a 45 drive server that all of my video editing and storage is done on and well It's actually pretty Diversely used in my office for things like all of our backups and all of our main storage for things That of course is replicated to other servers. So if you're interested, I will be doing a video soon on following up with my Smaller 45 drive server. We didn't quite need a petabyte of storage at my office But hey, we still got quite a bit of data on there I'll leave a link to the video where I reviewed that and we're definitely putting that thing to Excellent use because it runs a whole lot of virtual machines as a storage target for virtualization as well Our lab and our production stuff nonetheless Leave links to things I talked about down below head over to 45 drives to learn a whole lot more about them and check out the YouTube channel And man, there's just a lot of knowledge to be had Watching our videos on stuff. 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