The Petabyte Pi Project

By far the most storage ever attached to a single Raspberry Pi. Massive thanks to 45Drives for making this possible!
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Mentioned in this video:
- 45Drives (HUGE THANKS!): www.45drives.com/
- Storinator XL60: www.45drives.com/products/sto...
- My new rack build video on Geerling Engineering: • Massive Rack Upgrade f...
- 3-2-1 Backup Plan video: • Backups: You're doing ...
- GitHub issue with tons of detail: github.com/geerlingguy/raspbe...
- Raspberry Shake (seismograph): raspberryshake.org/
Contents:
00:00 - The Petabyte Pi Project
00:24 - Challenges
01:35 - What is a Petabyte?
02:00 - 45Drives sent a Storinator XL60!
03:12 - Ripping out the Xeon
04:57 - Replacing it with a Pi
07:26 - Backplanes and power
08:37 - Pre-build tests
09:06 - So. Many. Drives.
11:37 - Pi OS mods
12:17 - First boot!
13:12 - Did you try restarting?
14:42 - RAID 0 test
15:51 - Don't yell at your JBODs
16:39 - ZFS test
16:59 - Btrfs test
18:46 - Back to the basics
19:50 - 192 days
20:59 - So why, PCI?
21:57 - Don't skip this part
Music attributions:
The Curtain Rises by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license