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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#PetabytePi #RaspberryPi #45Drives

Mentioned in this video:

45Drives (HUGE THANKS!): https://www.45drives.com/
Storinator XL60: https://www.45drives.com/products/sto...
My new rack build video on Geerling Engineering:    • Massive Rack Upgrade for the Homelab!  
3-2-1 Backup Plan video:    • Backups: You're doing 'em wrong!  
GitHub issue with tons of detail: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspbe...
Raspberry Shake (seismograph): https://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: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license