 So on today's episode of holy shit We have oh wow. This is really heavy This is I'm fairly certain the most expensive thing I have ever Unboxed this is the petabyte project and what is a petabyte? Well a petabyte is a thousand terabytes a Thousand terabytes of storage I Buy power and MSI's new lineup of gaming laptops feature Intel seventh generation core i7 processors check them out at the link below So I guess this is where we start. I mean what does a petabyte look like? physically well we've got one box then we got Two boxes and actually look at this Here's another box Inside I hope I don't break the table Inside all these boxes are 110 Terabyte Seagate Enterprise helium filled drives a Hundred of them so a hundred times ten for those of you who attended the same math school that I went to is 800 terabytes and You'll get that joke a little bit better later So how do you transport a? Hundred hard drives I was actually legitimately curious myself because I've I've never had a hundred hard drives delivered to me before the answer is apparently Via couriers that don't even need labels on the outside of the boxes these really don't seem like they're doing a lot I mean they sprinkled some peanuts on there Good job if it's broken. I'll forgive them You know what I am just going all like Tarzan on this thing there we go I mean the thing about hard drives is you you pick up one of them off the table. They don't really seem that heavy You pick up 20 of them. They start to get pretty heavy pretty fast So we actually probably have to get like Each of these boxes open Now how did they end up with this random mishmash of packing materials? Let's see how many different types of packing material we can find one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten Ten packing materials See this one all has the same packing material in it So here it is this is what's inside More packing material I Mean they're hard drives. They're kind of fragile this all makes sense, but here we go. Oh Yes So I guess now then is a good opportunity to talk about what drives for using these are Seagate's enterprise capacity v6 helium filled drives and We're using them for a number of reasons so number one is these are in the same series of drives as what we've used in the past in both our vault as Well as our off-site backup server, but with some technological advancements So since we built the original long-term archive vault Newton server Seagate has gone from six terabytes to ten terabytes on their Mac OS And number two is that thanks to their helium filled enclosures They are more efficient than ever before There's also a degree of trust that comes with a choice like this and Using something that has served us incredibly well in now both the vault and our off-site backup Was a fairly easy decision to make but of course a bunch of drives is just a bunch of drives until now You actually put it into a machine so here Representing the store nader that I will actually be using since it's upgraded with a better drive mounting Mechanism and LCD and all that good stuff is my old store nader 45 drive edition that I use as like a bench server now So why we like store nader's couple of reasons number one is they're actually reasonably up to date store nader's couple of reasons number one is they're actually reasonably affordable for like Machines that can hold anywhere from 45 to 60 drives number two is that we have found them again It comes down to stuff. We've used in the past incredibly reliable so instead of having a SAS or SATA Expander setup with back planes they actually directly attach every single drive to the HBA cards in the system Through dedicated cables, so it just means there's less junk to go wrong And they're in Except for one small problem Linus hold on a second even if this was the 60 drive model And it had an entire additional bank of drives you would still have an entire countertop full of drives over here What's the deal with that? How you gonna actually have one petabyte of storage on the server great question so? Unfortunately we love unraid, but we can't use unraid for this project because right now Unraid is limited to only one array per system and 30 drives per array So we had to look beyond that it looks like what we're going to be using is Two of the 60 drive models each with 50 drives in it give or take and we're going to be using some flavor of Linux Either CentOS or Ubuntu running ZFS So we're going to divide up all the drives into Vdevs Which is sort of software raid then on top of that we're going to be running something called cluster FS Gluster FS has some really cool advantages number one It's free and open source and number two it allows us to take these multiple servers and effectively Make them transparent to every other computer on the network as one machine pretty cool Advantage number two and this is really neat is that it has native support for SSD tiering so I don't have them yet, but Okay, I can't lift you up to show you where they're gonna go wow this is heavy But Seagate is also sending two of their seven plus terabyte PCI Express nitro cards that are going to sit in each of these machines and act as a high speed High IOPS cache in front of the mechanical drives The only real disadvantage of this approach is the usual disadvantage that comes with any type of raid We are not going to get the full one petabyte It looks like the configuration. I'm going to use is going to leave us with about 800 terabytes, which is like I'm starting to think I'm not even going to bother doing this project at all because I Mean what's what's the point of even continuing at that point only 800 terabytes of storage? Okay, sorry I regained my composure um the last question that some of you probably have about this project Why on earth do you guys need a petabyte of freaking storage and the answer is pretty simple we archive everything Should we archive everything? I don't know I'll leave that up to you, but I'm a bit of a data pack rat So we archive absolutely everything and we recently upgraded to the 8k camera that you guys are watching this Super sharp super crisp footage on so we have filled up our 170 terabyte archive machine we needed to upgrade to something and this looked like a super well relatively Cost-effective way to handle it and one that allows us to not Dramatically change our infrastructure we can expand it in the future by sliding in more store naters full of drives they could even have different drives you just have to configure your bricks differently or Moving further into the future we may look at tape archive for anything that doesn't sit on the on the hot server the spinners So there you have it. This is petabyte project Let me do that differently this is Petabyte project It slices it dices it takes apart your devices and put some back together It's the Pro tech tool kit from I fix it and I absolutely Love it. 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