The Petabyte Pi Project
By far the most storage ever attached to a single Raspberry Pi. Massive thanks to 45Drives for making this possible! Check out their storage solutions at https://www.45Drives.com/ Support me on Patreon: / geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: / geerlingengineering #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

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