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so on today's episode of Holi 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 there's another box inside I hope I don't break the table inside all these boxes are 110 terabytes 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 outsides 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 oh you know what I am just going all like Tarzan on this thing there we go you know think about hard drives you you pick up one of them off the table they don't really seem that heavy to pick up plenty of them we start to get pretty heavy pretty fast so we actually probably have to get like into 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 up ten packing materials this one all has the same packing material in it so here it is this is what's inside more packing material I mean their hard drives they're kind of fragile the fall makes sense but here we go ah so I guess now then is a good opportunity to talk about what drives for using these RC gates 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'd use in the past in both our vaults as well as our off-site backup server but with some technological advancements so since we built the original long-term archived vault mutant server Seagate has gone from 6 terabytes to 10 terabytes on their maximum capacity drive and number two is that thanks to their helium-filled enclosures they are more efficient than ever b4 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 drive is just a bunch of drives until 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 story inator 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 affordable for like machines that can hold anywhere from 45 to 60 Drive 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 set up with backplanes 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 therein except for one small problem - 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 counter top full of drives over here what's the deal with that how you going to actually have one petabyte of storage on the server great question so unfortunately we love on raid but we can't use on raid for this project because right now on reed 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 cent OS or Ubuntu running ZFS so we're going to divide up all the drives into Vedas which is a sort of software rate then on top of that we're going to be running something called cluster FS cluster FF 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 cheering so I don't have them yet but okay I can't lift you up to show you where they're going to go wow this is heavy but Seagate is also sending two of their seven plus terabyte PCI Express nitro cards that are going to fit in each of these machines and act as a high speed high I opt 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 eight hundred terabytes is like I'm starting to think I'm not even going to bother doing this project at all because I mean what what's the point of even continuing at that point only 800 terabytes of storage okay sorry I regain my composure the last question that some of you probably have about this project why on earth do you guys need a petabyte a 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 build up our 170 terabyte archive machine we needed to upgrade to something and this looked like a super 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 story Nader's 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 fit on the on the hot server The Spinners so there you have it this is petabyte project let me do that differently Rick and I like projects it slices it dices it takes apart your devices and puts them back together it's the protec toolkit from iFixit and I absolutely love it I love endorsing this thing because you basically cannot go wrong with it it includes their 64 bit driver kit which means that it runs on Windows Vista 64-bit just kidding it's sexually screw driver bits not computer bits and a whole bunch of other fantastic tools as well including their extension for the screwdriver their ESD safe tweezers their reverse tweezers their plastic opening tools their suction cups their Jimmy pride two older their metal spudger basically everything you could want it at all has a lifetime warranty so head over to ifixit.com / lioness use their great guides to repair and fix your devices and use code - 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