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How do self-encrypting drives fit into an open source storage server? Well, before we dive into the premise of this blog, for those of you not familiar with SED drives, here’s a quick overview: Wha

High-performance storage is becoming more and more essential for many organizations. During the pandemic, we saw a trend where a diverse range of organizations began upgrading their data storage to

If you want the best performance and fast access storage, you’re looking for an all-flash storage server. And because the cost of SSDs has significantly dropped over the last few years, all-f

If you’ve ever asked yourself that question, you’re not alone. So what solution is best for your business and storing its data? Is it an on-location storage server, or are you better of

Did you know that when you store your data on the Cloud, you hand over control over it? Yes, from a technical and legal standpoint — it still belongs to you, but let me explain. Unlike storing your data on location, with the Cloud, you never know

A single portal to easily and effectively manage digital evidence is incredibly beneficial for small to medium-sized law enforcement and legal professionals to help manage their digital evidence. T

We dropped a mini Storinator into the Reddit ocean and got a lot of ripples last week.  This teaser photo of the “Storinator Jr” generated many questions about what this mini Storinator is — so let’s dive in and tell you all about it. This li

This new tool 45Drives’ developed for deploying Ceph, creatively dubbed as Ceph Deploy, exists as a module within Houston that allows you to set up your cluster from within a graphical user i

Planning out your business continuity can take time, but it could be a significant cost-saver in the long run. Knowing the risks you face and how to deal with them is

Are you ready to get out of the command line? Because it’s official – all four new Houston/Cockpit modules are live! If you’ve been following our Tech Tips for the last month, you would have heard of the new updates in Houston. T

Before 45Drives became its own company, its sister company, Protocase, began working with Backblaze, a cloud storage provider. Backblaze prototyped a large, wooden open design storage pod and engaged the services of Protocase to help bring th

Before we dive into why we decided to use direct-wired architecture – let’s talk about what direct-wired actually is. So, what is a direct-wired architecture? In a server with direct-wi

Before 45Drives became its own company, its sister company, Protocase, began working with Backblaze, a cloud storage provider. Backblaze prototyped a large, wooden open design storage pod and engaged the services of Protocase to help bring th

IT professionals in law enforcement agencies are facing a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty.  There is significant growth in the amount of digital forensic data with an increasingly

The rumors are true, we made some changes to the Storinator. If you follow Linus Tech Tip you may have seen the new version of the Storinator in this video. But don’t worry, we kept all the things you love about it – we just gave it a huge u

When most people use S3 (Simple Storage Service), the first thing they think about is Amazon Cloud Storage. However, the S3 protocol is actually used in many places outside of AWS. S3 is used for i

We’re back this week with another Tuesday Tech Tip! Today it’s all about the Cloud. Our lead engineer Brett Kelly, talks about the differences between cloud computing and cloud storage.

The Storinator Buying Guide is available to help you determine what size Storinator you need for your data storage solution. In this part of the guide (part 2), we will discuss considerations to make based on your use case. Note: As always, the be

Determining what storage application works best for you can be a difficult task. Luckily, we have an amazing support team and plenty of great resources to help you get the right 45Drives storage solution for your specific needs. If you need storag

How do you choose the right RAID configuration? Our 45Drives engineers are here to help answer that question! Check out this week’s Tuesday Tech Tip to find out the 5 main aspects to con

Did you know your Storinator has the power to be both, a local storage target and a high-performance server that can manage your video recording software?  Even if you may already have an exis

Ever wonder how we make our storage servers so fast? Well, you’re in luck! In this weeks tech tip, our lead engineer Brett Kelly is talking about the architecture of our Storinator storage se

How to Protect Your Data Using ZFS A question often asked in the server industry is, ‘what’s better – software RAID or hardware RAID?’ If you research this topic, a lot of the information about RAID suggests that a hardware RAID card is pref

How to build a Petabyte cluster using GlusterFS with ZFS running on Storinator massive storage servers  If you checked out our recent video on clustering, you may have seen me keep a high-speed file transfer going, while I did just about

At 45 Drives, we make really large capacity storage servers. When we first started out, our machines were relatively slow, and focused on cold-to-lukewarm storage applications; but our users p

Thomas Kay founded Tom’s Computer Support in 2001 with the goal of providing the type of professional IT support larger companies enjoy to small businesses in P

Thomas Kay founded Tom’s Computer Support in 2001 with the goal of providing the type of professional IT support larger companies enjoy to small businesses in Pennsylvania.  Applying his

A common question we get asked here at 45 Drives is, “What RAID should I use with my Storinator?” Our answer: “What are you trying to do?” Choosing which RAID level is right for your applicati

As a NAS operating system, FreeNAS has been out there for a decade. Working on the beautiful marriage of FreeBSD and ZFS, it’s been tried and tested by many users within the storage community, to great success. But if you’re one of tho

This is Part 2 in a series of posts from 45 Drives co-founder Doug Milburn, reflecting on the evolution of 45 Drives, where we’re headed and why. Read Part 1 to find out how 45 Drives got

Over the last couple of months, everyone at 45 Drives has been totally immersed in work related to “launching” the new Storinator models that just went up on our site last Friday. I put q