Jeff Geerling | I made the Petabyte Raspberry Pi even faster! @JeffGeerling | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast—with 60 hard drives on 1 Raspberry Pi, I found a way to make it run in RAID!

It's not the fastest storage server in town, but it's good for about 70 MB/sec write speeds and sucks down about 500 Watts of power.

Many questions viewers have about the PetaPi are answered in this video.

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Special thanks to 45Drives for sending the Storinator and hard drives used in the production of this video!

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Contents:

00:00 - The sound of a spaceship landing
00:43 - HBA firmware woes
01:42 - Firmware updates
03:02 - Btrfs RAID 0 - more stable
03:26 - Forcing PCIe Gen 1
03:55 - What's the Gen 2 breaking point?
04:58 - Overclocking for speeeeed
05:28 - Power to the Pi
06:14 - Price? Weight? Hardware RAID?
07:12 - Multiple Pis? 10 Gigabit?
08:16 - What's the name?
08:35 - Deploying the Petabyte