Jeff Geerling | The Petabyte Pi Project @JeffGeerling | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
By far the most storage ever attached to a single Raspberry Pi. Massive thanks to 45Drives for making this possible!

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#PetabytePi #RaspberryPi #45Drives

Mentioned in this video:

- 45Drives (HUGE THANKS!): 45drives.com
- Storinator XL60: 45drives.com/products/storinator-xl60-configurations.php
- My new rack build video on Geerling Engineering: youtube.com/watch?v=pvr1mKs1UjE
- 3-2-1 Backup Plan video: youtube.com/watch?v=S0KZ5iXTkzg
- GitHub issue with tons of detail: github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/196
- Raspberry Shake (seismograph): 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: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5007-the-curtain-rises
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license