Monthly Archives September 2019

Some of you may have seen the recent stories about security flaws found within the Baseboard Management controllers (BMC) within SuperMicro Motherboards. While this is indeed very serious, many of the articles were somewhat misleading by taking something that is by its very design, a very powerful feature - and giving the impression that the feature itself is the flaw. This is…

We're back with another Tech Tip and this week we're answering a question from one of our users. In this tech tip video, our Lead Engineer Brett Kelly goes more in-depth to answer a question from one of our users about joining a clustered storage solution. If you have ever wondered how to join a clustered storage solution into a…

This week Mitch is telling us all about ZFS Snapshots in under 5 minutes! Did you know ZFS Snapshots can be mounted read-only to allow for the recovery of files or to roll-back an entire file system to the last time a snapshot was created? If you want to know more about ZFS Snapshots such as what they are, why they…

We use the term Ceph a lot, but have you ever wondered what it actually stands for? Our lead engineer Brett Kelly, gives a great explanation in this week's tech tip! He also talks about CephFS and why he thinks it's the best-distributed file system out there. Hear what he has to say below! Don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube…

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 consider when choosing your RAID levels. Hey everyone, Mitch here from 45Drives. Welcome back to our weekly tech tip series, today we are going to be talking about…

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