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…
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 existing infrastructure in place that handles things like camera management and local monitoring, your company may be required to store more footage than your current infrastructure will allow. Check…
Each Tuesday, we release a quick tech tip video that helps give our users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers.This week, Mitch is showing you the various ways to find and monitor the component stats inside your Storinator. Check it out below!Be sure to watch next Tuesday, when we give you another 45Drives tech tip. Hey…
Curious about Ansible? Our lead engineer Brett Kelly, is telling us all about it in this week's Tech Tip! to find out why we love using this automation tool here at 45Drives and how to use Ansible in your infrastructure - check out the video below! Hey, Brett Kelly here with 45Drives! This week on our weekly tech tips I'm talking…
This week on our weekly video tech tips series we are talking about network bonding on CentOS and why it's useful. Check it out below to learn more. Hey guys, Mitch here with 45Drives, welcome back to our weekly tech tip video. Today I'm going to be talking about network bonding on CentOS and why it's useful. Network bonding is…
We're back this week with another tech tip! Did you know you can back your Storinator up to the cloud? Chris tells us all we need to know in this weeks 45Drives tech tip. Having a duplication of your data backed up to a cloud service provider enables you to work and collaborate from anywhere in the world. We have lots of…