1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:08,400 So, on today's episode of Holy, 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:11,440 we have Oh, wow. This is really heavy. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:15,759 This is I'm fairly certain the most 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:18,880 expensive thing I have ever unboxed. 5 00:00:15,759 --> 00:00:21,279 This is the pedibyte project. And what 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:27,359 is a pedibyte? Well, a pabyte is a thousand 7 00:00:25,439 --> 00:00:34,490 terabytes. a thousand terabytes of storage. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,360 I by Power and MSI's new lineup of gaming laptops feature Intel 7th 9 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:50,000 generation Core i7 processors. Check them out at the link below. 10 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:57,360 So, I guess this is where we start. I mean, what does a pedabyte look like 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:01:01,520 physically? Well, we've got one box. 12 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:04,879 Then we got two boxes. And actually, 13 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:08,560 look at this. There's another box 14 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:13,920 inside. I hope I don't break the table. 15 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:17,840 Inside all these boxes are 100 16 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,920 10 terbte Seagate Enterprise 17 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:24,640 Heliumfilled drives. 18 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:31,360 100 of them. So 100* 10 for those of you who attended the same math school that I 19 00:01:26,479 --> 00:01:33,200 went to is 800 terb. 20 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:38,159 And you'll get that joke a little bit better later. Um, so how do you 21 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:41,920 transport 100 hard drives? I was actually 22 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:47,600 legitimately curious myself because I've I've never had 100 hard drives delivered 23 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:50,240 to me before. The answer is apparently 24 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:53,840 via couriers that don't even need labels on the outsides of the boxes. These 25 00:01:52,399 --> 00:01:59,840 really don't seem like they're doing a lot. I mean, they sprinkled some peanuts 26 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:03,159 on there. Good job. If it's broken, I'll 27 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,159 forgive them. 28 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:12,640 You know what? I am just going all like 29 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,160 Tarzan on this thing. There we go. 30 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:17,360 I mean, the thing about hard drives is you you pick up one of them off the 31 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:24,400 table, they don't really seem that heavy. We pick up 20 of them. They start 32 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:26,400 to get pretty heavy pretty fast. 33 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:33,080 So, we actually probably have to get like 34 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:33,080 each of these boxes open. 35 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:41,840 Now, how did they end up with this random mish mash of packing materials? 36 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:56,000 Let's see how many different types of packing material we can find. 1 2 3 4 5 37 00:02:48,800 --> 00:03:02,120 6 7 8 9 10 38 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,120 ah uh uh 10 packing materials. 39 00:03:02,959 --> 00:03:09,480 Okay, see this one all has the same packing material in it. 40 00:03:12,239 --> 00:03:20,360 So, here it is. This 41 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,360 is what's inside. 42 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,000 More packing material. 43 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:33,360 I mean, they're hard drives. They're kind of fragile. This all makes sense. 44 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:36,959 But here we go. 45 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:39,280 Oh, yes. So, I guess now then is a good 46 00:03:36,959 --> 00:03:46,319 opportunity to talk about what drives we're using. These are Seagates 47 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:48,879 Enterprise Capacity V6 heliumfilled 48 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:54,319 drives and we're using them for a number of reasons. So number one is these are 49 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,200 in the same series of drives as what we've used in the past in both our vault 50 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:03,439 as well as our offsite backup server but 51 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:09,120 with some technological advancements. So, since we built the original 52 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:11,760 long-term archive vault, Newton Server, 53 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:17,120 Seagate has gone from 6 terabytes to 10 terabytes on their maximum capacity 54 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:24,160 drive. And number two is that thanks to their heliumfilled enclosures, they are 55 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:25,840 more efficient than ever before. 56 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:30,000 There's also a degree of trust that comes with a choice like this. and using 57 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:34,479 something that has served us incredibly well in now both the vault and our 58 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:39,360 off-site backup uh was a fairly easy decision to make. But of course, a bunch 59 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:43,040 of drives is just a bunch of drives until you actually put it into a 60 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:48,240 machine. So here representing the Storinator that 61 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:52,320 I will actually be using since it's upgraded with a better drive mounting 62 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:58,320 mechanism and LCD and all that good stuff is my old Storinator 45 drive 63 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:03,680 edition that I use as like a bench server now. So why we like Storinators? 64 00:05:01,759 --> 00:05:09,280 Couple of reasons. Number one is they're actually reasonably affordable for like 65 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:15,919 machines that can hold anywhere from 45 to 60 drives. Number two is that we have 66 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:20,880 found them, again it comes down to stuff we've used in the past, incredibly 67 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:24,320 reliable. So instead of having um a SAS 68 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:26,960 or SATA expander setup with backplanes, 69 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:33,120 they actually directly attach every single drive to the HBA cards in the 70 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:35,759 system through dedicated cables. So it 71 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:57,360 just means there's less junk to go wrong. 72 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:04,960 and and they're in except for one small problem. Lionus, hold on a second. Even 73 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:09,440 if this was the 60 drive model and it had an entire additional bank of drives, 74 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,280 you would still have an entire countertop full of drives over here. 75 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:20,240 What's the deal with that? How are you going to actually have one pabyte of storage on the server? Great question. 76 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:24,960 So, unfortunately, we love Unrade, but we can't use Unrade for this project 77 00:06:22,479 --> 00:06:30,319 because right now, Unrade is limited to only one array per system and 30 drives 78 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:35,840 per array. So, we had to look beyond that. It looks like what we're going to 79 00:06:31,919 --> 00:06:38,800 be using is two of the 60 drive models 80 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:44,000 each with 50 drives in it give or take and we're going to be using some flavor 81 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:46,720 of Linux either CentOS or Ubuntu running 82 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:52,240 ZFS. So we're going to divide up all the drives into VDEVs which is a sort of 83 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:56,639 software RAID. Then on top of that we're going to be running something called 84 00:06:53,680 --> 00:07:00,960 Gluster FS. Gluster FS has some really cool advantages. Number one it's free 85 00:06:58,479 --> 00:07:05,280 and open source. And number two, it allows us to take these multiple servers 86 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:10,960 and effectively make them transparent to every other 87 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:13,840 computer on the network as one machine. 88 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:18,080 Pretty cool. Advantage number two, and this is really neat, is that it has 89 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:22,720 native support for SSD tiering. So, I don't have them yet, but 90 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,680 okay, I can't lift you up to show you where they're going to go. Wow, this is 91 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:33,120 heavy. Um, but Seagate is also sending 92 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:35,199 two of their 7 plus terabyte PCI Express 93 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:41,680 Nitro cards that are going to sit in each of these machines and act as a 94 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:45,199 high-speed, high IOPS cache in front of 95 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:47,440 the mechanical drives. The only real 96 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:54,400 disadvantage of this approach is the usual disadvantage that comes with any 97 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:58,639 type of RAID. We are not going to get 98 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,240 the full one pabyte. It looks like the 99 00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:05,520 configuration I'm going to use is going to leave us with about 800 terabytes, 100 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:08,800 which is like I'm starting to think I'm not even going 101 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:13,280 to bother doing this project at all because 102 00:08:10,879 --> 00:08:18,000 I mean what's what's the point of even continuing at that point? Only 800 103 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:21,840 terabytes of storage. Okay, sorry. I regained my composure. 104 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:25,120 Um, the last question that some of you probably have about this project, why on 105 00:08:23,599 --> 00:08:29,520 earth do you guys need a pedabyte of freaking storage? And the answer is 106 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:32,240 pretty simple. We archive everything. Uh, should we archive everything? I 107 00:08:31,199 --> 00:08:36,800 don't know. I'll leave that up to you. But I'm a bit of a data packrat. So, we 108 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:42,000 archive absolutely everything. And we recently upgraded to the 8K camera that 109 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:49,040 you guys are watching this super sharp, super crisp footage on. So, we have 110 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:50,959 filled up our 170 TBTE archive machine. 111 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:57,519 We needed to upgrade to something and this looked like a super well relatively 112 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:02,080 cost-effective way to handle it and one that allows us to not dramatically 113 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:06,480 change our infrastructure. We can expand it in the future by sliding in more 114 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:11,200 storage full of drives. They could even have different drives. You just have to 115 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:12,959 configure your bricks differently. or 116 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:17,839 moving further into the future, we may look at tape archive for anything that 117 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:22,399 doesn't sit on the on the hot server, the spinners. 118 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:26,800 So there you have it. This is pedabyte project. 119 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:33,360 Let me do that differently. 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