An inside look at 45Drives' Storage Lab

Thanks to 45Drives for having us out for their 2023 Creators' Summit!

Some of the things mentioned in this video:

Special thanks to 45Drives for providing some of the video clips, photographs, and drone footage used in this video.

Contents:

00:00 - Travel and meeting other homelabbers
01:40 - Touring the storage lab
04:54 - Tech talks (plus a bonus PCMCIA hard drive!)
05:52 - Protocase factory tour
08:02 - Sailing, Sydney, and a tiny drop of Hot Ones
10:59 - Hard drive tech: HAMR and Helium

[bryanteger]

This is like my dream team for my fantasy home lab league.

[TechnoTim]

I think I feel something, a slight tingle in my fingers! Jokes aside, it was awesome getting to meet and hang out with all of you!

[adamsavard]

The Sydney airport didn't always suck. They used to have a couple more flights a day, but COVID killed it. Glad you enjoyed it, though! I have family in Cape Breton, and it really is a beautiful spot.

[Jsjsjjssjs]

Hey! That fog in the plane is completely normal, it's just a byproduct of the AC systems on the plane. Just moisture from outside air.

[TheBoboNL]

That external drive box really looks like this thing: Icy Box IB-3740-C31. Love the videos and the cool content!

[mlies]

No, thank you for actually taking the time to write these subtitles!

[Dr._K._Sol]

Glad you had an amazing experience up here in Nova Scotia! I moved to Halifax from the US about 5 years ago and I absolutely love it. Like you said, the people are super friendly and the scenery is gorgeous. Hope you decide to come back for a vacation some time! There's so much more to the province to experience and enjoy!

[TechTonor]

And THERE the video was 🤩! Thank you for a great inside-look.

[SOF]

That 2U SSD chassis is pretty crazy, love the hotswap "toaster" action

[Snowmirage]

What an awesome trip! Thank you for taking us all along :)

[SidebandSamurai]

Jeff, you can always neutralize the burning in your mouth with a piece of bannana, or a small sip of milk. Takes the pain way. Looks like you had lots of fun. All those wonderful toys where does he get them. 45Drives of course.

[CandyGramForMongo_]

Jeff, you’ve convinced me. I need a shark suit!

[TheMcGYT]

the drive bay Wendel brought out is a Mediasonic Probox. it's a decent little external enclosure.

[JimmytheCow]

Your Welcome for reading the subtitles. I love them, you hide little Easter eggs in them.

[drphibesrises]

Wow, what a blast you had. Combining tech with sailing is my perfect vacation. Cat's are so fun to sail and just being on the water. Thanks for sharing.

[jazzochannel]

Sounds like a nice trip. Maybe I'll start a channel of my own and join you next time. The scenery reminds me of my home town, Trondheim. I have to agree the 45 HL is a bit expensive, but if you consider that it is probably a once in a lifetime purchase... but then again you can get 2x 8 bay servers for like 240 euros... if you have the space. Blame CANADA!

[NeilHyndman]

GREAT VIDEO! So many great Canadian products in this video (45Drives, Timmies coffee, the Broil King BBQ and StarTech data rack....). Looks like you had some fun! You're welcome back any time!

[HansJLarsen]

I love that they make their cockpit addons freely available. I always put cockpit on my home servers when I set up a new one, and I always use a couple of 45drives addons. Good job guys.. 👍

[joshua_mcneel]

I had the pleasure of recently spec’ing and configuring a pair of custom 45drives servers for a video production team that produced several hundred deliverables each year. It was a ~80TiB Stornado for active projects, and a ~280 TiB Storinator for snapshot backups and archival.

The whole process of ordering and getting them configured was a breeze, but with a price tag of $55k, I’d hope so. The 3-2-1 backup strategy included nightly backups to Backblaze’s B2 cloud, keeping 100% of the data on 45drives/Backblaze/Protocase hardware. One of the Seagate HDDs started to fail, and 45drives had a replacement shipped and RMA processed extremely fast.

For anyone looking for reliable data storage with an appropriate budget I’d highly recommend these solutions. Gained a lot of respect for 45drives after my experience as a customer, and love seeing a little bit more behind the curtain.

[RinoaL]

I'm glad to hear that it wasn't just me that got introduced to sailing due to the Tally Ho restoration. I grew up near Hillsboro illinois, and then a short time near Bern Switzerland, so I really had no chance to be introduced to sailing living such an land-locked life. haha