Well done DJ, nice again for this storage history, speaking of Seagate first PC I build was 900MB, yes, I been with branded hardware, Apple,Victor, Tandy, then IBM XT (this I bought for it hard disk by IBM can not recall the size either 160MB or 320MB), then IBM AT, after that I build my first PC and bought that Seagate 900MB (largest size at that time). Then hardware raid-6 (Areca) for my first server with 24 hdd's (500GB) before that ata ... ok I stopped here ), Now on FreeBSD with ZFS FS storage server (I get tired of these business home NAS from Synology), Thanks DJ again to this, I hope we see ZFS based server subjects videos.
I have a 5 MB Davong drive working on an Apple II+ it was expensive but way faster than the floppy drives, yeah I had a few of the 160MB and 320MB drives too, good old IDE huh? hehe
Great content! However I have one point to contend - SAN is not all that expensive, in a reasonably large environment (requiring over 80 ports or so). Building an Ethernet network of similar speed (10Gbps Eth vs 8Gbps FC when I did the calculations), cost around 25% more on HPE + Cisco Ethernet vs. HPE + Brocade FC. Add to that very difficult administration of Ethernet (building a redundant network is much more difficult, if you forgot to set Jumbo frames you're toast, segmentation is next to impossible - although iScsi tries to address that, in a very clumsy way), and FC is a clear winner. Another important point is that you cannot use service Ethernet as storage Ethernet, as the two would choke each other.
Great video as always DJ. Home nas freebsd with zfs and netapp for work, but would like to get into the gluster technology. Look forward to your next vid, keep up the good work
Great video. You asked us to share or storage solutions. At home I use zfs on freeNas RaidZ1, lz4 compression 1.24x: Three large(ish) samsung consumer ssd drives, and one DC grade ssd log (overprovisioned), LSI controller. I have multiple pools/zdevs set up like this of varying sizes in the storage drives. If I keep them around 50% and archive the oldest files whenever anything goes above 60 it performs extremely well, even over the network and long range vpn, with the help of the log of course. Better than windows writing to an onboard sata ssd.
Thanks DJ. I've not got that much trigger time on Storage...have always been more into Ops, so a lot of what this vid has is over my head. But still interesting. I'm at most a RAID user...have a Synology 2-bay drive here on my LAN. And only have about 10% of 2TB... :) I worked for a relatively small company that had a small SAN...and I don't think that it was properly managed. We'd have issues with it constantly...but when there were no problems...it was FAST. I noticed that you didn't mention BTRFS...any quick takes on that? I also use Google Drive...but have been using MEGA recently...it's interestingly cheap and fast and has sync client for Linux. I've tried it in a VM...and may go for it as my offsite. ... :)
Hang tight I have another tool video coming next week on the Google Drive replacement :) BTRFS well all i can say is I tried it in the early days, a failure in a "raid" caused a massive loss of data, that was enough for me. Recovery of large raids from tape isn't particularly fun
Well done DJ, nice again for this storage history, speaking of Seagate first PC I build was 900MB, yes, I been with branded hardware, Apple,Victor, Tandy, then IBM XT (this I bought for it hard disk by IBM can not recall the size either 160MB or 320MB), then IBM AT, after that I build my first PC and bought that Seagate 900MB (largest size at that time).
Then hardware raid-6 (Areca) for my first server with 24 hdd's (500GB) before that ata ... ok I stopped here ), Now on FreeBSD with ZFS FS storage server (I get tired of these business home NAS from Synology), Thanks DJ again to this, I hope we see ZFS based server subjects videos.
I have a 5 MB Davong drive working on an Apple II+ it was expensive but way faster than the floppy drives, yeah I had a few of the 160MB and 320MB drives too, good old IDE huh? hehe
@@CyberGizmo Indeed buddy :)
Top notch free lectures, thanks DJ!
Thanks dmacmakes appreciate the kind comment :)
Great content! However I have one point to contend - SAN is not all that expensive, in a reasonably large environment (requiring over 80 ports or so). Building an Ethernet network of similar speed (10Gbps Eth vs 8Gbps FC when I did the calculations), cost around 25% more on HPE + Cisco Ethernet vs. HPE + Brocade FC. Add to that very difficult administration of Ethernet (building a redundant network is much more difficult, if you forgot to set Jumbo frames you're toast, segmentation is next to impossible - although iScsi tries to address that, in a very clumsy way), and FC is a clear winner.
Another important point is that you cannot use service Ethernet as storage Ethernet, as the two would choke each other.
Great video as always DJ. Home nas freebsd with zfs and netapp for work, but would like to get into the gluster technology. Look forward to your next vid, keep up the good work
Thanks Sam H. Nice gluster is easy to setup, not so easy to make run fast :)
Great video. You asked us to share or storage solutions. At home I use zfs on freeNas RaidZ1, lz4 compression 1.24x: Three large(ish) samsung consumer ssd drives, and one DC grade ssd log (overprovisioned), LSI controller. I have multiple pools/zdevs set up like this of varying sizes in the storage drives. If I keep them around 50% and archive the oldest files whenever anything goes above 60 it performs extremely well, even over the network and long range vpn, with the help of the log of course. Better than windows writing to an onboard sata ssd.
@Turbo Kev, nice setup you have and thanks for sharing your design with us, I hope others will benefit from it as well :)
Great presentation.
Thanks DJ. I've not got that much trigger time on Storage...have always been more into Ops, so a lot of what this vid has is over my head. But still interesting. I'm at most a RAID user...have a Synology 2-bay drive here on my LAN. And only have about 10% of 2TB... :)
I worked for a relatively small company that had a small SAN...and I don't think that it was properly managed. We'd have issues with it constantly...but when there were no problems...it was FAST.
I noticed that you didn't mention BTRFS...any quick takes on that?
I also use Google Drive...but have been using MEGA recently...it's interestingly cheap and fast and has sync client for Linux. I've tried it in a VM...and may go for it as my offsite. ... :)
Hang tight I have another tool video coming next week on the Google Drive replacement :) BTRFS well all i can say is I tried it in the early days, a failure in a "raid" caused a massive loss of data, that was enough for me. Recovery of large raids from tape isn't particularly fun
I use btrfs on a laptop.
I'd like a subject on archival solutions, and backup schedules.
Thx.
Thanks Lowbarr Kate, I have a video on that topic already