Understanding Snapshots

File system backup or snapshots, how do you know which one to choose? If you’re unfamiliar with backups – here’s a refresher. Backups are essentially backing up all your data onto another server. This means if one server fails you have all your data saved on another. To restore your data, it may take a little time as these are read and write. But today I want to talk more about Snapshots as there has been a little confusion over when to use this tool.

Tuesday Tech Tip - An Overview of the Network File System Protocol

It's that day of the week again, Tech Tip Tuesday!

In this week's tech tip, Mitch gives us an overview of the Network File System (NFS) protocol. He explains the background of NFS, why it's useful and gives us a mini-tutorial on how to set up an NFS server, client and mounting a share.

Check it out below!

As always - we welcome your feedback! Leave a comment below or suggest a topic you would like to see covered in this series. New Tech Tips are released every Tuesday!

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Tuesday Tech Tip - How Should You Use The Cloud?

We're back this week with another Tuesday Tech Tip!

Today it's all about the Cloud. Our lead engineer Brett Kelly, talks about the differences between cloud computing and cloud storage. He even tells us how we can build our own publicly accessible cloud using the tools and infrastructure you may already have! Check it below.

Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a quick tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers. This...

As always - your feedback is welcome! Feel free to leave a comment below on a topic you would like to see covered in this series. New Tech Tips are released every Tuesday!

Be sure to check out our GitHub and our technical articles on our Knowledgebase.

Tuesday Tech Tip - How To Replace a Motherboard Inside Your Storinator

Archie makes his debut in this week's tech tip!

Here at 45Drives we do things a little differently. We're not about locking you in - that's why we're opensource. But, that also goes for our hardware!

We use enterprise commodity hardware making it easy to swap out and replace parts - as they can be bought right off the shelf.

In this week's tech tip Archie, our field application specialist is showing us how to replace the motherboard inside a Storinator. Check it out below!

As always if you have any questions leave them in the comments on YouTube or below!

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Tuesday Tech Tip - Configuring CTDB 4.9

Our lead engineer Brett Kelly tackles a user-submitted question in this week's tech tip!

This particular user asked us to go over the new configuration that comes with CTDB 4.9. If you've been following our tech tips you'll notice we've covered this before, but things changed with CTDB.

Check out this week's tech tip below to learn more!

Thanks for the question, Thomas! If you have a question you want to ask - leave a comment. You might just be our next tech tip!

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Storinator Buying Guide, Part 2

The Storinator Buying Guide is available to help you determine what size Storinator you need for your data storage solution. In this part of the guide (part 2), we will discuss considerations to make based on your use case.

Storinator Buying Guide (Part 1)

Determining what storage application works best for you can be a difficult task. Luckily, we have an amazing support team and plenty of great resources to help you get the right 45Drives storage solution for your specific needs.  

If you are out of storage or running out of storage but are not sure what you need – this guide will help you decide which Storinator storage server and configuration is best for your data needs.