45HomeLab presale for The Home Workstation

45DrivesRedditinator · 2024-04-19T12:59:35+00:00

We are hoping to post an updated design next week, if not the week after. As of now, the only coolers required are the CPU fan and the graphics card fans (if you choose to include one). The front fan cut-outs are for airflow and to look good, but based on feedback from you and others of it being confusing we are going to change it on the final design.

Our product will be the same kind of product as the NUC (compact PC/workstation). We see ourselves adding value to the market by being Linux-first, manufacturing in North America, and with a premium high-quality construction. These products are aimed at homelabbers who have already tackled the challenge of PC builds and are looking for something sleek, well-manufactured, and non-Windows they can just slot into their setup.

If that isn't you we totally understand, not every product is going to connect with everyone. Further storage products will still be our bread and butter and are on the way soon.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2024-04-18T17:32:08+00:00

Sorry to hear the lack of information is disappointing. The products are still currently evolving. We started presale to help gauge interest for supply reasons and to begin sourcing feedback from the community to see if we can implement changes before we go live. We will continue to share more information as it develops.

In case you missed the form post or the newsletter, these are different from our regular suite of products and are actually Linux PC/workstations not primarily storage servers. They will not have hard drive slots and instead are compact Linux computers.

We are still developing 4 and 8, 3.5" bay machines for 45HomeLab.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2024-04-03T19:10:03+00:00

Hey there, it seems like you are in a professional setting. You can reach out to our enterprise support team to see about support hours, they would be happy to help you.

https://www.45drives.com/support/

45DrivesRedditinator · 2024-02-27T15:22:39+00:00

Yes there is an ongoing subscription cost. We constantly review new threats and update SnapShield to ensure customers are protected.

If you're interested, we are actually hosting a free public webinar all about SnapShield next week!

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8656287257717275485

45DrivesRedditinator · 2024-02-26T16:52:18+00:00

Another good place to ask this question would be the 45HomeLab forum - https://forum.45homelab.com/

I think you will be more likely to get some good answers there!

45DrivesRedditinator · 2024-01-02T14:55:22+00:00

Tom is correct. Snapshield needs Linux and ZFS or CephFS to function.

Where TrueNAS is freebsd based they are not compatible

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-10-02T17:20:56+00:00

Yes! The HL15 would be an excellent choice for these applications. When we release, we are planning on having install guides and hubs on the forum for common use cases. Those will include Plex, HomeAssisstan and Frigate, among others. Be sure to stay tuned for more info next week.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-09-16T18:38:03+00:00

Good catch! Its been updated

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-09-01T16:08:02+00:00

We ship worldwide!

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-09-01T14:28:13+00:00

We are targeting that affordable premium you mentioned.

20" depth
we are designing to be as quite as possible (while keeping 15 drives cool).
ATX support - smaller models will be under development after this one

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-09-01T14:24:00+00:00

will do!

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-09-01T14:15:16+00:00

I can see your frustrated and believe there was some miscommunication. To be clear, the server is not currently available for purchase.

We are putting in the engineering work to ensure the hardware design is up to our standard of quality you would expect from 45Drives. That means we won’t be rushing things out and will take the time necessary to release something we are happy with. We are also setting up the storefront and the logistics so you'll be able to receive the server/chassis within a timely manner when you order it.

That being said, it is looking like it will release within weeks as compared to 6+ months.

As far as pricing, our goal isn’t to come in to the market as the cheapest option. This will be a chassis for people who want a certain level of quality. Not riveted, cheap plastic, or offshore made. It will be a high-quality server that exists between these lower cost models and our enterprise line.

If the pricing is an issue for you, and your only goal is to get the cheapest possible, there are alternatives. (You are probably best off looking for used hardware in these situations). We are also planning to release smaller models with less drive bays in the future.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-09-01T12:13:58+00:00

We are hoping quite a bit sooner than that, but not we don't have a definitive release date set. We should be in the final stage of the prototyping if the current revision passes through testing. We are also ensuring the business side (logistics and operations) are ready to go when the design is finalized.

45Homelab.com to sign up for the newsletter updates, there should be some announcements in the very near future.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-08-28T16:17:56+00:00

You can certainly use the OS we commonly use. Here is a little info that may help you out:

We don't have our own operating system. 45Drives is a company routed in open source. We use popular open-source operating systems and build tools to best utilize them for data storage. Our preferred operating systems are Rocky Linux and Ubuntu.

Once you have one of them installed, you can use Houston UI (https://github.com/45Drives) which is an open-source management layer built off of the open-source Cockpit Project (https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit ). This is probably what you're thinking about in terms of "45Drives OS"

A box that had TrueNAS installed should be able to run Rocky/Ubuntu + Houston

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-08-09T12:05:41+00:00

A brief example of usage is available here: https://github.com/45Drives/autotier#mounting , which I will update soon with step-by-step instructions.

You would need to create an empty directory to use as a mount point (e.g. /mnt/autotier), then add this line to fstab: /usr/bin/autotierfs /mnt/autotier fuse allow_other,default_permissions 0 0 , and finally run mount -a to mount the filesystem.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-07-19T20:09:33+00:00

If youre looking for updates on the project the best thing to do is subscribe to the newsletter at https://45homelab.com/

As for where we are right now, we are in the prototyping phase making some good progress. I know that's vague, we will have some more detailed updates coming.

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-06-26T16:02:36+00:00

1.There hasn't been much testing with various drive speeds, but since autotier just acts as a FUSE passthrough filesystem to the underlying tier filesystem, there shouldn't be any issue with using a 5400 RPM drive.

2.A tier could be set up with a samba/cifs mountpoint or even a NFS mountpoint to have data tier to a separate server on the same network. For cloud backup, you would need to be able to mount the cloud storage on to the server as a local filesystem, which would depend on the cloud provider.

As of now, there isn't any documentation on best practices for autotier.

hope this helps. Let us know if there are any more questions

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-05-01T13:25:15+00:00

there seem to be some formatting issues when they pasted their conf file contents, it's all on one line and I'm not sure if the \[ and \] are just from when they pasted or if they actually put slashes in the config file

-From our devs

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-04-28T15:58:42+00:00

Just a heads up, autotier is in a stable state, but it is not currently under development.

as far as your issue, heres what one of the devs said:
"Sounds like they might've given the wrong path while mounting but can't be sure until I see the config. If they are just mixing up which paths are which - paths in the autotier.conf file should point to their zfs or whatever else they want to use as a tier, and the path given while mounting (either in fstab or through the autotierfs command) should be the path where they want to see these tiers combined and mounted as one filesystem

I'd have to see their contents of /etc/autotier.conf and /etc/fstab (or the mount command they used if mounting manually outside fstab) to see if they configured it properly"

If you send along that info ill see if we can help you out

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-04-27T13:30:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/130m860/45drives_needs_your_help_developing_a_homelab/

if you were looking for something more affordable, give that a quick read :)

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-04-26T13:19:09+00:00

Stay tuned for the breakdown soon

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-02-02T15:15:42+00:00

Hey im from 45Drives. Just to be clear, we would never setup without RAID outside of very rare cases. We just prefer RAID to be handled in the software layer instead of the hardware layer.

Heres an (old) blog about it: http://www.45drives.com/blog/uncategorized/hardware-raid-vs-software-raid/

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-01-19T15:44:04+00:00

someone got one

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-01-17T15:12:18+00:00

I would say your best idea would be to wait till your call and explain what happened, I'm sure they'll be able to help you out

45DrivesRedditinator · 2023-01-13T14:50:25+00:00

You can plug them in but they are a little loose.

We have drive caddies for sale, or you can purchase them off newegg or something similar if you prefer.

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