This storage cluster is WEIRD! (Mars 400)

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Special thanks to Ambedded for sending over a Mars 400 for testing. I only found out about them through one of the comments on an earlier video on Ceph clusters, so thank you SO much to all those who comment on these videos, you all are great!

Mentioned in this video (some links are affiliate links):

- Mars 400PRO: https://www.ambedded.com.tw/en/product/ceph-storage-appliance.html
- Mars 500: https://www.ambedded.com.tw/en/product/ceph-storage-appliance-500.html
- Mars 524: https://www.ambedded.com.tw/en/product/ceph-storage-appliance-524.html
- DeskPi Super6C: https://amzn.to/41hybrr
- Turing Pi 2: https://turingpi.com/product/turing-pi-2/
- Ambedded's study on Ceph NVMe caching performance: https://www.ambedded.com.tw/en/news/Ambedded-news-018.html
- Ansible for DevOps - free copy: https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/CTVMPCbEeXd3
- Backblaze Drive stats - heat: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/

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Contents:

00:00 - Are Pi clusters dumb?
00:47 - Hello Mars 400
01:36 - Twingate for remote access
02:40 - Exploring Mars
06:02 - An appliance, not a server
07:07 - Setting it up
09:39 - Rapid iteration on my own failure
10:30 - Mounting CephFS on a Pi
11:40 - From 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps
12:16 - Power consumption and noise
13:01 - Gotta go faster