About this site

45drives.org is an independent, community-built site. It is not owned, operated, authorized, or endorsed by 45Drives Inc. or its parent company, Protocase Inc. For official product information, sales, and support, visit 45drives.com.

Why this exists

45Drives sells storage hardware and support built on a genuinely open-source software stack — Ceph, OpenZFS, and a Cockpit-based management dashboard the company calls Houston UI. That’s a real, differentiated story worth telling well: most enterprise storage vendors lock customers into proprietary software they can’t inspect or run anywhere else. 45Drives doesn’t, and in our view that fact deserves clearer, more accessible explanation than it currently gets.

This site was built to do that: explain the open-source pieces on their own terms, show what they look like in practice, and point people toward a real, hands-on example (ceph-gateway-45drive) they can try themselves.

Who’s behind it

This site is maintained by Michael McGarrah, a technologist who documented this stack firsthand while researching storage-layer security go-to-market strategy for a graduate consulting project. That research surfaced two things worth acting on independently of the original project: first, that 45Drives’ open-source story wasn’t being told as clearly as it could be; and second, that a closely related domain to 45Drives’ own was sitting unregistered. Buying it and building something useful on it seemed better than leaving it available for someone with less good-faith intentions.

A note on independence

Nothing on this site should be read as 45Drives’ own official position, pricing, or product claims — always verify anything that matters against 45drives.com directly. If 45Drives would like to be involved in, take over, or otherwise direct what happens with this site or the 45drives.org domain, that conversation is welcome — reach out via the contact information on 45drives.com, or through the maintainer’s GitHub profile.

Source

This site’s source is public: github.com/mcgarrah/45drives-org.