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so you can see james is editing away here in final cut or at least pretending

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to i'm gonna go ahead and rip out one of our drives

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have you ever walked into a coffee shop in the middle of the day and been

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shocked to see how many people appear to be using it as their office well that's

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because there are a ton of freelancers out there who do everything from

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pitching clients to writing scripts to editing video often all on one portable

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machine but sometimes especially if you're editing video or even photos you

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need more storage space than a macbook pro or any laptop for that matter can

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offer that's where this puppy comes in so we've configured our test device here

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with over 100 terabytes of rapid access storage

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actually 120 terabytes to be precise and only a single Thunderbolt 3 cable is

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required to connect it to our laptop oh and did i

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mention that it charges too we're going to show you guys how to do

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so when we first set out to build our 100 terabyte laptop the first thing we

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needed was a pc or a mac with Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 gives us

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both the performance and the ease of use that we need to make this a legitimately

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viable solution instead of just a weird tech demo the second thing we needed was

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a das now a daz is not to be confused with a

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nas which is short for network attached storage those things are great we use

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them all the time here at our office they can be accessed remotely and they

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can be used by multiple computers so therefore multiple users simultaneously

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the problem though is that they are slower especially in terms of access

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latency so our das or direct attached

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storage device is an eureka arc 8050

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t3-12 now there are four six and eight drive

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variants that are also available but we chose this one because we wanted a

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really flashy headline like 100 terabytes

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the other main feature that we wanted was of course Thunderbolt 3. so it comes

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with the included Thunderbolt cable that you see right here which gives us 40

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gigabit per second peak transfer speeds between our devices and the ability to

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daisy chain using the second Thunderbolt 3 port keep

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in mind though that we wouldn't use this capability to add more storage boxes on

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top of the one we have instead we'd rely on this right here this is an sf 8644

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port and it's a lot cooler than it sounds because it lets us take just kind

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of a dummy secondary enclosure and link

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our original one to it and use the controller that's in here as well as the

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Thunderbolt 3 chip here to allow this one to manage the whole thing as one big

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array so inside our eureka enclosure is

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an lsi hardware raid processor also

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called a radon chip or rock so it's higher performance compared to

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software raid in many cases but could be

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harder to recover data from as compared to software aid in the event of an error

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and that was actually something that we did experience with hardware raid in the

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past inside here is also two gigs of ecc RAM

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which causes about a two percent performance hit but allows us to detect

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and correct data that was improperly read or written

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now let's talk about our drives so this unit is actually sold disk list

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but b h who generously provided our unit for this video offers pre-loaded systems

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if you for whatever reason have trouble finding the nas optimized drives that

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are out there and installing them which you shouldn't because it's a pretty

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simple process so you basically take your four screws screw them into the

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bottom of these rails and then there's a back plane in the back of the unit that

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you slide it into and lock your drive in place but there are ways to make

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mistakes like they do have mounting holes for two and a half inch drives but

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i wouldn't recommend using those in a unit like this because you'll be compromising your capacity and your

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performance anyway we actually prefer

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the empty version because this is cool you don't need to fill all of the bays

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right off the bat on many dashes if you were to add more

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drives later it would mean that you would need to reformat and recreate your

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raid and that's pretty inconvenient because the whole point of having a

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device like this is this is like your storage locker for

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all of your stuff where are you going to put it all while you reformat it

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ours on the other hand has what's called online volume expansion so that

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additional capacity can be used to enlarge the last volume set or create

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another volume set now as for mixing and matching drives that's something that

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you run into when you add some drives now and you upgrade later some people

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actually encourage using different makes and models of disks as long as they keep

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the same spindle RPM so that's to say how fast the disc actually spins within

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the drive and the same claimed capacity

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so the arguments for this are that it reduces the risk of systemic failure so

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that's to say like a flaw that affects all particular units of of this drive

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for example another thing that's nice about adding drives over time is that

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they won't all be the same age if you look at the way that hard drives fail

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over time it tends to be a lot of them then very few then it ramps up

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significantly as they get older so if they're all the same age you can imagine

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that they would all start to drop off at around the same time with all of that

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said if you've got known good drives

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there is a performance advantage to using ones that are all the same if

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you're striping data across them which we are doing because we're looking for

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not just massive capacity but also high

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performance for our project we went with seagate's 12 terabyte iron wolf pros

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they have a great balance of price and performance and they deliver the

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capacity that we need in order to hit our goal now we could have gone with

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something more expensive like a sas drive our das actually does support that

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but for this kind of a deployment there's not going to be a performance

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benefit so we're going to stick with these sort of prosumer grade devices

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instead the last thing we need is power

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now this is just a standard power cord but i would strongly recommend for a

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device like this either getting the sold separately battery backup or connecting

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it to a ups so that it doesn't suddenly lose power in the event of a power

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outage all right

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so that's that's it now we are ready to go through the setup

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process to set up your machine download the

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installer from the eureka website and follow the steps

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after restarting launch the storage manager to configure your raid now there

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are a ton of different options in here but we're going to choose quick create

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and raid 5 plus spare this is going to stripe our data across 11 of our drives

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including one parity drive and it will leave one spare drive available just in

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case one of our other 11 decides to kick the bucket this way it will rebuild

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automatically in the event of a drive failure now you'll have to wait some

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number of hours for your array to initialize it ended up taking about 10

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hours in our case so now that everything is completely set up and ready to go you

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can see we're running off of battery here but we take our single Thunderbolt

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3 cable plug it into our system

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our array fires up we are charging our macbook

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and theoretically we're going to see

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our external storage volume pop up right around here so one of the few disk speed

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tests for mac is actually the black magic disk speed test which is intended

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to find out how fast a particular volume is in the

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context of what kind of footage it can

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handle so i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to select our target drive let's

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go ahead and see wow look at it go

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not too shabby

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just shy of two gigabytes per second on

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both reads and writes which results in a completely green lit up blackmagic disk

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speed test we can handle everything up to

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4k 60fps content at 10 bit 422 but

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that's not actually much of a surprise to us because 2 gigabytes per second is

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well in excess of even the data rates of our 8k cameras so you would be able to

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handle any kind of footage under the sun using

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a connection like this to an array like that

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for our next trick we're going to take a look at final cut pro x now i am far

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from an expert on the use of this software so we brought in one of our editors to

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give me your honest impressions any any thoughts on the performance of this

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timeline it's a multi-cam clip so

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is that demanding typically usually yeah

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it feels good feels responsive more or less yeah any complaints whatsoever can

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you find any problem i want to know about the problems i mean to be clear

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i'm not actually expecting you to find a problem okay yeah yeah

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good we're editing off of this and it's like

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two gigabytes a second read and write so we are expecting it to perform well i

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was just hoping maybe you could find some some flaw in the machine

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no looks good very snappy yeah cool no perfect so overall this is not a cheap

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solution but we're really happy with the experience it charges our laptop it

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gives us blazing fast performance and of course

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like any hardware raid enclosure it gives us some fault tolerance so you can

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see james is editing away here in final cut or at least pretending to i'm gonna

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go ahead and rip out one of our drives it's gonna freak the heck out

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but we're still editing baby pretty cool right

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anyway it gets even better go ahead and close down final cut

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and can you drag that drive to the garbage there

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when it's time to go out and hit the road

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that's all there is to it see ya

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