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last year we put together an absolutely wild miniature server so that we could

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travel to trade shows with a team of editors and still use the same high

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performance workflow on the road and then as soon store comes up with this

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thing that does everything that our DIY machine did at a quarter of the price

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half the size and with zero Jank

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how could it possibly do what they say for less than the price of the

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motherboard in our server who is building an all solid state Nas and why

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did they design it for desktop rather than rack mount use why is it that I'm

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right out of the gate I can tell you one of the reasons it's so cheap is that it

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has just a wimpy quad core Celeron processor and four gigs of RAM so our

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machine is definitely faster but it's

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also ludicrous Overkill and almost screwed us over at the airport since

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when it's packaged with the network switches and the cables we need it was

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too heavy for a standard carry-on it's also a little on the big and cumbersome

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Side by comparison the ASUS store flash

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store 12 Pro is an equally all NVMe Nas

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but it's about the size of a PlayStation 2.

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look at that it's so tiny and that is what she said

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oh it also weighs almost nothing it

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feels like a toy it's got plenty of features though two external USB 3 ports

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if you wanted to back up your external drive to your Nas 10 gig Lan right on

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board spittiff and HDMI out I guess if you

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want to use it as a media center you should install Windows on

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oh it's just a computer how wow so it's like fully hackable yeah you can install

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truenath on it you can put unwrite on it okay that's super cool we gotta open

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this thing up oh did I mention those USB type A ports are 10 gig oh well you're

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gonna break the thing no can I help you I want to figure it out do you need an

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adult no you need an adult you just told people to put unread on here but Andre

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doesn't have proper SSD support it doesn't support trim I mean he doesn't

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SSD or doesn't have a proper sliding the [ __ ] plastic panel support apparently

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boom wow you did it look at that got him

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that's not even the one you're supposed to take off first well seems like a missed opportunity for some like quick

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disconnect kind of mechanism you know seems like a missed opportunity to tell

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you about our fantastic screwdriver available on lttstore.com yeah you

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didn't notice this at all you're not gonna I'm not gonna say anything about this cool a type a port wait what for

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the what the hell that's their fan connector okay I guess we shouldn't

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complain about things that are over built right yeah exactly we should

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encourage it

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oh sick the RAM is upgradable yeah it

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only comes with four gigs by default which is pretty Pinner

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so we have more RAM Try Not To Break It eh I'm not gonna break it feels like

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there's something still nah it's all good hey look another screw no way it's

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a big heat sink for a little chip and the only airflow comes from this fan

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that basically blows right over and

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through your whoa 12 m.2 SSD slots here

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okay that's pretty sick and then blows a

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little bit over your heat sink and then out the side here I mean it doesn't need

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much you're going to be using more power here than you will be over here oh yeah

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what does it use in terms of power oh 65 watt I think you mean 90 watt like what

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oh they said 65 on the product page wow I've been lied to a suit store Wow way

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to go ASU store they've actually got some foam up in the front here as well

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to make sure that no air is going to accidentally leak out over here yeah

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what if this is RGB are you sure where's the LED is it on the board oh okay there

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they are I'm trying to figure out what the deal is here they've got these as

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media controllers but I've never seen an as media PCIe splitter why three how

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many PCIe lanes do you think this thing has I'm gonna say 16 8.

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yikes are they just trying to get out ahead of nand prices falling even

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further to the point where even general home users are building NASA's with

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flash rather than hard drives hard drives are fine if you need lots of

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capacity but as soon as you go I want to copy a thousand small files or I want to

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scrub my timeline in Premiere you start to realize pretty fast that they're just

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hard drives and in the event that one of them fails it can take hours if you're

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lucky or even days to rebuild a failed array with mechanical drives with an SSD

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minutes maybe hours that's a lot less

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time to be stressed out worrying that your data is on the line because you

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didn't have an off-site backup and the truth is most people don't you're

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limited by the 10 gig Port but just humor me this our crazy video editing

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server that's tens of thousands of dollars what do you think the peak usage

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is during the week we have like 15 video editors that are all editing 4K and

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sometimes 8K footage we have like 80 other people that use it as their just

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work storage thing watching footage ingesting footage 13 and a half 14. yeah

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and that's with like 100 people using that I mean I would have given anything for something like this

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to exist eight ten years ago when we were starting out does that Celeron have

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any kind of like raid acceleration anything that I'm not aware of I think

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so okay it does have an igpu so if you're going to run like Plex Media

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can totally do that I think you'll get h.264 and x265 acceleration but not

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anything more than that so your mileage may vary I did find out what the optical is for if you're like an audio file a

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lot of people run roon which is like a music streaming server they do have an

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app for it you can use that to Output to a DAC and some fancy speakers okay

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what what it's durable let's go thanks crucial the same ramp 3200 cl22 it came

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with four gigs we're putting 16 in which is the max that this SOC can handle you

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know actually I think that the 316 terabyte hard drives you need to get

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that same amount of storage would be almost the same amount of volume

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oh oh wow you have to push really hard yeah I mean they're plastic I mean

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they're very cost effective quick m.2

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disconnects I would take that over screws any day of the week yeah actually

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yeah why aren't these on motherboards I

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mean we know ASUS store is just Jesus yeah right like everybody yeah

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everybody knows that right just put this on your motherboards this is kind of

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awesome hopefully they don't end up like OnePlus I mean we can install trueness

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who cares that's true the fact that this is so open you just get to do what you

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want with your computer imagine that well I shouldn't be impressed by it I

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know but I have to be these days that's

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that's it right that was a lot easier like with the first Port of Nas we're

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going to be using a ubiquity switch Flex XG it's a four port 10 gig switch also

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has a one gig PoE in we're not going to be using that and it should be the

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perfect amount of ports I think this time I feel like we have three editors

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and one to the nest then on the client side we're going to be using Apple

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silicon MacBooks with these cool external Thunderbolt 10 gig cards from

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Cal digit now you're probably wondering as an adobe and predominantly Windows

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house why are we using MacBooks there are certainly faster Windows laptops the

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issue is that Adobe Premiere is actually

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it's just turning on more stable on Mac

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OS these days and anytime that you might

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gain from a faster machine you lose in crashes and glitchy Behavior we didn't

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even notice the 32 gig SSD that's built in for the operating system Ah that's

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super cool because it means you don't have to use up any of your storage for

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your OS one potential downside is it means if that emmc storage fails which

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can definitely happen especially if it's running any kind of write intensive

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applications or if Android ever gets their act together when it comes to ssds

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you would boot off USB anyway hey look it found it instantly

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oh that was I have read and agreed to the ADM terms

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and conditions gives us three options by default is balance which is raid 5 so

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that would give you one drive parity data you can lose one drive okay which

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across 12 is not a lot but then again this is flash storage not hard drives

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they fail a little differently you should have a backup what are the other

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options but maximum capacity that's raid zero oh my God no and then Superior

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especially if you don't even have the CPU to push any kind of decent

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throughput off it well you might as well go j-bot well it would be good because

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there'd be no parity you'd be literally yeah it would be a bit slower for random

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barely the last one is superior data protection which is raid six which is

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like raid 5 but you have two drives a parody and it has a more expensive

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parity calculation which given that this is a quad core CPU that

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oh my God but that's all it shows oh my

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God it has really on wow that booted really fast yeah not bad wow you know

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what now we're gonna call it penis too nah

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actually that's kind of better HDD partition you literally can't put hard

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drives in this what are you talking about I mean you okay m.2 to micro drive

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adapter this is shockingly painless I've

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never tried an ASUS store product before they have begged and pleaded for us to

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cover them but I was just like yup their Nas box is all right I'm very interested

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to see what their software actually looks like once you're in there because that's the thing that people are paying

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for ease of setup Simplicity and like it just works with all the stuff yeah I

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mean of all of the things in this list in regards to bettering your data

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security this is the least important one it takes all of half of a second to Port

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scans you know how stuff like this happens though right some executive at

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ASUS read some article somewhere targeted ports Hall yeah now Jake's

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gonna figure all this out while I go buy a GPU on Facebook Marketplace and I'll

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see you in a bit because this is just using normal raid and not ZFS or

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anything like that it has to sync the array before it's kind of at its full

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performance and it's already seven percent done and it's only been like

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half an hour but it says the ETA is 10 hours whatever performance we get right

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now is not really going to be indicative of what it can do but I do want to try

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it so let's see if I copy a file here it seems to be averaging around 300 or 350

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megabytes a second or around three gigabit it's not anywhere near the 10

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gigabit that this port can do and the switch can do but the array is still

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syncing so any performance tests we do right now is not super meaningful

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although it is good it can still do 3gbit while doing that I heard there's a

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lot of apps on these things I haven't dove into it at all yet I agree sign my

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life away of course right at the top Plex Media Server no surprises there

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let's install that wow they even have an app for portaner which is like a Docker

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control panel I guess if you want to run Docker containers on this thing which a

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lot of people do if they have this as their home lab that's going to be perfect for it let's let's install that

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select install Docker first I don't know why I didn't just say we're going to

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install it for you oh Prime video wait is that for the HDMI port if I install

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Prime video is it just gonna like show up on here whoa you need a lot of things

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installation of Firefox is recommended remote Center oh if it needs something

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to run whatever you're doing it will install it oh look at that what are the

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odds that that happened right oh there's a pie hole one look at that

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okay so some of the apps are Docker based some of them are just applications

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that's cool I have a cursor but that's it

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hmm cool it gives you a tutorial on how

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to use this there's Plex this is running a bit slow it might have

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something to do with all of the apps I installed and the fact that it's still

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syncing it works we got a Plex Media Server it's playing at full quality so

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if I go convert to let's say 1080p it's

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h.264 to h264 this should not be very difficult

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oh my God I hope it didn't take that long to do one frame

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oh god well that's a little disappointing

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all right the version that's on ASUS store's app store is very out of date

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weird that it's an Android APK like this is an Android app I guess maybe it's

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simpler to package it that way there we go

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well that's cool so you could throw in theory anything on here like we could

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put unify protect on here and you could look at security cameras you could do whatever you want oh hello

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what is going on this is what I had before that's not really a cursor though

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here I'll show you a cursor I want to try Plex again now that it's

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not syncing the array to see if it'll actually transcode I did copy over a

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different file because the one that I used originally is like our very

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compressed Fancy YouTube one that is

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very high CPU usage for just a playback of a video let's try the other one again

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that one drives at 58. I don't think it can do the parity data fast enough to

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heat them up is what's going on here we just copied 75 gigs to it though I think

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it's leveled off there considering the noise level I do wish you had the option

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to do better with a little bit louder fan hey not bad that's about 300

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megabytes a second we can try going the other way have you seen my true NAS

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performance at home it's awful it's probably user error I mean you set it up

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so one Gigabyte a second that makes sense that writing is not as fast

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writing is far more processor intensive

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and that's where that Celeron is going to be hurting us this looks like your

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Mac being turned what does preparing to copy mean why can't I stop this quit

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it's like the cancel button on a printer the printhead's not moving

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the page anyway or it'll print halfway and then stop and then just shoot out a

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half printed piece of paper thanks this is really useful yeah we could go to an

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ingest station and do it that way these are connected at 25 gig okay

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that is very 10 gig it looks like about all we can expect from raid 5 is 400 500

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megabytes a second one thing to consider is this would likely perform better if

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we had say only six drives when you have 12 that's a lot of striping you need to

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do they ship 12 Drive versions so it's on them to make sure that it performs as

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it should I mean there you go that's definitely CPU bottlenecked we're at

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like 80 90 on the CPU I bet you if I put

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trueness on it we could do gig both ways it's not gonna it's two gigahertz

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Celeron I looked on PassMark to compare the Celeron to the port and as we built

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originally which is a 5700x it was less than one-fifth to be fair it also uses

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about one-fifth of the power I think the main value add for this product is in

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what the alternatives are compared to building a system yourself yeah you

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could do it but you're going to be spending as much on a motherboard as you

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are on this thing yeah so if it happens to be what you need it's kind of killer

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there's nothing else like it there is actually qnap makes one but it only has

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four drives well then that's not really that much like it is it and this is an

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even smaller segue to our sponsor super micro featuring their h13 generation

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out at the link in the description to get more information on super micro's

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AMD powered server Technologies if you enjoyed this video why don't you check

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out the one where we diy'd it it's really does put the Y in DIY hmm