WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.420 last year we put together an absolutely wild miniature server so that we could 00:00:04.740 --> 00:00:10.320 travel to trade shows with a team of editors and still use the same high 00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:15.179 performance workflow on the road and then as soon store comes up with this 00:00:12.540 --> 00:00:22.939 thing that does everything that our DIY machine did at a quarter of the price 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:22.939 half the size and with zero Jank 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:30.240 how could it possibly do what they say for less than the price of the 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:34.739 motherboard in our server who is building an all solid state Nas and why 00:00:32.940 --> 00:00:37.739 did they design it for desktop rather than rack mount use why is it that I'm 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:41.160 not going to answer any of these questions for you until I tell you about 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:45.300 our sponsor the ridge the ridge has joined with Travis 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store flash 00:01:24.479 --> 00:01:31.740 store 12 Pro is an equally all NVMe Nas 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:34.979 but it's about the size of a PlayStation 2. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:42.119 look at that it's so tiny and that is what she said 00:01:38.220 --> 00:01:44.040 oh it also weighs almost nothing it 00:01:42.119 --> 00:01:48.479 feels like a toy it's got plenty of features though two external USB 3 ports 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:52.439 if you wanted to back up your external drive to your Nas 10 gig Lan right on 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:57.600 board spittiff and HDMI out I guess if you 00:01:54.899 --> 00:02:01.680 want to use it as a media center you should install Windows on 00:01:59.220 --> 00:02:04.979 oh it's just a computer how wow so it's like fully hackable yeah you can install 00:02:03.479 --> 00:02:08.399 truenath on it you can put unwrite on it okay that's super cool we gotta open 00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:13.020 this thing up oh did I mention those USB type A ports are 10 gig oh well you're 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:16.080 gonna break the thing no can I help you I want to figure it out do you need an 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:19.500 adult no you need an adult you just told people to put unread on here but Andre 00:02:17.640 --> 00:02:23.340 doesn't have proper SSD support it doesn't support trim I mean he doesn't 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:28.020 SSD or doesn't have a proper sliding the [ __ ] plastic panel support apparently 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:29.040 boom wow you did it look at that got him 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:34.980 that's not even the one you're supposed to take off first well seems like a missed opportunity for some like quick 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:38.400 disconnect kind of mechanism you know seems like a missed opportunity to tell 00:02:36.780 --> 00:02:41.400 you about our fantastic screwdriver available on lttstore.com yeah you 00:02:40.379 --> 00:02:47.819 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 00:02:45.060 --> 00:02:51.300 the what the hell that's their fan connector okay I guess we shouldn't 00:02:50.220 --> 00:02:55.879 complain about things that are over built right yeah exactly we should 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.879 encourage it 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:01.739 oh sick the RAM is upgradable yeah it 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.400 only comes with four gigs by default which is pretty Pinner 00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:09.599 so we have more RAM Try Not To Break It eh I'm not gonna break it feels like 00:03:07.379 --> 00:03:15.659 there's something still nah it's all good hey look another screw no way it's 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:21.360 a big heat sink for a little chip and the only airflow comes from this fan 00:03:17.940 --> 00:03:28.019 that basically blows right over and 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:31.500 through your whoa 12 m.2 SSD slots here 00:03:28.019 --> 00:03:33.120 okay that's pretty sick and then blows a 00:03:31.500 --> 00:03:36.120 little bit over your heat sink and then out the side here I mean it doesn't need 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:40.680 much you're going to be using more power here than you will be over here oh yeah 00:03:38.099 --> 00:03:45.180 what does it use in terms of power oh 65 watt I think you mean 90 watt like what 00:03:42.659 --> 00:03:49.860 oh they said 65 on the product page wow I've been lied to a suit store Wow way 00:03:47.819 --> 00:03:54.120 to go ASU store they've actually got some foam up in the front here as well 00:03:51.959 --> 00:03:58.140 to make sure that no air is going to accidentally leak out over here yeah 00:03:55.739 --> 00:04:02.640 what if this is RGB are you sure where's the LED is it on the board oh okay there 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:07.080 they are I'm trying to figure out what the deal is here they've got these as 00:04:04.739 --> 00:04:12.239 media controllers but I've never seen an as media PCIe splitter why three how 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:18.419 many PCIe lanes do you think this thing has I'm gonna say 16 8. 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:22.860 yikes are they just trying to get out ahead of nand prices falling even 00:04:20.940 --> 00:04:27.000 further to the point where even general home users are building NASA's with 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:31.080 flash rather than hard drives hard drives are fine if you need lots of 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:36.720 capacity but as soon as you go I want to copy a thousand small files or I want to 00:04:34.380 --> 00:04:40.440 scrub my timeline in Premiere you start to realize pretty fast that they're just 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:45.419 hard drives and in the event that one of them fails it can take hours if you're 00:04:42.660 --> 00:04:51.060 lucky or even days to rebuild a failed array with mechanical drives with an SSD 00:04:47.940 --> 00:04:52.979 minutes maybe hours that's a lot less 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:56.160 time to be stressed out worrying that your data is on the line because you 00:04:54.419 --> 00:05:00.479 didn't have an off-site backup and the truth is most people don't you're 00:04:57.900 --> 00:05:04.800 limited by the 10 gig Port but just humor me this our crazy video editing 00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:09.600 server that's tens of thousands of dollars what do you think the peak usage 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:13.800 is during the week we have like 15 video editors that are all editing 4K and 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:17.759 sometimes 8K footage we have like 80 other people that use it as their just 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:22.139 work storage thing watching footage ingesting footage 13 and a half 14. yeah 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:27.780 and that's with like 100 people using that I mean I would have given anything for something like this 00:05:25.380 --> 00:05:32.520 to exist eight ten years ago when we were starting out does that Celeron have 00:05:29.820 --> 00:05:37.380 any kind of like raid acceleration anything that I'm not aware of I think 00:05:34.919 --> 00:05:39.780 so okay it does have an igpu so if you're going to run like Plex Media 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.020 Server on this thing because you're a baller and you have an all SSD Nas you 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:47.759 can totally do that I think you'll get h.264 and x265 acceleration but not 00:05:46.380 --> 00:05:53.100 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 00:05:51.300 --> 00:05:56.220 lot of people run roon which is like a music streaming server they do have an 00:05:54.660 --> 00:06:01.740 app for it you can use that to Output to a DAC and some fancy speakers okay 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:07.380 what what it's durable let's go thanks crucial the same ramp 3200 cl22 it came 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:11.639 with four gigs we're putting 16 in which is the max that this SOC can handle you 00:06:09.539 --> 00:06:14.880 know actually I think that the 316 terabyte hard drives you need to get 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:20.820 that same amount of storage would be almost the same amount of volume 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:25.440 oh oh wow you have to push really hard yeah I mean they're plastic I mean 00:06:22.380 --> 00:06:27.000 they're very cost effective quick m.2 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:32.220 disconnects I would take that over screws any day of the week yeah actually 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:34.800 yeah why aren't these on motherboards I 00:06:32.220 --> 00:06:38.759 mean we know ASUS store is just Jesus yeah right like everybody yeah 00:06:37.020 --> 00:06:41.880 everybody knows that right just put this on your motherboards this is kind of 00:06:40.139 --> 00:06:46.259 awesome hopefully they don't end up like OnePlus I mean we can install trueness 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:50.699 who cares that's true the fact that this is so open you just get to do what you 00:06:48.660 --> 00:06:53.819 want with your computer imagine that well I shouldn't be impressed by it I 00:06:52.979 --> 00:06:58.919 know but I have to be these days that's 00:06:55.979 --> 00:07:02.280 that's it right that was a lot easier like with the first Port of Nas we're 00:07:00.539 --> 00:07:06.900 going to be using a ubiquity switch Flex XG it's a four port 10 gig switch also 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:10.620 has a one gig PoE in we're not going to be using that and it should be the 00:07:08.940 --> 00:07:14.759 perfect amount of ports I think this time I feel like we have three editors 00:07:12.479 --> 00:07:17.819 and one to the nest then on the client side we're going to be using Apple 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:21.419 silicon MacBooks with these cool external Thunderbolt 10 gig cards from 00:07:19.919 --> 00:07:25.319 Cal digit now you're probably wondering as an adobe and predominantly Windows 00:07:23.580 --> 00:07:30.780 house why are we using MacBooks there are certainly faster Windows laptops the 00:07:27.419 --> 00:07:33.960 issue is that Adobe Premiere is actually 00:07:30.780 --> 00:07:37.020 it's just turning on more stable on Mac 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:39.599 OS these days and anytime that you might 00:07:37.020 --> 00:07:44.160 gain from a faster machine you lose in crashes and glitchy Behavior we didn't 00:07:41.819 --> 00:07:48.479 even notice the 32 gig SSD that's built in for the operating system Ah that's 00:07:46.860 --> 00:07:52.620 super cool because it means you don't have to use up any of your storage for 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:57.419 your OS one potential downside is it means if that emmc storage fails which 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.319 can definitely happen especially if it's running any kind of write intensive 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:04.979 applications or if Android ever gets their act together when it comes to ssds 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:09.240 you would boot off USB anyway hey look it found it instantly 00:08:07.259 --> 00:08:14.580 oh that was I have read and agreed to the ADM terms 00:08:12.539 --> 00:08:17.880 and conditions gives us three options by default is balance which is raid 5 so 00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:21.660 that would give you one drive parity data you can lose one drive okay which 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:25.500 across 12 is not a lot but then again this is flash storage not hard drives 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:28.500 they fail a little differently you should have a backup what are the other 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:34.080 options but maximum capacity that's raid zero oh my God no and then Superior 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:37.560 especially if you don't even have the CPU to push any kind of decent 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:40.919 throughput off it well you might as well go j-bot well it would be good because 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:46.800 there'd be no parity you'd be literally yeah it would be a bit slower for random 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:50.160 barely the last one is superior data protection which is raid six which is 00:08:48.420 --> 00:08:53.940 like raid 5 but you have two drives a parody and it has a more expensive 00:08:52.140 --> 00:09:01.860 parity calculation which given that this is a quad core CPU that 00:08:58.459 --> 00:09:03.839 oh my God but that's all it shows oh my 00:09:01.860 --> 00:09:07.260 God it has really on wow that booted really fast yeah not bad wow you know 00:09:05.880 --> 00:09:10.860 what now we're gonna call it penis too nah 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.560 actually that's kind of better HDD partition you literally can't put hard 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:21.600 drives in this what are you talking about I mean you okay m.2 to micro drive 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:23.399 adapter this is shockingly painless I've 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:27.720 never tried an ASUS store product before they have begged and pleaded for us to 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:31.320 cover them but I was just like yup their Nas box is all right I'm very interested 00:09:29.700 --> 00:09:36.839 to see what their software actually looks like once you're in there because that's the thing that people are paying 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:40.740 for ease of setup Simplicity and like it just works with all the stuff yeah I 00:09:38.580 --> 00:09:45.959 mean of all of the things in this list in regards to bettering your data 00:09:43.260 --> 00:09:49.680 security this is the least important one it takes all of half of a second to Port 00:09:48.060 --> 00:09:54.000 scans you know how stuff like this happens though right some executive at 00:09:52.019 --> 00:09:58.500 ASUS read some article somewhere targeted ports Hall yeah now Jake's 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:01.740 gonna figure all this out while I go buy a GPU on Facebook Marketplace and I'll 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:05.399 see you in a bit because this is just using normal raid and not ZFS or 00:10:03.660 --> 00:10:10.019 anything like that it has to sync the array before it's kind of at its full 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:13.560 performance and it's already seven percent done and it's only been like 00:10:11.459 --> 00:10:16.860 half an hour but it says the ETA is 10 hours whatever performance we get right 00:10:15.300 --> 00:10:21.420 now is not really going to be indicative of what it can do but I do want to try 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:25.740 it so let's see if I copy a file here it seems to be averaging around 300 or 350 00:10:23.940 --> 00:10:29.700 megabytes a second or around three gigabit it's not anywhere near the 10 00:10:27.839 --> 00:10:32.940 gigabit that this port can do and the switch can do but the array is still 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:36.120 syncing so any performance tests we do right now is not super meaningful 00:10:34.560 --> 00:10:39.180 although it is good it can still do 3gbit while doing that I heard there's a 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:43.680 lot of apps on these things I haven't dove into it at all yet I agree sign my 00:10:41.820 --> 00:10:47.579 life away of course right at the top Plex Media Server no surprises there 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:51.959 let's install that wow they even have an app for portaner which is like a Docker 00:10:50.220 --> 00:10:54.839 control panel I guess if you want to run Docker containers on this thing which a 00:10:53.700 --> 00:11:00.300 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 00:10:57.839 --> 00:11:04.620 select install Docker first I don't know why I didn't just say we're going to 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:08.399 install it for you oh Prime video wait is that for the HDMI port if I install 00:11:06.660 --> 00:11:12.480 Prime video is it just gonna like show up on here whoa you need a lot of things 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:18.420 installation of Firefox is recommended remote Center oh if it needs something 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:22.339 to run whatever you're doing it will install it oh look at that what are the 00:11:20.640 --> 00:11:26.640 odds that that happened right oh there's a pie hole one look at that 00:11:24.959 --> 00:11:30.120 okay so some of the apps are Docker based some of them are just applications 00:11:28.019 --> 00:11:34.620 that's cool I have a cursor but that's it 00:11:31.160 --> 00:11:37.260 hmm cool it gives you a tutorial on how 00:11:34.620 --> 00:11:40.860 to use this there's Plex this is running a bit slow it might have 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:45.540 something to do with all of the apps I installed and the fact that it's still 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:52.380 syncing it works we got a Plex Media Server it's playing at full quality so 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:55.079 if I go convert to let's say 1080p it's 00:11:52.380 --> 00:11:57.540 h.264 to h264 this should not be very difficult 00:11:56.160 --> 00:12:01.680 oh my God I hope it didn't take that long to do one frame 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:04.920 oh god well that's a little disappointing 00:12:03.180 --> 00:12:08.579 all right the version that's on ASUS store's app store is very out of date 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:13.200 weird that it's an Android APK like this is an Android app I guess maybe it's 00:12:10.680 --> 00:12:16.440 simpler to package it that way there we go 00:12:14.040 --> 00:12:19.260 well that's cool so you could throw in theory anything on here like we could 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:24.360 put unify protect on here and you could look at security cameras you could do whatever you want oh hello 00:12:25.019 --> 00:12:31.160 what is going on this is what I had before that's not really a cursor though 00:12:28.500 --> 00:12:35.100 here I'll show you a cursor I want to try Plex again now that it's 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:38.880 not syncing the array to see if it'll actually transcode I did copy over a 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:43.560 different file because the one that I used originally is like our very 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:45.959 compressed Fancy YouTube one that is 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:49.860 very high CPU usage for just a playback of a video let's try the other one again 00:12:47.880 --> 00:12:53.820 that one drives at 58. I don't think it can do the parity data fast enough to 00:12:51.420 --> 00:12:57.540 heat them up is what's going on here we just copied 75 gigs to it though I think 00:12:56.160 --> 00:13:01.860 it's leveled off there considering the noise level I do wish you had the option 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:06.540 to do better with a little bit louder fan hey not bad that's about 300 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:10.139 megabytes a second we can try going the other way have you seen my true NAS 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:14.820 performance at home it's awful it's probably user error I mean you set it up 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:19.680 so one Gigabyte a second that makes sense that writing is not as fast 00:13:16.620 --> 00:13:21.839 writing is far more processor intensive 00:13:19.680 --> 00:13:25.079 and that's where that Celeron is going to be hurting us this looks like your 00:13:23.579 --> 00:13:29.220 Mac being turned what does preparing to copy mean why can't I stop this quit 00:13:27.420 --> 00:13:32.480 it's like the cancel button on a printer the printhead's not moving 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:40.139 the page anyway or it'll print halfway and then stop and then just shoot out a 00:13:38.579 --> 00:13:44.519 half printed piece of paper thanks this is really useful yeah we could go to an 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:49.380 ingest station and do it that way these are connected at 25 gig okay 00:13:51.480 --> 00:14:00.120 that is very 10 gig it looks like about all we can expect from raid 5 is 400 500 00:13:58.139 --> 00:14:05.040 megabytes a second one thing to consider is this would likely perform better if 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:09.839 we had say only six drives when you have 12 that's a lot of striping you need to 00:14:07.560 --> 00:14:13.800 do they ship 12 Drive versions so it's on them to make sure that it performs as 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:19.019 it should I mean there you go that's definitely CPU bottlenecked we're at 00:14:15.899 --> 00:14:21.120 like 80 90 on the CPU I bet you if I put 00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:25.500 trueness on it we could do gig both ways it's not gonna it's two gigahertz 00:14:23.459 --> 00:14:29.700 Celeron I looked on PassMark to compare the Celeron to the port and as we built 00:14:27.300 --> 00:14:34.079 originally which is a 5700x it was less than one-fifth to be fair it also uses 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:37.860 about one-fifth of the power I think the main value add for this product is in 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:41.399 what the alternatives are compared to building a system yourself yeah you 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:44.760 could do it but you're going to be spending as much on a motherboard as you 00:14:42.779 --> 00:14:48.720 are on this thing yeah so if it happens to be what you need it's kind of killer 00:14:46.980 --> 00:14:51.839 there's nothing else like it there is actually qnap makes one but it only has 00:14:50.220 --> 00:14:56.459 four drives well then that's not really that much like it is it and this is an 00:14:53.699 --> 00:15:01.680 even smaller segue to our sponsor super micro featuring their h13 generation 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:07.620 servers powered by AMD's epic 90004 series processors with 128 cores on a 00:15:05.459 --> 00:15:12.959 single processor these have more than most dual CPUs can offer and they have 00:15:10.500 --> 00:15:16.980 support for AMD 3D V cache so super micro servers offer unmatched processing 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:22.680 power for your business needs additionally super micro is introducing 00:15:19.260 --> 00:15:26.160 their hyper U their 3u 8 node microcloud 00:15:22.680 --> 00:15:28.860 and their edsff e3.s pedestal storage 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:32.880 servers providing scalability and memory expansion options with the highest core 00:15:31.019 --> 00:15:37.740 counts on a single processor and support for AMD's 3dv cache super micros h13 00:15:35.579 --> 00:15:45.060 servers deliver blazing fast performance for memory intensive workloads such as 00:15:40.079 --> 00:15:47.040 Eda cfd FEA Etc so upgrade to h13 00:15:45.060 --> 00:15:50.339 generation servers and supercharger infrastructure today you can check them 00:15:48.959 --> 00:15:54.779 out at the link in the description to get more information on super micro's 00:15:52.380 --> 00:15:58.800 AMD powered server Technologies if you enjoyed this video why don't you check 00:15:55.920 --> 00:16:03.320 out the one where we diy'd it it's really does put the Y in DIY hmm