do you guys have any idea what's in there we got fiber freaking networking
25 gigabit per second the only problem is that we're gonna need a way faster
not to mention bigger server in order for all of our editors to use it
thankfully i didn't want to didn't want to slam
these these are very expensive we've got just that we are going to be rolling a
hundred terabytes of pci express gen 4
storage on a 100 gigabit per second
fiber optic network connection today and it's going to be a blast like like
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we'll be sliding this baby into our rack soon enough but before we do i want to
give you guys a quick tour of what liquid calls
the badger den now liquid is a specialist in composable
pci express infrastructure and high speed storage and this is about as high
speed storage as it freaking gets in here we've got two
64 core 128 thread AMD epic server
processors one terabyte of 3200
megahertz ecc registered memory and a
whopping seven pci express gen 4
expansion slots back here five of which are actually full height allowing us to
hook up what liquid calls the honey badger and then do it four
more times that's right we can have a total of up to five of these carrier
boards that are each capable of handling
up to eight gen four m.2 drives for
absolutely mind-blowing speeds man i
feel like i'm on like a cooking show i got my mix and bowl i got my ingredients
over here i got my pre-made thing for at the end we're only going to be
assembling one of these but it's really important to show you guys how they go
together because this right here in a storage server is obviously the key
ingredient the storage severance sent over 32 of their 4
terabyte rocket NVMe drives and we chose these ones specifically for a couple of
reasons number one we could have gone with eight terabyte drives but those use
qlc nand and in an application like a server even one that's going to be
written to relatively frequently we don't want to use qlc that's going to
wear out faster why we went gen 3 versus
gen 4 is that a the gen 4 drives top out
at just 2 terabytes per stick which would have our capacity and two
i mean we can only hook up at most uh
100 gigabit per second network card and then twin it for 200 gigabit per second
even running gen 3 on these things we're gonna be so far beyond that that it's
not even funny so we'd rather have the extra capacity man this is crazy like
thinking back to when i built our first company storage server we had one
terabyte drives and they were
no they were magnetic drives oh yeah that was it was almost nine years ago
Jake yeah jeez it's like one of those
this is our big old heat spreader for this puppy oh jeez just lay it down and
then i got just laid down oh jesus look at this this is a hundred and what
128 terabytes of raw storage 128
terabytes it's like a storage sandwich you know
without networking though these are pointless because we'd have no way to
access them that is where this comes in this is a
connectx 6 100 gigabit per second
network card with not one but two 100
gigabit ports on it that's right a total of up to 20 gigabytes per second and i'm
rounding which doesn't work when the numbers get so big so it's like 24 25
gigabytes a second or something like that it's flipping nuts 25 yeah and i
gotta bury it um because the half-height slots are way in the back of the thing
here they're in the bottom you gotta you gotta dig dig them out you gotta
excavate one of the sick things about AMD epic is that because it uses pci
express gen four you can actually get the full capabilities out of a card like
this if you were using pci express gen 3 your slot would not actually be fast
enough to keep up with both of these ports being used fully at the same time
freaking nuts right a pci express 16x slot
that's for like graphics cards while we've got this opened up it's a
good opportunity to show you guys how expansion can be handled a little
differently in servers on your motherboard all the ports are built in
on this one actually it's these interfaces back here that lead to all of
the i o so this daughter board right here does two gigabit network ports this
one right here does four but these could easily be swapped out for other ports if
the customer wanted a different configuration and then this last one
over here is what dell calls their idrac so this is our
management port a usb 3 port and of course vga out so that you can hook it
up to a display if you really want to and then back here look at these puppies
that's not your conventional pci express slot but it definitely carries the same
signal so you can actually take ah yes this guy right here
and that is what wires up to these pci express 16x slots that we're using for
our storage cards storage excuse me network card and well
one of them storage for our boot drive
now we fill it with badgers
we're actually not quite filling it we could put in one more badger but there
was a limit to liquid and severance generosity
the limit was 128 terabytes i was like
okay okay got a little bit of stress here okay
got a little bit of stress if i break these i do not have uh an easy way to
replace them we could just call dell you know yeah yeah they might sell some
warranties though how about the warranty like if something goes wrong either with
the hardware or software well that went so well i think i'll do it again oh my
god i see what they mean by the cables being fragile they're not even there's
no connector what the hell is this look at how small
the wires are too what the heck
isn't that terrifying there it is
theoretically that's it we're ready to roll this thing
man this thing's heavy it's got a handle back here though so
you can just like carry it right oh yeah yeah yeah don't worry
something that doesn't have hard drives in it though it's like it's got some heft
i'm gonna need a hand so uh hey Jake
you ready to roll this thing yeah i guess is this handle actually a
handle i think so i'm going for it i'm going to let go and you just carry it
i kind of want to try i mean i guess we should it's our
responsibility oh just we're reviewing this chassis right all right okay go oh
what was that okay you gotta take you gotta take it you can't you can't it's
too heavy what's up else and geez check this out
look at them pretend to work when we walk in look at that
this is it we're actually doing it this time this
is new new wanik it's not gonna have 20 terabytes it's
not going to have 40 terabytes it's going to have 100 terabytes of storage
oh wow so we don't have to delete anything ever no that's not what i said it's gonna
have more storage though and and it'll be more reliable Jake promises
shake i was expecting them to be more excited hey david watch this it's the world's
fastest server
imagine if he tripped now uh this is not his permanent home that's
why there's no actual rails in here we're actually going to put it here in
place of old wanik we never actually
deployed new wanik because we continue to have problems with it so this is
officially i am christening it new new
wanik wada three new muanik wanik
you know what new new one new new wanik see you later
old wanik and you pneumonic yep you knew what
that thing was we already created our storage space and this
is it suckas and 104 flippin
terabytes see it needs a minute here it's gotta check
how much capacity we got what's my free space i don't know there's so much do
you tell them what kind of parody we're doing uh yeah right we're running uh
just single drive failure protection single
parity and the reason for that hold on hold on the reason for that is that this
server will be doing by the minute backups to another local server and then
every probably hour or so it'll be backing up off-site
so we're not really worried about like the drives failing bricking the data
plus the rest ssds so like failures are a lot less common should be
fine oh yeah there it is 100 gigabit holy
wait is it gonna is it going to show is it going to show me a big number
now a lot of people get confused when we show numbers like this they're like um
you can't even get internet that fast oh my god i'm so tired of explaining it
that is not the point that's not the point it's a local network
we can get these speeds to local machines
also we have 10 gig internet so like we're gonna use a significant chunk of
that so you know of course to transfer those kinds of speeds on the local
network you need some sick transceivers so these are all of these
server end transceivers that we're gonna be using these are 25 gigabit from
fs.com massive shout out to those guys great compatibility great performance
and did i mention the price so good freaking awesome so we're going
to plug in these ends then we're going to go hook up all the editing machines
and we're going to do a live test some problem ed zliago production
manager for linusmediagroup.com um dennis can't seem to
access lonnie interesting well hey
good news we're replacing it right now
so is it going to work as well as uh old wanik used to work too it should
work better than it ever used to work oh that's the plan okay so give me like
10 minutes so it should never do anything like this i mean okay i don't
know about you Jake is staking his reputation on it yeah i don't know if i wait
why are you downloading beyond compare why don't you just use cho easy copy i'm
not using cho easy copy so easy coffee's so good though i love beyond compare and
i trust it so that's how this is gonna be new plan
we're going back to our good friend cho easy coffee
it's so good oh it sounds so stupid but it's it's one
of the only multi-threaded just
directory take all this stuff and dump it over there programs it's actually
really robust and we're getting uh no you think me
three gigabytes a second two to three gigabytes yeah so that's like 20 to 30
gigabit which when you consider that we're plugged into a 40 gigabit network
adapter on the old one excited
is it 100 yeah but it's like either way yeah it's still on tfs and it's like
being used right now yeah we could try more threads
i think it's okay i'm looking at 16. yeah that looks pretty that looks pretty
toasterific right there i mean we maxed out at 3.2 gigabytes a second
2.4 gigs a second dang now that's hot
it's acid test time and uh i actually like mark's initial comment so we're
gonna we're gonna interview him about the performance first yeah it's not bad
okay so so what what happens in a multi-cam clip normally
so usually what happens is i'll press play yeah and then i'll
stop and then it will keep going a couple of seconds and then it'll stop oh
wait so we actually have a tangible workflow improvement i guess you could
say that if you want to justify it wow that wasn't my actually wasn't my
intention we thought we were just adding like more storage so this is
improving latency is this a noticeable difference yeah it takes so
nice no this isn't something that we had tested we knew the latency is better but
like it's not something that we were like yes we know that this will work better yeah and we didn't know that it
was going to have like a very real world like tangible difference we were just
hoping it's sort of but we were sort of mostly hoping for improved stability and then
also adding the capacity something that we know from past experience is that
when you have uh like a latency spike in terms of storage access on your remote
server it can cause not just one person's premiere to crash but like the
entire editing den all at once will just go down so the tighter we can keep those
latencies the better and that means both networking and storage have to be as
fast as possible does it feel better yeah it's actually like i'm playing at
half rise but everything actually feels really snappy
so like mark said normally when you play a multi-cam sequence it'll just run away
from you but yeah this is actually stopping my jaw is
like my mouth is like i know i can't see it i just like it
but you can't tell i know i was like i was i i couldn't i wasn't even hoping
for like an actual performance improvement i was just like well we'll
just like show lots of people editing 8k at the same time and we'll be like yeah
that's great but hey it's even better yes
you're not supposed to tell them that damn it well what
any thoughts dennis i'm playing a full a new test
okay but that's that's more of like a system bottleneck
is this 8k or 12k brandon that's 8k okay
is that 8k red or black magic black magic okay it's
pretty good it is also it's a multicam uh sequence yeah why is yours handling
it and poor mark system chugged mark's system always has sucked i don't know
why it's only one window you don't have the actual multicam sequence ah okay oh
yeah okay you want to do that let's see yeah quarter is actually pretty good i
have multicam here
and program and remember we've got everybody else
hitting this same project at the same time this is on the new thing
i can like go around damn
bam bam this project is on the old one
oh you've got it open on both servers right now what a pro
oh you guys see look at that there you go
oh wait it's just full wow okay hold
on what okay
that's huge gotta have that gen 4 baby because remember actually hoffman's only
testing one aspect of the upgrade right now because both of those servers are
running at 100 gig right now so
that's actually just just the honey badger just that honey badger power
honey badger don't give a he said so many times this video it's great all
right so good job everyone good job Jake good job editors keep at
it socially distanced uh
fist bump or whatever so all that's left is to thank everyone who helped with
this project Jake the editing team for uh you guys can actually go back to
whatever you want need to do now thank you very much guys uh of course liquid
for providing the server and their honey badgers micron for sending over their
memory fs.com for all the transceivers mellanox excuse me i mean NVIDIA for the
high speed networking gear man those cards are so freaking sick and am i
missing anyone and severant right for
sending over all the drives 100 terabytes it's all fast
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all i gotta say is nuwanik you mean nunu on it oh no no no no no
yeah you want that thing new pneumonic that's where it's at 1 3 new new wanik
jesus christ