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I've spent the last two plus years reworking my house into a Tech's Dream

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Home including custom water cooled gaming machines for my entire family but

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there's a big problem the Beating Heart of it all my server which handles smart

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home functions storage for my private Netflix and preserving my precious

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Family Photos it isn't a server it's a

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servers specifically it's two near

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decade old machines that I pilfered from work instead of building something

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proper and because they're old they are woefully inefficient which means they

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kick a ton of heat out into this room and more importantly they kick out a ton

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of noise this is what I'm talking about

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that's not nice 70 DB is roughly

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equivalent to a vacuum cleaner or heavy traffic not really the best when this is

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supposed to be my workbench for tinkering it's gotten so annoying that

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last week I moved my 3D printer out of that Bloody room so I wouldn't have to

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listen to it and it's even worse than in the summer when it gets swelteringly hot

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in there the gaming machines are fine they are dead quiet and they dump all of

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their heat into my backyard swimming pool using this titanium heat exchanger

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but I wasn't too keen on water cooling my servers which ended up being a very

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good decision given that one of the gaming systems has already sprung a leak

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now we could rebuild both of them with newer Hardware quieter fans and power

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supplies but the question is with modern servers being as powerful as they are do

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I even need both of these like this 45

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Drive Storer xl60 could pretty much fit the entire other server inside it why do

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you even have to well okay this one uses

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mechanical hard drives and unraid which I know how to use but performs like poo

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poo right and this one has highp speeed NVMe ssds and uses tress which is great

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for performance and reliability but requires me to DM you every time it

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breaks that checks out no more with the

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help of kokia who sponsored this video and sent over a few of their cd8 Gen 4

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Enterprise NVMe drives we're going to consolidate both of these machines and

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this is the best part we're going to retrofit this old storinator so that it

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fits both hard drives and a ton of

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high-speed NVMe storage all well hopefully becoming much much quieter

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should be easy right easy as pie

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if I was looking for the easiest solution it would be to buy a readymade

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hybrid server from 45 drives but come on

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this OG storinator xl60 is from the original petabyte cluster that we built

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over 7 years ago can't have this just r on a shelf somewhere it's

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sentimental more important than the sentimentality buying a new server would

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have been a complete waste of money because the new one is pretty much the

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same thing with some minor upgrades and that's not a dig against 45 drives if

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anything it shows how well this design has stood the test of time in the hybrid

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chassis Design This back row of hard drive Bays is replaced with vertically

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mounted SSD slots which is a really space efficient approach but we have a

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slight problem the back planes that we have were salvaged from a front loaded

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case specifically the ones that we built the gaming PCs in and these are

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horizontal so as soon as we fill this up with stupid fast kokia CD 8 ssds with

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their fifth generation 112 layer 3D TLC

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flash they would block functionally all

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of the air flow through the chassis fortunately I don't need anywhere near

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60 hard drives at my house so we can fix this compatibility issue by removing two

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rows of hard drive mounts instead of just the one in the official one that

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way we can put our NVMe cages in the front wait what there's not nearly

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enough space to put the two cages oh oh

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well not like that but like down here no no I get it like front front front

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front I do have a new question um do I need to get the angle grinder no

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fortunately 45 Drive still makes pretty much the same chassis so they were able

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to make us a custom front plate just over there in your computer bag actually

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my computer bag I'm actually stoked for this to finally be available we took all

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the best features of the LTT backpack and then we stuffed them into a much

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smaller bag like it still fits a ton of stuff like your laptop your tablet your

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passport in the secret RFID blocking pocket an air tag and another secret

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compartment it even has water bottle SL umbrella pockets on both sides of the

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outside and it's cheaper than the OG bag

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just $150 anyway the front

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panel oh my God that is so

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cool that is so cool did you read these

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wait what is that why is it did dbrand

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even pay for this oh my God I emailed

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last night and I was like hey would you like to pay a small amount of money to have your stuff on Linus's

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Nas forever and he was like yes you know I'm not going to change this

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yep I have concerns about air flow that's good for you no really though

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where's the air flow coming from well air flow will flow through the drives as

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well and here you'll see we'll get to it but there's no fans yes ah I have a

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solution for that we're going to add fans oh just a little bit behind right

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there this is also 45 Drive sent this this is like the back piece usually yeah

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and we're just going to put one behind oh that's brilliant yeah this is going

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to be a sick server well assuming everything goes to plan yeah we're going

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to be able to put 16 days in the front that's freaking awesome it's two sets of

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10 oh it is yeah there's going to be two I told you there's going to be two right

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this is sick yeah it's going to use literally every ounce of PCIe that this

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motherboard or the motherboard that we're going to put in there has so the

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one that we're going to put in there we still use the same same CPU an epic

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7402p which is a 24 core and we'll probably have about 256 gigs of RAM

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we'll see what's on there that's plenty for a couple of VMS and all my stuff that I got running but this one has

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seven 16x Gen 4 Lanes I'm going to start

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taking out these guys cuz we need to get all of this extra cabling out of this

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case just take the power supply out it's got to come out anyways and the back

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panel has to come off too to be clear I liked having a redundant power supply it

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means that if one of the modules fails the computer keeps on working but it's

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so loud this is by far the biggest

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contributor to the noise of this machine

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hey okay I think that's it see you later

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with the front bays out that gives me enough access that I can rip out the rest of the wiring see the existing

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power harnesses will not work with our new

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power supply because it's not a zippy power supply it's going to be a seic one

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which I'll show you in a sec the last thing feels weird that this board isn't

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badass anymore cuz it was at one point I

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guess that's technology for you right thank you no problem hey look I've got

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something worse for you five of these are nbme did I count that right five yes

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there we go and then the other two are for your hbas yeah for hard drives

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yeah we're finally talking about the power supply this is the noctu edition

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of the cic tx600 and it is 8 to1 DB

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quieter than the normal tx600 and it's 80 plus titanium efficiency of course

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just like a usual tx600 so with the noct

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to a fan it barely cracks 20 DB at 100%

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load in a 25° room of course it's not going to fit in our original back plate

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back here so 45 drives made a new one I'm holding

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it there you go there we go yeah get no

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I'm going to get it no you're going to bend oh what did you take the nuts off

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yeah oh do you have them in your hand yeah right here these nuts

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Jesus check this out we got custom cable

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harnesses for the power supply who made these gentle 45 drives oh cool so what

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are these so they have 12 volts oh wow these are EPS so these are like CPU

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power connect no these are no they are EPS but they're not look oh they're

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GPU these aren't keyed right right okay

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so some of them are kind of a spade shape and some of them are square but

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you can just be like too bad

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Sally that's tough okay she's in there nice nice

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Perfection all right test fit boom head shot uh-oh oh this one's

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bent what so straighten that out but we I think we need to cut this little tab

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off oh boy so this should just w rest on the

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little Mount we made oh hey they're magnetic that's actually really clever good job okay there that's good enough

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is that where it's supposed to go yeah isn't that mint how mint that is look

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how color matched it all is but do they actually

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oh we may have a clearance problem Jake

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okay we trim the edge of those things let me cook so close it'll go it'll go I

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just need the hammer wait what is it too tall how's it too tall what the heck

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okay she's in there now that's perfect I'm actually kind of loving this

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now I'm trying to test the thing you take the front off I'm trying to test

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the other thing that you need for that thing so you don't have an easy way to

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screw up from the bottom oh I sure don't so instead we're going to stick little

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632 nuts inside of slots that are in there and then screw down boom she's in

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she's good she's ready we've been at this all day and

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this is basically all we've done but In fairness to us it's kind of awesome

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actually this is not bad at all it's not Factory finish obviously but it's like

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pretty darn good and all the slides should just go in here perfectly the

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ones that I'm really concerned about are the ones on the

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edges oh easy these our mini SAS 8i

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which is eight PCI Lanes to dual oculink

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because that's what these back Lanes use each of these will power one of our

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drives and that means we get two drives off of one set of cables mhm that means

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there's 10 cables oh it should fit like when I was looking

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at it it's just going to be really really tight and it's going to kind of

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suck to Cable Management yeah no this is actually going to be okay too bad I

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think this is going to be okay oh we could fit like more in there if we can

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hit five in there and we pick one more spot to fit another five we're golden

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good this is no problem let's go all right we should add the power wires

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before we continue 30 hard drives 20

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NVMe drives literally all the PCI one

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chassis sick you know there is some color

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matching here these knct to Industrial PPC 2000 RPM fans match the power supply

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yeah that's the one thing that matches hey that's actually like kind of nice it

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really is there's like a really nice amount of space up here just to like get

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in here and be able to the cables and kind of coming together this is like

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honestly maybe too nice for you what our

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friend Caine is back with this sick PCIe

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by6 Gen 4 card each of them goes into

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two of our eight Lane slim SAS connectors to power those front ssds and

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what are these right here it's something to do with signal Integrity to ensure that we can cover this long distance

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yeah so these are redri cards which basically take the signal that you have

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at the motherboard and amplify it so that you can run over a long distance I

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mean we have 1 M long cables fortunately

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cables are actually pretty good for PC signaling they don't have too much resistance compared to like a PCB um but

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you still need more signal than you have at the motherboard especially when you're using all the slots like this

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somehow with everything cabled in here I think this has actually gotten a little

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bit dare I say easier to work on we've

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got easy access to the m.2 slots and that's going to be really important for

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when we put a GPU in later as the Keen item on you might have noticed

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all of the slots are used up by the hbas

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which are for the hard drives and by the PCIe cards which are for the ssds so if

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we want to put a GPU in here to accelerate transcoding for Plex we have

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to get a little creative oh good thing I already got creative oh there you go

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what is this is this a listen listen listen what are we doing this generation

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there's almost no single Slot Cards there's like a 4060 that you can't buy

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as far as I can see either way we it was sitting on the shelf and I was like well

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you know what would be a great place to put this minus is mass I mean what I

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know is that we don't need access to the rear IO because it's just an accelerator

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card to be entirely clear so theoretically I could put it like here you could um it was something I thought

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it's just air flow wise kind of sucked so I didn't bother with that instead I

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realized there's kind of a really nice spot right here and fortunately 45

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drives has these nice cutouts here which happened to kind of look just like a PC

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card so move that for a second yeah so if we just pop this little 3D printed

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polycarbonate piece in here and then it's just going to slide in like that

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yep and then we'll secure the top somehow with another bracket I can hold

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that see if it pulls it in dude that's that's kind of cool it's pretty Sleek

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actually beautiful it's actually like in

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there it's kind of in there the other cool thing about this GPU is it intakes

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air from the top and the bottom and exhausts it out so we're feeding it nice

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fresh air right here and also it'll probably draw in some just from like

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here I'm going to get that drive like let's do this thing what are we

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waiting for do it so how much SSD capacity do we have here these are 3.84

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terabyte kokia cd8 drives so they're their newest CD series which is more

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like the I guess you wouldn't call it like the super ultra Enterprise that's

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the CM series these are more like your your everyday data center D value data

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center yeah and these are read optimized they do just over 7 GB a second read and

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almost 4 GB a second right sustained so

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you are losing some capacity but you are getting way faster way more reliable so

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we're going to use a couple of them as a ZFS special metadata device okay now

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usually that would just hold metadata and that's something you use in like

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crazy big pools like we actually use them in the mother Vault yeah but

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another thing you can do is on specific data sets you can set hey all the files

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smaller than this size put them on those ssds first look at the finished allnew

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NVMe hard drive hybrid GPU everything machine the

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Consolidated server I haven't even shown you the other thing you're getting whoa

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whoa whoa whoa our friends over at server part

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deals uh you said you ran out of space right oh well I got some more space for

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you specifically oh my God 18 of these

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18 TB Seagate exos recertified drives oh

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which is 324 terab dude that's like triple the

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capacity had way more capacity oh that's awesome and with these 30 Bays I think

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we can actually put all of these in and your old drive so we can copy everything

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over just within one machine how many do I have oh yeah I have exactly 12 really

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yeah what the hell this was like 8 years

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ago a very cool machine when it was like

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the paby project and now it's getting a new life it's kind of it's just really

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cool to this is a really cool machine rehab you got your compute you got your

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highspeed storage you got your bulk storage and it's all in there and it's

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going to be quiet it's going to be really quiet you're not going to hear the power so looking forward to that

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okay let's throw it in the

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rack there we go okay dude this thing is too nice what

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are we going to plug this bloody thing into I assumed you had a plan yeah

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uh-huh how do you feel about me splicing two power cables together sorry what I

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said how do you feel about me spicing no I heard you oh no I'm like being 100%

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serious really oh yeah to be clear we don't recommend what we're doing where

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we're taking a c-13 and just splicing it to a c19 but realistically the gauge of

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the wire is the same and we're going to be running at 240 volt so the amperage

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is actually going to be lower than it typically would be for a deployment like

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that so we're going to we'll we'll just replace the cable later professionals on

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a closed course yeah just for to

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home Okay odds uh fire hey it didn't

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light on fire yeah one of the ssds isn't lighting up well we can figure that out

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later well dang it Jake what do you mean

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we haven't necessarily configured the BIOS to bifurcate all those

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slots which could be it or maybe one of the cables isn't plugged in all the

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way which one is it that one yeah okay now it works what did you do I've moved

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it so this slot might be bad what it's on just like that no way I mean it's not

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a complete win if we have slots that don't work but Mak it's for another day

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I want to know what it sounds like if I sett all the fans to 100% though uh wow

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oh yeah I didn't even notice it's in the BIOS dude it's so quiet it's yeah it's

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running oh she's definitely pulling air across the front I'll tell you that much

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oh actually they're set to 100% right now

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oh hey all the mvme drives are detected

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hell yeah and it's out of the rack again we had an issue with one of the SATA

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cables that's why you never close a computer and put it in the rack before

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you actually test it and you put all the screws in even I think that's a bad Omen

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so really it's your fault I see so before we put it in again Jake's going

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to get the software loaded up and we're going to make sure all the hardware actually works for Linus's new hybrid

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Nas we're going to be installing hexos a Nas operating system lonus actually

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invested in that's based on and built in partnership with the well-respected

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other Nas OS true Nas hexos is designed

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to make the setup and everyday usage of a Nas like this much much more

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userfriendly however it's still in Early Access so while it does support both SSD

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and hard drive pools in the setup wizard I want to do a little bit of a

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non-standard configuration and they haven't implemented that yet fortunately

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since it's built on top of trass I can drop into the trass interface and

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recreate the pools however I want specifically I grouped the 18

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recertified 18 tbte exos drives that server part deals kindly provided into

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three raid Z1 vdevs or groups that's six

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drives in each that means each of those groups can handle one drive D failure

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without losing any data I also added a pair of our kokia cd8 NVMe drives to the

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hard drive pool as a special metadata device where they'll act as fast storage

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for metadata like where the files are stored on the rest of the pool that

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means we get both the cost Savings of using hard drives and the Lightning Fast

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responsiveness of a kokia SSD all in the same pool then with the rest of our

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kokia ssds I created a second all SSD

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raid Z1 pool that will use for anything performance sensitive like his home

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assistant virtual machine and his Plex app with that all set up we can head

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back into the hexos control panel and see all of our pools create any shares

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or users we want and install any apps as we normally would sick I haven't like

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copied your config yet because we don't have the data yet but I figure we can

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run some speed test now I mean it seems to be working all the drives are there

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everything's happy see there's your VMS so there's like partial support for it

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yeah give give them time let them cook I mean I made the investment 2 years ago

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and uh they're making good progress but they're not done yet it's still beta so

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this is the SSD pools I went ahead and set the data set that we're testing on

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to synchronous so anything that we write to it has to be flushed to the discs

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can't sit in memory and then I disabled the read caching so we should be getting

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the raw speed of the discs now I suspect we are going to be vastly underpowered

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in the CPU department for these drives especially given that we're like

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calculating par and stuff so let's uh

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let's see how that goes I guess should I start with a read test yeah that one

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will probably do better a that is way faster than you will ever be

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able to use from this machine nothing like a good 14 GB a second and a CPU

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that's at 86% yeah that's not even that impressive for these drives technically

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I could put up to a 64 core in there but I'm not going to let me see if I can get

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it to go like a touch faster let's just do twice as many threads

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16 yeah 15 and 1 12 gigs a second gig

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Gib btes and it cost us another 15% CPU

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usage good job Jake yeah we went from 86

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to 95% C okay 10% so capping this thing

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out around 16 GB a second definitely still

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I'm on a 10 gig link so yeah we could bond the two links but even then you're

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still 2 GB a second Max and these kokia

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drives man when they list performance specs on there it's sustained like these

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drives could do this all day I mean this isn't anywhere near what they can do but

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they could do it all day and these are reads not wres anyway yeah 9 GB bytes a

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second for rights rights so probably like more like 10 that's great yeah but

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how's the mechanical storage hey look at that like 2 GB a second that's not bad

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yeah they're hard drives and that is fine as long as you can cook a gigabyte

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a second and to be fair we don't have any of the SSD or RAM caching enabled

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when you're actually using this well over SMB it's synchronous but when

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you're reading you should be able to get many gigabytes a second I still can't

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believe server part deals sent over these hard drives yeah they're slow like

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any hard drive cuz they're hard drives but like dude I'm kind of loving these

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recertified drives this is now the third project we've used them on yeah

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they're I mean you never know right but like we haven't had any problems with

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them have we had any fail yet no I mean they're from different batches too so

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there's kind of a benefit there like usually when you have like really bad hard drive failures or like a bunch fail

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and you lose data it's because they were all from a bad batch these are from very

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different batches so kind of sick bottom line we took a lemon of an ancient piece

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of hardware and turned it into absolute lemonade I freaking love this machine

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massive shout out kokia their cd8 R ssds are designed for well much less janky

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implementations with power loss protection die failure recovery

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consistent performance and reliability even in demanding 24/7 workloads and you

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can check them out down below of course there is one question we have not answered yet Jake is it quieter in here

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we dropped almost 20 DB like you can hear it don't get me wrong it's not a

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silent machine it's so much better in here oh I'm so happy happy to throw you

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to one of our other videos how about the time that the computer leaked oh my gosh

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we alluded to that earlier so oh yeah