WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.000 I've spent the last two plus years reworking my house into a Tech's Dream 00:00:04.600 --> 00:00:12.160 Home including custom water cooled gaming machines for my entire family but 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:17.640 there's a big problem the Beating Heart of it all my server which handles smart 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:23.800 home functions storage for my private Netflix and preserving my precious 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:26.880 Family Photos it isn't a server it's a 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:28.920 servers specifically it's two near 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:33.160 decade old machines that I pilfered from work instead of building something 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:37.520 proper and because they're old they are woefully inefficient which means they 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:42.920 kick a ton of heat out into this room and more importantly they kick out a ton 00:00:39.800 --> 00:00:45.920 of noise this is what I'm talking about 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:48.079 that's not nice 70 DB is roughly 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:51.719 equivalent to a vacuum cleaner or heavy traffic not really the best when this is 00:00:50.239 --> 00:00:56.199 supposed to be my workbench for tinkering it's gotten so annoying that 00:00:54.199 --> 00:01:00.039 last week I moved my 3D printer out of that Bloody room so I wouldn't have to 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:04.199 listen to it and it's even worse than in the summer when it gets swelteringly hot 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:08.119 in there the gaming machines are fine they are dead quiet and they dump all of 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:12.400 their heat into my backyard swimming pool using this titanium heat exchanger 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:16.240 but I wasn't too keen on water cooling my servers which ended up being a very 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:20.200 good decision given that one of the gaming systems has already sprung a leak 00:01:18.479 --> 00:01:25.040 now we could rebuild both of them with newer Hardware quieter fans and power 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:30.520 supplies but the question is with modern servers being as powerful as they are do 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:33.000 I even need both of these like this 45 00:01:30.520 --> 00:01:39.079 Drive Storer xl60 could pretty much fit the entire other server inside it why do 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:41.640 you even have to well okay this one uses 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:46.200 mechanical hard drives and unraid which I know how to use but performs like poo 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:51.640 poo right and this one has highp speeed NVMe ssds and uses tress which is great 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:56.799 for performance and reliability but requires me to DM you every time it 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:59.159 breaks that checks out no more with the 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:03.799 help of kokia who sponsored this video and sent over a few of their cd8 Gen 4 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:07.960 Enterprise NVMe drives we're going to consolidate both of these machines and 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:13.560 this is the best part we're going to retrofit this old storinator so that it 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:16.120 fits both hard drives and a ton of 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:24.440 high-speed NVMe storage all well hopefully becoming much much quieter 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:24.440 should be easy right easy as pie 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:39.920 if I was looking for the easiest solution it would be to buy a readymade 00:02:36.040 --> 00:02:42.720 hybrid server from 45 drives but come on 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:47.959 this OG storinator xl60 is from the original petabyte cluster that we built 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:52.040 over 7 years ago can't have this just r on a shelf somewhere it's 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:55.560 sentimental more important than the sentimentality buying a new server would 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.120 have been a complete waste of money because the new one is pretty much the 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:04.040 same thing with some minor upgrades and that's not a dig against 45 drives if 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:08.519 anything it shows how well this design has stood the test of time in the hybrid 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:12.400 chassis Design This back row of hard drive Bays is replaced with vertically 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:18.159 mounted SSD slots which is a really space efficient approach but we have a 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:22.680 slight problem the back planes that we have were salvaged from a front loaded 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:27.879 case specifically the ones that we built the gaming PCs in and these are 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:34.080 horizontal so as soon as we fill this up with stupid fast kokia CD 8 ssds with 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:38.280 their fifth generation 112 layer 3D TLC 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:40.680 flash they would block functionally all 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:45.439 of the air flow through the chassis fortunately I don't need anywhere near 00:03:42.519 --> 00:03:49.680 60 hard drives at my house so we can fix this compatibility issue by removing two 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:54.360 rows of hard drive mounts instead of just the one in the official one that 00:03:51.920 --> 00:04:00.400 way we can put our NVMe cages in the front wait what there's not nearly 00:03:56.799 --> 00:04:01.840 enough space to put the two cages oh oh 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:05.480 well not like that but like down here no no I get it like front front front 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:12.519 front I do have a new question um do I need to get the angle grinder no 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:16.799 fortunately 45 Drive still makes pretty much the same chassis so they were able 00:04:14.079 --> 00:04:20.359 to make us a custom front plate just over there in your computer bag actually 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:23.880 my computer bag I'm actually stoked for this to finally be available we took all 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:27.800 the best features of the LTT backpack and then we stuffed them into a much 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:31.400 smaller bag like it still fits a ton of stuff like your laptop your tablet your 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:35.759 passport in the secret RFID blocking pocket an air tag and another secret 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:40.880 compartment it even has water bottle SL umbrella pockets on both sides of the 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:44.280 outside and it's cheaper than the OG bag 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:49.000 just $150 anyway the front 00:04:44.280 --> 00:04:52.280 panel oh my God that is so 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:55.320 cool that is so cool did you read these 00:04:52.280 --> 00:04:58.759 wait what is that why is it did dbrand 00:04:55.320 --> 00:05:00.240 even pay for this oh my God I emailed 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:05.400 last night and I was like hey would you like to pay a small amount of money to have your stuff on Linus's 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:11.440 Nas forever and he was like yes you know I'm not going to change this 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:15.080 yep I have concerns about air flow that's good for you no really though 00:05:13.440 --> 00:05:19.800 where's the air flow coming from well air flow will flow through the drives as 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:24.479 well and here you'll see we'll get to it but there's no fans yes ah I have a 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:30.639 solution for that we're going to add fans oh just a little bit behind right 00:05:27.919 --> 00:05:35.280 there this is also 45 Drive sent this this is like the back piece usually yeah 00:05:33.400 --> 00:05:39.479 and we're just going to put one behind oh that's brilliant yeah this is going 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:43.479 to be a sick server well assuming everything goes to plan yeah we're going 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:48.199 to be able to put 16 days in the front that's freaking awesome it's two sets of 00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:52.520 10 oh it is yeah there's going to be two I told you there's going to be two right 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:56.280 this is sick yeah it's going to use literally every ounce of PCIe that this 00:05:54.880 --> 00:05:59.039 motherboard or the motherboard that we're going to put in there has so the 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:03.919 one that we're going to put in there we still use the same same CPU an epic 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:06.800 7402p which is a 24 core and we'll probably have about 256 gigs of RAM 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:13.400 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 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:15.479 seven 16x Gen 4 Lanes I'm going to start 00:06:13.400 --> 00:06:19.759 taking out these guys cuz we need to get all of this extra cabling out of this 00:06:17.599 --> 00:06:23.440 case just take the power supply out it's got to come out anyways and the back 00:06:20.919 --> 00:06:27.080 panel has to come off too to be clear I liked having a redundant power supply it 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:35.720 means that if one of the modules fails the computer keeps on working but it's 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:40.400 so loud this is by far the biggest 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.400 contributor to the noise of this machine 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:46.000 hey okay I think that's it see you later 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:51.800 with the front bays out that gives me enough access that I can rip out the rest of the wiring see the existing 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:56.840 power harnesses will not work with our new 00:06:54.199 --> 00:07:00.479 power supply because it's not a zippy power supply it's going to be a seic one 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:06.160 which I'll show you in a sec the last thing feels weird that this board isn't 00:07:03.039 --> 00:07:08.160 badass anymore cuz it was at one point I 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:13.759 guess that's technology for you right thank you no problem hey look I've got 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:18.160 something worse for you five of these are nbme did I count that right five yes 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:22.120 there we go and then the other two are for your hbas yeah for hard drives 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:30.039 yeah we're finally talking about the power supply this is the noctu edition 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:32.919 of the cic tx600 and it is 8 to1 DB 00:07:30.039 --> 00:07:37.879 quieter than the normal tx600 and it's 80 plus titanium efficiency of course 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:42.039 just like a usual tx600 so with the noct 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:44.800 to a fan it barely cracks 20 DB at 100% 00:07:42.039 --> 00:07:48.000 load in a 25° room of course it's not going to fit in our original back plate 00:07:46.520 --> 00:07:55.440 back here so 45 drives made a new one I'm holding 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:58.120 it there you go there we go yeah get no 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:03.240 I'm going to get it no you're going to bend oh what did you take the nuts off 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:10.159 yeah oh do you have them in your hand yeah right here these nuts 00:08:06.840 --> 00:08:12.120 Jesus check this out we got custom cable 00:08:10.159 --> 00:08:16.800 harnesses for the power supply who made these gentle 45 drives oh cool so what 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:21.280 are these so they have 12 volts oh wow these are EPS so these are like CPU 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:28.800 power connect no these are no they are EPS but they're not look oh they're 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:30.120 GPU these aren't keyed right right okay 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.760 so some of them are kind of a spade shape and some of them are square but 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.360 you can just be like too bad 00:08:38.680 --> 00:08:46.160 Sally that's tough okay she's in there nice nice 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:53.360 Perfection all right test fit boom head shot uh-oh oh this one's 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:57.200 bent what so straighten that out but we I think we need to cut this little tab 00:08:54.920 --> 00:09:01.560 off oh boy so this should just w rest on the 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:07.320 little Mount we made oh hey they're magnetic that's actually really clever good job okay there that's good enough 00:09:05.640 --> 00:09:11.839 is that where it's supposed to go yeah isn't that mint how mint that is look 00:09:09.079 --> 00:09:16.440 how color matched it all is but do they actually 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:19.000 oh we may have a clearance problem Jake 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:25.200 okay we trim the edge of those things let me cook so close it'll go it'll go I 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:32.800 just need the hammer wait what is it too tall how's it too tall what the heck 00:09:30.079 --> 00:09:37.120 okay she's in there now that's perfect I'm actually kind of loving this 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:41.839 now I'm trying to test the thing you take the front off I'm trying to test 00:09:39.680 --> 00:09:46.160 the other thing that you need for that thing so you don't have an easy way to 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:51.519 screw up from the bottom oh I sure don't so instead we're going to stick little 00:09:49.079 --> 00:09:56.560 632 nuts inside of slots that are in there and then screw down boom she's in 00:09:54.680 --> 00:10:01.920 she's good she's ready we've been at this all day and 00:09:59.880 --> 00:10:07.839 this is basically all we've done but In fairness to us it's kind of awesome 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:13.200 actually this is not bad at all it's not Factory finish obviously but it's like 00:10:10.920 --> 00:10:16.959 pretty darn good and all the slides should just go in here perfectly the 00:10:15.040 --> 00:10:25.240 ones that I'm really concerned about are the ones on the 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:29.040 edges oh easy these our mini SAS 8i 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:31.360 which is eight PCI Lanes to dual oculink 00:10:29.040 --> 00:10:35.160 because that's what these back Lanes use each of these will power one of our 00:10:32.839 --> 00:10:40.560 drives and that means we get two drives off of one set of cables mhm that means 00:10:37.959 --> 00:10:45.959 there's 10 cables oh it should fit like when I was looking 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:49.279 at it it's just going to be really really tight and it's going to kind of 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:52.760 suck to Cable Management yeah no this is actually going to be okay too bad I 00:10:50.959 --> 00:10:56.760 think this is going to be okay oh we could fit like more in there if we can 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:01.399 hit five in there and we pick one more spot to fit another five we're golden 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:07.680 good this is no problem let's go all right we should add the power wires 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:10.680 before we continue 30 hard drives 20 00:11:07.680 --> 00:11:12.800 NVMe drives literally all the PCI one 00:11:10.680 --> 00:11:17.240 chassis sick you know there is some color 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:22.760 matching here these knct to Industrial PPC 2000 RPM fans match the power supply 00:11:20.680 --> 00:11:26.760 yeah that's the one thing that matches hey that's actually like kind of nice it 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:30.440 really is there's like a really nice amount of space up here just to like get 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:36.040 in here and be able to the cables and kind of coming together this is like 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:39.399 honestly maybe too nice for you what our 00:11:36.040 --> 00:11:42.639 friend Caine is back with this sick PCIe 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:44.639 by6 Gen 4 card each of them goes into 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:48.279 two of our eight Lane slim SAS connectors to power those front ssds and 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:54.160 what are these right here it's something to do with signal Integrity to ensure that we can cover this long distance 00:11:51.560 --> 00:11:58.160 yeah so these are redri cards which basically take the signal that you have 00:11:55.920 --> 00:12:02.959 at the motherboard and amplify it so that you can run over a long distance I 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:04.680 mean we have 1 M long cables fortunately 00:12:02.959 --> 00:12:10.560 cables are actually pretty good for PC signaling they don't have too much resistance compared to like a PCB um but 00:12:08.800 --> 00:12:15.760 you still need more signal than you have at the motherboard especially when you're using all the slots like this 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:21.160 somehow with everything cabled in here I think this has actually gotten a little 00:12:18.040 --> 00:12:23.600 bit dare I say easier to work on we've 00:12:21.160 --> 00:12:27.959 got easy access to the m.2 slots and that's going to be really important for 00:12:25.199 --> 00:12:32.839 when we put a GPU in later as the Keen item on you might have noticed 00:12:29.760 --> 00:12:34.680 all of the slots are used up by the hbas 00:12:32.839 --> 00:12:39.360 which are for the hard drives and by the PCIe cards which are for the ssds so if 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.440 we want to put a GPU in here to accelerate transcoding for Plex we have 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:48.560 to get a little creative oh good thing I already got creative oh there you go 00:12:45.959 --> 00:12:53.240 what is this is this a listen listen listen what are we doing this generation 00:12:50.920 --> 00:12:57.880 there's almost no single Slot Cards there's like a 4060 that you can't buy 00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:00.279 as far as I can see either way we it was sitting on the shelf and I was like well 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:05.639 you know what would be a great place to put this minus is mass I mean what I 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:08.839 know is that we don't need access to the rear IO because it's just an accelerator 00:13:07.560 --> 00:13:15.160 card to be entirely clear so theoretically I could put it like here you could um it was something I thought 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.920 it's just air flow wise kind of sucked so I didn't bother with that instead I 00:13:17.160 --> 00:13:23.760 realized there's kind of a really nice spot right here and fortunately 45 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:27.600 drives has these nice cutouts here which happened to kind of look just like a PC 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:31.720 card so move that for a second yeah so if we just pop this little 3D printed 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:35.839 polycarbonate piece in here and then it's just going to slide in like that 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:40.040 yep and then we'll secure the top somehow with another bracket I can hold 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:45.040 that see if it pulls it in dude that's that's kind of cool it's pretty Sleek 00:13:41.839 --> 00:13:47.000 actually beautiful it's actually like in 00:13:45.040 --> 00:13:51.560 there it's kind of in there the other cool thing about this GPU is it intakes 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:55.680 air from the top and the bottom and exhausts it out so we're feeding it nice 00:13:53.160 --> 00:13:59.680 fresh air right here and also it'll probably draw in some just from like 00:13:57.839 --> 00:14:04.079 here I'm going to get that drive like let's do this thing what are we 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:09.759 waiting for do it so how much SSD capacity do we have here these are 3.84 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:13.880 terabyte kokia cd8 drives so they're their newest CD series which is more 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:18.399 like the I guess you wouldn't call it like the super ultra Enterprise that's 00:14:16.079 --> 00:14:22.600 the CM series these are more like your your everyday data center D value data 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:29.160 center yeah and these are read optimized they do just over 7 GB a second read and 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:31.360 almost 4 GB a second right sustained so 00:14:29.160 --> 00:14:36.040 you are losing some capacity but you are getting way faster way more reliable so 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:40.680 we're going to use a couple of them as a ZFS special metadata device okay now 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.680 usually that would just hold metadata and that's something you use in like 00:14:42.040 --> 00:14:47.480 crazy big pools like we actually use them in the mother Vault yeah but 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:52.160 another thing you can do is on specific data sets you can set hey all the files 00:14:50.040 --> 00:14:59.839 smaller than this size put them on those ssds first look at the finished allnew 00:14:56.959 --> 00:15:05.639 NVMe hard drive hybrid GPU everything machine the 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:10.240 Consolidated server I haven't even shown you the other thing you're getting whoa 00:15:07.560 --> 00:15:14.120 whoa whoa whoa our friends over at server part 00:15:11.800 --> 00:15:20.959 deals uh you said you ran out of space right oh well I got some more space for 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:24.639 you specifically oh my God 18 of these 00:15:20.959 --> 00:15:26.160 18 TB Seagate exos recertified drives oh 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:31.519 which is 324 terab dude that's like triple the 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:35.639 capacity had way more capacity oh that's awesome and with these 30 Bays I think 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:38.880 we can actually put all of these in and your old drive so we can copy everything 00:15:37.160 --> 00:15:45.480 over just within one machine how many do I have oh yeah I have exactly 12 really 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:48.680 yeah what the hell this was like 8 years 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:51.279 ago a very cool machine when it was like 00:15:48.680 --> 00:15:55.720 the paby project and now it's getting a new life it's kind of it's just really 00:15:53.680 --> 00:15:59.920 cool to this is a really cool machine rehab you got your compute you got your 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.240 highspeed storage you got your bulk storage and it's all in there and it's 00:16:01.880 --> 00:16:09.000 going to be quiet it's going to be really quiet you're not going to hear the power so looking forward to that 00:16:05.920 --> 00:16:09.000 okay let's throw it in the 00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:16.160 rack there we go okay dude this thing is too nice what 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:21.279 are we going to plug this bloody thing into I assumed you had a plan yeah 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:25.000 uh-huh how do you feel about me splicing two power cables together sorry what I 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:30.120 said how do you feel about me spicing no I heard you oh no I'm like being 100% 00:16:27.839 --> 00:16:33.720 serious really oh yeah to be clear we don't recommend what we're doing where 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:39.560 we're taking a c-13 and just splicing it to a c19 but realistically the gauge of 00:16:37.040 --> 00:16:43.399 the wire is the same and we're going to be running at 240 volt so the amperage 00:16:41.880 --> 00:16:47.519 is actually going to be lower than it typically would be for a deployment like 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:52.279 that so we're going to we'll we'll just replace the cable later professionals on 00:16:49.199 --> 00:16:57.600 a closed course yeah just for to 00:16:52.279 --> 00:17:00.160 home Okay odds uh fire hey it didn't 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:05.400 light on fire yeah one of the ssds isn't lighting up well we can figure that out 00:17:01.560 --> 00:17:06.880 later well dang it Jake what do you mean 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:11.559 we haven't necessarily configured the BIOS to bifurcate all those 00:17:08.919 --> 00:17:16.480 slots which could be it or maybe one of the cables isn't plugged in all the 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:21.919 way which one is it that one yeah okay now it works what did you do I've moved 00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:26.640 it so this slot might be bad what it's on just like that no way I mean it's not 00:17:25.120 --> 00:17:30.160 a complete win if we have slots that don't work but Mak it's for another day 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:35.280 I want to know what it sounds like if I sett all the fans to 100% though uh wow 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:42.280 oh yeah I didn't even notice it's in the BIOS dude it's so quiet it's yeah it's 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:45.400 running oh she's definitely pulling air across the front I'll tell you that much 00:17:43.840 --> 00:17:50.919 oh actually they're set to 100% right now 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:53.799 oh hey all the mvme drives are detected 00:17:50.919 --> 00:17:57.640 hell yeah and it's out of the rack again we had an issue with one of the SATA 00:17:55.320 --> 00:18:01.039 cables that's why you never close a computer and put it in the rack before 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:05.120 you actually test it and you put all the screws in even I think that's a bad Omen 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:08.120 so really it's your fault I see so before we put it in again Jake's going 00:18:06.679 --> 00:18:14.159 to get the software loaded up and we're going to make sure all the hardware actually works for Linus's new hybrid 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:18.000 Nas we're going to be installing hexos a Nas operating system lonus actually 00:18:15.919 --> 00:18:22.600 invested in that's based on and built in partnership with the well-respected 00:18:19.520 --> 00:18:24.720 other Nas OS true Nas hexos is designed 00:18:22.600 --> 00:18:29.720 to make the setup and everyday usage of a Nas like this much much more 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:34.480 userfriendly however it's still in Early Access so while it does support both SSD 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:37.559 and hard drive pools in the setup wizard I want to do a little bit of a 00:18:35.520 --> 00:18:41.520 non-standard configuration and they haven't implemented that yet fortunately 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:45.200 since it's built on top of trass I can drop into the trass interface and 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:49.760 recreate the pools however I want specifically I grouped the 18 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:55.600 recertified 18 tbte exos drives that server part deals kindly provided into 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:57.600 three raid Z1 vdevs or groups that's six 00:18:55.600 --> 00:19:01.720 drives in each that means each of those groups can handle one drive D failure 00:18:59.360 --> 00:19:06.760 without losing any data I also added a pair of our kokia cd8 NVMe drives to the 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:10.840 hard drive pool as a special metadata device where they'll act as fast storage 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:14.240 for metadata like where the files are stored on the rest of the pool that 00:19:12.360 --> 00:19:19.600 means we get both the cost Savings of using hard drives and the Lightning Fast 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:24.280 responsiveness of a kokia SSD all in the same pool then with the rest of our 00:19:21.159 --> 00:19:26.440 kokia ssds I created a second all SSD 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:29.919 raid Z1 pool that will use for anything performance sensitive like his home 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:33.440 assistant virtual machine and his Plex app with that all set up we can head 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:37.480 back into the hexos control panel and see all of our pools create any shares 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:41.200 or users we want and install any apps as we normally would sick I haven't like 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:45.200 copied your config yet because we don't have the data yet but I figure we can 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:50.080 run some speed test now I mean it seems to be working all the drives are there 00:19:47.600 --> 00:19:54.480 everything's happy see there's your VMS so there's like partial support for it 00:19:52.280 --> 00:19:59.320 yeah give give them time let them cook I mean I made the investment 2 years ago 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:03.039 and uh they're making good progress but they're not done yet it's still beta so 00:20:01.120 --> 00:20:06.320 this is the SSD pools I went ahead and set the data set that we're testing on 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:09.919 to synchronous so anything that we write to it has to be flushed to the discs 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:15.240 can't sit in memory and then I disabled the read caching so we should be getting 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:19.960 the raw speed of the discs now I suspect we are going to be vastly underpowered 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:24.240 in the CPU department for these drives especially given that we're like 00:20:21.080 --> 00:20:25.799 calculating par and stuff so let's uh 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:29.559 let's see how that goes I guess should I start with a read test yeah that one 00:20:27.360 --> 00:20:34.000 will probably do better a that is way faster than you will ever be 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:40.679 able to use from this machine nothing like a good 14 GB a second and a CPU 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:45.640 that's at 86% yeah that's not even that impressive for these drives technically 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:49.080 I could put up to a 64 core in there but I'm not going to let me see if I can get 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:55.400 it to go like a touch faster let's just do twice as many threads 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:58.679 16 yeah 15 and 1 12 gigs a second gig 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:02.000 Gib btes and it cost us another 15% CPU 00:20:58.679 --> 00:21:05.600 usage good job Jake yeah we went from 86 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:06.480 to 95% C okay 10% so capping this thing 00:21:05.600 --> 00:21:13.039 out around 16 GB a second definitely still 00:21:10.320 --> 00:21:18.000 I'm on a 10 gig link so yeah we could bond the two links but even then you're 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:20.559 still 2 GB a second Max and these kokia 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:25.559 drives man when they list performance specs on there it's sustained like these 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:29.200 drives could do this all day I mean this isn't anywhere near what they can do but 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:34.120 they could do it all day and these are reads not wres anyway yeah 9 GB bytes a 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:39.760 second for rights rights so probably like more like 10 that's great yeah but 00:21:36.840 --> 00:21:44.600 how's the mechanical storage hey look at that like 2 GB a second that's not bad 00:21:42.159 --> 00:21:48.600 yeah they're hard drives and that is fine as long as you can cook a gigabyte 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:53.400 a second and to be fair we don't have any of the SSD or RAM caching enabled 00:21:51.320 --> 00:21:56.760 when you're actually using this well over SMB it's synchronous but when 00:21:55.360 --> 00:22:00.120 you're reading you should be able to get many gigabytes a second I still can't 00:21:58.760 --> 00:22:04.279 believe server part deals sent over these hard drives yeah they're slow like 00:22:01.760 --> 00:22:08.760 any hard drive cuz they're hard drives but like dude I'm kind of loving these 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:15.000 recertified drives this is now the third project we've used them on yeah 00:22:12.320 --> 00:22:18.720 they're I mean you never know right but like we haven't had any problems with 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:21.279 them have we had any fail yet no I mean they're from different batches too so 00:22:20.080 --> 00:22:25.640 there's kind of a benefit there like usually when you have like really bad hard drive failures or like a bunch fail 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:31.279 and you lose data it's because they were all from a bad batch these are from very 00:22:28.600 --> 00:22:35.440 different batches so kind of sick bottom line we took a lemon of an ancient piece 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:40.320 of hardware and turned it into absolute lemonade I freaking love this machine 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:44.880 massive shout out kokia their cd8 R ssds are designed for well much less janky 00:22:43.080 --> 00:22:48.559 implementations with power loss protection die failure recovery 00:22:46.840 --> 00:22:52.480 consistent performance and reliability even in demanding 24/7 workloads and you 00:22:50.760 --> 00:23:01.840 can check them out down below of course there is one question we have not answered yet Jake is it quieter in here 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:06.360 we dropped almost 20 DB like you can hear it don't get me wrong it's not a 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:11.200 silent machine it's so much better in here oh I'm so happy happy to throw you 00:23:09.520 --> 00:23:18.360 to one of our other videos how about the time that the computer leaked oh my gosh 00:23:13.840 --> 00:23:18.360 we alluded to that earlier so oh yeah