1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:06,960 all right so I gave you guys an update on some of the Ballin new server gear 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:11,360 that we've had arriving for the new office including a powerful Zeon based 3 00:00:09,599 --> 00:00:17,840 storage server the plans for which I've actually already kind of revised and our 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,800 new $2,000 12 Port 10 G network switch 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:25,119 but today we're going to kick things up a notch with a custombuilt 6 00:00:22,039 --> 00:00:29,039 storinator mass storage server from 45 7 00:00:25,119 --> 00:00:32,520 drives.com that features over 100 8 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:35,800 terabytes of highspeed storage so strap 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:40,619 in guys cuz this gonna be 10 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:48,800 good Intel's new 750 series ssds 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:54,640 utilizing the NVMe standard provide speeds never before seen on consumer 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:57,000 storage drives click my hair to learn 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:02,719 more so the problem we're trying to overcome here seems straightforward on 14 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:04,439 the surface how to store all our data 15 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:09,840 but when you go out in the real world and see entire video production houses 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:12,360 running off of USB and Thunderbolt 17 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:17,560 external drives or coming up with long-term archival Solutions like write 18 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:21,920 the dates on the sides of the drives and put them on a shelf in the bathroom 19 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:27,040 completely exposed to dust moisture and accidents as if this was the VHS home 20 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:31,840 video Dark Ages it suggests that we've been asking maybe the wrong questions 21 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:37,200 all this time because it's not about storage it's about accessibility the 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:42,119 number of times that we've gone to do our review of some exciting new nextg 23 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:46,320 product and gone hey maybe I'll grab some full quality footage of its 24 00:01:44,399 --> 00:01:53,280 predecessor from our old video for comparison which a it's on the archive 25 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:58,159 shelf isn't it guess I'll do what we always do and download the old video 26 00:01:55,439 --> 00:02:02,840 from YouTube then slice it up in crappy quality that happens more than I'd like 27 00:02:00,399 --> 00:02:07,599 to say and obviously that's not a solution that makes sense as Linus Media 28 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:12,280 Group continues to scale the amount and quality of footage that we're storing as 29 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:18,120 well as the number of people who need to access it as our company grows so let's 30 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:20,599 talk storinator s45 the middleof the 31 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:27,760 road model that we chose that sits in between the more quiet SMB optimized 30 32 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:30,280 Drive version and the monster xl60 Drive 33 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:35,200 version in the front you'll find three 120 mm cooling fans to push air through 34 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:40,120 our drives with a custom Linus Media Group logo painted onto the graphite 35 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:48,080 powdercoated chassis on top then behind that three rows of 15 slots that give us 36 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:49,760 the 45 drive capacity for this sucker 37 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:54,920 further toward the back we find another two 120 mm fence that will pull air 38 00:02:52,440 --> 00:03:00,440 through the drives and then the system Hardware chamber that exists only to 39 00:02:57,519 --> 00:03:05,879 power the other 2/3 of the case overall it strikes an unusual balance 40 00:03:03,519 --> 00:03:12,640 between being objectively professional grade with all the core components an 41 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:15,599 Intel 2.1 GHz 6 core xon CPU 128 gigs of 42 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:21,840 Kingston ECC DDR3 RAM a super micro motherboard a 2 plus one fully redundant 43 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:24,159 700 W power supply three 16 Port SAS 44 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:30,480 controller cards from LSI and an Intel X540 10 GB network card are from brands 45 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:36,799 with reliability reputation ranging from excellent to Legendary and yet it has a 46 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,640 small custom system builder or DIY feel 47 00:03:36,799 --> 00:03:42,680 to it that comes from things like the blue LED lit Vandal switch at the back 48 00:03:40,799 --> 00:03:47,799 that's used to power the unit on the flat cable managed but obviously off the 49 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:52,239 shelf Molex Splitters that provide Power to up to 45 drives at a time the Fairly 50 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:56,680 rudimentary PC Builder tool on their site and the general Simplicity of the 51 00:03:54,640 --> 00:04:02,599 enclosure design that other than the fixed back plane something that I really 52 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:04,959 prefer compared to just loose cables as 53 00:04:02,599 --> 00:04:08,400 a smaller operator who's going to Tinker with these machines versus chucking one 54 00:04:06,799 --> 00:04:12,760 of the hundreds of them in my data center out if there's some kind of an 55 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:17,759 issue it looks like something that could be made in a pretty normal fabrication 56 00:04:14,959 --> 00:04:21,840 shop what a cool machine but of course that's not what you guys are here to see 57 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:27,720 the storinator isn't the star of the show today it's more of an enabler so 58 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,720 after installing freas a FreeBSD based 59 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:34,919 storage operating system with Native ZF FS support that you can learn more about 60 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:38,400 here it was finally time to break out 61 00:04:34,919 --> 00:04:40,720 the hard drives now while Seagate 62 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:45,520 sounded like I punched them in the gut when I told them that I needed 27 drives 63 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:51,280 for this project they also understood that if you're actually serious about 64 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:53,960 having fast reliable network access to 65 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:57,680 your 4K footage for a number of operators at a time you need a lot of 66 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:02,880 drives and they have to be high performance so many drives in fact that 67 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:07,880 they won't even fit in one master carton shipping box so once we'd figured out 68 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:13,080 how many 27 The Next Step was to determine which model of drive we would 69 00:05:10,039 --> 00:05:14,960 be using honestly for most people and 70 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:19,199 small businesses for that matter nothing more hardcore than a Nas hard drive 71 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:22,360 would be required they're rated for 24/7 operation they offer reasonable if not 72 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:26,600 earth shattering performance certainly more than a gigabit network connection 73 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:30,720 would require they go up to 4 terab that gives you 24 tab of storage with a 74 00:05:28,479 --> 00:05:34,479 couple of discs for redundancy and they can be obtained for under $40 us per 75 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:39,080 terabyte they're kind of like the city bus of hard drives but this is Line This 76 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:45,280 Tech tip suckers so I'm going ride around in a 747 instead sorry anyway uh 77 00:05:43,039 --> 00:05:49,800 because we have more than just hand camed Vlog footage to deal with these 78 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:53,919 days sometimes even sponsored projects for customers where data loss is not an 79 00:05:52,039 --> 00:05:59,280 option we opted for seag Gates Enterprise capacity drives unlike their 80 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:04,479 Nas or even Enterprise NAS Drives which are rated for the adverse conditions and 81 00:06:02,039 --> 00:06:09,080 vibration associated with up to eight or 16 Bay drive enclosures respectively the 82 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:14,919 Enterprise capacity drives feature exotic interfaces up to 12 GB per second 83 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:17,840 SAS big capacities up to 6 terabytes per 84 00:06:14,919 --> 00:06:22,240 Drive top-of-the-line performance 10 times the workload rating of their 85 00:06:19,599 --> 00:06:27,000 desktop Drive counterparts at 550 terabytes per year and they do all 86 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:32,360 of this while managing external vibrations so you can pack them in as 87 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:36,880 tight as you can pack them pretty much which I guess means it's time to start 88 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:43,039 talking about how that went so to start things off I went with nine drives in a 89 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:46,240 ZFS 2 configuration this gives me just 90 00:06:43,039 --> 00:06:49,080 shy of 80% storage efficiency with two 91 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:55,639 of my drives dedicated to redundancy I used one of my two SSD rad array clients 92 00:06:52,919 --> 00:07:00,400 here that are both on the same 10 GB Network and achieved readand right 93 00:06:57,599 --> 00:07:05,639 speeds in the 300 plus megab per second range not too shabby but I mean I wasn't 94 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:12,240 really sure what to expect at this point expanding a ZFS storage server is both 95 00:07:09,039 --> 00:07:14,919 simple and kind of complicated as long 96 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:21,639 as you have the same number of the same capacity of drives it's extremely fast 97 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:24,280 and basically a few button presses to 98 00:07:21,639 --> 00:07:28,800 get her up and running but don't get your hopes up about simply adding a 99 00:07:26,639 --> 00:07:33,639 tenth drive to an existing nine Drive array like you can do with a hardware 100 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:35,800 raid card it just doesn't work that way 101 00:07:33,639 --> 00:07:39,720 unfortunately the good news is that adding another set of drives should 102 00:07:37,599 --> 00:07:44,319 yield a significant Improvement in performance since it's effectively 103 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:46,879 striping data across the two sets 104 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:52,199 unfortunately that wasn't my experience I saw the same numbers as before so 105 00:07:49,879 --> 00:07:59,039 after soldiering on and adding my third set of nine drives for a total of 27 and 106 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,919 over 100 terab of storage and then 107 00:07:59,039 --> 00:08:05,599 realized ing that the performance needle still hadn't budged I figured it was 108 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:11,000 time to throw another client at the problem so with two clients two SSD 109 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:16,240 based gigabit clients excuse me 10 GB clients copying 20 GB of data 110 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:21,879 concurrently speeds were effectively doubled I got perfect scaling indicating 111 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:27,599 that both drive speed and the speed of the network card in 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