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this is a video I've been meaning to make for quite some time because I've

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been meaning to practice what I preach

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for quite some time and that is to always have a backup of your data

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preferably one that is offsite which is easier to say than to do I mean if

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you've just got a few smartphone pictures you can use a cloud account or

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even burn a couple discs once a quarter to act as your Disaster Recovery storage

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solution but if you're talking about dozens of terabytes worth of video and

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we're talking video that could be needed at any given moment for smooth business

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operation you better have something a little beefier so meet Cam Loop

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server whether you run a small business or A1 billion Enterprise Rackspace has

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your dedicated storage environments covered check out the link in the video

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description to learn more so this project starts

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actually with undoing most of what I had

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planned from before I had intended to use the same Norco RPC 4224 case from

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the high-speed SSD server which can handle 24 drives on sleds with a SATA or

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SAS compatible back plane thing but iar

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USA reached out and showed me this the ex 4M 36- exp and my plan plans changed

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somewhat at that time so at the front of this case you'll find a 24 hot swappable

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hard drive caddies that work with 3 and 1/2 or 2 and 1/2 in drives some sick ass

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beefy 120 mm cooling fans and this SAS

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back plane that connects on the inside with the usual Molex power connectors

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and sff 887 SAS connectors with the

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difference and this is cool being that it doesn't actually require six SAS

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connectors for all those 24 drives you can even use just one if you want and

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the back plane handles routing that traffic to all the connected drives now

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obviously with just that one connector

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you won't necessarily be able to run all of those bays at the same speed as if

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they were individually plugged in but for an off-site backup server will where

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we'll never do more than gigabit speed to the whole box this is way more than

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enough but hold on a second Linus since

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when is more than enough enough I

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thought this was Linus Tech tips why aren't you sticking with the Norco case

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that drives every single connected Drive individually at full speed great

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question and we can answer it by going around the back of the ex 4M 36 ESP yes

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friends that is another 12 drives back

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there giving us a total of 36 drives of expansion that thanks to

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the built-in SAS expander boards can be driven off of just two SF 887 ports

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absolutely perfect for an unraid

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deployment which doesn't mean that there aren't any compromises that were making

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with a configuration like this I mean I get effectively only a 2u height

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enclosure inside my 4u case to install

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all the rest of my internal components so let's meet those internal components

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shall we first is our motherboard a z9p u8 server board from ASUS with a couple

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of features that make it ideal for this build number one is the ipmi intelligent

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platform management interface module that we've added to it when you can't

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have physical access to a server because it's a 6-hour drive away one of these is

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critical because it allows you to perform low-level functions through a

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dedicated special Ethernet port on the back that normally couldn't be done

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through conventional Network control Solutions like team viewer or remote

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desktop connection things like altering bio settings or hard resetting the

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machine number two is that it's

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compatible with some Hardware that we had lying around like these 46 gig ECC

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DDR3 Kingston RAM modules that I've actually had kicking about the office

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since uh course Kingston sponsorship deal for that whole room water cooling

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project over a year ago and this Zeon e

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5 2620 V26 core that I pulled out of our

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storinator server when I needed a higher clocked CPU to overcome some SMB

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bottlenecking so I could have tried to Source a better CPU in this case because

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while 64 GB does give me the option to

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run some VMS I suspect this machine

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won't do much more than store files so I kept things pretty light for cooling I

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obviously couldn't stick with my go-to server heat sink the noct to any

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d9l because of the limited height that I had to work with so I opted for an

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nhl12 with the top 120mm fan removed and

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since this is only an 80 wat TDP chip with ample case air flow it's not really

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a concern to just have that bottom fan on there next is our HBA card and I've

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actually been using raid cards uh many of which I had lying around already so

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it wasn't a matter of extra cost for HBA

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or host bus adapter Duty but what I found out relatively recently

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is that even ones with good jbod mode so

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that's just kind of like an HBA mode where you just connect drives and they show up to Windows like they're just a

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drive no raid they don't behave completely transparently which can

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interfere with operating systems like freas and unraid getting proper smart

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data readings from the drives so I'm actually using an LSI 9300 8i HBA so it

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has zero raid capabilities whatsoever

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then I've got a couple of mini SAS HD connectors that I can use adapter cables

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to plug into my back planes leading us finally to hard drives yes my friends

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the 8 tbte Seagate Enterprise capacity drives are making yet another appearance

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here in all of their Glory these are only SATA drives but for our workload it

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really won't make any difference and SAS controllers are compatible with SATA

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drives just not the other way around which you can learn more about here so

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these are true Enterprise grade drives not the shingled archival ones and

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they're capable of their full read and right speed so somewhere in the

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neighborhood of 230 to 240 megabytes per

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second According to some right speed testing that we did when you're just

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hitting one drive at a time freaking awesome they also offer excellent

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resistance to vibrations from nearby machines a must for data center

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deployment and a massive 2 million hour meantime between failure rating with all

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of them installed then so we actually had only 23 left after the ones we've

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deployed already all that's left to find out is how much performance we can get

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with so many drives hooked up to a single connector and actually that is

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looking pretty darn good thanks to the 12 gbit per second SAS controller we're

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using and the rated internal bandwidth of about 2.4 GB per second for that SAS

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back plane at the front we could write to our array of 22 discs at about 2 gab

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per second more more than we'll need even if we upgraded to 10 GB internet

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since this server will be off site freaking

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Ballin speaking of Ballin were you thinking you might want a solution

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that's a little bit less handson than this well there's Rackspace it's the top

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tier managed cloud computing company and they Pride themselves on best-in-class

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service across all platforms they've got over

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300,000 customers and 120 countries with

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10 worldwide data centers whether you run a small business or a billion dooll

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Enterprise you probably have needs for capacity so that is to say magnetic hard

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drives or flash-based so that is to say high performance storage and I can

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guarantee you they have some kind of a solution to meet your performance

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security network capacity and compliance needs I mean they can handle anything

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Daz so that's directly attached storage so it's great for like entry level uh

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redundant arrays they've got so that's high availability and

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reliability fully redundant storage that's actually outside of the machine

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like elsewhere in the data center but with super highspeed links there's Nas

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with support for very demanding workloads for example virtualization and

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scalability up to 20 pedabytes of

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capacity seriously go do the napkin math how much is that freaking incredible and

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they've actually got public cloud and private cloud-based options available as

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well so you can set up your own server with a scalable private cloud in your

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data center or theirs and it's supported by Rackspace and VMware they refer to

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their 247 365 support as fanatical and

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they offer industry-leading service level agreements so the call to action

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then is pretty simple Rackspace has your dedicated environments covered so check

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out rackspace.com

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