so the last time i updated y'all on the storage service sorry can you even hear
me over this thing the last time i updated y'all on the storage server that
is used to manage all the data that's constantly flowing around here was back
in 2012. i mean Linus media group wasn't
even a company running out of my garage yet today's video is going to be a close
look at one of the new servers that we're adding before the move to our new
office and the 1500 dollar ouch
network switch that's going to be directing traffic on our new and
improved fully 10 gigabit network
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all right so let's start with a look at our new network switch it's not that our
old gs752 tsx sucks or anything it's got
a ton of regular gigabit ports and enough
internal throughput that we'd be really hard pressed to even put a significant
load on it as things stand but while four sfp plus 10 gigabit capable ports
was fine in the old days when we only had three employees total we've grown to
eight team members now four of which will need access to a handful of servers
at lightning fast speed at all times so we're going to be adding a netgear xs
712 t 12 port 10 gigabit Ethernet switch
so here's a diagram of how the network layout is going to work we'll use two of
our existing 10 gigabit ports running in a teaming mode called lacp and direct
attach copper cables to connect the sfp plus ports on our new 12 port switch
bear in mind that this renders two of our rj45 ports inactive so this will
give us a total of 20 gigabits of connectivity speed between these two
switches this is important because our main high performance storage server
general bulk storage server will be on the xs 712 t side of things so let's say
a hypothetical 40 somewhat gigabit clients from the other side all wanted
to hit it at once we'd want them to have a nice fat pipe to reduce bottlenecks
the next high-speed 20 gigabit link will be two teamed 10 gigabit Ethernet
connections to our brand new server that i'm building today wanik server will be
replacing our current storage server ruskin server as the day-to-day
performance server it will deliver slightly better drive performance thanks
to its faster adaptec 6805 raid card but
since ruskin server has such a massive array of ten
three terabyte seagate consumer drives in raid six some of which are actually
refurbished an incredibly irresponsible setup but one that delivered mostly the
space we needed and that we couldn't afford to replace up until now
this one won't deliver that much more storage and actually not that much more
speed it's instead focused on reliability so it uses eight seagate
enterprise grade six terabyte drives in raid six for a total of 36 terabytes of
storage that can lose up to two drives before suffering catastrophic data loss
and on top of that there are drives that are actually designed for this workload
instead of general consumer drives and there's some other cool stuff going on
in the server as well so the revision of ruskin server that i showed off in this
video when we first went to 10 gigabit was using some weak sauce itx board and
a low power lga 1156 xeon that stuff's
for chumps man the backbone of wanik server system is much beefier we're
using an asrock x99 wse 10g an x99
motherboard with basically every single bell and whistle and then some that
weighs in at a whopping 600 dollars it
works with Intel xeon processors although that's not something that's
officially sanctioned by Intel since it runs a consumer x99 chipset with our
plan being to install an e5 2618l
low power 8 core for great multi-threaded performance and very low
power consumption it can also handle up to seven PCIe 3.0 slots at 8x to 16x
bandwidth giving us tons of options for raid or other expansion it can handle up
to 128 gigs of ecc ddr4 memory although
we'll only be installing 32 gigs of kingston value RAM that was generously
provided by kingston at the moment and last but certainly not least it's got
dual onboard 10 gigabit Ethernet ports
powered by an Intel x540 controller that is some kick ass on board networking
when you consider the cost of buying an add-in card with two rj45 ports running
that chipset so the process of building the system was pretty straightforward
mostly i actually reached out to an old contact of mine at norco the rackmount
case company not the bike one who provided the 24 drive capable rpc 4224
that we've actually been using for ruskin server for a really long time and
have been extremely happy with so we sent over two more of those cases one
for wanik to give us a lot of growing room and another for an additional
machine that i'm hoping to add to the network with a couple of 18 core xeons
as a network rendering box let me know in the comments if you want Intel to
support that crazy project maybe we can convince them
might be tough uh anyway so this case supports standard atx power supply so i
grabbed a 520 series boot SSD a cooler master v8 50 80 plus gold power supply a
basic video card that i had lying around and a tower cooler that didn't end up
fitting so i grabbed an Intel stock cooler and got to work
the plan as you probably saw on the network diagram is not to have this
server replace ruskin outright but rather to have russ connect as a nightly
backup for wanik this has two positive effects number one it gives us something
to switch to quickly in the middle of the day if wanik experiences some kind
of problem like a failed drive corrupted os or whatever else and needs time to
rebuild and number two is it allows us to practice what we preach for a change
data redundancy like raid is not the
same thing as backing up and critical data should always be backed up once
locally and then preferably again site
in the event of a physical disaster but that won't come for us until a later
stage now the astute among you may have noticed that my diagram also alluded to
a 45 drives 100 plus terabyte server and
you might be wondering what's up with that i wanted to do that build log today
but the parts haven't arrived in time so you'll have to settle for this one but
the ultimate plan when that arrives is to dump everything on it reconfigure
onex server with purely solid state storage pull all these six terabytes out
of it and then put those in the 45 drive
storinator that we have coming for a total of about 150 terabytes of raw
storage that we're going to use as an archive to replace the awful
shelf of random hard drives system that we have going on in our bathroom right
now which will also give us quick access to everything we've ever shot
apart from allowing us to not have to just kind of swap drives onto an
external drive dock in order to find old stuff so stay tuned if you're into
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