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so the last time i updated y'all on the storage service sorry can you even hear

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me over this thing the last time i updated y'all on the storage server that

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is used to manage all the data that's constantly flowing around here was back

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in 2012. i mean Linus media group wasn't

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even a company running out of my garage yet today's video is going to be a close

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look at one of the new servers that we're adding before the move to our new

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office and the 1500 dollar ouch

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network switch that's going to be directing traffic on our new and

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improved fully 10 gigabit network

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fractal design listens and the define r5 case was made with feedback from you the

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pc community so click wherever you want

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to learn more how about here and here

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all right so let's start with a look at our new network switch it's not that our

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old gs752 tsx sucks or anything it's got

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a ton of regular gigabit ports and enough

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internal throughput that we'd be really hard pressed to even put a significant

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load on it as things stand but while four sfp plus 10 gigabit capable ports

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was fine in the old days when we only had three employees total we've grown to

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eight team members now four of which will need access to a handful of servers

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at lightning fast speed at all times so we're going to be adding a netgear xs

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712 t 12 port 10 gigabit Ethernet switch

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so here's a diagram of how the network layout is going to work we'll use two of

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our existing 10 gigabit ports running in a teaming mode called lacp and direct

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attach copper cables to connect the sfp plus ports on our new 12 port switch

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bear in mind that this renders two of our rj45 ports inactive so this will

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give us a total of 20 gigabits of connectivity speed between these two

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switches this is important because our main high performance storage server

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general bulk storage server will be on the xs 712 t side of things so let's say

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a hypothetical 40 somewhat gigabit clients from the other side all wanted

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to hit it at once we'd want them to have a nice fat pipe to reduce bottlenecks

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the next high-speed 20 gigabit link will be two teamed 10 gigabit Ethernet

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connections to our brand new server that i'm building today wanik server will be

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replacing our current storage server ruskin server as the day-to-day

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performance server it will deliver slightly better drive performance thanks

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to its faster adaptec 6805 raid card but

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since ruskin server has such a massive array of ten

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three terabyte seagate consumer drives in raid six some of which are actually

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refurbished an incredibly irresponsible setup but one that delivered mostly the

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space we needed and that we couldn't afford to replace up until now

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this one won't deliver that much more storage and actually not that much more

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speed it's instead focused on reliability so it uses eight seagate

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enterprise grade six terabyte drives in raid six for a total of 36 terabytes of

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storage that can lose up to two drives before suffering catastrophic data loss

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and on top of that there are drives that are actually designed for this workload

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instead of general consumer drives and there's some other cool stuff going on

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in the server as well so the revision of ruskin server that i showed off in this

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video when we first went to 10 gigabit was using some weak sauce itx board and

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a low power lga 1156 xeon that stuff's

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for chumps man the backbone of wanik server system is much beefier we're

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using an asrock x99 wse 10g an x99

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motherboard with basically every single bell and whistle and then some that

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weighs in at a whopping 600 dollars it

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works with Intel xeon processors although that's not something that's

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officially sanctioned by Intel since it runs a consumer x99 chipset with our

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plan being to install an e5 2618l

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low power 8 core for great multi-threaded performance and very low

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power consumption it can also handle up to seven PCIe 3.0 slots at 8x to 16x

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bandwidth giving us tons of options for raid or other expansion it can handle up

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to 128 gigs of ecc ddr4 memory although

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we'll only be installing 32 gigs of kingston value RAM that was generously

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provided by kingston at the moment and last but certainly not least it's got

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dual onboard 10 gigabit Ethernet ports

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powered by an Intel x540 controller that is some kick ass on board networking

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when you consider the cost of buying an add-in card with two rj45 ports running

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that chipset so the process of building the system was pretty straightforward

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mostly i actually reached out to an old contact of mine at norco the rackmount

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case company not the bike one who provided the 24 drive capable rpc 4224

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that we've actually been using for ruskin server for a really long time and

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have been extremely happy with so we sent over two more of those cases one

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for wanik to give us a lot of growing room and another for an additional

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machine that i'm hoping to add to the network with a couple of 18 core xeons

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as a network rendering box let me know in the comments if you want Intel to

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support that crazy project maybe we can convince them

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might be tough uh anyway so this case supports standard atx power supply so i

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grabbed a 520 series boot SSD a cooler master v8 50 80 plus gold power supply a

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basic video card that i had lying around and a tower cooler that didn't end up

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fitting so i grabbed an Intel stock cooler and got to work

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the plan as you probably saw on the network diagram is not to have this

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server replace ruskin outright but rather to have russ connect as a nightly

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backup for wanik this has two positive effects number one it gives us something

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to switch to quickly in the middle of the day if wanik experiences some kind

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of problem like a failed drive corrupted os or whatever else and needs time to

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rebuild and number two is it allows us to practice what we preach for a change

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data redundancy like raid is not the

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same thing as backing up and critical data should always be backed up once

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locally and then preferably again site

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in the event of a physical disaster but that won't come for us until a later

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stage now the astute among you may have noticed that my diagram also alluded to

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a 45 drives 100 plus terabyte server and

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you might be wondering what's up with that i wanted to do that build log today

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but the parts haven't arrived in time so you'll have to settle for this one but

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the ultimate plan when that arrives is to dump everything on it reconfigure

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onex server with purely solid state storage pull all these six terabytes out

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of it and then put those in the 45 drive

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storinator that we have coming for a total of about 150 terabytes of raw

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storage that we're going to use as an archive to replace the awful

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shelf of random hard drives system that we have going on in our bathroom right

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now which will also give us quick access to everything we've ever shot

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apart from allowing us to not have to just kind of swap drives onto an

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external drive dock in order to find old stuff so stay tuned if you're into

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completely banana storage configurations guys because it is about to get really

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interesting i mean even now it's like pretty great except for the fact that

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until the new office is built it's going to be deployed in a bathroom speaking of

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bathrooms well actually these tools have nothing to do with working on bathrooms

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upgrading them all that kind of stuff and they're from i

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fix it so these guys have all kinds of professional grade tools and fantastic

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like prying tools and tweezers and magnets for getting stuff out of i use

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it for all kinds of stuff tearing apart ssds that have like security torx screws

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everything up to as big as an imac in fact i did a teardown with their guide

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with their tools of the imac 5k and it was super simplified i'm not going to

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say super simple because there's some complicated stuff about it but super simplified by ifixit's kit and guide so

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the pro tech tool kit is 65 bucks and is backed by a

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save 10 off any purchase of 50 bucks or more so head over to ifixit.com Linus

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which is linked in the video description to check that out now

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so guys thanks for watching this video like it if you liked it dislike it if

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