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if you've been following me on social media you've probably spent a fair bit

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of your time lately feeling bad for me about all of the ssds that I had to

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mount in our new 24 Drive Solid State Storage server no all right well then

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you've probably at least been hoping that I'll make a video about it at some

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point and talk about the performance and that time is now this is the allnew

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wanic the fastest beast machine in our

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office

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the Corsair HX 1200i power supply delivers 80 plus Platinum efficiency for

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quiet performance and Corsair link digital Advanced monitoring and control

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click now to learn more so our current storage server rusin

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uses Seagate 3 tbte consumer drives in a

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raid 6 array to achieve respectable readand WR performance and some fault

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tolerance the array can actually lose up to two drives before suffering

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catastrophic data loss assuming it's able to rebuild before more drives fail

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or an unrecoverable error occurs this is all fine and good but the main problem

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with it is that rusin was built for one

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Editor to work on 4K video files at Max

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Speed and we now have a whole room full of editors so while the rusin 10 GB

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network interface and sequential data speeds aren't really bottleneck X its

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mechanical drives are much more suitable for a single person workflow so I

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reached out to our good buddies at Kingston with a crazy idea what if we

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slipped free of the Surly Bonds of mechanical storage and danced the skies

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on SSD silvered Wings to which they kind

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of went um how much silver lonus I told

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them I wanted 24 1 tbte class drives and

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dog G it for some reason said yes I

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think the most incredible thing about that story is how much the landscape has

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changed in such a short amount of time two years ago I could have been the Pope

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in Rome and any SSD maker would have laughed at me for wanting 20 terabytes

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of redundant SSD storage in a single

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server but in 2015 Kingston's just like

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yeah we've got the Enterprise grade KC 310 it's got an 8 channel fisen S10

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controller 960 gigabyt of capacity ECC

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flash protection for data Integrity power loss protection trim support

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although we'll be relying on idle garbage collection in rate anyway and

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it's under 60 cents per gig I mean Holy balls I'm actually wearing the right

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shirt for that so let's talk upgrade process then the first thing I needed

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was way better raid cards yes cards not

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a single card there are 24 Port controllers in fact the old server has

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one but since each individual SS D is

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capable of 500 plus megabytes per second read and write speeds if you hook 24 of

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them up to a single card with a theoretical total speed in the

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neighborhood of 12 gbt per second you're going to run into some pretty serious

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bottlenecks all over the place so after removing the placeholder mechanical

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drives from the system laboriously mounting 24 ssds on sleds and connecting

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the sff 887 connectors Each of which handles four drives to their back plane

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in my Norco RPC 4224 chassis man I love

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these things on Kingston's recommendation I picked up three LSI

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9271 8i 8 Port raid cards each in a PCI

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Express 3.x slot this is where the x99

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platform really shows its value because you're going to need enough PCI Express

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Lanes to handle all that storage bandwidth something that consumer grade

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platforms simply cannot provide now

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something a lot lot of people commented on when I posted a picture of these

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cards on Instagram was that these cards run really hot and I had them installed

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right next to each other don't worry I'm using a 90mm fan mounted directly on top

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of them for auxiliary Cooling and I'll be bolting that in before I install this

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server in our fancy rack cabinet at the new office so with all the drives

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installed the next step was getting firmware updates and drivers taking care

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of for my controllers and configuring arrays naturally the first thing I did

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was throw the whole thing in raid zero for laws to see how fast it would go

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there's a bit of a special process for this in this case though you need to

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create a raid zero array of eight drives

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on each of the controller cards then use

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software raid to put them all together so in my case that required the use of

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dis Management in Windows to set each raid zero as a dynamic drive then stripe

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the whole thing together so it's kind of like raid 0000 or something like that

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the results were well if Shia were here

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I guess she'd say that don't impress me much read speeds were great even for

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512k transactions I'm looking at over 5

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12 gigabytes per second I mean remember

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this is for video editing so very little of what we deal with is going to be

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smaller than half a Meg with 4K transfers that's more than two full

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orders of magnitude faster than my old 10 hard drive solution but those

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right speeds aren't enough to saturate

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the planned 2x1 GB teamed network connection This Server is packing if

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multiple users are writing large files to the array either way raid zero wasn't

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my final configuration since I wanted some fault tolerance so I figured if I'm

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going to troubleshoot this thing I might as well do it when it's set up properly

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so I threw my eight Drive arrays in raid five that allows me to lose up to one

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drive per array and then I also have a spare drive on hand in the unlikely

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event of a failure which is lots for a server that'll be backed up nightly on

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the network then I striped those raid fives together in software for what is

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effectively raid 50 a quick Benchmark before the arrays

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were finished initializing revealed worse numbers than raid zero although

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that's pretty much a given since any parody raid puts much more load on the

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controller card especially for rights than a striping raid but I really hadn't

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expected them to be this bad so I waited for the arrays to finish initializing

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and they got worse so it was about that time that I

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realized maybe the right cash setting on solid state makes a bigger difference

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than on mechanical so even though I don't have battery backups for my cards

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or a ups for my server yet I enabled

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right back cash and there we go there is

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the drawback of an unexpected power loss causing potential data loss with right

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back caching enabled but we're just going to have to get those batteries and

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UPS's going because with that setting on we are able to saturate the bananas out

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of any connection we can make on the network to This Server when she's

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handling large streaming reads and wrs this array can do an excess of 5

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gigabytes per second when she's handling extremely small transactions she can

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still do just under a 100 times the performance of Ruskin and when she's

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able to queue up those small transactions from many clients hitting

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her at the same time she can do well over 500 megabytes per second I just

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need to drop another $600 on battery units for the raid cards and wait for

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the network cards for my clients to show up so that I can show you guys how the

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network is going to handle all of this

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man this server grade stuff is expensive and very timec consuming but it floats

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my geeky boat to see numbers like this where a PCI express-based Predator SS D

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is the bottleneck in a local file

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transfer speaking of stuff that floats my geeky boat I fix it you probably know

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I fix it from their tear Downs of electronic devices and their fantastic

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repair guides on their site that can save you tens 50s even hundreds of

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dollars on repair costs I've used them a number of times on an iMac on a phone

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and I'm sure there's something else but I'm not thinking of it at the moment

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what you probably aren't aware of is that I fix it Sals per professional

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grade tools as well so they've got their uh their iFixit 54-- bit driver kit

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they've got all these little prying tools they've got antistatic straps

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they've got their magnetic organizer that I actually I might have Andy

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yeah I was using this the other day that lets you write little labels draw little

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diagrams and keep all your screws somewhere safe when you're working on a

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project they've got all kinds of fantastic stuff whether you're trying to

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take apart a Nintendo DS with a tri-wing bit whether you're trying to take apart

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McDonald's toys with a triangle bit or you need to take apart something that

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uses security Tores all that stuff they've got it and what's cool is when

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you go on their guides they actually list all of the tools that you need for

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a particular guide the one to probably start with though is the kind of

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all-in-one protect toolkit pack I use mine all the time it's 65 bucks and if

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checkout you save $10 off that or any purchase of $50 or more so that's

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ifixit.com Linus check it out great tools great guides great

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stuff so that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching like the video if

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