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wait what okay that was a reenactment but a

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few weeks ago my computer did die just like that right in the middle of a

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gaming session turns out my boot SSD

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catastrophically failed giving me an excuse to rebuild my gaming rig and my

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kids machines and every other system in my house with no SSD no hard drive no

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storage at all yet look at this I'm gaming I've got Windows I've even got a

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ton of games installed how is this possible I mean I know you can download

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RAM but downloading storage well kind of

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the storage still needs to be somewhere and luckily for you kokia who sponsored

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this video provided some of their cd8 Enterprise ssds but what he's saying is

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true none of them are in the gaming PCs instead it's all in here that is

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freaking amazing did you just pull one out so we got redundancy and everything

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yeah I mean it's cool but there are some disadvantages like uh you kind of made

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every computer in your house a bit we'll get to that later roll the

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thing I am really excited about this because in spite of the fact that

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Network booting has existed for longer than Jake here

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it's not something we've ever really played around with much and certainly

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never for a home gaming setup so how does it wake well the current way to

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network boot from something like a nass network attached storage is ice scuzzy

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there is also like newer stuff like nbme

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over fabric but as far as I know it doesn't really exist at least in Windows

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land yet and certainly it's not within the scope of this project but as silly

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as it sounds to boot from a NZ is it I

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mean you can Video Edit on files from your Nas we do that all the time you can

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game using files on a Nas we do that all the time so why not Windows from your NZ

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it comes with some key advantages for one thing it centralizes your storage

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which means redundancy can be more economical to safeguard against the

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drive failure instead of having to put at least two drives in every one of your

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systems you can just put I don't know six drives in here plus one extra for

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redundancy and it can make for easy management of backups and lightning fast

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system restores which I'm sure is great for kids PCS cuz I bet they mess stuff

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up all the time mine are actually pretty good so far but I'm sure that's coming

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my dad would be happy just cuz he could get rid of MSN Messenger faster I wasn't

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allowed I did it anyways what I am

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allowed to use is D duplication or compression with ZFS as the back end

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that's super cool cuz it gives us even more efficiency out of the storage that

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we have but it's it's not all sunshine and rainbows like what about the lack of

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system okay we're going to talk about that later first let's build a NZ okay

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why don't you tell us about this weird platform you decided to use for this

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project I hate this computer this is the

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worst server I have ever played with at

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least in like the Last 5 Years In fairness to Intel it's a reference

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platform software development platform it is never meant to go to an end user

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but it has been a little Annoying to get working the good news is it's a super

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cool system it's dual 144 core

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processors which is hilarious Overkill

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uh it's not even great for this setup actually cuz icezy not super

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multi-threaded um but he's been looking for an excuse to Tool around with it and

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now we have it but aside from the CPUs we've loaded this thing up with an

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NVIDIA melano connect X6 dual Port 100

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GB per second Nick we don't actually need the fastest network cards in the

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client PCS but what we have to consider is that because this one machine is

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going to serve all of them it needs to be as fast as all of their network cards

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combined that is assuming that they're all trying to hit it at the same time I

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mean you wouldn't want your computers to be slow right no no I really wouldn't

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and with the speed of these cd8 Gen 4 drives that kokia provided for this

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little thought experiment we can use as

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fast fast a Nick as we can possibly get our hands on and never have to worry

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about our drives being the bottleneck now what are we using for networking

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because I don't have a 100 Gig switch Yeah and ubiquity doesn't make one yet

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so instead hey our buddies from microt

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this is the CRS 5181 16xs 2xq not only

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does it have two 100 Gig ports that's the the 2xq but it has 16 25 gig ports

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which is perfect we plug our server in here and then we can plug in all the

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other things Downstream to the 25 gig ports uh at least we could if we had 25

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gig networking in any of our systems well we're going to the funny thing is

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as silly as it feels to use these cd8 drives for gaming this kind of an

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application is not that far off of what drives like this are designed for

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they've got die failure recovery as well as power loss protection and parody

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protection to make them extraordinarily reliable they're available in capacities

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much higher than the 3.84 tabt we're deploying here so if you've got

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simulation work or you're storing gigantic high performance databases

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something like this would be perfect and we're going to put games on it and

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Windows so we've allocated about 10 tab

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of storage for a shared game drive and about one tab for the boot drives for

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each of our systems we've got Network we got storage that's all we really need

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you're going to take us fine I got I got the whole thing

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don't drop it all right oh my God what the oh there wasn't a drive in that TR

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we're good what the hell while Jake gets things hooked up let's talk about the

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long-term plan because obviously I'm not going to be keeping a 288 core Intel

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reference server in my house to boot my computers what I actually want to do is

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take my two loud nazes and consolidate

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them into one quiet one so take that 45

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drives chassis rip out the hard drive mounts put in NVMe mounts and then run

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them all off of that Nas software that I invested in whether or not we boot the

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computers from them that kind of depends on how this proof of concept goes why

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are you taking the drives out we just put them in I told you this server is so

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great right it doesn't boot with ssds in it what so you have to like let it boot

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and then you hot plug the ssds back tried so many things the Intel rep was

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like it's my last day I'm not even

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kidding that is legitimately what happened good luck at wherever you go

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but he's like I took the voluntary payout I'm

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leaving all right let's go look at the software stack now my assumption was we

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were just going to use trass for this because we love tress yeah tress is

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great but we didn't yeah I used it for ice Coy like a couple months ago and it

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was pretty slow there's also this thing called starwind vsan which there's a

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free version that they let you use Forever on even multiple machines you

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can have high availability for free and it's like purpose built for ice cuzy so

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it's a lot easier to just set up and use for this exact workload so why not right

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there is a bare metal install but I didn't notice until I had already set up

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the like proxmox image version so that's what we're using instead it should still

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be performant I just took our Network C and our six ssds and just PCIe pass

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through them right so if there's any performance hit for virtualization it

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should be pretty negligible this system has 512 gigs right but you have to like

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load it so I just picked 200 56 cuz that's faster and I selected 64 cores I

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mean this type of server is really meant for like a web host or like

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virtualization web hosts yeah like something that just parallelizes like

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crazy yeah oh we can see we have our kokia ssds look at that all six of them

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wow and then I went ahead and created a

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ZFS pool it does give you the option to like just make a raid pool um it seems

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to be slower for some reason the ZFS is

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cool because it has RAM caching um and

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that'll it'll just put your files in memory and memory is of course super

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fast so with raid Z1 that means that one of our drives is not contributing to our

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overall storage but it also means that we can lose any one of our drives just

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like I did when I was in the middle of my game and none of our systems should

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go down we're going to show The Real World results of that live test where

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Jake ripped a drive out in the intro a little bit later after that you make a

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volume which is kind of just like a folder so we've got one for our game drive here this really reminds me of the

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trass interface a lot it's like the trass interface but like less crappy you

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notice how like responsive it is yeah and then for ice cuzy we have to make a

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Lun which is kind of like a virtual disc now some of it is just needlessly

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complicated now starwind does a good job of making it less complicated let's

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create one ice guy Standalone because we're not high availability it's just

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one system we'll make it in our Linus smells thing we'll call it Linus re

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smells and 100 gigs and done that's all

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you have to do right so now I have a 100 Gig drive and it lives on my network but

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how do you use it that's the annoying part this is the the overly complicated

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BS I'm talking I'm sure there's a reason for it but this is like the address of

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the storage got it uh I don't know why the date needs to be in there it's not

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supposed to be the current date or the date of creation it's like the date you

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registered your domain as far as I can tell entirely arbitrary you can set it

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to whatever you want one way or another like any other network resource it needs

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an address but what is the difference between an ice scuzzy storage drive and

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an SMB shared folder well one is block

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storage and one is file storage and if you don't care what that means it's

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basically imagine ice cuzy like an SSD it's it's the whole drive it's meant to

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plug right into a computer not be shared and you can imagine SMB as like here's a

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folder you know multiple people can use one folder and they won't conflict with

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each other if they both try to read a file or write to a folder yeah because

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it's designed to handle that luckily starwin can handle both you see SMB

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share that'll be for our games since most games you install them to an SMB

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share you can play them on multiple computers and it just works and then they're going to use their local my

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documents or games folder for any save data or whatever else hopefully some

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games not so good yeah so this is going to be a little Hit or Miss but we can at

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least try it yeah and worst case you can install a game locally question for you

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for this test did you swap out my network card for the fastest one that

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we've got no I mean the one you have right now an X540 T2 dual 10 gig one

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should in theory work just fine for this yeah I mean if you think about it 10 gig

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that's way faster than SATA 3

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yeah yeah but we could go faster let's

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go faster F I mean how fast do you want

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your computer to be I don't know I just want to see what this is capable of I

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think we should do the 100 Gig Nick there is a PCIe slot limitation your

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system only has a buy4 connection that's the thing about high-end desktop

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platforms being effectively dead these days is if you want to get into kind of

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weird home lab stuff like this on a consumer board you're not going to have

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enough PCIe Lanes but this one's cool it still has a second gen 4x4 link to the

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CPU not through the chipset um but this is a gen 3 card so you're going to get

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uh 4 GB a second Max Boom Card

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installation let's go yeah dude this is a buy one slot

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though no it's by four no it's byy one oh well where's the what board is this

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well I got my Thunderbolt card in the by4 why because that it needs it don't

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you have a iicon thing anyways yeah but I also have a Thunderbolt do uh that

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like 1 GB a second is all you're going to get out of

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that oh 10 gig then at that point I

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might as well just leave the 10 gig card in there well we could use this one this

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is a connectx 6 card it's only 25 gig

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ports but it's Gen 4 okay so we'll get 2 GB a second all right how big do you

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want your drive to be terab oh okay I was expecting more but sure fine no

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that's fine so the first thing we have to do of course is make the drive boom

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done okay and now we're done you're officially ice goed okay we should

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probably configure the BIOS then yep since our computer doesn't have a disc

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to boot from we have to tell it where to boot from right and this is potentially

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more complicated and annoying than one might think um the easy way is to set up

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what we're going to set up on a USB stick and just plug it into the computer

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and boot off the USB stick but then we'd be adding storage and we said we're

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getting rid of that right I guess so instead we're going to use our router

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now you might be familiar with a DHCP server it gives devices on your network

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and IP address yeah it can also give them other things specifically where to

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look for storage interesting okay now the router

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you have a ubiquity dream machine doesn't have the most advanced DHCP

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configuration so you can only really tell it one location to look which

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obviously doesn't work great if we have 10 computers trying to boot off of it

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right cuz then they'd all be getting the same drive right so we made it a little

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bit more complicated and I'm running a web server that it talks to and tells it

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its Mac Address mhm and then based on the Mac Address it responds with the

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disc that it's supposed to use it sounds complicated but honestly it's like 30

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lines in a script here you can look at this like this is the name of the device

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and this is the disc it's abouted to go to and this is the Mac Address all right

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I'm going to link all of the like scrip things we used in the description if for

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whatever reason you want to try to do this what we're going to be using to install Windows is Windows PE or the

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Windows pre-installation environment it's like mini Windows that most of the

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time is used for Network installing Windows is what we're doing um you have

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to take the image that you make and modify it slightly namely just to add

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the network drivers in our case that would be melanox drivers and I've

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already done that okay but it also means

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I need to modify this boot script because which Mac Address do you want oh

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boy oh wait yeah yeah right right right right uh it should be 98 checking media

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presence media present okay we're good all right oh it

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worked wow that's that's great we are glossing over a lot of this but you'll

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see the scripts down below this would be the one that you would use to boot wi PE

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we're glossing over so much this is like the glossiest video Lip Gloss it's so

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shiny editor can you make this shot just like really shiny e is that like a

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filter why does it look like wet set boot URL that's like the file storage

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location uh initiator iqn is like the name of your machine and then sand hook

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that attaches the disc y you can see his name lonus this is the bits it needs to

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download for Windows p and then Boot and then when you go to actually boot you

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just change the sand hook to sand Boot and then just comment all this out and

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in theory it should just boot okay yeah wow look at that we're in so we're going

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to mount a network drive that has our Windows installer on it I don't know if

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it's strictly necessary but I like injected the proper drivers into the

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Windows installer okay you can do that while you're like selecting your disc

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it'll say install drivers yeah um it'll just prompt you I just did it because I

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didn't want to have to screw with that it's every time every time my god oh boy

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oh no it's going to do that thing why

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okay well no I can just use this

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one I think you need to unplug the ssds

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this is the step that usually fails please God please please God can't help

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you where we're going this is the step that installs

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drivers I think it's good when I was researching this everyone talked about

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how this is just like an absolute nightmare to do and like disable Windows

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update and all this stuff it seems to just work as long as you have a Nick

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that supports it we ran into one very modern Nick that just didn't support it

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those 10 gig aquanta ones that are in the land PC that's why when we were

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talking about this at the beginning of the video we were saying 2 and 1/2 gig

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because we were using the board real Tech yeah I tried for days to get it to

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work but their driver just refuses to launch at boot time we're going to boot

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into in P one more time because we have to make a registry edit I'm not 100%

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sure if it's 100% necessary but there's a ton of people that mention it causes

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blue screens if you don't okay we're just going to disable the page file to

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be clear disabling your page file could cause more stability problems than it

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solves so it's not something that we would recommend under normal circumstances this is just experimental

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for now is is that just working is this it I think it's just working this

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shouldn't be that cool to me but I'm not going to lie it kind of

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is I'm just using a computer like I

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would normally use a computer I'm going to install a program like I would

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normally install a program there are definitely some red flags you can see

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the active time of my boot drive here is

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100% And my average response time while it's usually pretty reasonable in the

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sub 20 milliseconds range occasionally it'll pop up to

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half a second that's a yikes you don't

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want to see that like this is not a CPU issue how long it's taking to extract

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this steam package I have a 7950 X oh

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wow do you see that average response time as it's testing random RS is

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getting into the multiple seconds that's

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bad also even these sequential results

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are a fraction of what I was expecting to be getting even with the PC slot

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limitations oh wow even before the game

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starts downloading okay there it finally goes just the reservation process was

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taking up 100% of the active time of the drive still is actually network is doing

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nothing and to be clear this is not the

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fault of those kokia drives they're just like yeah we'll send over storage if you

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guys are doing a wild project those are really fast drives so this comes down to

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the limitations of our Network infrastructure and our implementation

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how's it going oh you've got four of them working yeah that's sick how's the

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that oh it's terrible really yeah why

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just everything is terrible like slow what oh yeah huh even just uh launching

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steam huh took a while Jake I'm logging into steam on

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this system and I just got a system leg Spike that was so intense I couldn't

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move the mouse cursor

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not good there's something very wrong with the permissions on the SMB share

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and it just like yeah it oh

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okay it's not very happy it was an

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interesting experiment I want to know now if you can make it go fast me too

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but I think that's an experiment for another day I want to go unplug one SSD

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I'm going to do it right now note that we've got four systems

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running right now one of which is actively verifying the Integrity of oh

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you did it already Okay well that's one thing it

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does well was I supposed to wait but I think it might finally be

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time to talk about the disadvantages which one you made uh

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every computer in your house way slower you added a single point of failure so

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if that server has a problem which it probably will none of your computers

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work uh and how you going to fix that server you don't have a computer to to

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manage it with to try to fix it it's great and you've added a whole bunch of

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cost that realistically you could put two consumer

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grade drives in every one of your machines and run raid one and complexity

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and management headaches but I'm just

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stoked that this worked I think it's cool and the fact that it would work

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with just about any computer even if we wouldn't recommend doing this at home

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like man okay the fact that the real Technics work at all if we could tune it

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something like a Land Cafe oh I could totally see this like that from a

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manageability standpoint where you actually have an IT admin who's working on it instead of just a home user

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usually when you have a big install base of hundreds of computers you might use

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folder redirection you have a local disc and then you just like redirect the user

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folders to a network share or something like that that way you're optimizing

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your storage use through things like d duplication and compression you're also

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making it way easier for it to manage how much space everybody's using and

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make sure that if something gets accidentally deleted or intentionally

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deleted it can be restored

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um but this is dumb I wouldn't recommend

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booting Windows over ice cuy it does seemingly work but but I would recommend

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checking out Kia's cd8s their PCIe Gen 4

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drives with NVMe 1.4 support they use their 112 layer 3D TLC flash they're

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very fast they're very great and they have a whole lineup of other drives if

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they don't specifically meet your need and you can check them all out at the

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link down below thank you kokia for making it possible for us to deploy Jake

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on Fool's errands like this for extended

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periods of time cuz it's it's pretty cool and look now we can take those

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drives and build them into a new Nas yeah and do something useful with them

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me in hard drives that'd be pretty cool if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go

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check out the one where Jake I built an assas at for your house which is no

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longer here