it is finally the conclusion of personal rig update 2015 yes I know it is 2016
now that's not the point the point is that it started in 2015 today is all
about the final deployment in the cabinet in the closet
so let's make it
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uh now I got to load up all the other junk into the back of the truck here so
this is actually our first look at my wife's machine so it also had the front
bezel of the same case uh airbrushed by
our neighbor here neighbor Steve let's get this baby loaded up too
okay looking
good oh no need an optical drive oo light
scribe okay so here's the situation there's actually a lot to do first I've
got to get this ruthless bastard up the stairs I have straight up no idea how
that's happening these PCS this UPS
these rails these monitors all need to go up the stairs as as well this Nas
needs the correct Hardware put inside it and finally all of the gear that we are
no longer using in here needs to
GTFO so let's get down to it shall we
okay well this thing weighs a metric shed load but there are some ways that I
can significantly reduce its weight then by removing as many of the outer panels
and inner components as I can before I try and take it up the stairs
can you move thank
you I need more leverage more more okay
more traction more something I need more something this is what I hate about
camera people they never lend a hand they just sit there and
watch I think what I need right now is some Nikki V's lifting tips
all right Nikki V here back with another moving tip okay so we got this big ass
thing here what we want to do is lift with our back twist jerk in a you know
jerking motion he knows the most ergonomic way to do
this okay go to sleep he's supposed to
be napping I'm actually going to have to go into his room in order to tilt this
up
okay sorry honey go back to
bed
okay oh wow that's a really tight fit
um okay it looks like this is going to
fit that's good man this stuff is heavy
okay so this and the other one in the room in there already are the clay power
uh th000 volt damp UPS's that I'm going
to be using for the two systems in there my system gets its own cuz it's a little
bit more powerful and then my wife's is going to share her ups with the uh the
server
slnas life personal rig oh wow this
one's a lot
heavier okay Pro tip uh don't don't carry rack mount
cases by the mounting Rail and Acer said
let there be monitor upgrades and there
were and it was good and finally of
course none of this is staying
here it's all going to be rack mounted so here are my rails so I've been
meaning to pull out some of the consumer grade gear that I've had in this server
for for quite some time this WS board is a great board doesn't support ECC memory
this raid card Great Raid card doesn't
properly support monitoring the discs and then I've replaced all that stuff
with a more suitable configuration so while I don't have the Ballin six or8
terab hard drives that I do with the office I do have 1 tby WD blacks and I
am using an Enterprise grade SSD cash in raid one to allow me to get the best
possible performance out of the yes the
you thought they were retired but they're not ulx 10 GB network card so
I'm actually going to be using those combined with the onboard Nyx in order
to enable not 10 gbit but at least faster than 1 gbit transfers between all
the rack mounted computers just using um single cables from them to each other
and actually not having them go through the router or the switch at all I
changed up the motherboard to uh one that has Remote Management so I've added
a little ikvm module right there I've changed out to ECC memory not really
necessary with unraid but I want the utmost instability I'm going to be
running VMS on here so that I can have stuff like my air video server running
on Windows um and then I can have stuff like crash plan running in a Docker
container there's a lot of functionality here I may do a follow-up video on just
this machine and then I'm running a xon processor so that I can take advantage
of that ECC RAM and then it uses a very similar case to Clover server actually
it's just the 12 Bay versus the 8 bay one because at home I don't have those
same high-capacity drives so if I want any storage at all I need to have uh a
few more expansion Baye there okay so
now I got to clear out this corner and I really hope you guys either don't look
too closely at or don't judge me for my
power setup in here I am going to be working on something a little bit better
than a power bar run through the wall in
the future okay so most of the network
cables running into the next room over there actually need to go away because
all of the networking is pretty much going to stay in here
now yep that's my that's my wall
hole oh no I pulled out the nails this
is the world's most ghetto wall
mount so step one is going to be our ups
battery backups we're going to put these on the bottom because they're really
heavy they're a pain in the butt to uh
to move you don't want your thing ending up being all topheavy and the other main
reason is that I don't have shelves for them so I need to sit them on the bottom
of the unit so that the entire weight isn't being borne
by these puppies there we go okay one down second
GS here we go so now all that's left to do is plug
those into the wall and then all my other devices can plug into those for
power so I don't actually have to get back here anymore okay so for those of
you who haven't played around with rack mount stuff before basically you take
this inner slide you pop the little
latch here all this without slicing your fingers
open and then these rails mount to the
side of your case with the screws that are included with the rails then
you take the other sides of the rails and you mount these inside your cabinet
hopefully in the right position which is not always easy wow this is a really
shallow cabinet I didn't realize these weren't the same depth as the ones at
the office that's okay that is a very minor curve
ball no I'm one spot
high of course I am yeah it needs to go
down just a touch so weird wanted to
work up a sweat today I was thinking could go to the gym today or I could uh
Mount some server crap can this just stay in
place
please tight fit is fine as long as it's
a fit that's weird what are we hitting
maybe if we just give it the old ah there we go three units rack mounted
easy okay it's okay it gets easier these rails are so much frakin
better they lock on like that No
Nonsense just Boop let's do this one now
now these ones are a little bit more
finicky to align here I can live with
that for the benefits that they
give there we go look at that man I love
these reils it comes free of the entire thing so you can just go boop I'm
working on the wife PC slide that baby
back in there and there it
is okay last
one man I like those rails
better okay oh I put them in
backwards fortunately these are really fast to turn around
it's in so let's get it all wired up
then I'm probably going to get ear mounts for the ubiquity router as well
as the net gear switch at some point I am going to give myself another power
bar as well up here I have a more
elegant solution at the office but this actually isn't too bad I'm just going to
hook those up on top
here UPS's are on let's get networking
hooked up okay this is going well now Ethernet
for waifu PC I mean okay overall not
perfect Cable Management still needs some work yeah this is as good as it's
going to be for now okay so with everything hooked up it
is finally time for The Secret Sauce the Magic Bullet if you will and those of
you who have been following from the beginning will already know this but I've had a lot of people asking me who
have tuned into personal rig update 2015 later how are you planning to get all of
your IO into the next room one Optical
Thunderbolt cable per system from Corning that's why I added those assus
Thunderbolt cards to the systems so all
I've got to do is run these puppies through the wall and in theory we're
pretty much Off to the
Races how much is left okay
okay now obviously a single Thunderbolt cable no matter how magical is going to
need something on the other end to make it work so that is where these come in
these are Thunderbolt hubs from Elgato uh they've got three USB 3 ports they've
got mic and headphone Jacks they've got Thunderbolt pass through if you want to
daisy chain more stuff and if you want
it they've got an HDMI out as well as Ethernet if we're going to use
Thunderbolt to DisplayPort to go straight to our Monitor and that is all
the I/O for the computer again Cable Management not done but it is somewhat
Moment of Truth time oh I hope this
works here it is
theoretically perfect Silence with no performance
compromise whoa it worked right away what were the fraking odds of that
nothing ever works on the first try for me all we've got to do in theory is get
some Thunderbolt drivers installed on the system which I have to do from over
here a yes always connect Elgato
Thunderbolt dock
okay hey look at that keyboard's working
it worked once now we just have to do it
again all that's left is to run one more
Thunderbolt cable and we are pretty much
Off to the Races ah someone was asking from my
tweet the other night uh what desk this was and the answer is it is a desk saw
in half full of
cardboard for years for years I have
pursued silent
Computing and in the end Thunderbolt was
the answer no amount of water cooling ever made it quite good enough and
people asked me gee lonus why would you
care about having a window on a rack out case that's why
suckers that's why because that looks flipping awesome so this one's actually
relatively tested I have at least tried
the ASUS Thunderbolt card on this one okay let's just give her the old reboot
and see what happens maybe something was just jostled
loose and shipping and I can just oh hello okay let's find out what post code
A2 means CPU fan error oh that's not a
big deal I have a CPU fan it's water cool in
theory we should be fine this time let's go up
there you got to cut out all this stuff so that you just show the part where I'm
like and it goes
okay wait a minute ow oh power bar is a
little finicky oh for crying out loud well
there we go just like that my friends hey look at that g-sync showed up
working right away g-sync display connected so it looks like the display
port connection doesn't care at all that
it's running through what is this like a 30t optical Thunderbolt cable freaking
awesome so there you have it All That
Remains to be done done
now and all the noise stays in
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