WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.640 I love my setup. My top-tier gaming PC not only brute forces its way through 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.280 modern game optimization, but it handles my Plex streaming. 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:13.160 >> Your what? I mean, what? I've got a great CPU with 00:00:10.840 --> 00:00:16.520 lots of cores, and the GPU is great at transcoding. 00:00:15.065 --> 00:00:23.080 >> [sighs] >> Yes. He's not wrong. And if you've only got 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:28.040 one PC, combining these functions is perfectly reasonable. But, if you're 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:32.599 looking to step up your reliability, not to mention the safety of your data 00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:37.360 storage, a dedicated NAS, or network attached storage server, is the way to 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:40.280 go. And it costs less than you might think. 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:43.200 Not at the price I bought my hard drives at. I may have splurged a bit elsewhere, 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:49.240 too. >> Yeah, well, look, I can't do anything about the way that you dive into a new 00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:53.400 hobby. But, you don't have to do things his way, because everything Plouffe 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:57.160 wants to accomplish today, sharing Plex with family and friends, off-site buddy 00:00:55.400 --> 00:01:00.760 backup, not to mention good old-fashioned local file share, can be 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:04.360 accomplished on basic or even second-hand hardware. And if you're not 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.080 any good at this stuff, that's okay, because I'm not either. Notice I've 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.920 never done a single network or storage video in the last 5 years? No. 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:15.720 >> [music] >> So, we'll be learning together. But, not until we all learn 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:19.120 about our sponsor, Squarespace. Do you need a website to 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:23.640 help take your business or hobby to the next level? Well, Squarespace has a ton 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:27.440 of tools to help make it easy for you to get started. Check them out and get 10% 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:31.160 off your first purchase at the link down below. Here's what I've got: a computer 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:36.080 in the living room, a computer in my office, and me, a lazy pile of trash who 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:40.160 doesn't want to get up once I've sat down. I could use Google Drive or 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:44.801 OneDrive to share all of my documents across my computers, but I hate the idea 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:49.200 of sending things to the cloud when [music] all of my PCs could just be 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:52.480 connected locally. Also, both of those companies, Google and Microsoft, they 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:58.600 just kind of keep getting worse, [music] to the point where I might even be running Linux on my main gaming PC in 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:04.080 another year or two. The plan is [music] to pop a NAS down under my desk here. 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:07.680 It'll act as a central repository, and if someone wants to access my Plex 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:11.560 account while I'm gaming, it won't cost me any frames. I am well aware that I 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:15.280 could just buy an off-the-shelf box. UGREEN in particular has some really 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:19.440 compelling options. But, as soon as I started looking at anything with six 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.880 hard drive bays or more, I ran into the starting at monster. Also, since I want 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:27.120 this to be more than just a NAS, and I'm not sure yet of all the things I want it 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:31.280 to do in the future, a custom upgradeable build feels like the right 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:37.160 choice. It's also just more fun to pick exactly what I want, starting with the 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:39.120 CPU, an Intel Core i3 12100. And I'll 00:02:37.160 --> 00:02:42.760 tell you all about it while I transfer all of the data from my two 8-TB drives 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:47.400 that I'm going to be upgrading from today. This ended up being an even 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:51.280 better choice than I initially expected. With GPU prices being what they are, I 00:02:49.480 --> 00:02:55.400 asked the lab to run some encoding tests to see if I can get away without one. 00:02:53.000 --> 00:03:00.240 And it turns out the 12100 is great when it comes to direct play, software 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:05.960 encoding, and can even use Quick Sync on the integrated GPU for great power 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:09.800 efficiency. Also, unlike AMD's 5800G or 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:13.200 the spare GTX 1660 Ti I would have used, 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:15.440 the Intel chip has native AV1 support if 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:18.680 that ever ends up actually mattering. Guess I get to save some power, which is 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:23.800 one of the reasons I spent a little more in the first place. There are much older 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:28.520 and much cheaper CPUs that would work fine for basic storage, but that would 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:31.200 come at the expense of some efficiency. Plus, you know, who knows what I want to 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.680 actually do with this thing, so I might as well buy modern-ish hardware. Let's 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:41.760 check out the motherboard. I chose the ASUS Prime B760M-A 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:45.480 D4. It's a little overkill, but it's got 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:47.800 2 and 1/2 gig LAN, decent IO, and tons 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:51.440 of expansion slots in an mATX form factor. And since it's a couple of 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:55.280 generations old, it's not that expensive. Now, you might be saying, 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:59.080 "Plouffe, you fool! That board only has four SATA ports." But, don't worry. I've 00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:03.120 got a surprise tool that I'll show you later. Thanks, ASUS, for sending this 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:08.360 guy over. For memory, Work agreed to give me some on the condition that I dig 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:10.120 for our worst kit of DDR4. But, with how 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:13.920 things are out there, I'm not complaining. Capacity is more important 00:04:12.160 --> 00:04:18.040 than speed for what I'm doing anyway, especially if I want to run a virtual 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:23.280 machine or two. And if memory ever does come down in price, I can always upgrade 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.160 later thanks to my four DIMM slots. What 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:30.440 I don't have that luxury for is storage. While I was planning this project, the 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:35.880 humble hard drive got hit by the same shortage that has rocked memory and SSDs 00:04:33.640 --> 00:04:39.440 around the world. And it's at the point now where it's not even a question of 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:43.920 price. Many drives are just plumb out of stock. So, on top of the couple of 8-TB 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:49.640 I picked up from Weiler about a year ago, I had to ask my brother to buy me 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:52.160 four 8-TB IronWolf CMR NAS drives all 00:04:49.640 --> 00:04:56.080 the way over in Edmonton for about 1,200 Canadian dollars. Now, this is another 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:59.680 area where you could definitely save some money. Unless you have multiple 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:04.320 heavy users working off of your NAS, you probably don't need CMR or conventional 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:09.120 magnetic recording. The alternative is SMR or shingled magnetic recording, 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:13.360 which is cheaper and uses less power while still offering reasonable read 00:05:11.080 --> 00:05:17.560 speeds. The only downside is that it suffers during intensive write 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:21.760 operations, which those won't come up for me unless I ever need to rebuild the 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.560 data on my array in the event of a failure. 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:29.080 Please don't fail me, hard drives. Please. 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.920 The plan was to tell you guys all about the stuff while I install the sleds, and 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:37.080 then I realized that these don't have sleds. They just have little rubber 00:05:35.760 --> 00:05:41.720 stoppers that we're going to put on there, and then they've got these nice 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:44.640 front handles that you put on the front. So, if you haven't guessed it, the case 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:48.760 is a Jonsbo case, which we'll get to in a bit. If I was really smart, what I 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:53.480 could have done was waited a week or two before sticker bombing my hard drives. 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:57.600 Most failures occur at the very beginning of life or near the end. But, 00:05:56.080 --> 00:06:02.000 let's face it, I wasn't going to put together a system that wasn't covered in 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:06.040 stickers. I'll live with my choice. And if I have to, I'll rip the stickers off 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:10.760 and RMA the drives. By the way, great tool for building a computer, LTT 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:14.800 screwdriver, lttstore.com. For my OS drive, I was lucky enough to 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:20.080 have a random 500 gig WD Blue kicking around. I took one look at SSD pricing 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:23.800 on Newegg and decided to use it. If it dies, 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:29.480 it dies. It won't be holding any of my precious Linux ISOs anyway. I also have 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:33.360 a 1-TB Samsung 980 Pro that I was planning to use as a cache, but Linus 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:37.880 told me that if I end up going with TrueNAS or Hex-OS, I may not have enough 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:42.120 system memory to properly take advantage of L2ARC. He recommended either using it 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:45.360 to store virtual machines or to simply sell it and recoup some of my project 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:49.280 budget, cuz yeah, these hard drives cost a pretty penny. 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:53.480 Now, it's time to answer the question of how I'm going to hook up all these drives to this little motherboard. Well, 00:06:51.999 --> 00:06:57.480 [music] the case does have a nice backplane, but to connect all of that, 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:01.880 we're going to use an HBA, or host bus adapter card. The go-to brand for best 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:04.960 reliability is LSI, and [music] you can get them pretty much anywhere. Just be 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:09.560 cautious of counterfeits and make sure you get one that explicitly supports IT 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:13.800 mode. That way you can avoid flashing the card's firmware. With this 00:07:11.080 --> 00:07:17.800 installed, one of my unused PCIe slots turns into eight SAS [music] ports, 00:07:15.640 --> 00:07:23.320 which can be used for either SAS or SATA drives. And just what case can store all 00:07:20.640 --> 00:07:28.440 of these hard drives? Only the Jonsbo N1 5. Okay, many others could. Hell, two 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:34.560 strips of acrylic could hold them all, but this is what I chose. It's massive, 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:39.640 but I wanted it for a few reasons. First and foremost, it's beautiful, and it 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:44.880 really vibes with my space. Second, it supports up to 12 3 and 1/2-in drives, 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:48.960 getting me a ton of room to grow into my new data hoarding obsession. And third, 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:52.680 cable management is going to be a breeze. Oh, and I like that it has USB-C 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.280 on the front. That's great if I ever need to ingest bulk data a little faster 00:07:54.640 --> 00:08:00.520 in the future. Since we're not sucking back much power without a dedicated GPU, 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:05.120 I went with a little 500-W SFX power supply from Silverstone. I decided on 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:10.040 this and asked Silverstone to send it over before choosing the Jonsbo N1 5. 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:13.600 Could have used a regular-size unit, but this one will fit just fine. Besides, 00:08:12.520 --> 00:08:19.160 you know, if you're building a NAS at home, you're probably building it in an SFF case, and so you'll need something 00:08:16.880 --> 00:08:22.600 small like this. But, before I install the power supply, my copy's done. So, 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:25.065 I'm going to pop these last two drives in first. [music] 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:37.320 Minor issue, the adapter plate that came with the Silverstone power supply got 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:43.440 this lip on it, and it makes our screws sit really proud. And flipping it over 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:46.520 just looks wrong. And also, it's doesn't look like that's supposed to happen that 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:50.920 way. So, luckily, I work somewhere that has extra power supplies kind of just 00:08:48.520 --> 00:08:56.760 lying around. That means I grabbed this MAG A550BN 550-W from MSI, and I'm going 00:08:54.960 --> 00:09:00.680 to use this today. Luckily, this supports ATX power supplies, so I'm 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:03.656 sorry, Silverstone. Thanks for sending it. I'm sure it's a great unit. Let's 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:05.676 pop this in. >> [music] 00:09:09.160 --> 00:09:16.756 >> Moment of truth, it's all put together. Let's see if I did anything wrong. The 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:24.560 monitor detects something. >> [gasps] 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:27.160 >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 drives. And then, where is 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:30.960 my SSD SSD? The system works. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:36.280 All right. Overall, I feel pretty good about this build. Yeah, it was almost 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.720 $2,000, not counting my two old 8-TB 00:09:36.280 --> 00:09:42.760 drives, which is a lot of money. But, most of that budget went to the storage, 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:45.640 which, one way or another, I was going to pay [music] for anyway. Have you 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:49.480 looked at the cost of cloud storage these days? And that's only going to go 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:53.200 up as drives get more and more scarce. At least I've kind of locked in on my 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:56.056 pricing. [music] But, this was the easy part. I know how to build a computer. I 00:09:55.000 --> 00:10:01.640 I of do it for a living. >> [music] >> The hard part is the software element of 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:04.480 turning a computer into a NAS. The way I 00:10:01.640 --> 00:10:09.156 see it, I've got three options: TrueNAS, Unraid, or Hex OS. TrueNAS seems to be 00:10:07.160 --> 00:10:12.840 the best bet for power users, but [music] I don't really know if that's 00:10:10.560 --> 00:10:16.000 me. Unraid is pretty flexible in how you utilize your storage. Pretty sure you 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:20.000 can also just chuck in kind of whatever size drives you want and it'll figure it 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:25.080 out. But, Linus really recommends Hex OS. And because I was able to get a 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.720 license because I work where I work, it was kind of a no-brainer. So, I've got 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:33.280 my Hex OS media right here. We're going to try to install it. I've never done 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:38.120 this before. We'll see how it goes. I went to Hex OS's website, followed their 00:10:35.640 --> 00:10:42.080 instructions to flash my thumb drive with some media. This should be easy. 00:10:40.280 --> 00:10:45.920 That's the reason I picked Hex OS. So, I'm really hoping it is. I'm going to 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:50.400 hit save and exit here, and away we go. All right, we're going to select our USB 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:57.000 partition two for our boot device. Start Hex OS installation. All right. 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:59.080 It's doing something. Uh install, shell, 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:02.480 reboot, shutdown. I want to install or upgrade. 00:11:00.280 --> 00:11:06.040 Okay, install Hex OS to a drive. If desired, select multiple drives to 00:11:04.040 --> 00:11:09.839 provide redundancy. Hex OS installation drive are not available for use in 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:14.080 storage pools. That's fine. Okay, so I'm just picking which ones to select and 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:17.960 then pressing space bar. Oh, pressing space bar to select. So, not big backup. 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:23.240 That's going to get wiped. Um I want this 500 gig WD. This will 00:11:20.839 --> 00:11:28.600 erase all partitions and data on SDH. That is fine. Proceed. Yes. 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:33.839 Enter your TrueNAS admin user password. Root password login will be disabled. 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:39.160 Extracting. Extracting. Creating data set. Creating boot pool. The Hex OS 00:11:35.920 --> 00:11:40.760 installation on SDH succeeded. 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:45.040 Please reboot and remove the installation media. That should be all 00:11:42.839 --> 00:11:48.640 it takes to install. Now, I should have to set up my actual storage pools and 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:53.200 whatnot. Let's do it. Let's get started. We'll guide you through setting up your new 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:57.760 server. All right, cool. Looking for servers. If you recently installed Hex 00:11:55.400 --> 00:12:00.680 OS, it should automatically be detected when this device is on the same network. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:05.520 And then if this doesn't work, I'll hit the having problems button. Okay, we 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:08.640 gave looking for servers a few minutes here and it's not finding anything. This 00:12:07.160 --> 00:12:12.000 is the sort of thing that normally it'll detect it within like 10 to 30 seconds. 00:12:10.760 --> 00:12:15.800 We give it an extra few minutes, you know, just in case. Uh but I'm going to 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:19.080 click having problems. Troubleshooting steps. Make sure that the server is 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:23.080 running and has an internet connection. Check. Ensure the device you're using is 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:27.920 connected to the same local network. It should be. Check that mDNS, multicast is 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.760 enabled and functioning correctly on both devices for proper discovery. If 00:12:29.640 --> 00:12:36.400 the above are correct, then try restarting the server. If you have a custom network configuration, try 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:40.400 entering the IP manually. Let's enter the IP manually because if I was at 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:43.920 home, I'd probably try just restarting it, but we have a pretty 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:48.120 different network than like what my home network is going to be like. Try to 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:52.280 connect. Looking for servers. A new server is detected. That's great 00:12:50.400 --> 00:12:56.600 and it matches my IP. Perfect. So, I'm going to claim that. I'm going to enter 00:12:54.080 --> 00:13:01.120 my admin password. Claim server error. You do not have any licenses available. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:04.839 Elijah. All right, day two. Elijah got my code from Hex OS squared away and I 00:13:03.280 --> 00:13:10.400 should just be able to hit get started here. And this time it should work. Zero 00:13:07.280 --> 00:13:11.400 SSDs of six and six HDDs. Yep, that's 00:13:10.400 --> 00:13:16.240 correct. I don't know why that's a warning. This drive has existing Oh, 00:13:13.839 --> 00:13:19.680 very cool. Okay, so luckily I backed up all of my data, but I like that it's 00:13:17.760 --> 00:13:22.320 telling me that two of my hard drives actually have data on them and it lets 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:26.960 you know they're going to be wiped. Storage pools. 40 terabyte usable 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:31.600 storage. It automatically configured to the RAID Z1 or RAID 5. I'm not sure 00:13:28.760 --> 00:13:34.920 which, but uh 40 terabyte, one drive can fail. Yeah, that sounds good to me. 00:13:33.640 --> 00:13:39.280 Almost done. We've collected everything we need to get your server up and running. To make it easier to find and 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:42.560 identify your server, you should also give it a name. You know, most of ours 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:47.120 are named after little municipalities around town. I'm going to name mine after where I'm from, Yellowknife. So, 00:13:45.280 --> 00:13:53.360 let's do that. Uh and yes, this is going to wipe it. Finish setup. Initializing. 00:13:50.560 --> 00:13:56.839 Preparing drives. Welcome to Hex OS. Here are some shortcuts. Configure 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:59.720 storage. Configure users. Add folders. Install your first app. I'm on the 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:04.880 dashboard. Uh everything seems to be running normally. I've installed Plex. Once I take this 00:14:02.920 --> 00:14:08.040 home, I'll actually sign into Plex and get all that set up. Uh but that happens 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:14.640 a little later. I just want to make sure everything's, you know, running properly. My RAM is working. My hard 00:14:11.800 --> 00:14:21.480 drive pool has got 38.19 TB of uh storage available. Uh folders. 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:27.400 Okay, so the other thing that I'm really worried about because networking is not 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:29.520 my strong suit. Permissions. I hate 00:14:27.400 --> 00:14:34.079 figuring out permissions in Windows. It is terrible. I am terrified of trying to 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:38.640 do that in Linux without running into issues. A huge part of why I'm going 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.640 with Hex OS, that I've said multiple times, is this should be brain dead easy 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:47.040 and I should just be able to make folders and assign users and we'll see 00:14:44.959 --> 00:14:50.400 if that works. So, the next step is taking this home, making sure it 00:14:48.560 --> 00:14:53.079 connects on my local network, and getting Plex installed. 00:14:51.959 --> 00:14:59.200 So, let's go. All right. It's been 1 week since you 00:14:56.680 --> 00:15:05.160 got a NAS. How's it going? Pretty good so far. The whole experience was uh a 00:15:02.400 --> 00:15:10.360 little easier than I expected, but also much harder at the same time. Okay. Now, 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:13.920 before we get any further into that, what operating system did you end up 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:18.480 going with that was easier and harder than expected? I ended up going with Hex 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:21.920 OS. Really? Cuz I was going to say like it wasn't that long ago. Investment 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:26.120 disclosure, I'm an investor in the company that makes Hex OS. It wasn't 00:15:23.839 --> 00:15:29.520 that long ago that we and everyone else under the sun recommended Unraid [music] 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:33.160 for its simplicity. I know. And even even then watching, cuz I watched a 00:15:30.839 --> 00:15:36.560 bunch of videos on installing and how to do initial setup and everything, TrueNAS 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:40.040 was definitely like, "No, I don't want to do that." >> [laughter] 00:15:38.680 --> 00:15:45.839 >> And Unraid was definitely the more simple looking option. But then I watched a few Hex OS videos and it's 00:15:43.800 --> 00:15:51.120 about 1.0 now. Almost. >> Almost. So, I figured, "Okay, fine." 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:53.400 Plus, I get the key. Right. Okay. So, I 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:56.880 didn't pay for it, which makes a massive difference. [music] 00:15:54.400 --> 00:15:59.959 Um but I really did go with that route just because I thought it would be the 00:15:58.079 --> 00:16:03.920 easiest. Well, Unraid's a paid option, too. Yeah. So, they're both paid either way. 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:08.760 >> Yeah. Hex OS still just seemed the easiest and it kind of was. What wasn't 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:12.640 easy? Cuz I already know a lot of answers to that question. 00:16:09.880 --> 00:16:16.440 >> Okay, so the install went fine. I took it home. It ran into issues exactly 00:16:14.839 --> 00:16:21.360 where I thought it would. Windows file sharing stuff. Really? Yeah. That's one 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:25.400 part of my Hex OS NAS at home that does work perfectly. The funny thing is, I've 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:30.320 got two main desktops that I'm hooking up to it, right? Yeah. My living room PC 00:16:27.880 --> 00:16:31.959 Yeah. that I went to do second, it was fine. [music] 00:16:30.920 --> 00:16:38.231 Literally just logged in with the credentials, no problem at all. My desktop PC, the one I wanted to do 00:16:35.400 --> 00:16:41.440 first, was an absolute nightmare [laughter] 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:45.480 to the point where I spent like an hour or so troubleshooting and I got to a 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:49.400 point where everything I was looking at was telling me to like buy Windows 11 00:16:47.839 --> 00:16:51.800 Pro and enable stuff. And I knew that was wrong. >> What? I knew that was wrong. I knew that 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:59.079 was wrong. >> No. No, no, no. I knew that was wrong. Okay. So, I enabled SMB protocols. All 00:16:56.400 --> 00:17:02.959 my private network uh stuff was working fine. Everything was seeing everything. 00:17:00.800 --> 00:17:06.520 Yeah. So, I could see the machine on my network, but I couldn't access any 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.800 folders. I couldn't do anything with it. Do you want to know what happened? 00:17:07.959 --> 00:17:14.800 >> Had to be Windows credential manager. Pancratz went there first. We had to 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:16.839 open PowerShell and he had to change uh 00:17:14.800 --> 00:17:21.120 SMB client configuration setting requires security signature. It was set 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:24.880 to true. We had to set that to false. Why was that set to true? 00:17:22.439 --> 00:17:27.560 >> I have no idea. This isn't even a pretty fresh Windows 11 install. That's so 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:33.440 weird. >> I reset my computer like 6 months ago or so. So, it's not even an issue with your 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:39.720 NAS. No. This was an issue with your desktop. >> Yes. 00:17:36.080 --> 00:17:41.640 Why is SMB still like this, Microsoft? 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:44.520 >> One in a million chance? You're the guy. 00:17:43.732 --> 00:17:48.320 >> [laughter] >> With it working. Yes. What's the first 00:17:47.040 --> 00:17:52.360 thing you did? I started backing everything up, which took a while. It 00:17:50.040 --> 00:17:55.920 was like 8 terabytes worth of data, but it was awesome. Like I just I set the 00:17:54.280 --> 00:17:59.452 transfer going and I didn't even worry about it. >> require security signature anymore. So, 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:04.560 it's all good. >> [laughter] >> I've got Tailscale set up and running 00:18:02.560 --> 00:18:07.800 now. I just finished that as well. Want to explain what Tailscale is for people 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:13.760 who are not in the know? Tailscale is basically a way to SSH into your machine 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:17.920 and add uh virtual networking to uh other users. So, that like if my cousin 00:18:15.280 --> 00:18:21.360 wants to go on to my NAS, I give him my Well, he has his own Tailscale and then 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:26.160 he logs in and through my invite and gets access. >> And you can do that without opening up 00:18:23.840 --> 00:18:29.840 ports. Indeed. Traditional way that you would allow someone else to access a 00:18:28.560 --> 00:18:33.560 resource that's on your internal network. >> Yeah, it's much safer. But the funny 00:18:31.679 --> 00:18:36.640 thing is, what really has been enjoyable about this whole experience is I feel 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:40.520 like I'm learning stuff about computers again. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Like I 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:43.720 actually like Oh, networking's a whole new Pandora's Box, though. I'm well 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.640 aware and it was a terrifying one for the longest time. But now that I have 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:50.919 like my own I mean, it's not really a home lab, but now that I kind of have my own little home lab, I'm like, "Oh yeah, 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:54.520 I'll try that." Like whatever. I'll set this up and dig through troubleshooting 00:18:52.919 --> 00:18:59.240 guides and spend a bunch of time doing it and it's enjoyable cuz everything 00:18:57.159 --> 00:19:01.880 works. And if it breaks, it's not the end of the world cuz I know how to set 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:06.440 it up again. With that said, there's a big difference between, "Yeah, this is a 00:19:04.360 --> 00:19:09.880 pretty good experience for me and I enjoy working on it." And 00:19:08.320 --> 00:19:15.159 >> "This is something I would recommend to my family and friends or my parents." 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:20.400 Where are we at right now? If everything had gone as smoothly as it was supposed 00:19:17.320 --> 00:19:23.679 to It's a big if. 100% it is. I would be 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:25.880 okay with helping my dad or someone else 00:19:23.679 --> 00:19:30.360 who's less tech literate set this up in their home remotely with me being 00:19:27.800 --> 00:19:35.120 remote. The setup and everything was really simple. Yeah. The UI is good. 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.703 It's really easy to use and navigate. But as soon as they get into some kind 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:43.360 of error >> [laughter] >> that the documentation isn't going to cover, like what I encountered, like 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:48.640 sure, I know how to fix that now going forward and so that's something that's added to my own troubleshooting 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:54.320 repertoire, but like Yeah. I wouldn't expect them to do this on their own 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:59.760 assuming there's something that goes wrong. If the process is perfect or like 00:19:56.760 --> 00:20:01.400 perfecter than it is now, yes, I think 00:19:59.760 --> 00:20:05.520 this is something even my sister or my dad could do. Now that that's all 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:09.440 sorted, it's fine and it works great and like I'm just doing whatever I want. The 00:20:07.520 --> 00:20:14.840 flexibility overall of everything has been [music] so nice. Yeah, like I just you know I 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:19.440 make sure that whatever I'm working on is on my NAS instead of on my desktop 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:23.320 locally and then I can just move to the couch and open the file there. And then 00:20:22.120 --> 00:20:29.440 oh I'm halfway done and now I want to sit at my desk with like music playing or something, I just go over there. And 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:35.000 you're on Tailscale. So if you wanted to go to a cafe and work on it there, 00:20:32.360 --> 00:20:39.720 boom. It's pretty cool and you never worry about okay, I'm in the middle of 00:20:36.800 --> 00:20:45.200 this draft and coffee spills on my laptop, it's gone or I'm taking all of 00:20:43.320 --> 00:20:48.680 this personal information and I'm synchronizing it with some corporate 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:53.160 cloud service somewhere. You own your freaking data. Yeah, that's 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:59.520 the bottom line with a NAS. Which is a huge deal to me. Is it more work than 00:20:56.080 --> 00:21:01.560 subscribing to you know Google One? I 00:20:59.520 --> 00:21:05.440 mean yeah, it's more work, yeah, but like in the longer time you can pay 00:21:03.280 --> 00:21:09.560 yourself to do that work in the money that you will eventually save not 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:15.160 subscribing to someone's service because it's just math. Eventually if you're 00:21:13.040 --> 00:21:18.920 going to use that storage, eventually you must pay for those hard drives. 00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:21.800 100% whether you buy them and put them in your home or whether you pay for 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:27.080 Google to put them in a data center somewhere. And now I've got all my digital photos 00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:33.120 backed up somewhere safe. I've got other files like everything. With that said, a 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:35.520 single NAS offers redundancy but is not 00:21:33.120 --> 00:21:39.440 in and of itself a backup. So the next level would be that I've talked to the 00:21:39.600 --> 00:21:46.000 priority for me as kind of an activist investor that they implement buddy 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:51.320 backup. Yeah, and so that's intended to be a feature where for no additional 00:21:48.280 --> 00:21:53.480 subscription fee, you and a buddy like 00:21:51.320 --> 00:21:57.480 me and Plouffe could be like okay, here. I bought an 8 terabyte drive, here you 00:21:55.320 --> 00:22:00.880 go buddy. You buy an 8 terabyte drive, you give it to me, here you go buddy. We 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:06.240 put those into our NASes, we now have some extra space and we can set aside an 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:08.160 encrypted folder that can automatically 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:11.800 synchronize. 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