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our video editors rely on high speed access to Dependable Storage to do their

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work that's why we have fiber optic networking and a whole room full of

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wicked fast servers but that's all here and CES in Las Vegas is in well Las

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Vegas now the obvious solution would be to just send our Shooters hey guys

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they could point the camera at the thing stick the SD card in the other thing and

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then just transfer the footage back to HQ for editing but

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I mean come on on Hotel internet please so we have no choice but to also

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send the editors and since nobody wants a downgraded setup to do their work in a

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fast-paced stressful situation like CES we are going to be bringing our editing

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set up on the road with us actually bringing it on the plane with us LTT

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style the solution for the workstations is simple laptops have gotten so

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powerful these days it's the server that's going to be more complicated how

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do we take that and put it into this and how do we take

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let's start with the size since that's the most challenging component of this

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build in a perfect world the system would be small enough to be thrown into

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a backpack lttstore.com but to make

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things a little bit easier we set our Target as fitting within a carry-on

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specifically this old Pelican 1510 that

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pretty much ruled out full-sized ATX motherboards and cases limiting us to

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ITX or matx the former mint we probably

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wouldn't be able to achieve some of the nice to haves like redundant boot drives

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so we settled on an matx motherboard

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specifically this ASRock rack x570 d4u2 l2t might not have

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the sexiest name but it means all of our

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criteria it's Micro ATX has dual onboard 10

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gigabit Network ports two n.2 slots for redundant boot drives support for up to

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a 16 core ryzen 5000 series CPU and it

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has ipmi which means that we don't even need to have a monitor attached to it to

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see the output of the system we can just remote into it over the network and

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control it from there even rebooting the system flashing the BIOS we can do

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anything we need to do remotely over the network so this is great but as you can

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see the 19.8 by 11 inch dimensions of

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our Pelican case don't leave a lot of room around the

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motherboard for a case and finding one that would fit an matx motherboard but

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also fit inside our Pelican was

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well let's just say this wasn't our first

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choice meet the in-win cj712 its main

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selling point is that it fits oh wow

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just barely like I kid you not it is a

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tenth of an inch smaller than the Pelican case is this even gonna fit

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Jake validated this so I wouldn't put it past him to troll me

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there's definitely some things about this build that are making me uncomfortable already so if that was

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Jake's intention then mission accomplished I suppose side panel comes

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off a little something like that

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can you believe Jake would have rather been on vacation today than built this

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computer with me I can imagine him watching this video enjoying my struggle as I try and figure

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out what the crap he intended me to do with this

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here's something Jake left instructions about I haven't seen one of these in a

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long time given its intended use as a

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case for a low-powered business machine the included power supply makes a lot of

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sense 265 Watts but for what we're doing that

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ain't gonna cut it especially from Power Man uh whatever the devil brand that is

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so we got our hands on the best flex ATX

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power supply that we have in our studio it's not a lot more it's only 350 Watts

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but it's at least from a reliable brand Silverstone and is 80 plus gold

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efficient so hopefully it won't need much cooling which is good because this

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case does not have it we can do something about the cooling challenges

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for starters we can replace the slim 80

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millimeter fan with at least a full width 80 millimeter fan all that

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requires is a little bit of creative

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modification we're supposed to use this fan as an exhaust rather than an intake

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so these little bits here are drumbled out to make room for the motherboard

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hmm well it would have been pretty cool to put a 16 core CPU in here

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unfortunately with the drivetray installed which well it's a server so

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we're gonna need there's only 45 millimeters of room to work with above

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the CPU the kinds of coolers that will fit in that space like noctos l9a

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wouldn't even be able to handle one of those 16 core CPUs at its base clock

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speed let alone when turboi our next best option then is an 8 core ryzen

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5700x with a much lower 65 watt TDP it's

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not as cool as stuffing a 16 core CPU in a box like this but it should be plenty

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for our intended use case if we needed our CPU to perform parity calculations

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for software raid a CPU like this could be a performance concern but given that

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we're running a simple raid 1 or mirror which is just the same bits of data

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being written to and read from both drives we're not expecting that to be a

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um oh boy that was fine what I did don't do it

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boy is this ever a skinny computer hey are you liking how skinny it is Brandon

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it's like a little slice of computer yeah by the way it's not really part of

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the video because Jake already removed it but ASRock in their Infinite Wisdom

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decided to glue the stock backplate onto this board so for whatever reason you

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want to install a cooler that doesn't use the stock backplate you have to do some careful prying work in order to get

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it off very annoying see the strong glue

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a big reason that we went ryzen over an Intel based platform is that AMD almost

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across the board offers at least unofficial support for unbuffered ECC

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memory error checking and correcting memory is considered safer for use with

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the ZFS file system which makes heavy use of RAM for caching data and we have

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a bunch of these 32 Gigabyte nemix 3200

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Mega transfer per second sticks kicking around from a previous project so even

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though the performance of them is not great we figured ah what the hey let's

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go quantity over quality and throw 128

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gigs of RAM in this thing this is the part where things get very interesting

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how on Earth am I supposed to fit this whole thing in here wait what

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foreign

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ly tight fit oh my God look at the quality of this case even though it's so

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small can you see how much it's flexing the motherboard is what actually

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stiffens the case enough that you can pick it up without it just twerking

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around like that there it is and see like I said it's far less twisty with

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the motherboard screwed into it all I've got to do now is plug in all our power

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cables and oh that reminds me I never talked to you about our boot drives this

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is super cool these are discontinued now but these low capacity Intel optane m.2

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drives they were intended as caching drives for hard drives and low end

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systems but for us they are the perfect

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boot Drive they're only 64 gigs each but they are super high endurance and with

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crazy low prices on the used Market because who would want a 64 gig Drive

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well we do in fact we want two of them so that if one of them were to die on

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the go our system can continue to function without missing a b and

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that 24 pin does not have a lot of slack

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on it that's not bad right yeah

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it's a nice tidy little server of course it doesn't really have any bulk storage

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yet ah that's where this comes in this tiny

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package this cm6 Enterprise NVMe Drive

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from kyocsia holds a whopping 30

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terabytes of storage I mean it's not like we've never seen density like this

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before Nimbus data sent us a three and a half inch drive that could hold a

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hundred terabytes but that used a SATA interface limiting the drive to about

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500 megabytes a second the cm6 on the

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other hand can do seven gigabytes per

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second in sequential read speeds that means that we would need dual 25 gig

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network connections to get anywhere near the speed of just one of these drives

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and just one of these drives could

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easily handle multiple video editors working off of it at the same time which

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is perfect for our application now it

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does occur to me that with a street price of around 10 000 each carrying

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four of these across the border while perfectly legal is a bit unnerving but

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that's fine because a this case only seems to support two drives by default

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and B 30 terabytes of usable storage after

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mirroring is actually excessive for what will be about a week's worth of remote

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work for reference that 30 terabytes is more capacity than our previous main

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video editing server had until we upgraded it just two years ago actually

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before we put this in you probably noticed that these drives use the u.2

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interface and our motherboard doesn't have any u.2 ports well we had a plan

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for this we tried this Max Cloud on four

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port bifurcation Card unfortunately it's

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a little taller than I'm comfortable with in this case and it's designed

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around PCIe gen 3 so we'd actually be giving up some of our comically high

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performance so instead I have these two

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of these These Are PCIe by four to mini

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SAS HD or u.2 cards

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and all these do these are just dumb cards they just take a PCIe Gen 4

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interface and Link all the lanes to these pins and they connect via PCIe Gen

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4 to the back of your drive sick right so we're just going to go

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ahead and plug these guys in here

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then this guy goes into the back of the

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drive but it needs power to come from somewhere so you just inject say to

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power into it a little something like this oh

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this is uh

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very tight fit

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all these cables then just get mashimulated down there yeah

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we got this this is the way this is not

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the least janky thing I've ever done hey be nice

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I know but be nice

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not nice about the truth

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sure it's not setting me free right now Brandon I'm pretty sure everything is connected

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now it's fine let's power it up and make

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sure it works I have concerns about thermals in this thing even with the

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better fan that is a very restrictive front panel

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right out of the gate there are a couple of things we want to adjust we're going to set our memory to

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3200 and this is interesting I went into

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our NVMe configuration and I see our two optane drive so that's for our Boot and

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then what's this only one of our 30

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terabyte kyocsias Ah that's for a good

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reason if we look closely at our cards only one of them has an indicator LED on

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it and that is because the second one is installed in a PCIe by 16 slot now under

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normal circumstances there's no problem putting a PCIe by four card in a by 16

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slot but in this case because it's not

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really a card right it's just a pass

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through we might have to set that slot to be bifurcated so to operate in a

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different mode so what we do is we go into PBS I think it is yes pcie16 link width

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and we go buy four theoretically we can

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save this fire it back up and it should

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be detected if not I'm going to leave it for Jake to figure out after the weekend because I gotta go do ancho oh uh I

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don't think that was actually the problem this one game unplugged

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that's more a more likely explanation let's try that

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hey both the lights are on now okay well we found the problem hey

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hey there we go all drives detected now the last thing we need to do is go ahead

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and set all of our fans to a hundred percent

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because we're gonna need all the cooling we can get now we get into the really

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good stuff let's talk about software we installed trunas scale which is the

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Linux version of true now it's already on the boot drives our pool is already

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set up as a mirror and we've already got a network share set up we might need to

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change the password in order to do our demo here but we'll we'll see what's

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going on as for other settings that we needed to change we enabled Auto Trim

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because ssds trim is a really important

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feature to increase both the performance and longevity of your ssds no

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I understand for security we want to have it set to something good when we're

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actually lit but you got it for a video you got to set it

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to something that like all right I hacked the Mainframe and we're in 128

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gigs of RAM 8 cores 16 threads hottest

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core 47 degrees well we're not even doing anything how do I get to this

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thing no do not cut nope not that one

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nope not that one cool well anyway we

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tested it before so you guys can see the screen cap of this and wow it's really

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fast but the SSD temperatures are a

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little hotter than I'd like to see we got in touch with keoksia and they said

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they actually rate these drives at a maximum operating temperature of 70

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degrees so 62 is actually fine but we

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might end up modifying the bracket that they sit on for a bit better airflow for

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now though apparently it's fine but I gotta say this fan at the front kicks

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out a lot of heat now for everything you saw on the screen capture just now we're

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just connected to our office's 10 gig infrastructure but we're not going to

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have that with us on the go and our hotel internet might not even be

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suitable for four editors to edit at the same time even if they're just pulling

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down like you know stock photos and other assets thankfully we have a

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solution to both of those problems first of all we're actually going to be using

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a cellular Puck which we have done in the past and works shockingly well this

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will make sure that we have internet access as for networking all the

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machines together and to our Nas we're going to have a total of four editors

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down there we wanted a 10 gig switch that was portable and it turns out

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ubiquity has just the solution meet the

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flex XG it's a four port 10 gig switch

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that is shockingly heavy but also

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extremely Compact and can actually be powered with USBC then because obviously

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Apple doesn't actually have 10 gig networking on their MacBooks almost

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nobody puts 10 gig networking on a laptop we'll be using four of these Cal

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digit Thunderbolt to 10 gig networking dongles to get everybody up to full

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speed now you're probably wondering why

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MacBooks we are otherwise a completely Windows house when it comes to video

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editing it's because for the Adobe suite

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while Apple's M2 silicon might be slower

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than the top dog Intel laptops for rendering and timeline performance we

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we've actually found them to be a lot more stable which ends up saving us more

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time than the extra performance would when we're on the go they also have

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great color accurate screens great battery life they charge quickly and

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ingesting footage seems to work a lot better for some reason as well we may

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with everything on network storage it's super easy to move projects between

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systems but that remains to be seen just like it remains to be seen who is our

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sponsor for this video War Thunder comprehensive vehicle combat yes free to

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play on PC PS4 PS5 Xbox One and series X

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with cross play absolutely a selection of over 2 000 Vehicles including tanks

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planes helicopters and ships you bet with over a hundred years of

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historically accurate and very detailed war vehicles available to choose from

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there is something for every taste in War Thunder whether you want to enjoy

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some tactical and realistic PVP or you're more of a fast-paced and

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action-oriented combat person more Thunder has got you covered War Thunder

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takes attention to realism to another level by using a damage x-ray system

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showing the actual Damage Done to Vehicles during combat instead of a

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traditional hit point system the best part of all there's no need for any

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additional external components and you can hop right into the action with just

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a keyboard and a mouse so what are you waiting for click the link below and

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if you enjoyed this video you know what oh let's go full blast from the past why

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don't you check out the one where I built a like duffel bag carryable

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editing rig for our very first CES