I'm so sorry I'm late, I was late for my flight, I missed last call for dinner at the
airport, then I took an Uber to the wrong hotel and...
That was when I realized I really shouldn't be complaining about my string of bad luck.
Realistically that all happened kind of a while ago, so our good friend Kyle from BitWit
is all moved into his temporary abode now, complete with Turtle.
But I noticed there are a couple of things that are still missing, a touch of style and
a network attached storage device for video editing, storing and streaming Linux ISOs,
and backing up precious memories. I can only do one of them today.
I choose the NAS. Oh thank god, we both know I wasn't going to be able to bring the style.
I think these are tasteful. Definitely.
What I did bring is our sponsor Intel who provided the Xeon eCPU for Kyle's new NAS.
Xeon e is designed for robust and reliable performance for workstations and servers of
all shapes and sizes. Trolling aside, I actually love what you've done with the place, and on such a low budget,
like this tapestry above the bed.
That was a Temu sponsored video. So...
Yeah. Wait, Temu sponsored the video?
They sponsored the video. I need money. All my sh** burned down.
Right. That's why you're here. That makes sense.
Not to make fun of me. No, you're so mean. Would you like me to get to work now?
Get the f**k out of here.
In all seriousness, there really is shockingly little to do on the entertainment and even
workstation side of things. I guess that's what happens when we take a year to come down here and do this.
Why don't we build a new shelf? Because I think this could be a little less industrial.
I agree. And then the NAS is a key component of a 321 backup solution.
Did you lose data in the fire? I did lose some data.
Yeah, I had a lot of it backed up in the cloud, but there were a couple items that I was unable
to manually back up in time, and that was kind of a bummer.
Just like family photos, photos of me and the girlfriend, the cats, just stuff that's
irreplaceable. Right. I mean, you can take new photos of the cats, at least.
Definitely. They survived, which was like the first thing he told me was like, we got the cats and
like, thank God. Yeah. Do you need a knife?
Oh, yeah, sure. You're still opening boxes with this?
Oh, you're just promoting, of course. No, I'm not.
Always thinking on... Dude, you know I was on a flight, I don't have a knife on me.
So this is your camera shelf, your PC shelf, your printer shelf, your hard hat shelf.
Yeah, basically everything I need for work. So for people who don't follow your channel, I just wanted to give them a bit of an update.
So is the insurance paying for your place to be rebuilt?
Yeah, fortunately I have good insurance. It's funny because there was a big fire in my neighborhood years ago.
Why is that funny to you? It's funny when it's someone else? No, it's funny because nobody else, I don't think any other house is burned.
It was just the brush, the hillside. Right, so nature, just like, f**k nature, it can just burn.
That's not what I was getting at. My fire insurance at the time dropped me because it was a high risk.
So I picked up State Farm and they oversold me this crazy package that I didn't need or
so I thought. So I got it and fortunately that has worked out.
It's paid dividends. I'm really glad that the guy thought he was ripping me off.
A lot of my neighbors didn't even have insurance. A lot of them had paid off houses, didn't have insurance or very minimal policies.
So I'm actually... So you're saying I should be building them next?
You might want to hit them next, yeah. I got a few numbers for you.
So go into somebody's house to burn down. Could I offer you a nas in this drying time?
Look, you say it like it's a crazy thing to do. It's literally what we're doing today.
We look like idiots lying this way. This is really nice.
This is like... I'm actually... I dig it.
Are you worried about it being flat? I hope so. Yeah, let's hope it's just MDF.
Something less. It's a fire retardant glue in it.
It's best dose with wood veneer. The two LTT screwdrivers you guys sent me got lost.
Oh no. Suddenly, suddenly you're sad.
But we remade one for it. Well something of value was lost.
Hey, look at that. Hey, we remade another one. The channel colors.
Hell yeah. Thank you guys very much. That's nice.
I'll definitely use this a lot. I've been using a $5 Home Depot one in it.
Sucks. So what you're saying is you would use our screwdriver if we gave it to you for free.
But if left to your own devices to buy one, you would buy a $5 Home Depot one.
It's not what I said. No, it's what you... It's exactly what I did.
Yeah, your actions. They speak so loud, sir.
They speak so much louder than your words. Stephanie.
We also bet you would.
Nice. Hell yeah. And it's in great.
Oh yeah, I've seen this. I've seen this in that viral video. Nice.
I'll just keep going. It's like my inception totem.
I hope this is a dream, dude. I really hope. I really hope you're not really here in my place.
How the hell did you find your cats? Fortunately, I did not have to deal with any of it because I was in Vegas covering CES the
time the houses went down. My girlfriend, shout out to her, she was the one that actually went into my house when
it was like a complete blackout. Like there was no lights on in the house too.
So she had to like wrangle two cats in the dark with like the fire on my doorstep practically.
So she just yeeted them into the car and did it that way.
I think the first thing I would have said is, Hun, thank God you got the cats.
Also Hun never do that again. Yeah, 100%. Can you know?
Hopefully you never have to. Yeah. Did your power grow out or did you just never set your stove?
How do you know what time it is in the kitchen? Oh, I don't. I don't really.
Wait, your watch is blank too. Yeah, yeah, none of the times.
Is this like a lifestyle choice? It has to be.
No, it's not. There's no way you get up in the morning and you put on a watch with no batteries in it.
There's no f***ing way. It just broke. It just broke.
It just broke. It just broke in February. It just broke in February.
It just broke eight months ago. Adam, do you want to do this microwave while you're at it?
I noticed that one was outside. Sure, yeah, I'll get the microwave.
Does he need it? It's right beside the stove. You know what?
No, we're going to do it. It's what God would want. Given God burned down Kyle's house, I don't think God wants anything good for him.
Maybe he wasn't doing enough stuff that God wanted. Fair.
100%. Okay, it wants us to repeat this step on the bottom panel.
Where's the bottom panel? The bottom should have a little slot on it, a little groove.
Do you have my shaft? There we go. It's not a weird thing to ask another man.
Do you know what docking is? It sounds sexual.
Docking? Oh, that, yeah, I know docking.
Hell yeah, I'll stop. Let's go.
I'm looking this up. Oh, God.
What is docking? Oh, no.
A very intimate and intense ****.
It's like the International Space Station.
Yeah. Wait, we brought these?
Yeah. I haven't even released these yet. I haven't even seen the final packaging for these yet.
So these are test cables. We're currently validating them to make sure that they meet our specs and our standards.
Three meters, 240 watt power. This one's only USB 2, but it can do the full power spec for Type-C.
So a lot of the time you either have to buy the fancy high data speed one in order to
do the high charging speeds, or you get a cheap crappy cable that isn't going to be
able to do high power. You know what's cool is that they're thick, but they're flexible.
They're very bendy, which is nice, especially at the ends where the connector's at.
They're thick because any high speed conductors are coax insulated for shielding, especially
the USB 3.1's are goosey.
But we use like a silicone style outer sheathing like you'd find on like hobbyist grade wire.
Yeah. Feels really nice. Yeah.
This has got to be some of the only USB A to C cables that I've seen that actually support
the 10 gigabit standard. Usually it's five gigabits.
Yeah. Well, so our whole sort of identity for these products is at whatever length with whatever
connectors, we want to support the highest power and the highest speed possible.
So for a three meter cable, you can't do, you know, 20 gigabit or whatever.
So this is a USB 2 cable, but we'll support the highest power at that connector type.
Yeah. Yeah. These are, these are brand, brand, brand, brand, brand new.
They're really nice.
Which one's F? See, yeah, I was looking for it. It's not labeled.
That one's not labeled either. No. Mine's labeled.
Mine's G. Oh no, Kyle. This is so much worse than I thought.
Because we have to undo every single shell. Because the dowels are in there.
No. So we have to undo at least one side. Yeah.
To get it off. At least just one side. Yeah.
All right. We are not a good team. Because you keep yapping.
Why are you guys getting mad that you solved the problem?
Oh no, we're not. Oh, why did you, you had the screws?
You could be like, wow, we both helped. I'm just grateful that I didn't hire him back in the day.
You told me that you regretted it. I actually did regret it. You did.
And I was like, that, that might be the nicest thing that actually, that might be the only nice thing you've ever said.
I think that he is one of the best on camera personalities in the entire text.
Stop. No. I'm serious.
Neat timing is, is so good that you don't even really have to know anything about technology.
Is anyone even looking at the instructions? I was hoping that you guys were, but yeah, we, we, all right, we're supposed to be building
a NAS right now. We went for lunch and then we forgot what we're supposed to be doing.
Well, we'll get to this later. Okay. Let's check out the NAS.
Sure. This is nice. Yeah.
Nice little mat from a, from New Egg actually. They sound to me. This is ours.
Linus. Wow. You arranged this so nicely, Adam, and I'm just going to start.
Yeah. I'm sorry. The CPU is this.
Ah. I'm so glad you asked. It's the Xeon E2488.
All your horses there, Speed Racer.
Okay. What you're holding there is a Xeon 2488, a top of the line workstation processor from
the one and only Intel. That there, E2488 processor is based on Intel's Raptor Lake architecture.
So you know it's fast across its eight cores and 16 threads.
This puppet can purr at frequencies of up to 5.6 gigahertz.
If you're worried about the heat, we'll slap on some SPF 15 because this succulent Intel
meal only pulls 95 watts. Hey, being part of the Xeon lineup.
You know that this Dorito coin chip is as reliable as the blessed ground beneath your
sneakers. It's validated at 24 seven operation and can take advantage of up to 128 gigabytes of
DDR5 at 4,800 mega transfers per second, man, I feel like a woman.
Well, okay. Well, that's all I came over to tell you.
Oh, and if you're free next week, we're having some folks over for dinner. We'd love to see you.
Nope. Nope. Okay.
Well, I just wanted to ask you make sure you feel included. Okay. Bye now.
Basically, it's an 11900K, but validated for 24 seven and it goes on this as rock rack
server motherboard. It's still the LGA 1700 socket, but it's a different chip set for these Xeon chips.
So it's more for like users who demand ECC for mission critical applications and not
as much for gaming. I mean, technically nothing would prevent you from gaming on it, but you have a gaming
PC and that's not what this is. You'll also find a lot more server centric features on boards like this.
So you've got like, oculinked on here, IPMI for remote management, power button on the
back. Not the kind of thing you'd typically find on a gaming board, you know, it's funny because
as reliable as this hardware might be, it's not going to do anything about a fire.
True. Well, I'm not trying to be mean. Sorry.
I just mean this is as good a time as any for us to talk about three, two, one backup.
You should have at least three copies of any critical data across two different mediums
and one of them should be offsite in a separate location.
I have personally been bitten by not following proper three, two, one protocols as has Kyle.
Don't be a Linus or a Kyle.
Be a Josh.
You Josh, be you.
That's smarter. Do you remember any M.2 drives that you pulled off of that old shelf?
Yes. Do you remember where they are? No.
Cool. Oh yeah. But that's somewhere else.
Okay. A four terabyte NVMe boot drive.
Yeah, I didn't choose any of this, but I probably approved it at some point.
I mean, having a large capacity cache allows you to move large files to your server really
quickly or work off the server directly if you want.
So there's a benefit. It is overkill. Four terabytes is a big cache.
I think you should just put this in your gaming PC and call it a day.
Okay. Kyle's just going to grab another lower capacity SSD.
We're going to throw that in the M.2 and this is his new high speed gaming drive.
Thanks, Krushel. Yeah, thanks, Krushel. Man, you remember back in the NCIX new egg days, could you imagine building a server
with an ASRock motherboard back then? They're like the Kia.
We're both thinking it. They're like the Kia PC parts. Kia used to be rough and now Kia's kind of crushing it.
Adam, did we bring a cooler by any chance? Yeah, we did.
Oh. It's just not in the box. It's in this box.
Ooh. What do we got? It's just out.
Oh. Oh, this is nice. Nice.
Not too often. In everything. Wow.
Yeah. I mean, don't waste. Why does it have to be a brand new cooler when we can give you a second hand cooler
that's just, you know, already unboxed? The new fan, though, and that's the part that actually would fail.
Oh, there's no goop in here, Adam. Can I give them used goop where you're going to get mad at me again?
Ew. Why would you give somebody used goop? Conveniently, we're shooting at a tech YouTuber's house.
So here's some Trident Z5 Royals. We're going to put these in here for now and then we're going to ship you some ECC
non-registered memory. That works. And then you'll have the benefits of ECC, which is like why we chose the Xeon platform
in the first place, but they will fit in the slot.
For now, shiny gamer memory.
Thank you for providing your own rescue.
In the blingiest way possible. Yeah.
Truly showing what a charity case you really are.
Wow, that is a, that's a super cute 50-60.
Those little fans. Look at even managers to still have three DPs on it.
Here we go. Uh-oh. Look at those fans.
Look at those tall standoffs, brother. That's a little concerning because we don't have a lot of clearance here.
Oh my God. Moment of truth.
Can you imagine, can you imagine a world where you're a sh** enough friend to take
a year to come and build someone a computer that doesn't fit together?
And this is what happens, yeah.
No, it looks good. I think, I think it'll work. Yeah, but where's the air going to go?
But okay, we didn't say it was going to be cool and work optimally, but does it fit?
Yes. Oh yes, brother. Why would you slam it down like that?
Because it's satisfying. The thing that might save us is that while the specs are very similar to the 11900K,
the power profile is not. This is, was it a 95 watt chip?
That may save our bacon today. Yeah, we need as power efficient as we can get.
Oh yeah. Adam, I hate to add to your stress right now.
How many hard drives were you planning to put in here? We got three.
That's good because that is the most hard drives that will fit in here.
We can talk about the drives we're using. These are 12 terabyte iron wolf pros.
These are specifically designed for NAS use, that is to say they're designed to be next
to other vibrating hard drives that are seeking around all over the place.
And they even include data recovery services.
That's in the event of the drive failing, not like, you know, you know, yeah, you know.
Anyway, the point is Kyle's planning to use Unrayed, which gives him the flexibility to,
you know, scale up or scale down his storage as needed, which will give him a total of
24 terabytes of NAS storage, which isn't a ton, but let's face it, he doesn't upload
that many videos. Can't argue with that.
Wow, that is not a lot of space. Hey, yeah, Adam, yo, we're there.
You know, I don't know, higher end cases we could have offered Kyle.
This was the best one that would fit the desk dimensions.
Ah, that makes sense. See, we haven't really told you guys the stick for this build yet.
And that's that this is the stealthiest NAS. It's going to be completely hidden away, tucked under his desk.
So he never has to see it or look at it or or also because there's nowhere else to put it.
By the way, it wasn't intentional because, you know, this was our backup power supply,
but this is totally a used power supply. Is it now? Oh yeah, I can tell from the broken button on the back of it.
Hey, as long as it, you know, I mean, it doesn't start a fire.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Now he's doing it.
We have only Molex fans here, but we don't have a Molex cable for this power supply
because it's second hand second hand power supply that we're giving our friend.
OK, let's just go to the store and buy some fans. All right. OK, here's the plan.
Micro Center is 35 to 40 minutes away. OK.
That shelf claims 90 minutes. OK.
Who will be done first? You with the shelf or me and Kyle with our 80 millimeter fans?
I'm going to bet on me. I'm betting on me. Really? Yeah.
After everything that's happened. I'm betting on me. I listen, I can handle the shelf.
In all seriousness, when there is an error in one of our videos, we share the responsibility.
Right, Kyle? But when there are four errors. Right, Kyle?
Yeah, right, Kyle. This is your fault too. Yeah.
Three, two, one, go. Go.
Power supply is cooling, air cooling. Let's go.
Case fans. All right, so we just need 80 mils, which these are all 120s.
Why is every fan on Earth?
Yeah. Yeah. Every fan is Leon Lee. What is up with that? It's crazy how many Leon Lees there are now compared to Corsair.
There used to be Jess Corsair. Leon Lee is completely dominated.
We're at the half an hour mark, and you know what? I think I'm doing pretty good.
Hey, be quiet! to the rescue. Are these $11 too?
Man, do you remember? What's the difference? When a fan was just not that expensive.
Three bucks? I'm not going to lie. I am tempted to buy only two fans, and you will have mismatched fans in the front.
Dude, by all means. Doesn't bother me. This is $44 in fans.
No, I agree. This is $22. Yeah. And like, you know.
They're not to us. They're not to us. You're not going to twist my ARM putting not to us in my PC.
Right. Yeah, exactly, right? Like, actually, I'm doing you a favor.
Totally. By having mismatched fans. Everyone wins. Everyone wins.
We're coming in on 50 minutes, and I've already kind of built the bottom.
Like, I'm halfway done that, so I actually think I'm going to make pretty good time. Plus, the return trip traffic is at 55 minutes for them.
So if it took them 30 minutes to get there, 10 minutes in the store,
I still got like half an hour easy.
Hey, we're back. Look at this.
22 US dollar runes worth of fans.
Wait. Oh my god. Did we check what connector? OK, they're four pin.
Dude, don't scare me like that.
Oh, wow, you kicked our ass. How long have you been done for?
Like 10, 30 minutes.
Nice. Do you want to know my secret?
I've read the instructions. That's stupid.
No one's going to do that. So you have enough room to kind of recenter it.
This looks like. That looks real nice. This looks like a command position, dude. Dude, yeah, this is.
This is the kind of thing that someone walks into the room and you turn around doing this.
Yeah, Mr. Burns version control. Yeah, for sure.
It looks good. Linus, you said you were only going to bring me in that. She brought me Clash too, dude.
Look at that. Nice. That a boy.
And I helped. Adam, too.
Oh, that's super cool. Who makes that? This is StarTech. Oh, I love it.
StarTech. If it's a random thing that you need, StarTech probably makes it.
Right. OK, so that just goes on the bottom of the case. Sick.
Let the record show that the parts that are really poorly cable managed were actually
Kyle. Hey, come on. I did this part. Come on.
Which is really poorly cable managed. But I put one cable tie at the top so it kind of looks good.
As long as she closes, then I'm good.
Oh, yeah, look at that. You've got it at the right setting and everything. You know, I'm used to working with all the zoomers at work
and they don't really know how to tools. You don't just set it to the drill setting every time?
No. Can you stand, actually?
Like kind of straddle me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's going to go like this, right? Yeah, yeah, and then just, and then just like, yeah, yep.
OK. Wait, you said straddle. I know.
No, no, no, yeah, do what you've got to do. All right, all right, yeah. Trust me, I'm not, before we get, before we go in there.
Why not? I mean, it's fine. We want to take the screws out of the rack.
OK, no, no, you've got to, wait, where are you going? Oh. No, no, we're not trying to screw it in right now.
Just doing a test fit. Oh, OK, OK, just do a test fit. Get low.
Get low. Little John and the East Side Boys, get low. OK, hold on, hold it there.
OK. Do you have it? Yep. OK, I need to, this, like, this should be the thumbnail.
This is twisted, dude. This is not. Again, personal.
OK, hold on, one more notch. We've got to notch it.
That's right, you're just one more notch on my belt. OK.
OK. OK, great. That's fine, we can all dismount.
Cool. All right. Undock.
OK, what I wanted to know was the height for these. I also wanted to know where mine and Kyle's personal boundaries
are, turns out non-existent. We ready for the big moment?
Final installation of the NAS. Let's go. Let's do it.
Yeah, this is actually not stupid.
Pretty solid. Thanks. It's day two and I realized we've committed a cardinal sin,
sir. What do we do? Well, I just. What did you do? I plugged in everything and I realized that
we never actually tested this PC before installing it and everything.
We probably should have done that before. Yeah, so I bet it doesn't work. No, don't say that to me.
I mean, I didn't do the front panel connectors, so.
I did? Okay, dude, did we just completely lock out here?
I think, yeah, it looks good. This is great.
This looks so much better. Yeah, no, it actually looks like a place,
like a livable unit in here. It looks like you care.
It looks like I haven't given up completely. Yeah, which is kind of a lie, but great.
Fooling everyone. Yeah, and now we have Unrayed installed
and we're just gonna quickly get it set up for Kyle. The nice thing about Unrayed is that it accommodates
like very wide types of hardware configurations.
While we do have all of our hard drives being the exact same model,
that's something that you actually don't have to worry about with Unrayed, so it allows you to expand
and use the drives that either you already have or that you can afford and grow your server as you see fit.
You know, we haven't done our stress test yet, but like, this looks freaking quiet.
It is, yeah. be quiet! even.
As the name suggests. I kind of love the space. Yeah, it's dope.
You know what, Kyle? I think it's finally happened. What?
I think you've arrived at adulthood. Thanks, man. Thanks for helping me grow up, dude.
I, you know, help comes from the most unlikely places.
Wow, it really does. From a narcissist even.
I appreciate it, dude. Thank you very much. Oh yeah, no, this was fun. If you guys enjoyed this video,
why not enjoy the time that Adam had to go to a not-s**t upgrade for someone by himself?
Cause I was sick. You guys did a great job.
It was great. It was awesome. Dude, you guys did a great job. Really fun.
The thing is, even greatness, right? Even greatness exists on a s**tiness scale, right?
It's just maximum not-s**tiness. I stopped listening to protect myself emotionally.