This is William Osmond. And whether he's building a freaking DIY x-ray machine
in his basement or turning Simone Yetch's car into a giant computer mouse.
Yes, you heard that right. He's clearly a pretty smart cookie.
So Galaxy Brain, in fact, that he created an event called OpenSauce
where he and all the other Galaxy Brains can hang out and do whatever it is
that a bunch of nerds in a large room together do. We're gonna find out soon
since some of that stuff gets filmed and will be put on Sauce Plus.
But here's the thing. That requires storage, a lot of storage.
And we all know that building a NAS or network attached storage is way harder
than building an x-ray machine. Is this it? No.
See, I was being facetious before. Normally building a NAS is actually super easy
because it would look like this and you would just slot the drives in the front.
But when the customer asks for it to be portable
and gives you a month to do it and then asks you to build two of them,
sorry, then it gets more difficult. Actually, I lied, that is one of them.
But the other one is going in here. Come, come see.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Oh! Oh! Oh!
I know you've built robots and stuff but have you ever actually built a computer?
I'm building a new computer. Yes, you say that like it's harder than building a robot.
Well, no, not that it's harder. I just thought it would be beneath you to even bother.
No. Okay. Have you ever built a NAS? Just sliding hard drives into a Synology account
is building a NAS. Oh! Sure. But we're not building a NAS.
All right, network attached storage. We're building an anywhere storage server.
Ass. Ass? Right.
And one of the most important things for ass is that it's solid.
Solid ass! Well, you don't want liquid.
That's a lot of solid ass in your hand. I've never seen that much in one place.
To make sure that this portable ass would be as robust as possible,
we opted for a set of four Keoksia CD6 data center SSDs.
Each of these holds a whopping 15.36 terabytes of data.
So do the math and you've got 45 terabytes of usable data
and lightning fast. This is cool. This is not ass.
No, it is ass. Oh yeah, it is ass. Anywhere storage server.
It's like a professional term in this context. You can't be like, hee hee. It's not funny.
No, this is not funny. This is serious business. Serious ass. Serious solid ass.
So you can buy things like this that hold these special NVMe drives
except the one for PCAE Gen 4, not even Gen 5.
It's 500 US dollars. Just for the case? Just for the thing?
Well, for the case and also the board at the back. Yeah, the backplane.
We're not going to use a board at the back. We're going to use cables though. So that's a lot cheaper
and we didn't want to spend the money on you. No, I understand. I wouldn't spend the money on me either.
Yeah, that's me, ass man. Here you go.
And a backpack? LTT Stradoc. Oh God, yes. LTTStor.com, you can get, what is this?
Backpack? Commuter backpack. Commuter backpack? Can we get it right now?
Yeah. Right now, for only 169 dollars.
I'll just AI dug your voice. Yo, wait, that's sick.
You can see when your bits are missing. Ha ha ha ha.
Will it work?
Hell yeah. Jesus. He broke it.
It does eventually come out. Now he's going to do revision 43.
This is super cool. It's a server motherboard, but it uses socket AM5,
meaning that you can put a regular consumer chip in it. What's the difference between a server motherboard
and a regular motherboard? Fundamentally, not that much, other than that they have an extra network port right here
that is designed for remote access. And I can reboot the system remotely
or I could even flash my BIOS over a network connection
because a server motherboard is designed to sit in a data center where realistically the administrator of it
never actually physically touches the thing in their entire life.
This is the motherboard tray. Nice. Cute, right?
Did you print it vertically? No, flat.
No, see, you printed it in like the weakest orientation. Listen, if it breaks, don't call me.
Here's the CPU we went with for you. It's a Ryzen 9 9950X3D.
Basically the fastest consumer CPU on the market.
16 cores, 3D vCache. We're probably going to have to run it in like eco mode
because even though the X3D chips do have lower TDPs than their non-X3D counterparts,
this is not exactly the world's best ventilated case, so.
Another thing that ASS is going to have in it is a network switch because I was told that multiple computers
need to connect to this. ASS, which is a Unify Pro XG8 PoE.
It's a eight port, 10 gig PoE plus plus, plus two SFP plus 10 gig.
So we get 10, 10 gigabit ports. And we needed a way to pass the Ethernet cables
out of inside. That's going to go on the outside. And then it has to put the little Ethernet guys in there.
What if we glued the opposite polarity so that it won't close? It just constantly flips open.
Oh wait, I have to deal with it. I don't want to do it. Amazing to me that in a world
where channels like yours exist, we get a hard time from our audience
about doing things too janky or temporary. Why set the bar low from the beginning?
Have we ever actually explained the point of this?
The Pelican case. It's a portable rugged NAS that can be taken to open source.
Okay, I'm going to give you a task. We got the Minisform MS-A2.
This is a very small, but very powerful computer. It has a 16-core CPU in it, not unlike that one,
but just more power efficient. This is going to be the hard drive NAS,
but the problem is these get hot and they need cooling.
So your options are either we fit a specifically portioned fan right here
that already is wired, but you need to cut this heat sink,
or you design a thing to put a fan on the outside.
And it blows down on the card over the thing. Yeah, we'll trim it.
We'll cut the heat sink. We should put some stuff in this Pelican case, right?
That guy? Boom. Just kidding, you got to take it apart first.
Sorry, I'm just very distracted by them. Oh, that's way worse.
Fine, we'll go outside. Just go to the shop. Honestly, I would spend most of my time back here
if I was them. This place is great. There's bushes with thorns.
There's rat traps. There's greenery.
All I need is 10 more minutes and I'll have sod through this heat sink.
I can't believe they don't have better tools. Just go to the shop.
Maybe 20 minutes. Okay, so you have mounts. Prepare to be mounted. These are polycarbonate carbon fiber.
It's incredibly high temperature resistant. This can handle fresh off the printer
like 100 degrees Celsius. 110 degrees Celsius maybe.
And if you anneal it, apparently you can do like 130 degrees Celsius,
which is pretty hot for plastic. Are you guys doing okay out here?
Oh, I'm doing great. So you found a scrap piece of lumber.
Yeah, in the backyard. And I'm in nature right now.
I feel like a man. Jesus, you butchered that thing.
Whoa, that is not straight. Oh my God.
Why did we let him do that? You see how when I move it around, it reflects like a mirror?
I'd rather have Microsoft Edge.
That's how much paste I've put on it. That is a f***ing lot of thermos.
It's a lot? That's a f***ing lot of thermos. That might actually be a problem.
This was smart. You picked the not bad side. You see, look, he undid his mistake.
He controls Ede that. Oh, they're gone.
Does everybody happen like this? Yeah.
Just sort of a disaster and the editors have to like figure out how to put it together.
Yeah. Boom. The first vibration mount is in.
I have good news and bad news. I know what the bad news is. The bad news is I definitely didn't have the drill bit
straight when I was marking these holes. Oh my God. The good news is I can just kind of stretch
the ass a little bit. Yeah, put your finger in there, Jake.
Jesus. It's not that straight. Dude, it's so crooked.
Yeah. You really did a bad job. He's supposed to like take this on an airplane.
Yeah, exactly. Dude, if it's a luggage handler's handling, it's totally fine.
Look, it's not going anywhere. That's the whole point, Jake.
It's fine. See? It looks fine.
Totally fine. I can't believe you've done that to my ass like that.
Did it shake a little bit? Oh, yeah. It did shake a little bit.
That's cool. Now, of course, if we're putting a computer in here, we also need a computer power supply.
And that's where this HD Plex gallium nitride 500 watt
power supply is going to come into play. It's very small, which is pretty much why I'm using it.
And this will just screw into the side like there or something like that. Dude, that thing looks mint.
From one second to the next, he's like, that looks terrible.
That looks ass. That looks so crooked. And then the next second, he's like, oh, that looks mint.
No, I didn't say mint. You literally, you were recording.
Did I say mint? Dude, that thing looks mint. Dude, that thing looks mint.
Okay, but the real question that we need to answer
is will this computer survive?
Oh, did you put it in there before you did that? I heard things start moving.
How many of these motherboards do we have? None.
Hey, remember when I said you used the wrong screws for that switch?
Guess what came detached? Well, not fully. You see that hole?
You see how much it was in there and how it's not at all?
So the PCIe bracket for this was the normal long one,
but this computer right here, which is the... Mini's form, MSA2.
It doesn't have the long bracket. It's like cut it and ground it down
and now it fits perfectly. Look, you can't even tell. I'm holding up something. It looks stuck.
Ta-da. Jake, what do you think? The cut that you did, the bracket is fantastic.
I was trying to figure out how we were gonna make these fit together and then...
Boom. And how is it gonna screw in? Right into the ass?
Yeah, we could just screw that in from the other side. M3 screws? Yeah, with Loctite.
Oh my God, that is a lot of clearance take. No, no, I'm not using it.
This isn't even a screw. This is the date you put it in. Geez.
They just fight the whole time. They're just fighting.
Okay, so here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna put this one in.
Then I'm gonna take this one and I'm gonna kinda eyeball line up this one
and then I'm gonna kinda eyeball line up the rest of them.
That seems like a really good idea. So you think I'm joking? There is no way.
Look at it this way. It's just plastic. So if we have to make another hole,
it takes like two seconds. Yeah, and it's more airflow.
Yeah, that's on there. I could huck this at the ground right now.
If you do it, I feel... Oh, did you put it in there before you did that?
I heard things start moving. I will spray paint your mouth with this.
Wow, it's actually not even that crooked. Under normal circumstances,
Jake and I would absolutely advocate for proper cooling for these drives,
but based on how hard these guys are gonna be hitting them, it really might not matter. Oh, we should probably talk about open sauce.
Oh yeah, 18 seconds. I have 18 seconds. Open sauce, it's like,
imagine your favorite YouTube channel does an event and then they stop doing the event,
but you still want to go to a similar event. You can come to open sauce instead.
Dude, you like... I just stabbed him right in the heart.
Do you see this? Look how cool this is gonna be when it's done. Boop.
Okay, what have you done? I'm gonna do it right now. What, why not?
With plastic dip? What are you, weak? Do you paint? No, I just sniff.
Yeah, so she goes pretty, yep, and there you go. Oh, he's got the technique.
That looks good. Oh, geez, dude.
Oh my God, you got overspray. It's part of it. It's all over it.
Okay, that does look pretty sick, though. That's sick.
That looks like shit. Where did it get all like...
Oh, it was... Oh my God, there's so much overspray.
You got a paint problem, I'll solve it. Hi.
Yeah, this is not coming off at all. What about electrosolve contact cleaner?
You think that would work? Why is it working? Because it's a solver.
What did they put in here? Somebody shouldn't have made a bunch of overspray. I didn't make the overspray.
Excuse me, I didn't touch the primer. Liner and gasket.
Is he always like this? That looks great. Actually, wait, wait, wait.
Why did you get it down here, Linus? I didn't do that.
That is exactly the question you need to be asking right now. I'm gonna mark the pass through for the Ethernet,
and then we're gonna cut this out. Yeah, yeah, you're getting it. It only took all day.
What do you cut that with? I was thinking... That exact knife? Yeah, the razor blade, yeah.
Cut most of it out with that, and then we'll use the soldering iron
to clean up the edges. That's psychotic, I'm just gonna use the Dremel. Oh, okay.
Let me just try this for a second. That absolutely not gonna work. He's, but he's got to slice the whole blade.
Do I have stuff on my face? Yeah, you got some little pieces of ass there.
That's it, it's just some ass splatter on my face. Okay.
Perfect, look at that.
The ass is done.
Of course, one of these is not aligned.
Did you not check that? Have you ever mounted anything to anything
in your entire life? I don't understand how you have it. I have three children. You left, that's exactly where my mind went with that too.
Look, glue's TPU together.
Super glue.
The super glue totally holds the TPU together, and you can't even break it.
Wow, actually I thought it would break.
Oh my God. It's not breaking at all. Oh, dude, that is on there.
You doing okay there, bud? Look, if it's any consolation,
he's just gluing it together at this point. I need a hand with this real quick.
I already want the hands. Okay, this is not quite what I had in mind.
Actually, where you were was probably pretty solid. Oh, my love, my darling.
Is there gonna be a full thing exclusive for this shoot? You are somebody to put this square one.
Something special. Ah! Oh my God, making stuff.
I can tell you for sure that not everything is gonna make it into the YouTube cut.
Is it that spicy? It's not even spicy, it's just terrible.
Half. It's half. LMG.GG slash Floatplane.
This is a NetApp DS4243.
It's basically a giant box that holds hard drives, but it doesn't have a computer in it really,
so you have to supply your own computer. We got our mini's form here. We got the lovely card that you modified.
We take a mini SAS HD cable, plug it in there to QSFP,
and you plug it in there. Boom, now you have a server with up to 24 hard drives.
And fortunately for you, server part deals provided you 16 of these 18 terabyte WD SAS hard drives.
That's like 300 terabytes. That sounds about right to me. So we're gonna do something called RAID Z2.
So we'll take our 16 drives and split them up into two groups of eight.
And then in each group, two of the drives are parity. So you can lose two drives
and not lose any data per each group. Meanwhile, I'm getting our last external component
locked tighted and mounted. What do you want? I got a template for you.
What do you want? I have a template for you. What do you want? Take it.
Receive my template. Okay, give me your template. Receive the seed.
Oh, that's such a weird thing to say.
Do you like it? I do. You can put it on my ass.
I have some pretty good news though, gentlemen. The switch totally fits now.
Woo-hoo! With the boost now, it works. Is that what you call this?
Yeah, the boost shoes. Lift kit? It's like for people who want to be taller,
they wear like boost shoes. He knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Why would you bring that up? I'm just, I didn't, I thought that was normal.
Now I feel like an a**hole. No, I'll show you an a**hole.
Now we'll line us in, William, work away on our lovely that.
It's time to finish off the other server, our hard drive setup, which fortunately is way easier.
There are a few choice upgrades, however, I've got a pair of these saverant four terabyte SSDs,
rather than storing basically where the files are
on the hard drives themselves. We're going to store that data on really fast SSDs.
So when you go to navigate that big file structure of whatever files William Osman has on his NAS,
it looks and feels like an SSD server when it's really not.
And last but not least, a serious upgrade to the RAM. We're adding 96 gigabytes of DDR5.
This will be plenty to act as a RAM caching layer
for our ZFS pool once we have TrueNAS installed. That just means our hard drives will be faster.
All right. That's actually sick, dude. That looks great.
This is kind of cool. It's a professional work. Kind of awesome.
For those of you who have watched this long and gone, what are they building?
This right here is a solid state storage NAS.
So basically allowing them to capture any footage
at open source or almost any number of cameras, practically speaking.
We've got a couple of power supplies, one for the computer as well as one
for the integrated network switch that will allow them to plug up to eight editors
into this thing at once. Now's a good time for us to give a quick shout out
to server parts deals, minis forum, as well as AMD for sending over some of the parts for the setup.
G skill. It's going to be a pretty sick flipping setup when we're done.
So the idea is that they'll be able to not only capture everything to the Pelican NAS
or the ass as we call it, but they'll be able to back everything up offsite
to this J-Bod, minis forum, Frankenstein's monster.
I just met you and this is crazy, but I'm glad we built an ass here.
Takes two people to make an ass this big. How would you mount this whole setup with-
You need a rack. A rack? Okay, so I have an ass and I'm missing a rack.
You need a rack for your ass. I am ready to create the pool.
We're going to call it ass backup. No, it's got to be back that ass up.
Back that ass up.
Look at that. You have 186 tippy bites. That is psychotic.
204 terabytes. You got some 32 cores.
Wait, that, in this box?
96 gigabytes of RAM. And 32 cores. 32 threads.
I'm off the goalless for it to look like ass. Mission accomplished, boys.
If you only store a video, it doesn't really matter, but there's some cool stuff you can do in ZFS,
like native file system compression. So if you have like a bunch of photos,
you just put them on the drive and it in the background compresses the data
so it uses less space. Specifically like raw photos, like less compressed data.
ZFS is extremely robust, whether you're using the compression features
or whether you're not. I do a bunch of cable management and then I will fly this ass to you.
This one, you got to figure it yourself. This one? Yeah.
No, we'll ship it to you. Yeah, we'll ship it to you. Oh my God. Oh my God.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay. I'm sick.
So when we built this thing, I didn't know how it was going to connect to anything. Ian, who's like William Osman's homie
that does open soft stuff was like, we might hook up some Mac mini. So it's a 10 port, 10 gigabit switch in there.
So we could hook up a lot of Mac minis. We can bring some camera feeds in. We can do whatever you want.
Okay. We don't have power yet. Right. So what I'm thinking is today we set it up
somewhere here that we have networking where all the network info is going to be the same.
So we can like configure whatever subnet you got. And then it can just get moved later.
Yes. You might want to censor the next bit.
The moral of the story is everything sucks and I just have to set it up temporarily
and fix it another day. Great.
Thanks William. Let's see if it still works. I brought this on the airplane.
Like it went through the scanner thing and they didn't say anything. They were just like, see you later.
Fortunately, I did do most of the setup already. It's got true nasty scale on it.
It's seemingly working. The problem is once I got it booted up
and I was looking at stuff, I realized we forgot to add cooling to the SSDs.
Under normal circumstances, Jake and I would absolutely advocate
for proper cooling for these drives. They were idling at 70 degrees,
which wasn't enough to kill it, but I'm sure as soon as we went to like
write any data to this thing, it would have been game over. Fortunately, Mark Roberstein came to the rescue
and helped me print out this little like bracket thing
that's going to sit on top of the SSDs, kind of like that.
We'll add a fan and it will hopefully be enough cooling.
I also forgot a power button. There's no power button. You use the screwdriver to turn it on.
There we go. Beautiful. It coil winds really bad though.
You hear that wind? It's brutal. If you have your mouth up in your ass,
you just really can hear it. I don't know if this is going to work. I literally didn't test this at all.
It's just going to have to work. That'll be fine.
I mean, it's just for William Austin. It can't be too nice, right? Fans on.
Looks like it fits. I had to like use heat set inserts as washers
because the screws were too long and we're hitting the top of the drives.
And there's another problem. I 3D printed new TPU inserts to give us space
for the brackets that this mounts with, except I left them in Mark Rober's office
and nobody has TPU. So I don't know what I'm going to do. Duck tape maybe.
I'm going to kill him.
I came all the way from Canada to give you this ass and you didn't even show up.
You're so late. My ass? It took this whole time. I love my ass.
I love your ass too. You see it has fans now. This is the best feature.
We were driving the giant robot truck around. I couldn't. What? You see it outside?
Can we put the ass in the robot? You put the ass in the robot. That thing looks like shit.
This looks like ass. At least it does now.
We can't set it up till tomorrow, but at least we made it.
Okay, see you later. I'm going back to Canada. Thanks for the ass. Good luck.
There you go, William. Hand delivered and set up for you at OpenSauce.
And while I didn't get to go, I heard nothing but amazing things about the event,
including all the gadgets and creators that we're able to attend.
If you want to see more footage of the event, you can head over to softplus.com,
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