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I don't know why you have a ton of data I mean maybe your wife for GF or hubby

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your kid is a huge photography nerd

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maybe you're the world's worst let's player who needs to record hours of

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footage to salvage 3 minutes of entertaining content or maybe you have a

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100 monkeys tied up in your basement typing away 24/7 at keyboards hoping to

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reproduce the entire works of William Shakespeare I don't care whatever the

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reason is you're looking for a better way to expand your storage safely and

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that is what this video is

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about Intel brings ddr4 to the mainstream with their core i7 6700k and

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core i5 6600k processors check out the

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link in the video description to learn more so the way most people expand their

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storage is by buying a hard drive and putting it into their computer tower

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wrong if you need a fast way to expand

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your steam Library sure but for bulk

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storage of things like photos or videos this is pretty much guaranteed to be a

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crummy way to do it in the longer term consolidating your storage in a Nas or

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network attached storage device makes it easier to share and if you have multiple

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devices like a desktop and a laptop it helps avoid that nightmare of where did

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I put that file or where did I put that one without r ring on cloud storage

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Services which can get very expensive with higher capacity plans not to

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mention the trust issues that some people have with giving somebody else

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their sensitive data for safekeeping on top of that even basic networking

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equipment these days can handle over a 100 megabyte pers second transfer speeds

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meaning that even 4K video editing across a network is easy as p with the

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right workflow the main problem with network attached storage is that the

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consumer grade stuff sucks the single

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drive or two Bay stuff sucks because

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it's slow and offers little to no redundancy that is protection from Drive

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failures and the 4 Bay and up stuff

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sucks because the affordable ones are slow with limited functionality while

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the good ones are so expensive you might as well just buy a computer to do it and

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that's ignoring the with some exceptions generally crappy intuitive management

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software so enough about the problem then let's talk about the solution we've

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been diving into more and more server grade stuff on the channel lately for a

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number of reasons number one I find it interesting deal with it number two

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whether it's higher capacity RAM or ssds

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or many core CPUs it's a reflection of

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the technology that will trickle down into consumer grade gear in the future

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which I find interesting deal with it and and number three which ties in

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closely with number two old server stuff

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can be incredibly cheap while offering the same functionality or better than

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what a general consumer would be able to buy on the Shelf today so it's time to

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hit up good old eBay I found that buying

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a cheap already built computer is a good way to both ensure the compatibility of

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all the parts you're getting and save a few bucks versus buying individual

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components but your mileage may vary so any cor I3 based machine will be

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powerful enough for all but the heaviest Nas use and will sip power relative to a

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more featureful processor ensure that the included motherboard and power

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supply are standard ATX and check the

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motherboard product page to ensure that it has gigabit Lan from there if you

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just want a couple of discs and you don't mind fussing with internal cables

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whenever you want to expand you can add either a free nasos like rock store or a

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paid one like the one that we use at lonus Media Group on raid for like 60

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bucks and you're actually sort of good to go I mean it'll be a bit of an ey

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sore but hopefully the money you saved will help heal that wound because a dual

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core class Nas boox off a retail shelf would cost two times as much or more but

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if you want something then that more closely resembles the pre-built Nas

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experience I've got some tips there too first you'll want to change out that

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case eBay to the rescue again here search for hot swap case and you'll come

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up with all kinds of options that should suit your needs this chenbro refurb that

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I found while writing this looks perfect for us standard ATX motherboard

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compatibility and up to eight Drive sleds power supplies can be a little

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tricky with these rack mount style cases this one's a 2u and not all this stuff

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is super standard but with some double-sided tape or hot glue this one

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could be made to fit quite easily and is Affordable if you find something

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like this six Drive ready bundle you actually won't even need to worry about

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the power supply or this next step but most of the cases you'll encounter

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will'll need power supplies and we'll use sff 887 SAS connectors for their hot

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swap back planes which leads us finally to the original inspiration for this

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video my search for a cheap storage card

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for my personal Home Server upgrade now I had thought that I could repurpose an

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old raid card but what I discovered is that for proper monitoring and smart

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reporting that is the health of your drives hbas or host bus adapters with no

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raid functionality just ports to plug into work much better than raid cards

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because most and there are some exceptions raid cards even in jbod or

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HBA mode will not behave completely

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transparently which can be an even bigger problem for os's that require be

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Drive access like frz the issue is that

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affordable hbas either use normal SATA

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connectors making them unsuitable for use with a back plane or they're made by

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brands that I frankly wouldn't put my important data anywhere near so I ended

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up following alpen wasser's guide on the lineus tech tips Forum to pick up some

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cheap cables and a super affordable LSI

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raid card model the 9211 8i on eBay

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again that supports eight drives and can be flashed to something called it mode

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to make it behave exactly like an HBA

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after the flash all the smart monitoring data showed up perfectly and for $500 or

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much less if you have some parts lying around to reuse or you don't mind

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sacrificing some power efficiency by using even older Hardware from a thrift

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shop like free geek we've got ourselves a wicked box to put in the closet that

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depending on the operating system you choose uh but we actually accounted for

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some budget for unraid can do so much

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more than an off-the-shelf Naz not to mention the nearly unlimited

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upgradeability down the line I mean try

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upgrading this thing speaking of upgrading why don't you upgrade your

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