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They're finally here. Just

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wait. I got my 24 PCIe SSDs for my new storage

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server. Come on, let's go build it.

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superfund. But before we begin, we are going to need some supplies. First, a

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barebones server from Super Micro, the

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SSG 2028 AR NR48N.

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I guess we'll just roll it

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there. Quad 10 GB network

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card, 64 gigs of RAM, dual 2699 V422

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core CPUs. Time for boring inventory

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reconciliation. Oh, I've had that in the wrong field. Damn it. I was scanning the

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wrong barcodes. And time for fun again.

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Everybody on board the insane train.

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What better place to build this new machine than our shiny new B-roll set.

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All I'll need is a screwdriver and maybe a table. Time for my favorite

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activity. Shocking drives. Oh, this is going to take a

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while.

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24 NVMe PCIe

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SSDs, each rated at a theoretical up to

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250 with another zero, 2500 megabytes

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per second reads and 1,200 megabytes per second writes. And we are going to take

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all these bad boys and we're going to put them in a gigantic RAID

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array. Oh no.

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cut. But how on earth do you run NVMe

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drives in RAID? The answer is this very

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special barebones machine from Super

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Micro. In fact, this box can handle not

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just 24, but 48 NVMe drives, giving us

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the capacity to, without changing the model of drives that we're using, have

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up to about 50 terabytes of solidstate

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storage in a single box. And did I even

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mention that it's all in a 2U form

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factor? Now that we've got everything we need for assembly, it's time to open

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this sucker up, peel off the oh so satisfying protective plastic, and take

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a closer look. At the back are expansion

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slots, a 1,000W 80 Plus titanium power

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supply with an extra in case the first one dies, and a couple regular SATA 2

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and 1/2 in drive bays cuz you know you're a badass when all of your drives

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don't fit in the front of your case. Back at the front, we've got 24 NVMe

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slots, but this machine supports 48.

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Where do the other 24 go? Ah, that right

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there is the secret of Super Micros simply double enclosures, a whole

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additional bank. But how do you feed 48

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PCI Expressbased drives? Here's where the magic happens. One of the three

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expansion slots that runs off of the second CPU is occupied by a PCIe x16

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quad U.2 card. And there are four native

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ports that use a different connector on the motherboard itself that run off the

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first CPU. Then both of these go to back

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planes behind the banks of drives.

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Since we're in here, this seems like a good time to show how the quad 10 GB

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network card that we showed before goes in. This can be upgraded in the future,

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though I don't see myself needing anything like that for a while. And we

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can throw in our 22 core CPUs and our

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relatively pedestrian 64 gigs of DDR4

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RAM. I think I'll have to steal some memory from the server this is

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replacing. And that's pretty much it for assembly. Time to install the drives.

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Oh, there go all the drives. Well, who didn't see that one

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coming? Finally done. Why is every single one of these

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attached with four

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screws? Anyway, let's take it over to the test

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bench. So, I have all the SSDs plugged

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into this card right now, which means a

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theoretical 16 gigabytes per second of total bandwidth

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using 16x PCIe Gen

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3. Let's go find out how that theoretically translates into the real

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world. Oh, it's heavy.

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Okay, let's get some network connections

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here. Let's get some Oh, yeah. VGA. You

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know it's performance when it has VGA connectivity. Got this all set up. You'd

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think I plug in servers here every once in a while, right? All right, let's

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press the button and listen for the sweet sound of performance.

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That's not bad for a

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2U. So, fast forward half an hour. We

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have got everything set up. So, disc management, we have created a RAID zero.

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You're going to device manager disc drives. Oh, look. Look at

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them all. Obviously, we would never run

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a RAID zero. I am still looking into what will be the best way to configure

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them all with a good balance of performance and redundancy. But this

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video is all about taking it to the extremes. So, we're going to run ADO

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with a QEP of 10 on our Z drive here and

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find out just how fast it can

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go. Whoa. So, now we're talking. That's

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like 2800 megs per second, right? It's

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like play by play. Wow. Oh, it's over

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9,000. We did it. We cracked 10

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gigabytes per second right speeds at

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512K. Wow. Of a theoretical 16 or 15 or so.

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Look at that. Over 11 gigabytes per

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second rights. Over 1 Gigabyte per second reads for 8 megs. I can't imagine

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it getting much higher than that. So there you have it folks. Past 4 to 8

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megabytes. We're looking at read and write speeds in the neighborhood of 10

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GB per second with our highest peak at

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around 12.7 coming close to the

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theoretical maximum of our PCI Express

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X16 link here. Pretty freaking bananas

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if you ask me. And we should be able to easily, even once we work some par or

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redundancy into the equation, saturate our four 10 GB network connections at

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the back here once we get all of those bonded

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up here. I will see you guys again next

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time. What's he going to do next time? Nobody knows. Maybe he's going to rip

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out a fan. Ah, while it's running, hot

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swap fans, [ __ ]