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all it takes is a project where i've got to attach a dvd drive to my system here and a failed router that i just throw a replacement in for there and uh some contractors who come and clear the fiberglass in my attic leaving fiberglass fibers all over the front of my servers and all of a sudden it's a complete and utter mess again but not this time this time sponsored by pulseway makers of the software that allows you to monitor not just your servers but really any mac Windows or Linux machine i am going to be completely properly cable managing this once and for all accounting for the next few projects that i have coming i will even be yes making my own Ethernet patch cables look at this isn't this adorable watch see out goes this in goes step one is to give everything the old safe shot down i always do this i turned off the desktops already so now i've got to issue the shutdown command to my unread server here from my phone but we're good system is powered off just as i released that screw i realized something this server is not mounted on rails it's just sitting on top of the ups's i better pull that out first i do have rails for it i just never installed them oh wow you can see i was using the top panel of this case as a filming plan at some point that would have been a while ago looks like because it's fiberglass so the strands are quite long compared to regular dust we actually ended up with almost nothing inside the system itself so the specs of this server are kind of unusual um i've got a 9900k processor in here and the reason for that is i ran into this weird issue where plex if you want to transcode a 4k blu-ray and also have subtitles baked into it it's like a single threaded task that's super inefficient like 32 gigs of RAM i've got a graphics card in here for GPU decoding a couple of uh hbas to power the drives here i think it's around 150 terabytes total storage a couple cash drives and finally a 10 gigabit nick from a quantia and ah a redundant power supply just in case one of these modules fails all i need to do then is just clean off these drive caddies and oh that's interesting so it's only the ones that don't have drives in them that have a bunch of build up that makes sense since those are the ones that are going to be getting the most air flowing through them something i do have an extra of in case of failure is a hard drive so this is a cold spare and the key night among you might have noticed that i'm using seagate archive drives which use shingled magnetic recording now it's cheaper and more efficient use of the platter but it has a right speed penalty and as you might have noticed in wd's recent scandal where they were shipping wd red shingled magnetic recording drives without telling anybody they are not ideal for raid but don't worry for my use case it's fine because i'm not using raid i'm using unraid which has parody and data redundancy but it does not use stripes across the various disks so that means that i'm all good with these i get around 220 megabytes a second writing to the array and then a little faster reading off it ah i'm sorry oh shoot well it's good for finding your keys when they're missing lttstore.com i used tennis balls to hold up the ups is at the back i had to find the right number of tennis balls to support them the answer is five it's not stupid if it works flat Ethernet cables these have a terrible reputation with that said all i was using it for was like my sonos hub thing so new rule any cable that i don't know where it goes i'm not going to plug it in anymore at least two of these i have no idea what they're for also gross deadbeat i'm actually going to be adding some stuff to the server cabinet oh some new switching gear from ubiquity and that kind of stuff so i want to move it up so i can salvage two more u's of space this thing really is awesome you see you can adjust the length this is the first connection that i can make here so we're going into one of the non-power over Ethernet ports because it doesn't have to deliver power to my other switch obviously just the two ubiquity units so a router and a switch and then we've got these three u's that we could theoretically move these up into i'm going to leave mine on top because i quite frequently end up well like plugging optical drives into it and stuff so that's just going to stay are these cat footprints for those who are wondering i'm rocking a 3900 x 12 core processor i've got a titan rtx over there and then i've got this weirdo Gigabyte i think it's a one terabyte NVMe SSD in the pci express slot down here i'm running some super old 64 gigs ddr4 2666 RAM not a great pairing for that processor i know and then i'm still using the ax 1500i this thing is going strong from the original build as well as this like super cool custom reservoir d5 pump and then of course the x570 aqua from asrock it's one of the few motherboards on the AMD side that supports Thunderbolt which is really nice to have if you can run a Thunderbolt cable through the wall use a Thunderbolt dock you've got 40 gigabit per second of io for all your you know capture cards and all that kind of stuff that i use over there Yvonne's rig doesn't really need to be touched it's a 60-second it looks terrible what compared to yours well it doesn't have water cooling it doesn't need water cooling it's messy there let me tuck that there you know we can well we'll clean the filter all right you weren't even going to clean my filter well yeah i was going to clean your filter clearly doesn't get cleaned as often it's fine as it is anyway 6700k i think it's got 16 gigs of RAM you know uh you got my old titan x pascal lots of people would give their left nut for a system like this so i expect a left nut from you in the mail just don't tell me where you got it i got to put both systems forward in order to put your uh mounting hardware in and that means basically all the weight is hanging off the front of this thing right now because it's empty oh hey that's not that hey the printer saved the day after a recent experience losing a ups at the office i just thought you know like why cheap out on this so i splurged and picked up two of these apc 1500 volt amp units here when i was mapping out all of my circuits at my house recently what i realized is that this room and everything in it is on a shared circuit with a whole bunch of other lights and outlets in my house so what i'm planning to do is have brian the electrician come up here and we're going to put a dedicated circuit in there for that gear meaning that it would be nice to have a little bit more capacity because when that happens i'd also like to go back to my plan of having the vr gaming rig that's down in the living room actually relocated up here so we can do like a super clean setup down there that is terrific no more tennis balls for me thanks apc help i'm stuck under a server oh okay now i get to attach these systems properly for the first time ever how fun is that i always like to get power cable management out of the way first they're just kind of bulky and it's nice to not have to deal with them when you're trying to do the finer stuff route both of the gaming desktops to the top ups and the server to the bottom one that means that the gaming desktops won't last as long in the event of a power outage but they're just quite frankly not as important this gives me a lot more time to react and get the server shut down correctly i know i said i was going to do everything really properly but if you think about it hot gluing a power bar to the inside of your server rack isn't really not properly like it's i'm pretty sure that's generally accepted best practice material right there one aspect of the cable management that i can't fix by tidying up the rack here is the fiber connection that comes in from my garage and the DisplayPort and optical usb connections that go out to the room over there so i made a new hole but i'm gonna have to run those again because right now ever since colin set it up they've just been coming in through this opening and i haven't been able to close it and the cat keeps going out there it's a real pain in the butt here's the other side of that hole i totally nailed lining it up now we make a new more bigger hole well it's hardly perfect but it is literally in the attic so i'm not going to stress about it too much the good news is it's a lot cleaner on this side so i'm just going to install one of those little like brush things here and then we're going to be good to go that is a lot better small update i am not bothering with the custom cables for everything it is three in the morning one thing that i'm not gonna cable manage properly is this ASUS router just because it's going to get replaced so i'm just going to plunk it right there but i mean it's all still looking you know pretty good from the front here i think we are ready for the big test go.com i'm on wi-fi see if the computers work oh well that's simple mine's up linustechtip.com form yes okay and then yours we're good keyboard working yes man i am just so stoked with how this turned out check this out magnet mounted dust filter oh yeah it's gonna stay tidy this time ladies and gentlemen of course managing your hardware is just half the battle and that's where today's sponsor pulseway comes in pulseway is a real-time remote monitoring and management software that allows you to manage systems and support users from anywhere so i signed up for their free account which allows you up to two systems for my home closet here and it means that i can just log in from anywhere on my phone or from a computer and see things like available memory processes that are running i can open up a terminal and execute commands and i can even run automation scripts it's pretty freaking sick and if you get into their more advanced tiers man you can do some amazing stuff we're talking full remote desktop access and this really cool new feature called auto remediation where you can basically set up workflows that will fix problems for you on their own so you can have something like actually we had an issue that this would have been perfect for a couple of years ago where the dropbox service kept randomly stopping on one of our servers that we needed to synchronize all of the scripts that we put on our teleprompter so with pulseways autoremediation you could just say hey if this service stops restart the service and hey fire off an email over to us so that we can keep an eye on how often this bloody thing is failing it's super cool don't take my word for it though try it out today for free at the link in the video description we've also teamed up with pulseway and Corsair to give away a pretty sick working from home slash gaming rig it's a Corsair i-140 with a core i7 9700k and NVIDIA rtx 2080 we'll have those full details down below as well thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video you might enjoy a recent one where Anthony and i made some upgrades to our server room at the office it's definitely worth a watch"}