1 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:05,600 everyone knows Mark Rober he has dashing 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:10,320 good looks helped design a Mars Rover single-handedly solved the ports 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:15,780 pirating pandemic and even has more subscribers than me but it turns out he 4 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:21,480 can make mistakes like the way that his team is handling storage we're talking 5 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:24,119 towers of external hard drives no real 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:28,920 backup and worst of all editing videos off of Dropbox thankfully he knew where 7 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:34,140 to come for help that's right boys and girls today we are building not one but 8 00:00:31,439 --> 00:00:39,120 two identical storage servers for the one the only Mark Rober and not only 9 00:00:37,620 --> 00:00:45,059 that but we're going to show you guys how with basically zero networking 10 00:00:42,059 --> 00:00:48,239 configuration no port forwarding any of 11 00:00:45,059 --> 00:00:50,340 that stuff these two epic machines are 12 00:00:48,239 --> 00:00:55,800 going to be able to remotely and securely sync to each other from miles 13 00:00:52,860 --> 00:01:00,600 away just like I'm gonna remotely sync this message from today's sponsor cable 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:05,040 mod worry no more about your graphics card going pyromaniac upgrade your 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:09,119 default power cable to Cable mods 12 volt high power basic replacement cable 16 00:01:07,020 --> 00:01:12,840 learn more at the end of the video when Mark first reached out he had already 17 00:01:10,979 --> 00:01:17,760 come up with actually a pretty reasonable plan to solve their issues to 18 00:01:15,479 --> 00:01:23,880 migrate off of the stacks of external hard drives they had specked out an OWC 19 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:26,759 Thunder Bay Flex 8 which is a Daz or 20 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:31,200 direct attached storage chassis that as the name implies directly connects to 21 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:36,960 the computer using a 40 gigabit Thunderbolt connection pen for remote 22 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:38,880 backup they chose a smaller Daz box from 23 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:44,040 that same company these kinds of storage docks are great for the solo 24 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:49,200 photographer or freelance video editor where only that one person needs to 25 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:53,640 access the data to their credit their current workflow only actually requires 26 00:01:51,659 --> 00:01:58,140 that one computer to be able to access the raw footage in order to generate low 27 00:01:56,340 --> 00:02:02,220 quality proxy footage for their remote editors once the project is complete 28 00:01:59,939 --> 00:02:06,540 that computer with the raw footage directly attached to it would run the 29 00:02:03,899 --> 00:02:10,020 final export for YouTube however just because that works for them today 30 00:02:07,979 --> 00:02:14,700 doesn't mean it's going to work for them in the future and given the flexibility 31 00:02:12,239 --> 00:02:21,420 and the upgrade ability that's afforded by a DIY Nas or a network attached 32 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:26,220 storage box like being able to access the footage on any computer on your 33 00:02:23,459 --> 00:02:30,120 network or I mean heck any computer in the world through a VPN but when you're 34 00:02:28,260 --> 00:02:34,620 spending this kind of money and you operate on a scale larger than one 35 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:36,599 person Nas is a no-brainer not to 36 00:02:34,620 --> 00:02:40,980 mention that whatever machine you end up plugging these storage boxes into is 37 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:48,060 going to be bogged down every time it has to sync to that off-site backup so 38 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:51,360 what do we build in well the capacity is 39 00:02:48,060 --> 00:02:55,019 easy to figure out he needs lots he 40 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,480 asked for 200 terabytes at each site but 41 00:02:55,019 --> 00:03:02,459 what about the form factor or the hardware platform originally we specced 42 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:08,099 out two options one based on AMD's Enterprise epic platform and one with 43 00:03:05,340 --> 00:03:12,659 their consumer grade ryzen Parts but it was immediately apparent that the cost 44 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:16,680 was going to be basically the same so epic was the obvious choice this is 45 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:21,360 going to be a really fun build because while Mark obviously wants to take a 46 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:24,900 spare no expense approach to keeping his data safe we also don't want to waste 47 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:29,940 his money meaning that this is a really Solutions oriented video and we tried to 48 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:36,720 keep it really practical so back when we specked this out the Epic 7302p a 16 49 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:42,540 core processor was available on eBay for around 380 dollars a piece now the 16 50 00:03:40,379 --> 00:03:47,220 course might not be the fastest on the market but they're frankly overkill for 51 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,920 a hard drive based storage workload like this and considering the platform 52 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:55,319 advantages like tons of PCIe lanes and 53 00:03:52,920 --> 00:04:00,480 registered ECC memory it's basically the perfect option and it's gotten even more 54 00:03:58,019 --> 00:04:05,580 perfect if you check eBay today you can pick these things up for just a hundred 55 00:04:03,060 --> 00:04:09,659 and fifty dollars used or with a used super micro motherboard for less than 56 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:13,500 five hundred dollars now some of you are probably freaking out right now like 57 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:18,959 seriously Linus you're putting a use CPU in a system for Mark Rober that's fair 58 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:21,720 that thought did occur to us but if you 59 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:26,180 pay attention to how used CPUs drop in price when each new generation comes out 60 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:31,500 they go and there's a reason for that it's 61 00:04:28,740 --> 00:04:35,340 because CPUs are damn near indestructible compared to 62 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:42,479 say a motherboard or a GPU so what happens 63 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:46,979 is you've got this glut of CPUs on the market with no boards to put them in you 64 00:04:45,060 --> 00:04:51,000 say indestructible can we cut to that clip of him destroying that ten thousand 65 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:56,400 dollar Zeon yes very funny except that's also a great way to prove my point 66 00:04:52,740 --> 00:04:58,860 because that ten thousand dollar CPU 67 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:03,600 that I ruined four years ago can now be found on the used market for as little 68 00:05:00,660 --> 00:05:09,120 as a thousand dollars or if you're willing to accept a qualification sample 69 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:11,580 full performance one as little as 350 70 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:18,660 bucks I mean for these kinds of prices Mark could literally have four spare 71 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:21,000 chips sitting on hand with needing only 72 00:05:18,660 --> 00:05:25,320 a screwdriver to swap them out for the price of one brand new one coming back 73 00:05:23,340 --> 00:05:30,600 to our motherboard unlike a lot of other data center platforms the Epic sp3 74 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:36,360 socket was used on three generations of chips Naples Rome and Milan that means 75 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:41,039 that there's still a metric boatload of boards that are available both new and 76 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:45,479 on the used Market but since motherboards aren't anywhere near as 77 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:51,840 reliable as CPUs we ordered a brand new pair of ASRock racks Rome d8-2t I love 78 00:05:49,860 --> 00:05:56,160 these boards we've got several of them in the office that have been Rock Solid 79 00:05:53,639 --> 00:06:00,900 and they have an absolutely comical amount of i o there's an ipmi port for 80 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,500 Remote Management dual onboard 10 gig networking meaning we don't even need a 81 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:11,639 separate network card although we'd have plenty of places to put them with seven 82 00:06:07,139 --> 00:06:14,280 PCIe gen 4x16 slots dual m.2 dual 83 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:18,900 oculink which is another PCIe by four each eight SATA ports through these 84 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:22,139 onboard mini SAS HD connectors and eight 85 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:25,199 channel memory all mounted to a standard 86 00:06:22,139 --> 00:06:26,940 ATX form factor PCB this thing is it's 87 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:31,319 better than the bee's knees it's the and for a b that's that's honey 88 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:38,520 right I think it'll fit in basically any case and it shows off the Monstrous 102 89 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:42,660 28 PCIe Lanes of our epic CPU quite 90 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:44,580 nicely next up is RAM Apparently one 91 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:50,520 moment please since we're using epic Micron sent over four 32 Gigabyte ddr4 92 00:06:48,539 --> 00:06:55,620 registered ECC modules that are running at 3200 Mega transfers per second RAM 93 00:06:52,979 --> 00:06:59,340 honestly speaking is also another place that you can save some money if you're 94 00:06:57,060 --> 00:07:03,240 doing this at home it's just that when we were looking the price cap wasn't 95 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:07,440 huge for this specific capacity and speed between brand new and used we're 96 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:11,220 talking a difference of about twenty dollars a stick now the experienced 97 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:15,199 among you may be raising your eyebrows a little bit at our RAM configuration on 98 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:22,680 the one hand we've got 128 gigs in a mass but on the other hand 99 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:25,560 we've kind of cheaped out by using only 100 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:31,020 four sticks on an eight channel platform we are giving up half of our total 101 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:35,819 potential memory bandwidth but believe it or not there's a pretty good reason 102 00:07:32,819 --> 00:07:38,220 for both of those things one is that 103 00:07:35,819 --> 00:07:42,300 okay say you're using a qnap small business Nas or something like that 104 00:07:39,599 --> 00:07:48,360 you're not going to use much RAM but we are using true Nas scale and since it 105 00:07:44,699 --> 00:07:50,759 uses ZFS it uses system memory as a read 106 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:55,199 cache for our most frequently accessed files this is called Arc or adaptive 107 00:07:53,340 --> 00:08:01,680 replacement cache and the rough guideline is to have one Gigabyte of Arc 108 00:07:57,780 --> 00:08:04,139 per terabyte of magnetic storage so we 109 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:09,960 are right in that sweet spot with 128 gigs as for why we only opted for a four 110 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,220 Channel configuration well if we were using NVMe storage we might need the 111 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:18,840 additional speed but because we're using hard drives uh I don't think our memory 112 00:08:16,979 --> 00:08:22,319 bandwidth is going to be an issue and this gives Mark plenty of room to 113 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:26,039 upgrade in the future all he has to do is double his memory and he could throw 114 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,340 twice as many hard drives into his system of course given Mark's budget 115 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:33,060 that is to say he didn't really provide one we just tried to be sensible we 116 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:37,080 could have easily put in twice as much memory today or four times or eight 117 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:41,520 times as much and when we're talking about a very read intensive application 118 00:08:39,419 --> 00:08:47,220 like video editing there would have been a clear benefit to that but there are 119 00:08:44,459 --> 00:08:52,680 other ways to skin this cat DFS has another trick up its sleeve called L2 or 120 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:57,360 level 2 Arc which is a second tier of read caching that can be set up using 121 00:08:54,420 --> 00:09:01,980 commodity ssds and that's exactly what we're going to do with this one terabyte 122 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:07,800 sabrin Gen 4 NVMe SSD now it's worth mentioning that you can go ludicrous 123 00:09:04,380 --> 00:09:11,160 overkill on level 2 Arc and put like 10 124 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:14,160 terabytes in a system like this but that 125 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,620 would actually use up some of your RAM 126 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:20,880 based art capacity to index it which could actually end up hurting your 127 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:25,920 performance also the level 2 Arc is filled up by stuff that gets evicted 128 00:09:22,740 --> 00:09:27,839 from the main Arc cache so it might not 129 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:32,279 even help until your system has actually been powered on for quite a while the 130 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:37,740 last thing to go on our board is our CPU Cooler and we've gone with a Noctua u14s 131 00:09:34,980 --> 00:09:42,300 TR4 sp3 we want this machine to be reliable in the long term so using an 132 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:46,740 AIO liquid cooler was out of the question we also want it to be quiet! 133 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:51,180 since one of them is going to live at Mark's house and the other is going to 134 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:56,700 be within earshot of people's desks at their office this one happens to meet 135 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:58,860 both of our requirements just like I am 136 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:04,640 required to tell you about the LTT screwdriver that is reliable and soon to 137 00:10:01,380 --> 00:10:04,640 be available and that's right 138 00:10:10,620 --> 00:10:16,200 um they're not oh these are like big chunky ones we're trying to put two fans 139 00:10:14,339 --> 00:10:19,500 on it that way in the unlikely event that one of them fails the machine will 140 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:23,519 still operate completely normally it's not to get extra cooling this is not a 141 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,640 particularly hot running chip this one has one of the big chunky ones on it 142 00:10:24,959 --> 00:10:31,080 what you left one of them on there no there are five big chunky ones the four 143 00:10:29,399 --> 00:10:34,140 that I have and the one that's on here holy 144 00:10:32,399 --> 00:10:39,180 okay let me go steal one more from another fan are you kidding me 145 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:43,140 what the are you just screwing with me at this 146 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:46,440 point I'm not like legitimately no legitimately I'm not screwing with you 147 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:51,959 so you're telling me one of these came out of the box with the wrong one on there there's no way 148 00:10:49,279 --> 00:10:54,779 no they must have gotten mixed up no the one that was still missing one was the 149 00:10:53,339 --> 00:10:59,640 one you brought me wait I have three fans oh my god oh this one I borrowed it 150 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:03,779 from that's the closer color match is it yeah 151 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:07,980 I don't think so I think you're wrong what yeah that's really close no no 152 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:12,959 that's wrong this is a closer one no way oh the brownies no way it's not even 153 00:11:10,019 --> 00:11:16,920 close okay why the hell was this one outside or something no they just are 154 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:21,180 all over the place remember when I said that this thing is gonna live at Mark's 155 00:11:18,779 --> 00:11:25,920 house obviously he doesn't have a server rack at his house 156 00:11:22,980 --> 00:11:30,240 kind of crazy person would have a server Rack in their house especially a pink 157 00:11:27,839 --> 00:11:35,760 one that means that building this into a rack mount chassis isn't necessarily the 158 00:11:33,180 --> 00:11:41,820 best option this time around typically for a high capacity storage machine like 159 00:11:38,459 --> 00:11:44,279 this you want a rack mount since regular 160 00:11:41,820 --> 00:11:50,579 Tower cases just don't have enough Drive Bays anymore but if you're a long time 161 00:11:47,459 --> 00:11:52,260 Watcher you might remember one that does 162 00:11:50,579 --> 00:12:00,680 ah yeah the fractal Define R7 XL is back which 163 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:06,240 with its optional Drive Bays can house 18 hard drives which is plenty for the 164 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:11,399 12 we're putting in today and for them to add another six down the road of 165 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:15,420 course by default since most people are not going to put a ton of hard drives in 166 00:12:12,660 --> 00:12:19,740 here it only holds four or three and a half inch drives but we've converted it 167 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:25,260 just by moving this plate right here from the back up to the front into what 168 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,579 fractal calls storage layout it's been a 169 00:12:25,260 --> 00:12:31,019 little while since I've done this but basically you've got this slide and this 170 00:12:28,980 --> 00:12:36,899 nubbin and those hooking on the other side there okay and then you got a screw 171 00:12:34,860 --> 00:12:41,399 that goes in here there you go and it gets supported by this little tab so I 172 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:45,120 mean it's not amazing but what are your other options for cases that okay hold 173 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:49,440 this many hard drives these are not sticking into the nub and thing every 174 00:12:47,220 --> 00:12:52,260 mounting mechanism is great to do once now I'm not going to do it because we're 175 00:12:51,060 --> 00:12:57,000 going to pull all these drives out for shipping anyway but Mark or someone from 176 00:12:54,959 --> 00:13:01,040 Mark's team more realistically once it arrives I would also wow that's heavy 177 00:12:59,820 --> 00:13:05,760 okay like you to put the second screw into 178 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:10,500 each drive right here that's just gonna snug this up make sure that this little 179 00:13:08,339 --> 00:13:15,300 nubbing stays in place and ensure that these drives don't just suddenly go and 180 00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:18,779 fall or anything like that that would be bad 181 00:13:16,860 --> 00:13:23,220 one thing we are putting the work into though is putting all of these silicone 182 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:27,899 grommets on the hard drive trays this gives them a nice little 183 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:31,019 anti-vibrational Cloud to sit on and while you're not going to kill a hard 184 00:13:28,980 --> 00:13:35,639 drive by moving it around we had hard drives and laptops for literal decades 185 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:40,980 it's pretty well documented that any excess vibration is pretty bad for them 186 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:44,639 the other benefit is this keeps the drives which have moving Parts in them 187 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:48,899 of course from transferring their vibrational noise to the case and 188 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:52,200 causing it to Rattle which again is a concern for the system because it will 189 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:58,320 be near where people are working or living it's like a storage brick in the 190 00:13:56,459 --> 00:14:03,540 front of the case good Lord oh yeah 191 00:14:01,079 --> 00:14:09,600 storage brick it's a good brick right there of course 192 00:14:06,420 --> 00:14:11,760 what good is a brick without a brain 193 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:16,800 let's go ahead and put our IO Shield face is a brain because the year is 194 00:14:14,180 --> 00:14:21,720 1998. got him try not to slice my hand open thing a 195 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:27,240 beauty right there I don't know what it is but compared to whatever the flavor 196 00:14:24,180 --> 00:14:30,180 du jour RGB Fiesta thing that's going on 197 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:34,380 in the gaming spaces workstation server class stuff 198 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:42,360 classic high performance look you know black PCB I sleep green PCB real 199 00:14:39,899 --> 00:14:47,480 hey hey what do you call the cold season when I'm making this video the winter of 200 00:14:44,579 --> 00:14:47,480 my disc content 201 00:14:48,959 --> 00:14:57,720 we got ourselves a computer here uh sort of we got to talk about Cooling 202 00:14:54,839 --> 00:15:03,600 very heavy hopefully yes oh easy time to put some fans in the 203 00:15:01,260 --> 00:15:07,380 front just use the stock ones stock ones yeah yeah we'll use the nachos for the 204 00:15:05,639 --> 00:15:11,880 top what where would I like to put my fan for it 205 00:15:10,079 --> 00:15:15,839 to have all of its airflow blocked by this wall of hard drives I could put it 206 00:15:14,220 --> 00:15:18,779 here or here 207 00:15:17,519 --> 00:15:24,060 we're here there's not going to be a GPU in this 208 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:25,740 system at least not now well no he could 209 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:31,139 put a GPU in it in the future if you wanted to you know pass through a GPU to 210 00:15:28,139 --> 00:15:32,579 a a Plex VM or something like that but 211 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:38,160 you said he wasn't doing no he's not going to do any of that but I am going to put the fans in such a 212 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,760 place that they would deliver fresh air flow to a GPU or accelerator card or any 213 00:15:40,620 --> 00:15:45,779 other kind of thing you might want to put in here I'm modifying the HP I'm 214 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:49,199 putting some coolant on here this is a little big 215 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:53,100 that's a little small this is fine this is fine yeah just put that in there it's 216 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:56,579 so cute realistically a card like this which we haven't actually talked about 217 00:15:54,540 --> 00:16:00,959 yet but we need because our motherboard only supports eight say the hard drives 218 00:15:58,980 --> 00:16:05,699 out of the box ten oh well whatever that's still not 16 or 18 or whatever 219 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:10,860 this can support the point is we need to add some more SATA ports this is an HBA 220 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:15,300 host bus adapter and it's kind of designed to get passive airflow from the 221 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:19,740 server fans that are way over here somewhere right now it's got nothing so 222 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:23,760 we need to add something to this and I mean that's better than nothing to be 223 00:16:21,420 --> 00:16:27,480 fair it would it'll probably be fine um we're just doing it just in case I 224 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:32,220 think it's time for us to talk power supply we could have gone with something 225 00:16:30,420 --> 00:16:39,779 redundant in fact there are some really cool ATX dual unit power supplies these 226 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:42,800 days but it's not quiet so we've opted 227 00:16:39,779 --> 00:16:46,440 for the second best thing this excellent 228 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:50,160 seasonic Prime Platinum 1300 watt power 229 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:54,300 supply did we need 1300 Watts the answer 230 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:57,779 is no but the 1300 watt has native 231 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:59,940 support for 16 SATA power connectors and 232 00:16:57,779 --> 00:17:05,160 while we could have adapted something else or even used splitters 233 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:08,220 particularly for SATA using Splitters is not recommended because of the tiny 234 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:12,660 little pins if you draw too much current over them they melt and that's bad this 235 00:17:11,339 --> 00:17:17,640 is a machine that's intended to be operated continuously for years on end I 236 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:23,400 mean we don't know how long he's going to keep it nothing would stop him from running this for like I don't know 10 237 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:27,540 years as long as he replaces hard drives as they fail so we don't want to take 238 00:17:25,140 --> 00:17:31,320 any chances I didn't have four of the same size zip tie so there's two 239 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:35,520 different size zip ties but it's mint okay 240 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:38,820 I mean it's not going anywhere no it's not you might be wondering how this HBA 241 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:42,900 is going to plug into our hard drives because that doesn't look anything like 242 00:17:40,740 --> 00:17:47,940 the port on a hard drive so we have to use these mini SAS HD that's the 243 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:51,419 connector on the HBA to four SATA connectors and then we can plug directly 244 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:54,960 in no problem like Linus mentioned before the motherboard actually has two 245 00:17:53,220 --> 00:17:58,440 of these mini SAS HD connectors which means eight of our 12 hard drives are 246 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:03,360 already covered so this HPA is only going to be used on one port now you can 247 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:07,200 buy ones that are cheaper with less ports this is a 16i and they make an 8i 248 00:18:05,820 --> 00:18:11,100 and I think some other companies might even make a 4i which would be just one 249 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:14,700 connector it's just that we wanted to set it up for future expansion even in 250 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:19,380 the situation where he went well beyond the capacity of this case and switched 251 00:18:16,559 --> 00:18:23,760 to like a rack mount chassis this HBA is still gonna work and he has enough ports 252 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:27,120 for another 12 drives on here you just slide it on in there's no graphics card 253 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:30,840 because it's a server so we can put this right in the top slot like that it's 254 00:18:28,919 --> 00:18:34,380 pretty cute right aside from like an hour of cable management the last thing 255 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:38,280 this system them needs is boot drives we're going to be using a pair of 256 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:43,500 micron's 5400 Pro Series drives these are like Data Center Grade SATA ssds 257 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:47,400 they're honestly Overkill and probably more expensive than I would have spent 258 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:51,000 on boot drives but Micron sent them for the project so not a big deal and these 259 00:18:49,020 --> 00:18:55,740 are going to last gosh dang pretty much forever true Nas like doesn't really 260 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:59,100 write a whole lot to the boot drives you know you're talking like the 261 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:03,539 configuration and some you know some statistics and like logs and stuff so 262 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:07,260 you could probably run it on a USB if you had to I wouldn't recommend that but 263 00:19:04,980 --> 00:19:13,320 you could so these are super super Overkill Hey look it's working okay 264 00:19:10,559 --> 00:19:18,360 let's see if all of our Drive these just because these are new drives 265 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:20,520 okay we got one two three four five six 266 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:25,260 seven eight nine ten eleven twelve beautiful where are our boot drives 267 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:31,140 there are some weird stipulations on this board despite it having a bajillion 268 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,760 i o some of them are shared I think Slot 269 00:19:31,140 --> 00:19:37,799 2 which is either the second from the bottom or the second from the top is 270 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:40,320 shared with like the m.2 these ports the 271 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:43,620 oculink ports so depending on there's like a little jumper you can move around 272 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:46,919 some of the things get disabled I suspect that that's what the problem is 273 00:19:45,059 --> 00:19:50,940 right now so I just got to check the motherboard manual and see we can see 274 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:56,100 from this jumper chart that said F4 underscore seven so four to seven does 275 00:19:53,340 --> 00:20:00,059 get disabled in some circumstances and four to seven is the bottom one 276 00:19:58,140 --> 00:20:03,840 which is what our boot drives are plugged into so I was right we're good 277 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:07,320 we just need to move this jumper the x's mean that it's disabled uh we have two 278 00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:11,460 m.2 slots so we don't have to worry about our m.2 because this m.2 slot is 279 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:16,380 always on actually the only thing we need to worry about is the SATA and 280 00:20:13,740 --> 00:20:19,980 probably that PCIe slot so I think I'm going to put it in this configuration 281 00:20:17,580 --> 00:20:23,820 because that means we get 8X on the PCIe slot that other m.2 is going to work and 282 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:28,440 our SATA work I don't think Mark is ever going to want to use oculink for 283 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:31,620 anything and I I would suspect if anything they might want to use that 284 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:35,340 PCIe slot maybe they won't use it I don't know I'm just going to put in that config and 285 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:39,299 you know don't call me this guy is already in the correct position we just 286 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:44,160 need to move the right hand one over one pin well cool and now 287 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:48,539 our boot Drive should work the system's booted up and we've got true Nas scale 288 00:20:45,780 --> 00:20:53,340 installed now we can set up our array because this is you know it's you know 289 00:20:51,660 --> 00:20:56,160 Mission critical data they don't want to lose this stuff this is already going to 290 00:20:54,660 --> 00:20:59,460 have an off-site backup we're going to set it up in a pretty safe configuration 291 00:20:57,780 --> 00:21:04,080 but one that is still going to be very performant in our experience with ZFS 292 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:07,980 usually the best option to get good sequential and random performance 293 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:11,460 sequential being big video clips and whatnot and random kind of being small 294 00:21:09,780 --> 00:21:15,120 text files or if you have lots of photos you're copying all those at once is to 295 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:18,240 use a vdev size of six which works great with our 12 drives however because 296 00:21:16,740 --> 00:21:22,020 they're hard drives we do need to have some sort of protection for that array 297 00:21:19,860 --> 00:21:26,520 they are at some point going to fail it's it's a for sure thing so we're 298 00:21:24,539 --> 00:21:30,960 going to use two of those six drives as parity data that means in each of those 299 00:21:28,679 --> 00:21:33,960 pools of six we can lose two drives before our data is at Jeopardy which 300 00:21:32,940 --> 00:21:38,280 means we're going to lose a little bit of capacity I think that brings us from 301 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:43,860 240 terabytes because these are 20 terabyte drives down to 160 or something 302 00:21:41,039 --> 00:21:46,620 it's a pretty essential loss but but it's not as substantial as losing 303 00:21:45,419 --> 00:21:52,440 everything because you didn't have enough parity drives so it's very important to set up your array in a safe 304 00:21:50,039 --> 00:21:58,740 configuration like this so let's just do that we'll pick six drives one two three 305 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:59,760 four five six I suspect true Nas is 306 00:21:58,740 --> 00:22:03,600 actually going to automatically do this yeah look at that raid Z2 it it picked 307 00:22:01,919 --> 00:22:06,419 for us this is what you're doing you don't have a choice and then we'll just 308 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:11,280 hit repeat because we can make an additional one that's going to give us a formatted capacity of about 150 309 00:22:09,780 --> 00:22:15,780 terabytes also before we're done here we're going to add our level 2 Arc you 310 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:19,860 can see there's a cache type of edev so we'll just add that select our one 311 00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:23,400 terabyte NVMe drive and plop it on there there are a few more steps we still have 312 00:22:21,419 --> 00:22:26,700 to do I want to set up email alerts so if you know a drive were to die they 313 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:30,120 actually know it doesn't tell you what to go hey my drive's dead you have to 314 00:22:28,740 --> 00:22:33,179 get an email for that we're also going to have to set up a data set some user 315 00:22:31,919 --> 00:22:37,740 accounts so they can actually read the data off of it we're gonna have to set up the software for our remote sync 316 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,440 which is called tailscale and then set up the sync process but we're going to 317 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:47,039 do all that when we're on the phone with Mark also we said we were going to build two of these today that was fake news uh 318 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:51,059 we already built the first one it was probably like six nine might even been a 319 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:54,659 year ago that we built this thing and shipped it to Mark's team because we 320 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:59,700 don't actually need both of them to build on camera this this way we actually get to do the sync remotely 321 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:03,120 it's already with them all the way in Los Angeles we're up here in Vancouver 322 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:06,900 so this will be an even better demo for thousands of miles away there are a few 323 00:23:05,220 --> 00:23:11,220 things we need to finalize before we actually ship the machine but we've got 324 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:16,860 it working enough now that we're ready to hear from its new owner and do a live 325 00:23:14,580 --> 00:23:23,220 demonstration where we blow Mark's mind with an automatic scheduled backup 326 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:25,260 across this unassuming black wire over 327 00:23:23,220 --> 00:23:31,520 hundreds of miles we're recording good audio for you over here what up oh hi 328 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:34,140 Mark oh hi Mark oh 329 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:38,820 God damn it so how's the Naz treating you yeah the Nas is amazing and then I 330 00:23:36,659 --> 00:23:41,760 also love the idea too because we're gonna do a second one that's like at 331 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:47,240 another location so then we're like really really I have no idea what you're 332 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:50,520 talking about you don't say is that it 333 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:52,679 no way thank you for sharing your future 334 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:56,580 plans with me yeah maybe they didn't brief you too 335 00:23:54,480 --> 00:24:01,320 much on this but um that's what we're doing today oh really yeah we're gonna 336 00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:06,780 do an off-site backup and you are going to sleep so much easier at night knowing 337 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:11,940 that every night everything that you ingest to your main editing Nas which 338 00:24:09,299 --> 00:24:15,720 can be used by any of his editors both local remote whatever if Mark just wants 339 00:24:13,980 --> 00:24:21,360 to check on something everything that he dumps on there is going to be replicated 340 00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:24,600 to this one so that in the event uh 341 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,580 of a fire or other disaster the data 342 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:31,919 won't be lost because the hardware has a value sure in thousands of dollars 343 00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:34,500 what's the data worth to you mark twenty 344 00:24:31,919 --> 00:24:39,480 dollars minimum just kidding per kilobytes Priceless it's Priceless and 345 00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:44,280 that is the punch line years it's like it's the peace of mind even just having 346 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:47,700 the mass I wish I I should go grab it but I'll send you a b-roll shot of it 347 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:52,860 but like it was stored on these little Western Digital hard drives into 348 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:57,900 Tupperware in my freaking closet everything I own is in a Nast here and 349 00:24:55,440 --> 00:25:01,860 then now if we have a fire here knowing that it's backed up a second physical 350 00:24:59,159 --> 00:25:06,780 location knock on whatever a game changer absolute Game 351 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:11,280 Changer do you have any regrets not going with a Das because like I gotta I 352 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:17,220 Gotta Give Them credit they did the research like your plan was not stupid 353 00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:18,960 it was like the Mac plan no I think it's 354 00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:23,039 working well for us I think the other thing that was different that kind of 355 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,340 was something we had to wrap our head around 356 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:31,200 um was that we don't necessarily have like a bunch of editors in here working 357 00:25:28,140 --> 00:25:32,520 physically in like on site right where 358 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:36,240 you need a network that we're all connected to Ethernet we don't have a 359 00:25:34,620 --> 00:25:39,480 lot of editors first of all but second of all like we just kind of put it on 360 00:25:37,679 --> 00:25:44,400 proxies on Dropbox that's kind of our workflow our main need was just like a 361 00:25:41,940 --> 00:25:48,779 one Central Computer that had the raws on it that stored it all that when it's 362 00:25:46,140 --> 00:25:53,100 time to export the video you know we all work on proxies then we just all we we 363 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:58,080 remote into that and Export it from that computer so yeah it's working amazingly 364 00:25:55,380 --> 00:26:02,880 it's the freaking best it's just the best and it's something we wouldn't have 365 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,840 been able to figure out our own at all and our solution was going to be a lot 366 00:26:05,340 --> 00:26:10,140 more expensive than the one you guys proposed so you were able to like look 367 00:26:08,460 --> 00:26:13,620 at what our actual needs were and being like look you don't need the Ferrari to 368 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:17,580 go to the grocery store you know you just need for what you guys need this is 369 00:26:15,539 --> 00:26:20,580 what you what the perfect like solution would be just one of those things where 370 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:24,480 just like having this because this is what we are we're cut we make videos 371 00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:29,159 this is our core product right so it's like our our Fort Knox for everything 372 00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:34,020 just didn't even have a lock on it and now it's actually organized and locked 373 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:37,620 and I can sleep at night so you're probably gonna go back and actually use 374 00:26:35,940 --> 00:26:43,860 this footage like very rarely but it's there yeah that's 375 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:45,059 right it's there but we just had this 376 00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:50,940 situation we're getting a bunch of our videos translated and we had to we used 377 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:53,640 this like because we had to go back and 378 00:26:50,940 --> 00:26:57,840 like get the stems and stuff and no if we didn't have the server like that made 379 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:02,760 our lives infinitely easier we went back like 40 videos right that's awesome I'm 380 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:10,559 so glad so we are just about set up here to demo the off-site backup capabilities 381 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,179 um Jake we're gonna live try to sync the 382 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:17,220 machine that's with you which is thousands of miles away from us up here 383 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:22,380 in Vancouver to this machine right here and hopefully it'll just work it all 384 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:27,299 rests on this little cable right here this also means that you'll be in 385 00:27:24,659 --> 00:27:31,080 possession of my entire back catalog of footage so you better not start like a 386 00:27:28,919 --> 00:27:35,580 tick tock and bootlegging all my videos Linus 387 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:40,380 I mean you you signed the end user license agreement right 388 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:43,039 the privacy policy did you read it this 389 00:27:40,380 --> 00:27:48,200 was your end game all along curse you you're only one of them you are just one 390 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:53,460 gear in this machine this is exciting so how long will it 391 00:27:51,419 --> 00:27:59,520 take because I think we have like you have a hundred terabytes it's gonna take 392 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:01,980 like like a week yeah the first goal 393 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:05,340 will take you know however I mean you've got one gig connection there we'll 394 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:10,140 probably set it to run it like half that speed so it doesn't just destroy your internet yeah so you don't go to like 395 00:28:08,220 --> 00:28:15,299 upload a video yeah what's going on why does Google 396 00:28:12,299 --> 00:28:17,220 suck so probably like a week or two and 397 00:28:15,299 --> 00:28:22,380 then once that's done every subsequent sync it only copies the that extra 398 00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:26,700 little bit Yeah so it's a lot faster what's really cool about this is that in 399 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:32,940 the event that you guys were to suffer from some kind 400 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:34,919 of a cryptographic attack right like a 401 00:28:32,940 --> 00:28:38,820 ransomware there's really Advanced ransomwares out there that will go and 402 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:44,100 they will start encrypting everything even on network attached drives that are 403 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:48,000 accessible to the infected machine so because we're using a technology called 404 00:28:46,140 --> 00:28:53,700 snapshotting where it will actually retain an old 405 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,260 non-encrypted copy on that remote server 406 00:28:53,700 --> 00:29:00,419 theoretically hahaha you will be able to go back in 407 00:28:58,020 --> 00:29:03,659 time kind of like Apple Time Machine and restore it to a state before it was 408 00:29:02,580 --> 00:29:08,520 encrypted and it'll be super inconvenient and it'll suck in fact it 409 00:29:06,539 --> 00:29:12,960 might even be faster to literally get in the car and sneaker net that other 410 00:29:10,860 --> 00:29:16,919 machine back into the office so you can not lose production time compared to you 411 00:29:15,539 --> 00:29:21,419 know copying it back over or whatever but you'll have it 412 00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:25,260 which is better because so I see so when you guys ship it to us it'll already 413 00:29:22,620 --> 00:29:29,279 have all the stuff on it huh uh it will sort of so it'll have everything on it 414 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,700 but we're gonna pull all the hard drives out for safety during shipping because 415 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:37,020 they can be quite sensitive we want to ship them in a proper hard drive 416 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:40,200 shipping container so theoretically and we might need to give you a little you 417 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:43,440 know 15 minutes of remote help with it or whatever but theoretically we already 418 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:47,159 did this once remember yeah okay so you'll take those drives you'll slam 419 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:50,700 them into this machine and everything will just pick up I'm truly just 420 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:54,360 something in my brain it's just like it's just so excited to get this peace 421 00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:57,960 of mind because that's what this is this is like insurance and peace of mind and 422 00:29:56,399 --> 00:30:02,279 something that's been nagging on me forever every time I open the freaking 423 00:29:59,820 --> 00:30:08,460 closet and see that pile of hard drive so okay in theory uh it's running now 424 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:13,980 hey look at that we're getting about 40 megabytes a second and I think you said 425 00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:16,320 too we can set it on schedules where hey 426 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:21,960 just do it after 9 00 PM or something right yeah totally and another thing you 427 00:30:18,779 --> 00:30:23,340 can do 2 actually is if it's not too 428 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:28,799 much of a trek between your two locations you could bring it on site do 429 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:35,039 the first sync at full gigabit or even I don't know okay so at ball and speeds 430 00:30:32,399 --> 00:30:39,059 and then you can go and take the other one off site after the fact this is 431 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:42,720 awesome dude we've already uh we've actually already transferred two 432 00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:48,659 gigabytes here really I just I was gonna say like two two gigabytes that's like 433 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:52,919 my first probably 12 videos when I was filming I think I said camera I think 434 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,220 this whole project is six gigs do you remember it was called like watermelon 435 00:30:54,360 --> 00:31:01,200 smoothie or something oh yeah yeah I know the watermelon smoothie it's a 436 00:30:58,020 --> 00:31:03,299 classic it gets baby Mark I know Still 437 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:07,260 rocking the backwards cap though show up to that last picnic of the summer time 438 00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:15,360 like a boss and all you're gonna need is a watermelon a coat hanger and a drill 439 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:18,600 like a boss wow that sideway that 440 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,760 sideways gangster drill movement that's 441 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:23,580 still cool I still stand behind that drill movement well this is a quick 442 00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:29,340 video we can just watch the whole thing yeah it is kind of short did you clean the coat hanger before you used it for 443 00:31:27,179 --> 00:31:35,399 this have you re-uploaded I didn't have you re-uploaded this as a 444 00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:38,220 short yet no I should you should how 445 00:31:35,399 --> 00:31:44,899 long is this video like two minutes yeah no minute and 42. oh this could then no 446 00:31:41,159 --> 00:31:48,659 offense but uh there's some dead air 447 00:31:44,899 --> 00:31:51,120 again you picked an early folder to look 448 00:31:48,659 --> 00:31:55,799 at dude I'll put this on me no this is great you have an age today I swear yeah 449 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:59,520 I like the part where the watermelon juice goes in and then out and then in 450 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:03,840 and then out yeah I still sanitary I still stand behind that barfing 451 00:32:01,140 --> 00:32:08,279 watermelon scene so I think that's it you have a meeting in one minute so we 452 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:13,679 got that resolved just in time thank goodness timing enjoy the new Nas ziz 453 00:32:11,340 --> 00:32:18,240 you guys are legends eternally grateful thank you so much you 454 00:32:16,020 --> 00:32:23,460 make it so I can sleep at night now it's time to rip this whole thing apart pack 455 00:32:21,419 --> 00:32:27,960 it up ship it and tell you about our sponsor cable mod 456 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:32,179 you're still using that ugly space consuming 12 volt high power adapter 457 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