WEBVTT 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:05.600 everyone knows Mark Rober he has dashing 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:10.320 good looks helped design a Mars Rover single-handedly solved the ports 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:15.780 pirating pandemic and even has more subscribers than me but it turns out he 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:21.480 can make mistakes like the way that his team is handling storage we're talking 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:24.119 towers of external hard drives no real 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:28.920 backup and worst of all editing videos off of Dropbox thankfully he knew where 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 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:39.120 two identical storage servers for the one the only Mark Rober and not only 00:00:37.620 --> 00:00:45.059 that but we're going to show you guys how with basically zero networking 00:00:42.059 --> 00:00:48.239 configuration no port forwarding any of 00:00:45.059 --> 00:00:50.340 that stuff these two epic machines are 00:00:48.239 --> 00:00:55.800 going to be able to remotely and securely sync to each other from miles 00:00:52.860 --> 00:01:00.600 away just like I'm gonna remotely sync this message from today's sponsor cable 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:05.040 mod worry no more about your graphics card going pyromaniac upgrade your 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:09.119 default power cable to Cable mods 12 volt high power basic replacement cable 00:01:07.020 --> 00:01:12.840 learn more at the end of the video when Mark first reached out he had already 00:01:10.979 --> 00:01:17.760 come up with actually a pretty reasonable plan to solve their issues to 00:01:15.479 --> 00:01:23.880 migrate off of the stacks of external hard drives they had specked out an OWC 00:01:20.580 --> 00:01:26.759 Thunder Bay Flex 8 which is a Daz or 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:31.200 direct attached storage chassis that as the name implies directly connects to 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:36.960 the computer using a 40 gigabit Thunderbolt connection pen for remote 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:38.880 backup they chose a smaller Daz box from 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:44.040 that same company these kinds of storage docks are great for the solo 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:49.200 photographer or freelance video editor where only that one person needs to 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:53.640 access the data to their credit their current workflow only actually requires 00:01:51.659 --> 00:01:58.140 that one computer to be able to access the raw footage in order to generate low 00:01:56.340 --> 00:02:02.220 quality proxy footage for their remote editors once the project is complete 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:06.540 that computer with the raw footage directly attached to it would run the 00:02:03.899 --> 00:02:10.020 final export for YouTube however just because that works for them today 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 00:02:12.239 --> 00:02:21.420 and the upgrade ability that's afforded by a DIY Nas or a network attached 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:26.220 storage box like being able to access the footage on any computer on your 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 00:02:28.260 --> 00:02:34.620 spending this kind of money and you operate on a scale larger than one 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:36.599 person Nas is a no-brainer not to 00:02:34.620 --> 00:02:40.980 mention that whatever machine you end up plugging these storage boxes into is 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 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:51.360 what do we build in well the capacity is 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:55.019 easy to figure out he needs lots he 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:57.480 asked for 200 terabytes at each site but 00:02:55.019 --> 00:03:02.459 what about the form factor or the hardware platform originally we specced 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:08.099 out two options one based on AMD's Enterprise epic platform and one with 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:12.659 their consumer grade ryzen Parts but it was immediately apparent that the cost 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:16.680 was going to be basically the same so epic was the obvious choice this is 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:21.360 going to be a really fun build because while Mark obviously wants to take a 00:03:19.200 --> 00:03:24.900 spare no expense approach to keeping his data safe we also don't want to waste 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:29.940 his money meaning that this is a really Solutions oriented video and we tried to 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:36.720 keep it really practical so back when we specked this out the Epic 7302p a 16 00:03:34.140 --> 00:03:42.540 core processor was available on eBay for around 380 dollars a piece now the 16 00:03:40.379 --> 00:03:47.220 course might not be the fastest on the market but they're frankly overkill for 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:52.920 a hard drive based storage workload like this and considering the platform 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:55.319 advantages like tons of PCIe lanes and 00:03:52.920 --> 00:04:00.480 registered ECC memory it's basically the perfect option and it's gotten even more 00:03:58.019 --> 00:04:05.580 perfect if you check eBay today you can pick these things up for just a hundred 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:09.659 and fifty dollars used or with a used super micro motherboard for less than 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:13.500 five hundred dollars now some of you are probably freaking out right now like 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 00:04:15.540 --> 00:04:21.720 that thought did occur to us but if you 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:26.180 pay attention to how used CPUs drop in price when each new generation comes out 00:04:23.940 --> 00:04:31.500 they go and there's a reason for that it's 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:35.340 because CPUs are damn near indestructible compared to 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:42.479 say a motherboard or a GPU so what happens 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 00:04:45.060 --> 00:04:51.000 say indestructible can we cut to that clip of him destroying that ten thousand 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:56.400 dollar Zeon yes very funny except that's also a great way to prove my point 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:58.860 because that ten thousand dollar CPU 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 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:09.120 as a thousand dollars or if you're willing to accept a qualification sample 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:11.580 full performance one as little as 350 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:18.660 bucks I mean for these kinds of prices Mark could literally have four spare 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:21.000 chips sitting on hand with needing only 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:25.320 a screwdriver to swap them out for the price of one brand new one coming back 00:05:23.340 --> 00:05:30.600 to our motherboard unlike a lot of other data center platforms the Epic sp3 00:05:28.020 --> 00:05:36.360 socket was used on three generations of chips Naples Rome and Milan that means 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:41.039 that there's still a metric boatload of boards that are available both new and 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:45.479 on the used Market but since motherboards aren't anywhere near as 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 00:05:49.860 --> 00:05:56.160 these boards we've got several of them in the office that have been Rock Solid 00:05:53.639 --> 00:06:00.900 and they have an absolutely comical amount of i o there's an ipmi port for 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:04.500 Remote Management dual onboard 10 gig networking meaning we don't even need a 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:11.639 separate network card although we'd have plenty of places to put them with seven 00:06:07.139 --> 00:06:14.280 PCIe gen 4x16 slots dual m.2 dual 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:18.900 oculink which is another PCIe by four each eight SATA ports through these 00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:22.139 onboard mini SAS HD connectors and eight 00:06:18.900 --> 00:06:25.199 channel memory all mounted to a standard 00:06:22.139 --> 00:06:26.940 ATX form factor PCB this thing is it's 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 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 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:42.660 28 PCIe Lanes of our epic CPU quite 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:44.580 nicely next up is RAM Apparently one 00:06:42.660 --> 00:06:50.520 moment please since we're using epic Micron sent over four 32 Gigabyte ddr4 00:06:48.539 --> 00:06:55.620 registered ECC modules that are running at 3200 Mega transfers per second RAM 00:06:52.979 --> 00:06:59.340 honestly speaking is also another place that you can save some money if you're 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 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:07.440 huge for this specific capacity and speed between brand new and used we're 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:11.220 talking a difference of about twenty dollars a stick now the experienced 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:15.199 among you may be raising your eyebrows a little bit at our RAM configuration on 00:07:13.380 --> 00:07:22.680 the one hand we've got 128 gigs in a mass but on the other hand 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:25.560 we've kind of cheaped out by using only 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:31.020 four sticks on an eight channel platform we are giving up half of our total 00:07:28.440 --> 00:07:35.819 potential memory bandwidth but believe it or not there's a pretty good reason 00:07:32.819 --> 00:07:38.220 for both of those things one is that 00:07:35.819 --> 00:07:42.300 okay say you're using a qnap small business Nas or something like that 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 00:07:44.699 --> 00:07:50.759 uses ZFS it uses system memory as a read 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:55.199 cache for our most frequently accessed files this is called Arc or adaptive 00:07:53.340 --> 00:08:01.680 replacement cache and the rough guideline is to have one Gigabyte of Arc 00:07:57.780 --> 00:08:04.139 per terabyte of magnetic storage so we 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 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:14.220 Channel configuration well if we were using NVMe storage we might need the 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:18.840 additional speed but because we're using hard drives uh I don't think our memory 00:08:16.979 --> 00:08:22.319 bandwidth is going to be an issue and this gives Mark plenty of room to 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 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:29.340 twice as many hard drives into his system of course given Mark's budget 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 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:37.080 could have easily put in twice as much memory today or four times or eight 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:41.520 times as much and when we're talking about a very read intensive application 00:08:39.419 --> 00:08:47.220 like video editing there would have been a clear benefit to that but there are 00:08:44.459 --> 00:08:52.680 other ways to skin this cat DFS has another trick up its sleeve called L2 or 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 00:08:54.420 --> 00:09:01.980 commodity ssds and that's exactly what we're going to do with this one terabyte 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:07.800 sabrin Gen 4 NVMe SSD now it's worth mentioning that you can go ludicrous 00:09:04.380 --> 00:09:11.160 overkill on level 2 Arc and put like 10 00:09:07.800 --> 00:09:14.160 terabytes in a system like this but that 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:16.620 would actually use up some of your RAM 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:20.880 based art capacity to index it which could actually end up hurting your 00:09:18.300 --> 00:09:25.920 performance also the level 2 Arc is filled up by stuff that gets evicted 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:27.839 from the main Arc cache so it might not 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:32.279 even help until your system has actually been powered on for quite a while the 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 00:09:34.980 --> 00:09:42.300 TR4 sp3 we want this machine to be reliable in the long term so using an 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:46.740 AIO liquid cooler was out of the question we also want it to be quiet! 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 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:56.700 be within earshot of people's desks at their office this one happens to meet 00:09:53.700 --> 00:09:58.860 both of our requirements just like I am 00:09:56.700 --> 00:10:04.640 required to tell you about the LTT screwdriver that is reliable and soon to 00:10:01.380 --> 00:10:04.640 be available and that's right 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 00:10:14.339 --> 00:10:19.500 on it that way in the unlikely event that one of them fails the machine will 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:23.519 still operate completely normally it's not to get extra cooling this is not a 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:26.640 particularly hot running chip this one has one of the big chunky ones on it 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 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:34.140 that I have and the one that's on here holy 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:39.180 okay let me go steal one more from another fan are you kidding me 00:10:37.560 --> 00:10:43.140 what the are you just screwing with me at this 00:10:40.920 --> 00:10:46.440 point I'm not like legitimately no legitimately I'm not screwing with you 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 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 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 00:10:58.560 --> 00:11:03.779 from that's the closer color match is it yeah 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 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 00:11:10.019 --> 00:11:16.920 close okay why the hell was this one outside or something no they just are 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 00:11:18.779 --> 00:11:25.920 house obviously he doesn't have a server rack at his house 00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:30.240 kind of crazy person would have a server Rack in their house especially a pink 00:11:27.839 --> 00:11:35.760 one that means that building this into a rack mount chassis isn't necessarily the 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:41.820 best option this time around typically for a high capacity storage machine like 00:11:38.459 --> 00:11:44.279 this you want a rack mount since regular 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 00:11:47.459 --> 00:11:52.260 Watcher you might remember one that does 00:11:50.579 --> 00:12:00.680 ah yeah the fractal Define R7 XL is back which 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:06.240 with its optional Drive Bays can house 18 hard drives which is plenty for the 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 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 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 00:12:17.880 --> 00:12:25.260 just by moving this plate right here from the back up to the front into what 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.579 fractal calls storage layout it's been a 00:12:25.260 --> 00:12:31.019 little while since I've done this but basically you've got this slide and this 00:12:28.980 --> 00:12:36.899 nubbin and those hooking on the other side there okay and then you got a screw 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 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:45.120 mean it's not amazing but what are your other options for cases that okay hold 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:49.440 this many hard drives these are not sticking into the nub and thing every 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 00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:57.000 going to pull all these drives out for shipping anyway but Mark or someone from 00:12:54.959 --> 00:13:01.040 Mark's team more realistically once it arrives I would also wow that's heavy 00:12:59.820 --> 00:13:05.760 okay like you to put the second screw into 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:10.500 each drive right here that's just gonna snug this up make sure that this little 00:13:08.339 --> 00:13:15.300 nubbing stays in place and ensure that these drives don't just suddenly go and 00:13:12.959 --> 00:13:18.779 fall or anything like that that would be bad 00:13:16.860 --> 00:13:23.220 one thing we are putting the work into though is putting all of these silicone 00:13:20.760 --> 00:13:27.899 grommets on the hard drive trays this gives them a nice little 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:31.019 anti-vibrational Cloud to sit on and while you're not going to kill a hard 00:13:28.980 --> 00:13:35.639 drive by moving it around we had hard drives and laptops for literal decades 00:13:33.300 --> 00:13:40.980 it's pretty well documented that any excess vibration is pretty bad for them 00:13:38.760 --> 00:13:44.639 the other benefit is this keeps the drives which have moving Parts in them 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:48.899 of course from transferring their vibrational noise to the case and 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:52.200 causing it to Rattle which again is a concern for the system because it will 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:58.320 be near where people are working or living it's like a storage brick in the 00:13:56.459 --> 00:14:03.540 front of the case good Lord oh yeah 00:14:01.079 --> 00:14:09.600 storage brick it's a good brick right there of course 00:14:06.420 --> 00:14:11.760 what good is a brick without a brain 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 00:14:14.180 --> 00:14:21.720 1998. got him try not to slice my hand open thing a 00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:27.240 beauty right there I don't know what it is but compared to whatever the flavor 00:14:24.180 --> 00:14:30.180 du jour RGB Fiesta thing that's going on 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:34.380 in the gaming spaces workstation server class stuff 00:14:32.040 --> 00:14:42.360 classic high performance look you know black PCB I sleep green PCB real 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 00:14:44.579 --> 00:14:47.480 my disc content 00:14:48.959 --> 00:14:57.720 we got ourselves a computer here uh sort of we got to talk about Cooling 00:14:54.839 --> 00:15:03.600 very heavy hopefully yes oh easy time to put some fans in the 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 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:11.880 top what where would I like to put my fan for it 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 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:18.779 here or here 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:24.060 we're here there's not going to be a GPU in this 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:25.740 system at least not now well no he could 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 00:15:28.139 --> 00:15:32.579 a a Plex VM or something like that but 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 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:41.760 place that they would deliver fresh air flow to a GPU or accelerator card or any 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 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:49.199 putting some coolant on here this is a little big 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 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:56.579 so cute realistically a card like this which we haven't actually talked about 00:15:54.540 --> 00:16:00.959 yet but we need because our motherboard only supports eight say the hard drives 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 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 00:16:08.160 --> 00:16:15.300 host bus adapter and it's kind of designed to get passive airflow from the 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:19.740 server fans that are way over here somewhere right now it's got nothing so 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 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 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:32.220 think it's time for us to talk power supply we could have gone with something 00:16:30.420 --> 00:16:39.779 redundant in fact there are some really cool ATX dual unit power supplies these 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:42.800 days but it's not quiet so we've opted 00:16:39.779 --> 00:16:46.440 for the second best thing this excellent 00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:50.160 seasonic Prime Platinum 1300 watt power 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:54.300 supply did we need 1300 Watts the answer 00:16:50.160 --> 00:16:57.779 is no but the 1300 watt has native 00:16:54.300 --> 00:16:59.940 support for 16 SATA power connectors and 00:16:57.779 --> 00:17:05.160 while we could have adapted something else or even used splitters 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:08.220 particularly for SATA using Splitters is not recommended because of the tiny 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 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:17.640 is a machine that's intended to be operated continuously for years on end I 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 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 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 00:17:29.280 --> 00:17:35.520 different size zip ties but it's mint okay 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 00:17:37.500 --> 00:17:42.900 is going to plug into our hard drives because that doesn't look anything like 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 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:51.419 connector on the HBA to four SATA connectors and then we can plug directly 00:17:49.620 --> 00:17:54.960 in no problem like Linus mentioned before the motherboard actually has two 00:17:53.220 --> 00:17:58.440 of these mini SAS HD connectors which means eight of our 12 hard drives are 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 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 00:18:05.820 --> 00:18:11.100 and I think some other companies might even make a 4i which would be just one 00:18:09.120 --> 00:18:14.700 connector it's just that we wanted to set it up for future expansion even in 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:19.380 the situation where he went well beyond the capacity of this case and switched 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 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 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 00:18:28.919 --> 00:18:34.380 pretty cute right aside from like an hour of cable management the last thing 00:18:32.520 --> 00:18:38.280 this system them needs is boot drives we're going to be using a pair of 00:18:35.520 --> 00:18:43.500 micron's 5400 Pro Series drives these are like Data Center Grade SATA ssds 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:47.400 they're honestly Overkill and probably more expensive than I would have spent 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 00:18:49.020 --> 00:18:55.740 are going to last gosh dang pretty much forever true Nas like doesn't really 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:59.100 write a whole lot to the boot drives you know you're talking like the 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:03.539 configuration and some you know some statistics and like logs and stuff so 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 00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:13.320 you could so these are super super Overkill Hey look it's working okay 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:18.360 let's see if all of our Drive these just because these are new drives 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:20.520 okay we got one two three four five six 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:25.260 seven eight nine ten eleven twelve beautiful where are our boot drives 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:31.140 there are some weird stipulations on this board despite it having a bajillion 00:19:27.600 --> 00:19:32.760 i o some of them are shared I think Slot 00:19:31.140 --> 00:19:37.799 2 which is either the second from the bottom or the second from the top is 00:19:34.320 --> 00:19:40.320 shared with like the m.2 these ports the 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:43.620 oculink ports so depending on there's like a little jumper you can move around 00:19:41.580 --> 00:19:46.919 some of the things get disabled I suspect that that's what the problem is 00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:50.940 right now so I just got to check the motherboard manual and see we can see 00:19:48.900 --> 00:19:56.100 from this jumper chart that said F4 underscore seven so four to seven does 00:19:53.340 --> 00:20:00.059 get disabled in some circumstances and four to seven is the bottom one 00:19:58.140 --> 00:20:03.840 which is what our boot drives are plugged into so I was right we're good 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 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 00:20:09.840 --> 00:20:16.380 always on actually the only thing we need to worry about is the SATA and 00:20:13.740 --> 00:20:19.980 probably that PCIe slot so I think I'm going to put it in this configuration 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 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 00:20:25.500 --> 00:20:31.620 anything and I I would suspect if anything they might want to use that 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 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:39.299 you know don't call me this guy is already in the correct position we just 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:44.160 need to move the right hand one over one pin well cool and now 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 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 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:56.160 Mission critical data they don't want to lose this stuff this is already going to 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 00:20:57.780 --> 00:21:04.080 but one that is still going to be very performant in our experience with ZFS 00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:07.980 usually the best option to get good sequential and random performance 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:11.460 sequential being big video clips and whatnot and random kind of being small 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 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:18.240 use a vdev size of six which works great with our 12 drives however because 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:22.020 they're hard drives we do need to have some sort of protection for that array 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 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 00:21:28.679 --> 00:21:33.960 pools of six we can lose two drives before our data is at Jeopardy which 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 00:21:36.120 --> 00:21:43.860 240 terabytes because these are 20 terabyte drives down to 160 or something 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:46.620 it's a pretty essential loss but but it's not as substantial as losing 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 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 00:21:55.500 --> 00:21:59.760 four five six I suspect true Nas is 00:21:58.740 --> 00:22:03.600 actually going to automatically do this yeah look at that raid Z2 it it picked 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:40.440 which is called tailscale and then set up the sync process but we're going to 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 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:51.059 we already built the first one it was probably like six nine might even been a 00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:54.659 year ago that we built this thing and shipped it to Mark's team because we 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 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 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 00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:11.220 things we need to finalize before we actually ship the machine but we've got 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 00:23:14.580 --> 00:23:23.220 demonstration where we blow Mark's mind with an automatic scheduled backup 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:25.260 across this unassuming black wire over 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:31.520 hundreds of miles we're recording good audio for you over here what up oh hi 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:34.140 Mark oh hi Mark oh 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 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 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:47.240 another location so then we're like really really I have no idea what you're 00:23:43.740 --> 00:23:50.520 talking about you don't say is that it 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:52.679 no way thank you for sharing your future 00:23:50.520 --> 00:23:56.580 plans with me yeah maybe they didn't brief you too 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 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 00:24:04.320 --> 00:24:11.940 that every night everything that you ingest to your main editing Nas which 00:24:09.299 --> 00:24:15.720 can be used by any of his editors both local remote whatever if Mark just wants 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:21.360 to check on something everything that he dumps on there is going to be replicated 00:24:17.940 --> 00:24:24.600 to this one so that in the event uh 00:24:21.360 --> 00:24:26.580 of a fire or other disaster the data 00:24:24.600 --> 00:24:31.919 won't be lost because the hardware has a value sure in thousands of dollars 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:34.500 what's the data worth to you mark twenty 00:24:31.919 --> 00:24:39.480 dollars minimum just kidding per kilobytes Priceless it's Priceless and 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 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 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:52.860 but like it was stored on these little Western Digital hard drives into 00:24:50.280 --> 00:24:57.900 Tupperware in my freaking closet everything I own is in a Nast here and 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 00:24:59.159 --> 00:25:06.780 location knock on whatever a game changer absolute Game 00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:11.280 Changer do you have any regrets not going with a Das because like I gotta I 00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:17.220 Gotta Give Them credit they did the research like your plan was not stupid 00:25:13.620 --> 00:25:18.960 it was like the Mac plan no I think it's 00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:23.039 working well for us I think the other thing that was different that kind of 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:26.340 was something we had to wrap our head around 00:25:24.120 --> 00:25:31.200 um was that we don't necessarily have like a bunch of editors in here working 00:25:28.140 --> 00:25:32.520 physically in like on site right where 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:36.240 you need a network that we're all connected to Ethernet we don't have a 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 00:25:37.679 --> 00:25:44.400 proxies on Dropbox that's kind of our workflow our main need was just like a 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 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 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:58.080 remote into that and Export it from that computer so yeah it's working amazingly 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 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 00:26:05.340 --> 00:26:10.140 more expensive than the one you guys proposed so you were able to like look 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 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 00:26:15.539 --> 00:26:20.580 what you what the perfect like solution would be just one of those things where 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:24.480 just like having this because this is what we are we're cut we make videos 00:26:22.140 --> 00:26:29.159 this is our core product right so it's like our our Fort Knox for everything 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 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:37.620 and I can sleep at night so you're probably gonna go back and actually use 00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:43.860 this footage like very rarely but it's there yeah that's 00:26:40.500 --> 00:26:45.059 right it's there but we just had this 00:26:43.860 --> 00:26:50.940 situation we're getting a bunch of our videos translated and we had to we used 00:26:47.940 --> 00:26:53.640 this like because we had to go back and 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 00:26:55.080 --> 00:27:02.760 our lives infinitely easier we went back like 40 videos right that's awesome I'm 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 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.179 um Jake we're gonna live try to sync the 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:17.220 machine that's with you which is thousands of miles away from us up here 00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:22.380 in Vancouver to this machine right here and hopefully it'll just work it all 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:27.299 rests on this little cable right here this also means that you'll be in 00:27:24.659 --> 00:27:31.080 possession of my entire back catalog of footage so you better not start like a 00:27:28.919 --> 00:27:35.580 tick tock and bootlegging all my videos Linus 00:27:32.600 --> 00:27:40.380 I mean you you signed the end user license agreement right 00:27:37.260 --> 00:27:43.039 the privacy policy did you read it this 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 00:27:46.320 --> 00:27:53.460 gear in this machine this is exciting so how long will it 00:27:51.419 --> 00:27:59.520 take because I think we have like you have a hundred terabytes it's gonna take 00:27:55.200 --> 00:28:01.980 like like a week yeah the first goal 00:27:59.520 --> 00:28:05.340 will take you know however I mean you've got one gig connection there we'll 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 00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:15.299 upload a video yeah what's going on why does Google 00:28:12.299 --> 00:28:17.220 suck so probably like a week or two and 00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:22.380 then once that's done every subsequent sync it only copies the that extra 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 00:28:24.840 --> 00:28:32.940 the event that you guys were to suffer from some kind 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:34.919 of a cryptographic attack right like a 00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:38.820 ransomware there's really Advanced ransomwares out there that will go and 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:44.100 they will start encrypting everything even on network attached drives that are 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:48.000 accessible to the infected machine so because we're using a technology called 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:53.700 snapshotting where it will actually retain an old 00:28:50.360 --> 00:28:55.260 non-encrypted copy on that remote server 00:28:53.700 --> 00:29:00.419 theoretically hahaha you will be able to go back in 00:28:58.020 --> 00:29:03.659 time kind of like Apple Time Machine and restore it to a state before it was 00:29:02.580 --> 00:29:08.520 encrypted and it'll be super inconvenient and it'll suck in fact it 00:29:06.539 --> 00:29:12.960 might even be faster to literally get in the car and sneaker net that other 00:29:10.860 --> 00:29:16.919 machine back into the office so you can not lose production time compared to you 00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:21.419 know copying it back over or whatever but you'll have it 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 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 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:32.700 but we're gonna pull all the hard drives out for safety during shipping because 00:29:31.080 --> 00:29:37.020 they can be quite sensitive we want to ship them in a proper hard drive 00:29:34.500 --> 00:29:40.200 shipping container so theoretically and we might need to give you a little you 00:29:38.520 --> 00:29:43.440 know 15 minutes of remote help with it or whatever but theoretically we already 00:29:41.760 --> 00:29:47.159 did this once remember yeah okay so you'll take those drives you'll slam 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:50.700 them into this machine and everything will just pick up I'm truly just 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 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 00:29:56.399 --> 00:30:02.279 something that's been nagging on me forever every time I open the freaking 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 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 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:16.320 too we can set it on schedules where hey 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:21.960 just do it after 9 00 PM or something right yeah totally and another thing you 00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:23.340 can do 2 actually is if it's not too 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:28.799 much of a trek between your two locations you could bring it on site do 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 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 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:42.720 awesome dude we've already uh we've actually already transferred two 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:48.659 gigabytes here really I just I was gonna say like two two gigabytes that's like 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:52.919 my first probably 12 videos when I was filming I think I said camera I think 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:56.220 this whole project is six gigs do you remember it was called like watermelon 00:30:54.360 --> 00:31:01.200 smoothie or something oh yeah yeah I know the watermelon smoothie it's a 00:30:58.020 --> 00:31:03.299 classic it gets baby Mark I know Still 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:07.260 rocking the backwards cap though show up to that last picnic of the summer time 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 00:31:11.100 --> 00:31:18.600 like a boss wow that sideway that 00:31:15.360 --> 00:31:20.760 sideways gangster drill movement that's 00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:23.580 still cool I still stand behind that drill movement well this is a quick 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 00:31:27.179 --> 00:31:35.399 this have you re-uploaded I didn't have you re-uploaded this as a 00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:38.220 short yet no I should you should how 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 00:31:41.159 --> 00:31:48.659 offense but uh there's some dead air 00:31:44.899 --> 00:31:51.120 again you picked an early folder to look 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 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:59.520 I like the part where the watermelon juice goes in and then out and then in 00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:03.840 and then out yeah I still sanitary I still stand behind that barfing 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 00:32:06.360 --> 00:32:13.679 got that resolved just in time thank goodness timing enjoy the new Nas ziz 00:32:11.340 --> 00:32:18.240 you guys are legends eternally grateful thank you so much you 00:32:16.020 --> 00:32:23.460 make it so I 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