Little Tech Shop of Horrors: Free Geek Vlog Part 1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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easy
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dude a Pacers as720 is a dual interface
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SSD with a USB 3.1 type-c connector rated at up to 540 mb per second read
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speed check out the link in the video description to learn more Welcome
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Friends to free geek Vancouver we got a couple of videos planned here but for
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this first one we're going to be taking you guys on a tour of what it looks like
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where they reduce reuse rebuild recycle and resell resell computers electronics
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and like they have everything here I got like 2.4 GHz a 2.11 b Wireless I got a
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Sony wman amfm TV is that a jam boox this thing was
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never any good a whole bin of circuit boards woo cuz why not so let's have a
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look around first off we have the Data Destruction station so this thing I
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don't actually know what this is called probably just a press I don't know it
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probably has a more technical name than that but oh well basically you just pull this thing down it punctures through
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your hard drive like what Linus has on display listen to
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this what's left of the platters inside
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so this is Monitor sorting land you can see we've got oh it's a 19-in VGA and
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DVI but how do we know it works so this is cool they've actually got a KVM setup
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here and then they've just got a test machine here that allows them to run the
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monitors for I think it is 30 minutes or
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something along those lines and then they can determine are they working are
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they not and decide whether they end up in the store here we have small
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dismantle and circuit board preparation basically what they do here is take things apart that are small so you have
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a lot of like motherboard batteries you have little motors for different things
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like hard drives you have magnetic coils for for different things and all this
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kind of stuff gets prepared because you're looting certain valuable things
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off of it and then circuit board preparation is for stuff that goes into
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here because these get recycled where they take out the gold and the platinum
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and all the valuable things off the board and make some money off of it to
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fund free geek this is PC dismantle land
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there's a few rules no lose side padels ever anywhere and I have definitely had
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this problem at our office so uh I totally get it so this is the pile of
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all the compu that we've actually dismantled most of today so you guys are
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going to be able to check that out in our Vlog we've got Nikki V taken apart
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okay not like that we are not barbarians Nikki ve uh so basically you sort
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everything into
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aluminum steel
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scrap copper
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CPUs check that out RAM circuit
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boards motherboards oh a f fence my
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fence oh thank you Dennis good job
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Dennis and Optical and whatever this is
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drives the Bui 230 so this is component
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disassembly you get stuff like routers Optical drives speakers whatever and
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then take them to this table over here where you can see this one's even
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partway through assembly this was our disassembly this was a tape drive which
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are actually pretty expensive but it's broken so it's getting taken apart take
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things out like the like the magnets and whatnot strip them down into raw
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materials where we have steel and plastic over there and then we have
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circuit boards up here which are taken for their copper gold or platinum or
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whatever and then Steel's just taken for raw steel here they're recycling by uh
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yeah straight up recycling I
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guess in here we've got memory land so this is where they sort and test all of
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the RAM from the disassembly station so you can see they've got this this is so
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cool this like wall mounted memory testing system that they got here ddr2
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and DDR3 and then they sorted into all
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the different working capacities and speeds this is actually more RAM than I
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have ever seen in one place anywhere in my life they have some cool stuff in
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here like they've got all these FB dims so this is older server memory um I mean
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check this out they've I remember these
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ocz Reaper Edition now with heat pipe cooling everything is so well organized
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and documented here it is so cool so there's like this awesome chart of like
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here's all the different types of RAM pretty much pretty much ever the blank
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spot for ddr4 I suspect they don't get a lot of scrap ddr4 uh so this is hard drive so RAM is
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right behind you lus just walked you guys through that one this is hard drive
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so they have these like custommade wooden hard drive holders which are
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actually pretty sick they use them at all their stations they kind of
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zombified their computer so they have SATA power and data coming out of the
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front so they can hook up as many drives as they want this station is the wiping
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station they run Derek's botin nuke and just wipe the drive so much that someone
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wouldn't realistically be able to very easily get the data off of it then it
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goes to blank drive so once it's done being wiped comes down here to blank
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there isn't that many blank ones right now there's just a 200 gig IDE then it
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goes up into in the installation station where they have the same kind of
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zombified computers with cables hanging out the front and they install Ubuntu
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right now they're thinking about moving to Mint I supported that move um so
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maybe they'll actually do that and then they install the same thing on all these
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drives so it's free open- source software which they support a lot cuz
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things that are cheap are good for them um and then these are prepped and ready
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to go to the system setup area we have
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what Taran and John are currently working on which is actually the final setup of well almost the final setup of
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one of the systems you take note of what's in it uh if it's actually
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functioning properly you do stuff like a stress test you make sure that it's clean you take note of how many slots
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are there for different things write down your name give the system a name
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whatnot and then that's basic QC it has
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one more round of QC right after that before it goes up and into the store
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what what what what what what no but
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seriously welcome to the thrift shop so this is where all the refurbished stuff
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from out there ends up so in here you can buy
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well pretty much anything that you saw out there except peac meal or whole
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systems and I think they sell themselves a little bit short here I mean we have
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more types of RAM and CPUs available please ask for assistance uh yeah they
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do we have definitely seen it not everyone wants to buy Bare components
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though and they've actually got a wide variety of different systems everything
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from like Core 2 Duos that are 50 bucks or you can actually just work uh a few
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hours here as a volunteer and you can take take one of these puppies home all
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the way up to more expensive stuff like this Mac Pro with uh dual quad core xon
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or this Intel Core i7 actually fairly capable gaming rig all for pretty
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reasonable prices so that is how Luke performed so well in the last scrapyard
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Wars there's some other very cool stuff in the store that's probably not for
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sale like this uh vintage FedEx water
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cooled computers I mean that looks like I think that's a not a TDX it's an ndx
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or something like that from danger Den now defunct I mean look at this thing
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look at this look at this stuff it's unbelievable there like the pesh mode in
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here I like the
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mode this is this predates the AOL
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CD they have other stuff up here as well that aren't just normal computers
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including this which is a up to 100t range 256bit AES encrypted Wireless
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mechanical keyboard with cherry black switches on it which is actually pretty
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sick and it's just under a 100 bucks which is badass they have like shows and
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stuff so you can get the office they have the first four seasons of the
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office they have some games over behind me there's individual component stuff
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like Optical drives behind the desk you can buy things like motherboards and
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CPUs you can pretty much get hooked up but you might have noticed the laptops
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in the thrift store we never showed where those came from this is the laptop
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lab this is actually one of the big money makers for free geek not to say
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that it's a for-profit society I'm just saying that they have to keep the lights
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on and the bills paid somehow and this
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department is a big part of it so in here they've got their uh well this is
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all the we know there's stuff wrong with this this is the issues laptops over
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here these are the ones that are ready to build so ready to replace batteries
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uh replace RAM replace drives or maybe
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just be uh thrown out as E-Waste like this pretty ba looking Panasonic uh
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rugged computer here this over here is testing stations where you can see
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they're using you know industry standard tools like mem test for example to make
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sure that everything's going hunky dory over here and then once it's all done in
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this room check this out my friends this
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over here is actually an incoming pile
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but this over here is the stacks on stacks on stacks on stacks of finished
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laptop computers that are ready to go out to the store or to people who need
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okay so that's pretty much it for today we're going to have a vlog coming up
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showing everyone working at all the stations here at free geek and uh for
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now though we're actually setting up to shoot the W show live here at free geek
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hopefully we have all of our equipment and there are no technical
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difficulties yeah right but uh I'm not
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