SERVER ROOM VLOG FINALE - RGB SERVERS! Pt 3
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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2,218 words · ~11 min read
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we've teamed up with cableorganizer.com
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ubiquity networks bonded logic Trend net
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and protoc case to give this place a
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complete makeover now the only thing that remains
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is to do something about the
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noise that's where the ultr touch batting comes in the bad
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news is that we've got some theories but no concrete ideas when it comes to how
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we're going to cover the inside of this room with it the good news is that because you
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have to leave it out overnight to fluff up to its full
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thickness it's pretty easy to find in our
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office our ant lion audio mod mic 5
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giveaway continues we're giving away three mod mic FES and a highi man
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Edition s mod Mite combo enter now at the link
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below okay someone put all this stuff in a pile I got to get it over here anyway
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this insulation stuff that we're using is really cool I was first put onto it
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when Mike from Silent PC review was showing me how he built his an at coic
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chamber it's made by a company called bonded logic and it's got a few things
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that set it apart from other insulation so it's not made of fiberglass or
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anything like that it's actually made of recycled blue jeans so it's like if
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you're into sustainability then I guess that's cool but it's also got awesome
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thermal properties and some of the best acoustic properties both in terms of
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like dispersing sound and actually blocking its transmission they actually
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make a ton of stuff out of this uh recycled blue jean materials when I was
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talking to them on the phone they actually mentioned to me that one of the
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biggest uses for this stuff now is actually shipping perishables like food
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so blue apron a sponsor of ours actually
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uses bonded logic shipping material to
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ship you know like cold stuff that sits on your doorstep so that it doesn't get
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hot and spoil in the sun pretty cool right check this out check this out if
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you didn't believe it's made of recycled jeans there's a piece of zipper that's
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awesome okay so right now what we're doing is we're getting a baseline
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measurement of what the sound is like through this wall of the server room so
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everybody quiet it's about 40 to 43
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DB pretty sure that says LS right we've
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got a couple of different tools to help us
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cut uh we do have a hand insulation saw
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but from what I've read online one of the best ways to cut it is
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actually with a band saw so we had tried to come up with a
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brilliant plan for using like some kind of a a mesh or like a netting to keep it
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up but we actually ended up settling on Good oldfashioned Nails hold on I got to
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get a hammer um so we'll start in the
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corner behind the UPS over there oh I'm also going to need a lot more Nails than
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this dang It
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Bobby okay I'm clearly going to be better off pre-measuring
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this look I'm new at this okay actually
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you know what for this one I should just go right up the
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wall if this doesn't work we don't really have another plan at the
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moment this is looking like it might work huh how about
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that okay so just a few more hours of this and then I'm
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good okay this is a thick one wow I'm
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going to go through a ton of nails how many are in
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here I don't feel like this is
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enough oh damn it was that the label maker we'll deal with it
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later oh sh that's the
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steel good for security bad for putting nails
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into good thing we dusted the server
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right we are ready to get our after reading okay everybody
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quiet and we have discovered a fatal flaw in our testing
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methodology because the room is way
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quieter but we would have had to take our measurement from quite a bit closer
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to isolate the noise that comes from the room from the noise that comes from the
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computers that are here and the Transformer over there so I give up
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whatever mission accomplished but boy is there ever still a lot of work to do so
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what I discovered very quickly when working with the ultr touch insulation
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is that it still sheds a fair bit of
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material creating dust for my freshly dusted servers look at this keyboard
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look at this keyboard fortunately I was one step
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ahead and I ordered a like a custom air
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filter but we need a longer term
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solution so that's where this special
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black stage cloth comes in if we can
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cover up all of the insulation in here
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we'll be able to keep this place from being a uh a dust
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mine let's get CRA
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aacan holy crap this thing is heavy
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inexpensive this roll was like hundreds
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of dollars this stuff is acoustically neutral I
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believe is the term for it and it lets sound pass through so it can be absorbed
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by the ultra touch if we were to put plastic over it
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we would actually get substantially more
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Reflections where my tape measure go this is the problem with any DIY
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project so I've actually done a lot of the easy stuff along this left wall here
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it only takes a couple of nails and Staples actually to hold it in place but
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now it's going to get a lot more challenging so check this out standing
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right behind the servers you can hear how loud they
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are and standing right here it's that
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much quieter cool huh oh nice I think this is
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going to make it all the way into this corner
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perfect okay I need my
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stapler another handy dandy thing about this
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fabric is once you uh start ripping it
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it rips in a straight line in both directions as far as I can
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tell I need shirts made of this
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stuff so everyone's back in the office now though it is a couple days
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later um so I can't afford to
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accidentally unplug anything anymore
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oh no I pressed the button
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Escape I didn't put dutin behind the
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server cabinet itself just cuz I figured if I'm running cables back there or
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anything like that I didn't want to have something that is more
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grippy not bad
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okay finally almost there we've got all
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the installation contained and finally
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the last piece from protoc case arrived
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so this is my custom vent for the door
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of the server room now noise isolation
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relies on sealing up a room as much as
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you I'll open this later come here and
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as you can see I've got this just covered but in the event that our air
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conditioning fails we've actually got a
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thermostat here that's going to monitor the temperature of the room and kick on
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an auxiliary fan up there so at least it
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doesn't completely bake in here so Jake
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designed and protocase created for us a
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custom shroud that we're going to cover
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this hole with so that the sound doesn't have a direct path out but the air still
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has a way in ow my
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elbow it's metal what do they expect to happen to it in shipping no I'm not
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angry they packed it well oh my
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knee oh my heat sinks would any of you
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watching this believe I'm not much of a handyman you guys try cutting through
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5in thick blue jeans it's hard okay just going at it upside
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down ow damn
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it oh no where did all these screws go
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don't have time for this there it is all
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right come on in Brandon I think this hole is not
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optimal I think we may have to cut back a bit more also I have to remove some of
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my nails did he just Hammer Nails into a
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door yes yes I did and now I'm removing
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them with my bare hands
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oh damn I was hoping to hook that up there yeah okay screw it I'm going in
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we're just going to drill right through the metal a cut myself on a drill bit okay
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here we go wait a minute oh I installed
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them backwards
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ah actually a very simple kind of elegant
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design good work Jake so we still have to do this then the
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dutin then the grand finale here we
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go acid test
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time
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aha
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nice wow it's actually almost level too look at that awesome so there's
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ventilation and here is noise blocking
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ow home stretch now we just got to secure the insulation
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to the door and
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cover oh we're so close so 42 by about
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90 so I want to secure this really
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well people are probably wondering why I'm using nails for this the answer is
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pretty simple they're easy to remove I'm sure it's wrong sure the internet is
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going to tell me about why it's wrong and then I'll know so it's good that's
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how we learn by doing things wrong and
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then being corrected on the internet I'm going to cut it sort of approximately
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but smaller and then just kind of fold it over I will give you this Brandon
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this really is very cool fabric
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ow there so
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theoretically I don't need this anymore it's all covered you know what I think
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the air filter on this thing is overkill anyway I'm not going to bother get in
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there hiya okay so we're done then right
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the room is quiet the room is clean the
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cables are managed and ah fresh from its Adventure
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in learning to be water cooled
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this export
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server is sliding back into the rack
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there's nothing left to do
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right you underestimate me my
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friends RGB
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lighting oh this is rgbw chainable up to 3
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m okay first I need to know if these are the magnetic
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kits oh yeah baby they are okay that's
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excellent we've got a couple Standalone power supplies cuz we don't actually
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want these to run off of the computers that are in here because the RGB always
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needs to work I cannot
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wait oh this is going to be sick sick I
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tell you got to give some thought to Cable Management here given that was the
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whole point of this bloody project okay so we're just going to go
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straight into the wall realistically these do not need to run off the UPS wow
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it's amazing that's what I'm talking
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about all right let's see if I can hit both of these at
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once oh
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it out so thank you for tolerating all
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three parts of server room upgrade blog I hope
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you guys enjoyed it as much as I did if
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stuff we featured at the link in the video description huge shout out to
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Bonded logic cable mod trendnet
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cableorganizer.com those guys were instrumental and helping us figure out
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how to do the cable management stuff and supplying us with all that gear that we
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needed and uh sincer hope I'm not forgetting anybody but I have a feeling
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that I am all right thank you guys for
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watching subscribe and merch store and all that stuff I am freaking
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exhausted