Building Four Servers in One Day!

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One virtualization server in your homelab is great. But do you know what's better? FOUR servers! My server rack is getting quite the makeover today, as I add in four new servers for better redundancy and backups.
But first... What am I drinking???
From Kettel Beerworks, it's the Velvet Panda Oatmeal Stout (5.5%). I sit squarely with Ron Swanson on this one... Any Stout under 9% is a Porter, and Porters are pointless. Where oatmeal stouts are usually served with a spoon, this is thin and pretty unremarkable. 2/5.
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@Zbwol 3 года назад

That ending was well worth the watch

@kadinnoe4580 3 года назад

in all seriousness when i saw that ending as he began to apply paste ot the second cpu i thought "no he isnt really," and then the legend did it and i laughed like a hyena for 30 seconds straight. **liked and subscribed**

@LorenzoDelVecchio 3 года назад

23:29 I laughed so hard i fell off my chair. And after sitting down again, i laughed even more. That was not Xeon. That was Epic 🤣

@camofelix 3 года назад

At first thought you were drawing a heart with the thermal paste xD

@SentureUK 3 года назад

The perfect thermal paste application at the end of the video. Very well done!

@flexxx222 3 года назад

love it!

@john39er 3 года назад

Beat me to it, I laughed my arse off. Now I'm tempted to do that with all my future builds, lol

@czarPROstock 3 года назад

this method gives you 100000 IOPS more !

@nelsonjperez9319 3 года назад

I'll use it as a template for my builds! 😆

@hongtanke 3 года назад

Craft's whife: " hey hun, how come the checking account is empty" Craft: ummmmmm

@arthuralford 3 года назад

And the cat shows up right when Jeff needs a cat

@thirdwheel1985au 3 года назад

Cats are good at that

@eriddle 3 года назад

OMG... the "after credits scene" is one of the best things I've seen recently!

@mbmumford 3 года назад

13:39 - That... That was absolutely hilarious.

@joshuajgaming 3 года назад

@linustechtips

@vincentl.8145 3 года назад

I think we can improve on it ...by dropping them SAS drives!!

@LampJustin 3 года назад

Hey, I'd love to see a whole video about power consumption! That would be insanely informative. Especially comparing Sandy to Ivy, with GPU, without GPU, with GPU installed but blacklist, with GPU blacklisted but VM started and then shut down. Please that would make a hell of a video!

@eDoc2020 3 года назад

I recently upgraded from a single E5-2620 v1 to a 2630 v2. I was surprised to find that the power consumption was nearly identical on my HP DL380p both at idle and fully loaded. This is just my personal experience, I'd expect better results with higher-tier CPUs.

@ME-fs8ir 3 года назад

Would also love to see some data on power on some of these servers and setups.

@Mr.Leeroy 2 года назад

lga2011 is terrible for idle power budget.

@gdrriley420 3 года назад

You’ve got a better track record of ordering parts then the people who order fiber trunks at my work. Last time they were 40-50ft over and this time they were 20ft short.

@Okeur75 3 года назад

I'm glad to see that even being a youtuber that definitely knows what he is doing, you are still doing the same mistake as us. Cheers !

@memadmax69 3 года назад

When I saw the stack of hard drives, I was like, OK linus, lololol

@johnnyxp64 3 года назад

on 1 hand i hate that the projects do not finishing in a single video...on the other i love that i see the miscalculations, mistakes or simply bad luck you have doing those things and we also learn from your mistakes! Thank you! 😊

@unclerubo 3 года назад

This video helped me find the optimal thermal paste aplication pattern!

@buhnux 3 года назад

drives moved from 6 to 4 (3 and 2 on each side) screws with the addition of extra platters... this has been standard for about 7 years.

@GearSeekers 3 года назад

bUt CaN iT rUn LiNuX

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

Just for you, I'm going Hyper-V

@jamess1787 3 года назад

Rifk

@Lazbotable 3 года назад

What about crysis?

@mndlessdrwer 3 года назад

@@CraftComputing My, my. Windows Server 2016 licenses still don't come exactly cheap, but they can be easier to manage drivers and firmware on compared to the Linux variants. My go-to solution is just to keep a Windows-To-Go image around for updating more troublesome hardware firmware with.

@thebugg333 3 года назад

@@mndlessdrwer I don't have an issue with Hyper-v like most people. It works for my needs, and runs on a W10 Pro Box. Have an older i7 with 32Gigs of ram. Raided storage and the os lives on an SSD. Have 4 debian vms because they run well compared to Ubuntu with pfsence, unifi controller and a web server, and a spare for projects.

@LeonSteelpaw 3 года назад

My server stack is full of hopes, dreams, and partial research

@mndlessdrwer 3 года назад

My best recommendation is to buy Cisco or IBM server hardware if you can afford it. Dell hardware if you can't. Nothing older than an M3 for Cisco or an R720 for a Dell. IBM will just be anything with a Xeon E5 or E7 v0 series CPU. Don't buy Lenovo servers if you want to be able to safely update BIOS and BMC remotely.

@sihker 3 года назад

@@mndlessdrwer Buying the server is only part of the problem. The bigger problem is, where to find organs to sell, to buy a house, where to house your server rack? :p

@syn4x 3 года назад

u mean server rack

@LeonSteelpaw 3 года назад

@@syn4x Nopony cares!

@syn4x 3 года назад

@@LeonSteelpaw learn to spell grammar

@DVault 3 года назад

Now we know if we dont hear from Craft after this video, his wife has sent him to the dog house :D

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

Can confirm, and the WiFi out here is terrible. Maybe if I bought a really nice outdoor WiFi6 AP.......

@davetalley 3 года назад

It's not exile, it's an excuse for a man shed/studio/climate controlled doghouse

@davetalley 3 года назад

Any chance of getting a quick tutorial on the LCARS screen you had in the background previously? Didn't see it on your video list, granted I have only subbed for one day so far

@mndlessdrwer 3 года назад

@@CraftComputingnext video: running metal shielded exterior grade fiber to the doghouse.

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

www.lcars47.com

@amnottabs 3 года назад

23:49 Jeff had enough of being always the nice guy huh

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

Just because I'm nice doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humor.

@KalebSmart 3 года назад

All the little mishaps here reminded me of my journey upgrading my 3D printer recently. I feel your pain. Also, I thought you were going to demonstrate how that thermal paste application was actually fine, but it was even better

@TechnoTim 3 года назад

lol the end. Nice!

@droidchevere 3 года назад

Tom , just the tip ....Rolf

@rrmuller723 3 года назад

His wife is canceling all their credit cards and closing the bank account tied to eBay tomorrow...

@ctlaurin 3 года назад

Still have the option for money orders to AliExpress.

@jimiscott 3 года назад

Packed bags and left years ago.

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

@Collin 👉😏

@BenCos2018 3 года назад

LOL

@ghomerhust 3 года назад

dude, that pride starship shirt is badass

@AlistairBrugsch 3 года назад

I love it! Need one

@SlevinKalevera 3 года назад

Stumbled onto you a few weeks ago. I love that you include your mistakes. you're 100% relatable to anyone who does this stuff for a living. And your beer choice is almost always top notch. Cheers, bruv!

@RubyRoks 3 года назад

90% of the server software stuff goes over my head, but servers are just so dang interesting.

@peterg.8245 3 года назад

Me too, I understand the hardware but don’t do software.

@stuartlittle4433 3 года назад

Love how you also show the problems that you face, it makes your videos all the more genuine and interesting! Plus it shows a great quality to your character, keep up the great content!

@dangstalker 3 года назад

0:13 The 4 clacks of the CPUs hitting the table contact side down made me cry

@joannaatkins822 3 года назад

Oh dear, the thermal paste application is exactly my type of petty

@nathan_tasker 3 года назад

Congratulations on reaching 200k subscribers. Your videos are always exciting to watch, and your explanations are straightforward, and not overly complicated. Keep up the great work 🍻🍻

@chrisbaker8533 3 года назад

"anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" Especially while recording it.

@Alexcide007 Год назад

Not editing the mistakes makes this very relatable, well done!

@zraylin.khalitzburg2968 3 года назад

You will probably be happy with it for awhile. I run a dl380p g8 and a DL 360 g7 with a small prodesk 600 g2. Honestly pretty happy.

@rmorris003 3 года назад

I am watching everything I can to build a plex server with the most space available as I currently have like 15+ externals hosting my movies and I just figure I should build a media server and looking to go the dual xenon route with 4k direct play. Love the channel and very informative.

@buddybleeyes 3 года назад

Nothing more real world problems than this 😂 keep up the good work dude, also that thermal paste application was perfect

@ghomerhust 3 года назад

BuT tHe ThErMaL pAsTe!!!!11!!

@timadkins7794 3 года назад

Can confirm that using the gommets as standsoffs works fine, i had the same issues when i built mine. I also took some 3m heavy duty double sided tape and attached to the inside of the case cover, 2 small strips per drive. This was probably overkill but i figured better to error on tne side of caution. I can say that this works with shucked western digitial drives with no problem. Thanks again for your content.

@ZachTangen 3 года назад

I love when I'm at my computer desk getting frustrated as hell and one of my cats climbs into my lap. Sometimes it feels like they know when they need to interfere lol.

@mrmotofy 2 года назад

A wife/GF would be better...then again usually they just come to tell you something else is broken haha

@dionmiller8547 3 года назад

The Linus dig was Super Bowl commercial worthy. 🤣

@daddydeadpool1531 3 года назад

Amazing video - where did you purchase your star trek t shirt from please.

@MajorGlory01 3 года назад

Can't believe I'm getting fooled in to thinking this guy knows what he's doing every time... Guess that's part of the fun

@peterg.8245 3 года назад

Tacos fall apart and we still love them!

@SkipsTinyBeard 3 года назад

Dude. You rock. I would have been 3 pints deep after realizing I ordered the wrong drives. I can't wait to see these up and running!

@namtech425 3 года назад

Ok I do server installs and upgrades on a daily basis, first thing to always do is planning, second is more planning, third is checking and then ordering, fourth is completing the upgrade/install. But these will serve you quite well for a bit of time. These machines have been cropping up all over the show and they are still good to go for quite some time.

@tylertc1 3 года назад

I, for one, really appreciate the honesty and the showing of the mistakes. These are issues that, even having built several servers, I would have not thought to consider. Such as risers being of different heights even for 1U servers. Or the hard drive mounting being for the third hole that the hard drives didn’t even have. I definitely wouldn’t have thought of that. So, with showing these the value you’re providing to us only goes up. Would the remote video editing be enough to make it’s own video - I find that very interesting and would really like to see both how you go about setting it up, but also how it actually is to use and edit remotely. What would you say (or find) to be the most important pre-reqs for doing such a setup, etc. And I would certainly have watched a time lapse of the “off camera” work, but understand if that would be too much of a PITA to do with needing to blur out links etc.

@CLEARRTC 3 года назад

"You like Segway's" hahahaha made my day lol

@ForSquirel 3 года назад

'Today we build 4 servers!' Me, installs RAID for the first time, ever.

@CodyLane153 3 года назад

I bought the same server. It DOES support SAS drives for the 8 disks on the LSI controller.. You could buy a physical adapter that converts SATA to SAS but you can also do what I did and Dremel out the power and SATA connector ends to allow for the SAS pin out. Lastly the server can support two SSDs near the power supply bringing the drive count to 14! I want to be clear that this is a very unique circumstance and that typically you would have needed another raid card.

@l0wr3z 3 года назад

Best part about buying used Dell or HPE is the docs and parts reference. Nothing better than an exact part number.

@joshharding6925 3 года назад

I recently setup 2 x HP Elitedesk G1 boxes with i7 CPUs and 32gb of ram running Proxmox, plus my old firewall was converted to Proxmox Backup (HP Compaq 8000, 4 core Cpu with 16gb ram and 14Tb Seagate Ironwolf) and Proxmox Backup works AMAZINGLY well.... And all my drives and cards fit also. Your cat is awesome also!!!

@brianzolares4573 3 года назад

i love how the drink goes lower during each edit cut .. cheers !

@way2tired2 3 года назад

Ok, I LOL'd at the cut scene at the end.

@shawnhartmann1750 3 года назад

I usually don't comment or thumbs up videos but I loved the end. Also, you make me was to spend lots of money as my home lab consists of an RPi4 and a repurposed A10 apu laptop that runs my pihole, unifi, raid, and network shares. You keep showing me more things I want to do and don't have the means to :-)

@MshnryMan 3 года назад

Know I'm a little late to the game here, but FYI a few SAS drives in the Chenbro is not an issue. 8 of the ports are on a LSI SAS2008 controller.

@Enrythe8th 3 года назад

So glad you pointed out these Hyve servers. They're amazing and amazingly inexpensive.

@hooami6245 3 года назад

lets see how how much longer they'll inexpensive. Im picking up 2 rn

@Enrythe8th 3 года назад

@@hooami6245 He showed these a few months ago and they haven't gone up or become harder to find.

@bastienmann68 3 года назад

damn, i'm hypnotized by the level of your beer... slowly, but constantly go down...

@hooami6245 3 года назад

I was in the middle of creating a custom windows image when this video popped up. Time to spend more money!!! lol

@andersthorsen8862 3 года назад

I use to run XCP-NG on my main server (Xeon E5-2650v4, 64GB RAM, 2xNVMe and 6x10TB HGST), but after seeing you work with Proxmox I tested it and are now using it in stead. I can highly recommend the CPU by the way. Thanks for a very good video 👍

@cavick 3 года назад

The end is pure gold!

@dksmar 3 года назад

You ve been an inspiration to evolve my Homelab. i started with a Dell R520 and bought a grid K2 to do what you did for remote gaming, but thease are gone and now I have a Dell R730XD with a Quadro M4000. 96 GB ram and a mix of bunch of sas&sata drives that I could find. Fun fact I bought a male-female extension sata cable and could fit a 4TB 3.5" sata drive that I had spare too😊 For backup and for running some of the 20 vms I have a Qnap TS563 with the qm2 10 Gb dual NVME card direcly connwcred to the dell. In Greece is not as easy to find such cheap servers as you have in US. Taxes and shipping is to expensive..

@RedDawnGamin 3 года назад

I love the taste in the music, its relaxing.

@phychmasher 2 года назад

12:22 Every time, man. Every. Single. Time. I feel you on this one.

@SaroG 3 года назад

I lol'ed hard at the end. Thank you for that.

@llynellyn 3 года назад

Jeff: I have to blacklist both AMD and Nvidia. Matrox: It's finally happening, somebody on RU-vid is going to recommend one of our PCI-E cards!!! Jeff: Which means no video output. Matrox: Cries inside.

@dozern 3 года назад

I have to admit, the last 10 seconds made me laugh out loud (so, a literal lol)

@TrueNAS 3 года назад

Wow, 4 servers in one day... *applause*

@kildozer2012 3 года назад

That was the greatest ending ever XD

@Anaerin 3 года назад

My setup? A Dell R200 with Core2Duo processor and 2GB RAM, and IBM X3650 M3 for my "NAS". Need to get a lot more high-capacity 2.5" drives, 'cause I'm running out of space FAST.

@eDoc2020 3 года назад

For lower-performance bulk storage you might want to look into shucking portable Seagate external drives. Or if you're crazy add a USB3 card and connect USB drives externally.

@douglasmannor6510 3 года назад

I'm currently running dual x5680 on a super micro board. I also have 48gb of triple channel ECC memory.

@Drunkenvalley 3 года назад

Fun fact: PCI slots are spaced 0.6 inches apart last I recall checking. So you're probably off by a slot with that PCIe riser.

3 года назад

MIssing the beer but the reply to Tom's Tech worth it... with foam.

@terrysankey3982 3 года назад

Worth watching for the epilogue alone! :-)

@victorbart 3 года назад

Nice blue color! Would be nice looking in my purple sun rack 😍

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

Awwww.... I love my APC NetShelter, but I'd love a Sun Sparc Rack!

@victorbart 3 года назад

Yes as your second rack you should get a sun rack! Only issue is I have no cage nuts. Instead I have tapped holes. Do many rail kits won't fit 😭

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

Oooo, that would definitely be a deal breaker. Rails are a MUST!

@victorbart 3 года назад

To mount my supermicro 2U freenas server I used my angle grinder to made slits for the rails to fit 🙈 and my apple xserve needed center hole drilled out. Maybe if I will keep the rack for a long time ( i like it alot and it looks good ) I will make cagenut rails in the rack. I can easily pull out the rail strips while the rack stays intact. And it came with the complete power distribution kit! I can feed it with 4x 16A 230volt. And have 2 full size strips with 64x C13!

@MrKalodis 2 года назад

Honestly. Those Zeus servers from ebay are amazing. Grabbed one myself with 2x 10 core processors and never looked back

@realFoxBox 3 года назад

My server stack is an old HP Storageworks 1600 G2 as a NAS, an HP DL380 G7 as a game server, an old Dell CS24-SC to run a very very old project. I need a couple more blades to finish the rack though.

@GeoffSeeley 3 года назад

Don't blacklist the drivers. Use driverctl to bind a specific PCI card to vifo driver for pass through. While I haven't done this with video cards, it works great for two identical HBA cards where I want to use one for Proxmox and the other passed through to a VM. Should work the same for video cards.

@-Good4Y0u 3 года назад

I still think 2U is the sweet spot. You're kind of stuck on 1gig networking if you put those GPU's in as well.

@Mr.Leeroy 2 года назад

everything except 4U is kind of a wasted power consumption in terms of PCE lanes.. there are not enough slots even there.

@-Good4Y0u 2 года назад

@@Mr.Leeroy 2u can go sideways in slots thanks to risers... Which have been common in servers for years.

@Mr.Leeroy 2 года назад

@@-Good4Y0u you may even use flexible risers of meter lengths, but it won't help with the fact that your expansion cards do not fit in volume wise. 1-3U platforms are made to be optimized for density compute in colocation where value per $ for 1U is an important consideration. It does not make sense for homelab, where there are no such constraints and other requirements like sound output and density per Watt (PCIe wise inclusive) are more important.

@-Good4Y0u 2 года назад

@@Mr.Leeroy you don't need the bulky cooler/fan in the 2U unit. Have you seen a real data center grade gpu ? They can fit, and it uses the high rpm chassis fans to move air. You don't use flexible risers in servers usually. This isn't new stuff.

@Mr.Leeroy 2 года назад

@@-Good4Y0u we are in the context of homelab here. What high RPM low diameter fans are you talking about? You are missing the point.

@84Actionjack 3 года назад

I feel your pain. I'm in a similar process building an HA Proxmox cluster but I try to avoid some of your challenges by sticking with 2U rackmount cases. So far, so good. We'll see.

@JoeyBaby47 3 года назад

Thermal paste application was perfect.

@dangingerich2559 3 года назад

I used to be sysadmin in a storage corp test lab. 4 servers in a day is easy. I've done 10, with 35 in that week, for prototyping. Then again, I didn't have to deal mounting hard drives. I had drives on sleds and a backplane.

@CraftComputing 3 года назад

4 servers is easy if all of the parts are already guaranteed to fit.

@emrod38 2 года назад

Thanks for all your videos, definitely have learned a lot from your channel. keep the great content coming!

@viralvideoman 3 года назад

Currently 1 Bottlerocket server that was purchased for firewall purposes. 1 Barracuda that was free from work which runs an instance of Linux and pihole directly on hardware. 1 HP DL380 G7 that is my virtualization server, 64GB of ram with 3 hard drive pools. 1HP DL380 G7 with 32GB of ram and 8 300GB drives that was serving as a backup server. 1 Dell R610 supporting 64GB of ram and 6 900GB drives which is going to be used for home security as it will be set up with some networkable cameras around the property. The HP units were sourced and under 200 dollars a piece pre configured with working ram and drives. The Dell unit was 45 dollars purchased from a won bid, the drives cost 28 dollars per drive which was less expensive then the average. The bottlerocket server was 80 dollars and has a celeron processor but for the firewall traffic it monitors so far that has done well. Paired with 8gb of ram and running pfsense it has done the job well so far. The barracuda was of course free, it's specs are also a celeron processor and 8gb of ram as well. PiHole runs nicely on it and provides the whole home solution for ad blocking.

@bwzes03 3 года назад

I bought myself a SuperMicro board with a Xeon-D 1537 SoC. That has 8 cores, 16 threads, right now 64GB of unregistered ECC ram, it has a LSI SAS2116 chip, with 16 ports of SAS/SATA and builtin IPMI. It runs Proxmox, the LSI chip is PCIe passthrough to a fileserver VM, where CentOS runs a ZFS data set on 8 Ironwolf Pro drives. An HP NX3031 based networkcard connects it to the network with a 10GbE DA Cable. It is capable of 128 GB on memory using registered ECC , so I have some room to grow. Its protected by a BlueWalker PowerWalker 1500 UPS that has saved me two times already.

@jgcolema 3 года назад

I like the new thermal paste technique!

@BenLMitchell 3 года назад

My homelab: 2 x HP DL360P Gen 8's. With 1 x Xeon E5-2620 in each with 48Gb's of RAM. 2 x HP MSA60's with 12 x Seagate Constellation 3TB SAS drives. 24 total drives. Both DL360P's are connected to both MSA's using SAS cables and they're both using HP P822 RAID cards. 1 x I5-4570T, 8Gb of RAM and a GTX 980 in my old Antec 400 for Plex with a direct 1gb link back to each server for direct storage. For live migrations I have a 10Gb Link between each server and another 10gb link between each server and my workstation. VM's have a dedicated 1Gb Intel quad port NIC. 2 x APC UPS 1000's.

@krebosh 3 года назад

this is pretty much why I bought three Dell R620.. no hassle it just works and they have three expansion slots since I need atleast two, one for a FC HBA card and a 10Gb NIC for my vmware cluster.

@JasonLeaman 3 года назад

Good video can't wait to see the setup running ! I I used to have a nice HA setup with 3 R610's and a 12 bay R510 for storage. After heating my room for many years i went to a single Tower Lenovo St550 with Soon to be Dual Xeon Silver's :)

@1leggeddog 3 года назад

Just can't catch a break when building servers! Hang in there Jeff!

@johnnyxp64 3 года назад

i admit watching the dust for the first minutes on those servers made my ocd... go a bit a little bit... crazy... 🙄🤣

@nelsonjperez9319 3 года назад

Great video feel sorry for all inconveniences next build maybe you should consider the HP DL360 g8 servers they offer a pretty good deal with great features and a great price with 4lff or 8sff bays. I personally get them pre-configured from the esiso inc guys in ebay (no promo) with the ram that I want because it tends to be cheaper than buying it separately and maybe a bit lower-end cpu and consider upgrading it if I can get it cheaper by buying it separately then I end with twice the cpu's. To play around I got myself one with 2x E5-2640 with 64gb of ram for $190 + 4 trays $7-8 each. But the ones with E5-2650v2 64gb i think they are ~$284. Happy shopping again great videos and hopefuly everything is ok with a the flooding that you had. 🍻 cheers

@tylerlindberg7881 3 года назад

I think those servers are *great*, but running HP/Dell/Lenovo Servers might give you a better availability for parts, compatibility, and documentation. As well as with most you can still get firmware, and ipmi updates for still supported hardware. I ran 2x Dell R410, R610, R710, 2x DL380 G6s, 3x DL380 G8s, 1x Supermicro (something something...), and a DS4243 connected directly to the supermicro for large disk storage. And yes, my power bill was disgusting. :-) Great build, Jeff!

@rhodges26 3 года назад

I currently have a full server rack with HP gen 8 dl360p, cisco 2960-s gigabyte 24 port switch. I have three desktop computers in the rack as well in my office. Two battery backups although they dont keep my server up due to some unknown issue. Eventually I will be shutting down one of my computers and retiring it as it old and outdated. I keystone 12 port with other items as well. I need more servers lol.

@robtongue 3 года назад

I feel like this could've been approached a different way and reduced to 3 servers (2U each) and have some redundancy built in. Personally I would've gone with the 3 dual socket servers, but possibly the supermicro or whatever variants that are selling fairly cheap on ebay, with 8x3.5" drive bays up front (hot swap), then spread your HDDs out across all 3 nodes. 4x6TB each, with the Intel SSDs as cache for LVM/GlusterFS, or Ceph. Would've gotten you 48TB of space with high performance cache on a dispersed volume that is redundant, and you have room to add 12 more drives later. Then, you can make the fileserver a VM, and with the money you saved not making that a physical box, you could invest in 10gig or higher networking for at least the storage backend. It would perform amazing, and you could reboot nodes fairly easy without any downtime for any services.

@carlolalattacosterbosa5821 3 года назад

nice video! BTW Tom "that guy", was maybe right about long and short power duration limit... if you recall your video about china x79, you should remeber you had to set it to 255 (like i do in my x79 china) to archieve a nice and stable boost clock on all cores... (and concerning the thermal paste, I agree with you...) you should make a video about short/long power stuff, since i thik most of us (your viewers) dunno a dam thing about it... Sorry for bad english, and cheers from Italy

@Graham_Rule 3 года назад

I watched all of that computer stuff waiting for a beer review that never happened! At least I had a very pleasant Traquair House Ale (from the ancient brew house of the oldest inhabited house in Scotland) to keep me company. :)

@remixedMind 3 года назад

aa yes, what i was waiting for, drinking beer and watching server builds

@Innocentdarkness72 3 года назад

Jeff, nice builds have a great weekend !!

@Tech_Otter 3 года назад

The background music just kept giving me Christopher Collects vibes. XD

@BrianMartin2007 3 года назад

You could keep the SAS drives and just use adapters. And get a SAS HBA card and use the breakout cables.. :)

@davidsomething4867 3 года назад

Purchased 3 servers in all during lockdown, what I haven't spent in fuel and going away I have certainly made up for. HP Gen8 MIcroServer, Dell T620 and a Dell R730 (oh yeah and a few Dell workstations for pfsense). Now to start selling the old servers and getting some funds back. I only live in a flat so noise is a concern, the Dell R730 is just about as loud as some of my switches in kitchen cupboard but the T620 is dead quiet in my use and lives in the bedroom, lol. I still have my old HP MicroServer N36L and I'm not sure that will ever go, it is in a bit of a mess so not worth much but with 8GB of ram still useful as a lab. Are you sleeping on the couch yet?????

@netpok 3 года назад

I never done it but as far as I know there is no need to blacklist the video driver, the card can be stubbed out with pci-stub. Of course if the host doesn't use an amd card it's easier to disable the whole driver.