I Built a HUGE 336TB Server Without Linus Tech Tips! 

hmmmmm linus vs quin 😂😂😂😂

You’re the one that inspired me to start this crazy project. Thanks for everything! ❤️

;)

Shots fired

@@snazzy place your bets ladies and gentlemen. Is snazzy labs going to work with floatplane.

He has...in every other timeline possible.

You under estimate his POWA!!!

YOU DESERVE MY LIKE

Does he even lift?

He will find a way ;)

That made me laugh too. Those 24 drives are £450 EACH in the UK, total cost for x24 (if you had to pay for them) would be £11,000+. That does not look, or sound like a budget server!!! lololol

Thought the same. Have an dual socket x58 board here. More than enough power, also a ZFS pool with ssd cache. Performance is more than enough for me and my Fam, but yeah, HDDs are still expensive if u need like 10 of them lol

Ah but he was going to buy them anyway so it's all ok.....

@@magburner I mean even if he paid for all the drives at $11,000 and $2000 for the hardware, throw in an extra $1000 for accessories and it's still a server on a budget compared buying new equipment and a software solution on top. $15,000 is a very different number to $40,000

easy, he means budget for what it is, 120tb 10gbe storage, the cost of the drives cannot be avoided. would you like to see the price on similar jellyfish storage?

Yeah, that was "nice". Pfft.

Maximilian Leith He could have them in his PC, or have them in his home or previous server, the Samsung’s T5 could have been for on the go editing.

True, but he did mention he had tried consumer NAS's and didn't like them. They could have had the drives in them.

If it’s not HGST/WD Ultrastar, I have zero expectations.

Fly me out there and I'll help you do a terrible job! jk. Just hire Wendell.

Haha nice

Get a true SysAdmin involved my friend Wendell is your friend.

Here's an idea - forget using old junk and call Dell.

@@snazzy You spelt linus wrong

It is SO SOFT!

Who wouldn't love your shirt?

Wendell! who would tell you 5 years ago that you will become the IT guy for tech RU-vidrs? lol

ProNastyNick that’s how mafia works bro

You should make a Fedora :O

All I wanted to say was cute pfp!!!!!

Does the world believe he is the only person capable of throwing a server together? l've watched and it's excruciating.

Yeah, the title should be "With Level1Techs!"

@@robinlovell1617 Obviously not - he's just the one who shouted about it the loudest?

@@robinlovell1617 na, he was just sponsored by that server or whatever company to promote that thing, and so called "help" mkbhd and ijustine build their servers.

@@robinlovell1617 it not about being capable, is about being able to get it for free or heavily discounted because of sponsors deals.

That would probably get you like 15 hours of footage (when uncompressed)

bo diddily

120fps 🤔🤔🤔

OK, but you gotta set it up as a personal cloud so you can access your memes on the go.

60fps? U could go up to way more than that

Thanks so much, dude! It was a fun project!

Lol why has no one replied to this comment…apart from snazzy labs

Dell Poweredge R710 is the same thing but really quiet!

I'm honoured.

@@snazzy AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL

@@snazzy AND ON THAT TERRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT .. (The Grand Tour version )

denim pants & jacket would've been perfect

Some say...... It just word dont use jeremy's voice

Why the sad face? I was pretty happy about it

@@SuperSerNiko97 Because now how am I going to see Linus dropping more stuff?

you realize those aren't accidental right? they are scripted right into the bit.

@@jrok96 Whether they're accidental or scripted, I still can't see Linus dropping stuff. :(

But now change's title after getting majority of views 😂😂

Comparative to the other solutions, it was still cheaper. And if you used cheaper drives or slowly purchased your drives I'd say it's a pretty good budget option for these kinds of demands.

meliohe! A budget is a set amount of money that doesn’t mean necessarily cheap. The server even if the drives are $12,000 and the server being $2,600 is still cheaper than a lumaforge, which is $40,000. This isn’t for the everyday consumer this is something that meets his needs. NAS is a great budget option for lower spec requirements.

István Szikra I have card board boxes, an old laptop motherboard, old hard drives laying around, and a glue stick. I’m sure I can make my own using those items and not break 3 dollars

If you really needed to do this on a budget he wouldn't have needed to be sponsored and get a walk through. I did this on a budget and it cost me a couple thousand dollars. It's amusing to see that all these RU-vidrs created a server around the same time and clearly never thought about backing up their own data until a sponsorship arrived. You think considering it's their job that they would care about their own content that they've created. To do this you need to take apart external hard drive, "shucking", and build cheap Nas, utilizing the sc846 chassis that you can usually pick up for 2 to $400 off eBay with some parts included(I tossed almost everything). You don't need server grade Hardware, but I find running Intel is easier and your chassis already comes with server grade Hardware so you might as well utilize it. I'll upgrade to ryzen when I can tho for power efficiency

Yep its easy to say that you build this setup by

In the UK that £12000 of off the shelf drives

I still wouldn't recommend them. I'd sell them to suckers on ebay and buy some reliable drives instead.

Sammy Swanksmith these drives are fine 🙄

@@sammyswanksmith4807 It's actually astonishing how much money Seagate wastes gifting drives instead of improving the quality of their products. I've literally never seen a single sponsorship by WD in an entire decade that I've been lurking on YT, and the reason I think about this is pretty simple: they are the best rock solid brand in the industry for HDD, so why would they need to spend money to sponsor a project? What else could you go with if you need a reliable storage? Top lineup uses HGST helium drives, which still is WD. I may have trusted my old Maxtor with PETA interface, but I don't have as much faith in Seagate, and you shouldn't have too if you periodically check Backblaze HDD reliability stats.

Realistically he would have up to 10 or 15 minutes with the UPS at full load. Meaning you would have to be pulling 1500w with a pf of 1 to achieve even the minimum runtime for the UPS. That is also assuming your batteries arent old and nearly dead which could give you a runtime of 1 minute

Well you can get a big 18650 bank

He's saying that at PEAK LOAD there would have a minimum of 60-seconds for the server(s) to begin the shutdown process. Other than that specific situation happening (never), he is 100% safe with the hardware he's using.

Nah he's using ZFS no UPS needed. Especially with only two users. Copy On Write is freaking amazing. I have a zpool that is 8 years old. It has survived many power outages. A bad drive. Even a bad SATA cable that would randomly disconnect a drive sometimes mid use (that one was annoying to figure out). Every time I’ve ever had a problem ZFS has had my back. Resilverd and ready to go. I even dd a /dev/zero over one of the drives once. I know I’m a dummy. Was trying to erase a thumb drive. Ran a scrub and everything repaired no problems.

Exactly

thank you. i have always pronounced it like the PRO in professional and the LIANT in reliant. when i heard him say "pro-Leon[t]" i had to hear it a few times to figure out if its me or him that is right(i hope its me).

Yeah, that makes me cringe. I pronounce ProLiant as ‘Pro L-y-ant’, as if you’re saying ‘lie’ but also sticking ‘ant’ on the end of it. Never heard it pronounced ‘Pro-Leant’ in my entire life.

@@vaelfonia Pro-lie'ant's the way to go mate. Although these old comments makes me think of the poorly named 2-in-1 HP made called ProOne, which of course wasn't always stylised and so I got a lot of questions about this new computer, "the HP prune".

😂😂😂

thanks man. I knew someone would come through.

Actually Linus made a petabyte server.

And his petabyte server is getting full fast and he is going to upgrade soon.

he has a 1000Terabyte server (a Petabyte)

also linus has 2 SSD only server (i think its 100TB each)

@@shrishak00 I bet that he would make 20 Petabyte server.

You get 100tb from jelly fish

Yeah, this is definitely way, waaaay more affordable to do this now than it used to. I also think the statement was meant for professionals for whom losing data is losing their only source of income.

This video is very obviously NOT aimed at the Average Joe. Sorry you weren't able to catch on to that. It must have ruined the entire rest of the video for you after that point, simply from disappointment..

,oo,,i@@ShiroKage009

Thanks for pointing that out. Really tight budget sponsored by seagate. BS.

Tb what's that grand dad I only know pb

*14TB neuroimplant

@@MHG790 what? are you a fish? or want to be a fish? or will you implant it to a fish?

Just call me daddy ;)

What date do you predict this?

Yes, I guess they changed it at some point. I'm not a subscriber but I saw it in recommended before and after they changed the title. Got curious and here I am. Pretty good video.

Thay changed the name again

Nah. About half the size. 😉

Thanks for your amazing recommendation! :D

i see you with that tøp logo ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Nathan Young yeah one of the best bands ||-//

Honestly, I do consider Linus a joke.

Nicegy019 he considers you irrelevant

@@TheUnboxerMan Good on him. If Linus got worked up over the opinion of an irrelevant viewer like me, then he'd clearly be weak minded.

Yeah. That's really dirt cheap.

You’re right. We should probably double the storage.

Snazzy Labs You should probably drop the ‘our friends over at .... hooked us up with...’ remarks and just straight up state that ‘.... gave us x thousand bucks worth of kit for free to advertise for them’ because any implication this is a “budget” build is just demolished by this gifting and a non-RU-vidr is never going to benefit from such a gift. The server hardware is old and worthless unless rammed with storage which can’t be found for ‘cheap’ and comes with no maintenance contract?! So your advice that this is good solid kit, whilst true, could lead a small business down a very expensive path of data loss because of busted old hardware in a fairly short time. Bad advice. Last point, which really exposes your non-professional IT credentials, Proliant is pronounced ‘pro-lie-ant’ because why wouldn’t it be? ‘Pro’ because ‘for pro’s’ and it overall there’s a ‘rely’ in there to hint at reliability. So yeah, hope that’s helpful when you’re on the phone ordering replacement parts and the rep asks you to repeat the name of the server type. Cheere

@@robinlovell1617 actually I think this is a very solid video. No where does he say that he is recommending this for small businesses or anyone else but he is show casing a use case that works for him. Of course the drives were provided for free, we all know that and he makes that no secret. But why get tied down in the fact that it's worth $Xk when you could achieve similar based on your own budget? You know how much everything else costs, small businesses or anyone else could very easily just start with slightly less that 300TB of storage...

TAPS147 Solid in what way? Lighting? Production values? There would be no use case if the drives hadn’t been free. The video wouldn’t have been made. He may not have explicitly said ‘here’s what I did so you should too’ but the message is clear - that he’s a small outfit and here’s an idea. You think this video is

Oops hit send ... is aimed at the enterprise? Er no. Home user? No gifted drives for them and nowhere to store this jet-noise beast. Small biz? Yeah. But again no maintenance contract on old hardware that’s reached end of life by any other standards. So the video is just about showcasing this gift that he got and his own video making talents. Some of the tech message in there is not best practice too so overall, no one is being helped much. His use case is making money from views, so let’s not kid each other this is anything but amateurs plugging together kit found in a skip.

He is using a separate boot volume, FreeNAS forces you to. Generally it gets run off a USB flash drive.

Yeah, 1500VA does seem minimal for all of that hardware and its reserve capacity will diminish over time as well.

Wendell is a super hero.

yeah, this system running zfs and being really value and reliable is also inspiring to other creators and home users to build sth. similar on the cheap/far cheaper than this even, that actually has proper reliability and data corruption protection.

Well, if you have ONE 14TB drive, you better have TWO so you can Mirror the thing - cuz it WILL die sometime ;-)

porn... lots of porn.

I probably have around 6-7TB of data across my various drives. It's mainly just media and game backup, plus some game capture footage. I'm going to need to purchase more storage fairly soon. I could easily burn through a 14TB drive. Whenever I buy storage, I fill it up fairly quickly.

Some people in the 80s said that 1gb is gonna last..

I cannot even grasp what you're saying.

Thanks!!

Also lol'd at "zee file system or ZFS"

It’s been a journey, but I’m here to stay.

Wride Cinema Happy for ya. Cheers✌🏻

VA is equal to W. They are both the same unit of power. What does 1500 W represent and what does the support for 1000 W mean?

@@matj12 Nope, they are very different measurements. Spend 10 seconds googling it

@@jimsbagels1991 They are the same unit but in two different measurements. I spent some time searching for what the two measurements represent but I don't know what to look for so I didn't find the answer. What should I look for?

@@matj12 Resistove vs. reactive load, true vs. apparent power. Easy to confuse! P=V*I only for cos(phi) = 1 :)

@Blind Bob There are quite a few around tough that pick Seagate as the brand that results in failing HDDs, which is why I guess they are puttning so much into marketing now a days while others ain't.

Seagate is garbage now.

My Seagate vs Maxtor dead drive race was neck and neck years ago until Seagate bought Maxtor. LoL. I have built a lot of machines over the last 20 years and have only had one WD rma.

@@Aaron-hg8jo I have over 100 Seagate drives in our DC. I've only lost a handful in the past 12 years.

@@jamiemcparland a handful?! That sounds awful. Time to switch to another brand.

DDR3 ECC is crazy cheap.

I think it’s all relative, but also ddr3 is old so there should be lots in the market (even though there use to be a shortage)

Ecc ram is stupid cheap

Time for you to get one too. Treat yo self! 😉

Dog the Seagate ad is like 40 seconds...

I mean they kinda have to. For 24 14TB IronWolf Pro drives you're looking at least $11k in *just* drives. It's a good video, the sponsor spot was ~10 seconds, chill man.

you've just answered your own question...

When dealing with back-ups, you want a system that will: Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

It's true that ZFS lives and dies by caching, but it's a bit more complicated than the oft quoted "1GB RAM per 1TB of storage." www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-complete-guide-to-freenas-hardware-design-part-i-purpose-and-best-practices/ My cache hit ratio is fine. 100GB ARC when editing and perfectly stable. I'm probably going to upgrade to more RAM just because ECC DDR3 is so cheap, but it's not super necessary with my current workload.