I Built... a really fast NAS? 

His enthusiastic laughter on the discovery had me crack up too, so very relatable and hilarious! Keep up the awesome work CRD!

The deep full bodied laugh, gorgeous and inspiringly vulnerable

The genuine hilarity that ensued, and my own catharsis at having experienced that same "I'm not a smart man" moment in my own tech misadventures was utterly priceless.

That part was awesome. You can't plan stuff like that!

It made the video.

LTT at the end of the day is really entertainment. There's a lot to learn here, whereas watching Linus might get you some laughs but not much knowledge.

@@DrKratso 'hehehehe look at me i dropped an expunsive gee pee you! hahaha im so funny haha typical linus he drops things hahahahaha'

@@DrKratso I love LTT videos but I feel like over the past year or so especially their videos about this kind of stuff really moved away from the homelab/home user level and into the enterprise grade scale level. I mean while it's neat and what they as a company need it kind of now leaves a gap for the regular joe server/NAS/DAS/JBOD builds which videos like this fill in amazingly well. I almost kind of look at it like CRD as Home-User/Hobbyist level, somebody like Jayz2Cents as sort of Power-User/Small Home Business level and then LTT & a few others as basically Enterprise level stuff.

@@DrKratso I've been watching a random assortment of LTT videos over the last year for no particular reason other than they keep showing up as the next autoplay video and I've noticed just how badly their videos age. Production quality has barely improved in 5 years. Not the video quality, the content. They handle everything like its okay to throw things around and hit them with hammers. You are definitely right in it being only entertainment, its the tech version of EBLR.

I agree!!

Exactly the same for me! I was about to write a very similar comment, but now I can just say, "Same here!"

​@@tux9656I agree thirdly.

I will have a lot these videos playing while doing house work. No matter what I’m doing, if I hear “two of them” I look up to see if the meme is there. Edit: JUST SAW IT I’m so happy

I love Technology Connections' "And through the magic of buying two of them, I've got one disassembled here to look at."

@@mndlessdrwer beat me to it by a month...

SFP modules are just dumb unless you need copper or fibre for longer installations. DAC is the bees knees. They require much less power (less then 1% of a 10gbps ethernet sfp). Both optic and ethernet/copper takes alot of power to drive. Not a big issue with 2 connectors, but when you haev 24 or 48 in a rack the power demand is significant.

@@jmkhenka sfp dac?

DACs are great, but I don't care. I'm 100% with the OP here: At least it wasn't 10Gb-T.

@@nickwallette6201 What's wrong with 10Gb-T?

@@VCD-Channel A lot of little things. 1) In a commercial environment, where you're going to have potentially lots of SFP modules packed in to a dense switch port cluster, the transceivers we have today require too much power, and get too hot. It breaks the limits of the SFP+ spec, and while most implementations can handle staggered deployment (so every other port, or something like that), it's just really hacky. 2) We've kinda pushed twisted-pair signaling to the edge of its usefulness here. It's a fine topology for baseband, or 10Mb, 100Mb, or even 1Gb networking. But at the bandwidth required for 10Gb, something like coax (which, ironically, we abandoned for UTP long ago in conventional LANs) is much better suited. It's difficult to guarantee reliability at the traditional Ethernet specification of 100 meters, and even that's assuming you're using a recent plant with quality cabling that was installed carefully. Real-world cable plants are often going to be CAT-5E or CAT-6, with similarly-rated jacks and patch panels, and a lot of potential weaknesses like kinks, cinches from over-zealous zip ties, too-long runs, crappy patch cables on the ends, etc. 3) Given the density and integrity issues, many professional vendors haven't focused on 10Gb-T, so your options for 10Gb-T switches are limited compared to SFP+. This is my bread and butter, so I used to sell a lot of switches like the Juniper EX4550, which was a 32-port SFP+ switch with two modular bays where you could install an expansion card with (your choice of) 8x 10Gb-T ports, an additional 8x SFP+ ports, 2x QSFP+ ports, or 2x chassis stacking ports. Super versatile! But, that was discontinued, and there just aren't a lot of models out there where you can casually add a handful of 10Gb-T ports, without committing to an entire switch full of them. This is particularly annoying when there are just like one or two appliances that need 10Gb, but don't have any SFP+ slots. That's the worst. A lot of people need or want a healthy dose of 1Gb ports anyway for legacy or low-bandwidth appliances, or out-of-band management interfaces on their high-bandwidth appliances. So you _could_ just buy a 48-port 10Gb-T switch and run most of the ports at 1Gb, but that's going to cost a lot more than a similar 1Gb-T switch, so your only true recourse is to populate some of your valuable SFP+ slots with 10Gb-T modules -- and that just feels like the IT-industry equivalent of sharing prescription medication.

Was going to say the same 😁. Literally 15 minutes to model and maybe an hour to print. Could also, just as simply, make adapters to deal with The T9 drives not fitting into the Small Rig clamp.

Or jam a piece of cardboard in the slot with the drive.

@Cathode Ray Dude [CRD] I just caught this video now. I'd do it for him. No charge. Just have a chicken and egg of not having the drive or kingston bay/hub to measure. lol Could probably work off just a caddy and drive model. @Cathode Ray Dude [CRD]

I would go even farther :):):) Why not suggest to buy a 3d printer and build it on itself. :):):)

To be honest, the dock looks like a prosumer version of those usb copy stations they sometimes have at merch booths to have concert recordings for sale shortly after they ended.

Yeah. He could read a twenty year old newspaper and I would listen.

I agree totally, I start off thinking I will watch this guy for a few minutes only to find I have watched it for a few hours to the end.

He was so ready to shit on that battery 🤣

I deffinitly have a strong need to build a NAS watching this, one of those too-long-delayed projects

Been a long time user of Freenas (now truenas) for many years. And WD Red drives(5400rpm models). power efficient, reliable as heck and performance is not too bad really. And doing automated backups has been pretty easy, doing snapshots of changed data every day takes far less time and is often just a few seconds to a minute unless I have done something significant. Than its a little longer. And yes I mentioned my nas drives are 5400 rpm, and I do have 10g network. But as a small family its always been quite sufficient. I also use SLOG and L2Arc (flash based read and write sync caches) and the nas has 48 gigs of ram. So that itself does a lot of heavy lifting. Loading in a couple Tibbs of data for backup isn't too bad when it goes at about 600mb/s Truenas and ZFS also have paranoid levels of paranoia when it comes to data integrity. And as long as you stick to recommended practices then that data will always be safe almost no matter what.

So strip out the affiliate information in the URL. Amazon you can strip out everything past the DP/# code and it'll still work.

@@pyrioncelendil yes but that defeats the purpose of why you don't buy from someone who posts an affiliate link. If it is an affiliate link the prospect of money is the motivator of posting it and you cannot be sure they truly recommend the item because it's just as easy to post and say you like it and still get money. Deleting the affiliate info onto stops them from getting paid for your click, it can't change their reason for posting the link in the first place. By the creator *posting* a non affiliate link, they show that money could not be a motivator since they do not expect payment.

@@SonicKiwi123 exactly

I love the scene from Office Space, like "this is what's about to happen to your machine"

Lmao do you even download that??

"you finna get flashed" I died

I used a two post rack for my home theatre gear, Crestron gear, a laser printer and UPS for 10+ years. It was hidden away, so it wasn't visible from the main room. Unfortunately in the new house, it's not possible so I had to get a regular cabinet.

Así es :3

CRD's Joker moment

Add hysterically laughing LGR as needed

I've never heard of these, but color me intrigued I'll say that much.

I'm going to guess the port on the 8400 is dms-59

You could use them for folding

@@deepspacecow2644 You've never paid and electric bill have you?

@@MatthewHolevinski What gave is away, suggesting using hundreds of watts of electricity on old inefficient cpus and high power draw fans?

@@deepspacecow2644 I didn't realize that came off sounding like a jerk, I'm sorry, I meant that to be funny not mean.

@@MatthewHolevinski it was funny, I am just salty because it's true.

He also might want to consider playing with TrueNAS, possibly scale if he'd like to stick with Debian over FreeBSD and have native containerization and a better hypervisor. Doing ZFS on raw Linux is fine, but given how developed TrueNAS is as an appliance, it's worth him checking out. I know he says he doesn't want to learn anything, but with what he's doing, he's just getting access to a gui form of what he's doing in the command line. Also, the irony of him saying that TrueNAS might break is that manually configuring ZoL will mean it's more likely he could accidentally break something. I'm sure he's competent in the command line, but there's a reason OSes and Applications have GUIs. Unless he was a NixOS kid, then I'd say he's fine configuring ZFS entirely from the command line haha.

@@metaleggman18 Maybe some double checking if recursive datasets work fine in the containerized environment. Proxmox had a bug when dealing with recursive sets that is just now being patched with some updated code. But I agree using a hypervisor instead of running it directly on the bare metal would be a good idea. I used to be pretty gung-hoe about everything running on the bare metal until I had to come to terms that I'd like to not deal with some packages with pedantic requirements that can break the whole system, and instead just build a container for that service and leave it alone until I want to maintain it instead of being forced to do it during a universe upgrade.

Specifically, just get sanoid/syncoid and it can all be automated quickly: Sanoid can manage snapshots, taking snapshots daily/hourly/weekly/monthly/whatever and pruning old ones according to rules. Syncoid can sync those snapshots from a source pool to a target pool easily.. I do something similar: Mirrored NVMe drives hosting VMs, taking a daily snapshot and keeping 2 days of snapshots, and syncoid doing a daily sync from the NVMe drives to some spinning rust, where it holds more than 2 days worth of snapshots. Sanoid is basically just automatic. Syncoid is just going to replace rsync in his workflow.

Well, sure. But the 480p version of the 6K footage looks better than the 480p version of the 1080p* camera from the 2000s, noticeably so if I may add. Hell, any High Production Cost Video will still look ridiculously good, even in a low resolution. I mean, look at the LTT videos nowadays.

Camera quality is actually pretty independent from RU-vid quality setting. You can tell when the creator has a high quality camera even when viewing at 480p. Its sharper, the colors are better, there is less noise. So many other benefit than just resolution. Not that you are wrong, the audio quality is way more important. But once a creator has good quality audio, they might as well start improving video. Bad video might not drive people away as much as bad quality audio, but the viewer still notices and responds slightly better to high quality video.

If only RU-vid could deliver 480p60 video

@@DoubleMonoLR Shooting in high resolution allows you to do things in post that would be...messy at a lower resolution. That doesn't mean the end consumer needs that max resoultion, like they don't need the content delivered in 1 gibagit/sec Prores

@@LocalAitch True... we did a music video once that emulated video look and I wanted it as close to SD as possible and exported it as 576p50 (as I'm in Europe). Looked the part... RU-vid made it 480p25 which doesn't make any sense and looks horrible. Had to upscale it to 1080p50 :D

and with a laugh like this, this man is a national treasure

One of the more wholesome things in RU-vid.

A interesting journey from beginning to end, with that hilarious camcorder-battery-gaff at the beginning kicking things off wonderfully

When I was first learning server shit at work I discovered one of our servers had an iDRAC license and instantly fell in love with the features and it's saved me so much farting around. Now that I'm actually in charge of specing out our servers, we don't have a single one without that license.

I so wish Intel's AMT was more widely available too, it's not full iDRAC/iLO functionality (especially if you have an i3, but some of the i5+ only features can be unlocked with MeshCommander). I have a standard HP elitedesk 800 G2 mini PC running as a server that I can just pop open a serial-over-lan terminal or boot an ISO image over the network and it is SO. COOL.

I think the common generic term is IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface). That's what I tend to use when not OEM specific.

Hate iDRAC, other integrated server management hardware/softwares are better. Never seen so many iDRAC hardware failures over the years. I have had to replace 100s of Dell PowerEdge motherboards over the years, simply due to iDRAC hardware failures. For whatever reason. iDRACs are prone to failure. There are ways to reprogram the iDRAC firmware by externally attaching a programmer to the iDRAC firmware chip or even reprogram the iDRAC via sd card, but it is more painful than simply replacing the motherboard. iDRAC blows, but hard to have hardware lever remote server management without it. The iDRAC free verson works, but the Enterprise version is much better, with more features (and btw is easily hacked to become free, lol).

LTT desparately needs a professional admin. Someone who will tell them "no". They're not stupid, and they all have clear technical ability. But professional administration is another thing entirely.

Tlc is better, right?

yes @@KOTYAR0

The more bits per cell the lower the write endurance. TLC is Three bits per cell and QLC is Four bits per cell.

Also a function of size, also multiple level cells can be used in lower level mode (i.e. qlc can be used as slc) by the firmware iirc for e.g. caching. Best way for scratch drives is too buy high-tbw server-grade ssds which are suitable for say DB use. If course mirror them still. And eventually switch to better stuff like u.2 kioxia drives

What you got?

@@nikGhost1 Three rolls of Velvia 100 and Velvia 50, one roll of Fujicolor 100, Puyo Sun for the PS1, Sega Saturn, and N64, and a Minolta Weathermatic 35. Oh, also a Puyo Sun guidebook.

I thought about the insulation stuff you stick around your windows

or print your own drive bay with a few right angle usb-c cables going to a pcie usbc controller in the server, plug them in and the script copies the stuff on connect!

What about a magnet and some double-sided tape? Surely there’s a metal panel somewhere on the camera…

Yeah, that's what I thought immediately. This is the kind of stuff I design and send the printer almost without thinking about it these days.

@@NageebTheAverage He's not talking about the drive bracket on the camera, he's talking about the Kingston dock that they go in when he gets home.

HP used them for the same reason dell and gateway uses cheap junk. (or proprietary hardware) it makes them more money and once you've handed over your money it's your problem, not theirs.

I've seen those turions microservers around and figured there was a reason they're so cheap.

You should give truenas scale a shot... it's nice, supports dockers out of the box, runs your vm's etc; and a doofus can set it up.

If you don’t mind me asking, how many years ago was it? I tried it in I think 2015 and it was very easy and I love it. But I know they had a lot more CLI setup a few years prior to that.

1650 super is generally just a good cheap low-power gpu anyways

Just a small correction: the 1650 has the Titan V encoder, which is a bit older but still very usable. I was actually gonna suggest a low-end Ampere quadro, like the RTX A2000! (which only uses 70W)

@@SegaSaturnSubs The 1650 Super is upgraded though with turing encoder, but the 1650 (normal) is not. That's why I picked it up; absolute cheapest modern encoder card I could find!

Or even 8TB, if you're willing to drop $1100 on the SSD alone (the enclosure is only about $50).

ZFS is really grate and all. But jeez is it a pain to deal with. It is rocket science levels of work to use it. Or you pay/trust a 3th party to solve it for you. Or you use software that is not really clear if they are going to be around in years to come. But OpenZFS is honestly the only file system I can trust data to. Edit: lol. Yea Ubuntu ZFS is basically the ticket to have a decent time. But I'm not dealing with Ubuntu or Windows. So FreeBSD it is for me :/ It is hard enough dealing with Linux. But I rather deal with open source then WIndows 8+ The distro support for ZFS with Ubuntu solves allot of problems with OpenZFS on Linux.

@@TheDiner50 This is why you use FreeNas/TrueNas/etc. Let it deal with the zfs management. Couldn't be easier.

It is an interesting filesystem, but it is not optimal for servers using hardware RAID. In the case of Dell PowerEdge (like in the video) you have to disable that by flashing the card with a LSI firmware to enable some weird IT mode, which will present individual drives to the OS.

@@openworked hardware raid is a scam anyways, and should be disabled.

@@snowwsquire why? Please enlighten us

thermals? lol

@@CathodeRayDude thermals? lol

Yes but his video are all the same overhead shots so much less demanding on a camera, he does use open camera to boost the bitrate up a lot as well

His talking head shots are just him in front of a wall and the workbench shots require a lot of detail and have good light. This fits a mobile phone camera.

@@mipmipmipmipmip Not much different from CRD, is it?

He uses an iPad sir

@@psychoacer he also uses a moto g7 power.

I have to agree with the question of does it have to be 60.

I agree, recording 24/30 fps prores lt in hd will probably be more than good enough for these videos. Just make sure you do the fake upscale to 4k for the output file to youtube, so its compression algo doesnt completely destroy it.

...that moment with the fans around 39 minutes killed me, too :)