Server Upgrades - 50TB+ & Resolve Remote Rendering

Ғылым және технология

My server has finally reached the goal I set out to achieve with with it!
You can get your free $20 credit for Linode at: www.linode.com/techtangents
This server has taken a long time to reach its final form. But now that it's done I couldn't be happier. I know the concept of remote rendering isn't as appealing to everyone as it is to me. But I'm really going to enjoy the freedom of being able to start long tasks on my server and not being restricted in what I can do on my desktop now.
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  • @TechTangents
    @TechTangents3 жыл бұрын

    An update on the server and its performance since I made this video: 50% slower is a significant worst case. I use visual noise reduction as a post processing step for the video when I render. It is a fairly computationally difficult process that deals with a lot of data. I hadn't really tried to "tune" it for effect vs. performance before and just shrugged it off as something that takes forever and uses a ton of VRAM. After tweaking it though, I was able to get very similar render performance on the 1070 as I do on the 1080 ti. It mostly comes down to keeping the VRAM needed below what the card has. Doing that massively increased render performance. So the server is actually an extremely viable option for rendering now non all fronts. This project has been going on for too long so I didn't want to have to re-record the ending again just to update for that. So it's slightly wrong.

  • @maxwellbanghart2617

    @maxwellbanghart2617

    3 жыл бұрын

    Computers are cursed? Your telling me

  • @oOWaschBaerOo

    @oOWaschBaerOo

    3 жыл бұрын

    mhh i wonder if you would be down to collab with linus tech tips :P let him build a render station with tons of storage for you :D

  • @johnoutdoorvideos

    @johnoutdoorvideos

    3 жыл бұрын

    Have you run the math to see if a prebuilt Dell/HP would have saved you money considering 3 weeks of troubleshooting is quite the expensive time vampire? How do you feel about the lack of redundant power supplies?

  • @TKing2724

    @TKing2724

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@oOWaschBaerOo Hah, I like this. "Let him build a render station" as if Shelby is the one keeping that from happening.

  • @TKing2724

    @TKing2724

    3 жыл бұрын

    How did the tweaks affect the render times on your desktop's 1080ti, or did you just not bother because it's seldom used or has enough VRAM already?

  • @iambadatsomefunnies5572
    @iambadatsomefunnies55723 жыл бұрын

    Nobody: Tech Tangents: *Computers are cursed*

  • @JFD62780

    @JFD62780

    3 жыл бұрын

    ESPECIALLY if you have to channel John Moschita to explain what went wrong in a tech job. (ouch)

  • @ToTheGAMES

    @ToTheGAMES

    3 жыл бұрын

    EVERY TECH SAYS THAT! Rightfully so. Fuck computers. Love/hate.

  • @TKing2724

    @TKing2724

    3 жыл бұрын

    Especially servers. When they go down, everything crashes and burns, like in this case here.

  • @Hogdriva

    @Hogdriva

    3 жыл бұрын

    He’s not wrong. They seem to work 90% of the time but that 10% of the time they are on the fritz is usually right when a project is due lol

  • @TKing2724

    @TKing2724

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Hogdriva There is no way any computer (or part) manufacturer is in business selling equipment that works only 90% of the time. Servers have uptime in the range of 99.5-99.9999%.

  • @asagoodfriend
    @asagoodfriend3 жыл бұрын

    Hey man, good to see you again! Akkbkku! 😬

  • @gustavgurke9665

    @gustavgurke9665

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aaaaand that's why he changed his name :D

  • @bitterjames

    @bitterjames

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gustavgurke9665 his old name was better

  • @asagoodfriend

    @asagoodfriend

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bitterjames agreed! it was kinda unique one 😀

  • @gustavgurke9665

    @gustavgurke9665

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bitterjames Sure, I actually liked it and I was quite good at remembering how to spell and pronounce it, but I get why he changed it, as "AkBKukU" is not easy to remember and sounds kind of weird.

  • @adriansdigitalbasement
    @adriansdigitalbasement3 жыл бұрын

    So very helpful! Thank you. I really need to sort out my situation and get some kind or remote rendering working. And then storage... Ugh. Yep need to sort it all out!

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hit me up, I'll help you if you want, I enjoy your content as much as TT's.

  • @adriansdigitalbasement

    @adriansdigitalbasement

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gartral Thanks! Wasn't sure how to hit you up -- could you drop me a line at the email address here? kzread.infoabout

  • @d.logic1
    @d.logic13 жыл бұрын

    @1:10 i was waiting for "If it doesn't say Micro Machines, it's not the real thing!"

  • @ScotchGuy
    @ScotchGuy3 жыл бұрын

    9:24 ! THANK YOU so much for covering the all the same drive issue. I don't know how many customers in how many data centres I've worked in have run into issues, wether it's firmware updates on those drives to prevent issues or bad rebuilds that kill an entire array; it's something very few people actually know about or plan for!

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    I pounded that issue home with him, but he's prepared for the eventuality of the array crapping out on him! I'm in the same boat... soo many clients saying "But! We bought them based on your spec!"... Yea... and you ignored me when I said that you need to WAIT A MONTH and buy more so they aren't the same batch! "But, you said it was reliable!"... Yea... WITH BACKUPS!.... *grumble mumble....*

  • @JonTheGeek
    @JonTheGeek3 жыл бұрын

    Your rant at the beginning alone deserves a like. Oh my god I have that razor

  • @Qardo
    @Qardo3 жыл бұрын

    I will say. You reading the script. If someone puts a beat in the back ground. You'd be a rapping god!

  • @Ziggurat1

    @Ziggurat1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now you have to put a beat in the background

  • @gabest4
    @gabest43 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to /r/datahoarder.

  • @boxman139
    @boxman1393 жыл бұрын

    I’m lovin the new and innovative camera angles

  • @ThePiGuy24
    @ThePiGuy243 жыл бұрын

    Top Ten Rappers Eminem was too afraid to diss

  • @asagoodfriend

    @asagoodfriend

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @mushroomsamba82

    @mushroomsamba82

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm beginning to feel like a (server) rack god

  • @jackeldridge1319
    @jackeldridge13193 жыл бұрын

    Man AkBkuku ur looking good as lately dude, ur skin's cleaned up alot man I'm really pleased for u dude fr

  • @ninja011
    @ninja0113 жыл бұрын

    I feel so sorry for you dude. I used to do server admin and tech work for a living, and it was a headache. Kudos to you for doing this project.

  • @sadmac356
    @sadmac3563 жыл бұрын

    I think I got halfway through the video before I realized what your shirt says. Nice!

  • @gustavgurke9665
    @gustavgurke96653 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen you this pissed!

  • @SikkSiccNasty
    @SikkSiccNasty3 жыл бұрын

    Love the LTT hat! Your vids are super interesting, got mentioned to you from LGR!

  • @helloimash
    @helloimash3 жыл бұрын

    the quick spoken summary of problems was so intensely fast I felt my heart rate rise lol

  • @darkestlost
    @darkestlost3 жыл бұрын

    I would love to watch you doing all the job

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    Trust me... it was mostly spent watching a terminal window and banging his head into the desk... lol

  • @herrpez
    @herrpez3 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, that intro. I had an issue today where grub decided to add "nomodeset" to the updated kernel. That was such a weird issue, and it managed to annoy the heck out of me for 20 minutes before I figured out why X wouldn't start. Not sure I would have had the patience to deal with that server. Hats off!

  • @Codeaholic1
    @Codeaholic13 жыл бұрын

    Even though it was hard. You succeed. Remember it's the journey not the destination that's important here. Keep your head up and keep doing what you do.

  • @MisterRorschach90
    @MisterRorschach903 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking who is this and why am I subbed to someone I don’t know. But it’s just you. I’ll watch.

  • @EposVox
    @EposVox3 жыл бұрын

    Heck yeah!

  • @Jeriamy
    @Jeriamy3 жыл бұрын

    Great Micro Machines commercial at the beginning!

  • @turbo5546
    @turbo55463 жыл бұрын

    sounds like you've been having the same problem with cursed servers the last month as me. It's always disappointing cause it quickly saps your joy of working with computers when things go wrong over and over and over again. But I'm glad you managed to work through and get things into a workable state.

  • @PaulinOsakanow
    @PaulinOsakanow3 жыл бұрын

    LOL you're awesome, looking forward to more.

  • @needfuldoer4531
    @needfuldoer45313 жыл бұрын

    Good thing you went with 8 TB drives; WD's 6 TB and smaller drives are apparently all SMR, which is no bueno for RAID. Apparently the WD80EZAZ is CMR, so they're fine. (I'm talking about Shingled Magnetic Recording. It's a way to cram more data onto drive platters by laying the rust particles on top of each other like roof shingles. It works, but a side effect is that *rewrites* become destructive. In order for an SMR drive to rewrite old data, it has to read off the data it's going to destroy, write the intended data, then read off the data it's going to destroy to put that first layer back, etc. This can cause long lag times that make RAID controllers assume the drive has failed. Western Digital marketed NAS drives that are intended for RAID arrays, but didn't specify that they're SMR., and it's become a scandal/crisis in the data storage world.)

  • @nickaugust1661
    @nickaugust1661 Жыл бұрын

    hey dude you have awesome content man! keep it up

  • @hernancoronel
    @hernancoronel3 жыл бұрын

    I would add a couple of things: MTBFs for drives vary immensely even for identical drives because they are just a mean and they don’t specify any other statistical important value. Also reading a drive sequentially as the recovery process performs is not as bad as reading the disk all over. Thanks for the great video!

  • @ThriftyAV
    @ThriftyAV3 жыл бұрын

    I'm running into issues with full drives, too! Right now I'm using external drives, but I know this is not a long-term solution. My buddy has been trying to talk me into buying a used Xeon server with a bunch of drive bays for remote rendering and storage. Your 3 week of agony script SCARED me, but I'm glad you suffered the server woes so I don't have to! I will be bookmarking this vid, and coming back to it later when I do my next upgrade.

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    his woes were more to do with being unprepared rather than the tech itself.

  • @saramandaia
    @saramandaia3 жыл бұрын

    Everyone in this life wanna be somebody. I grew up with computers around me, tech all over, spent my entire life since I was 7 yo in front of computers. I am 33 right now, still working and living in front of machines, but the knowledge Tech Tangents have reached I would say he's one of most powerful man in the entire world. They can take you EVERYTHING: money, cars, house, COMPUTERS....but they never can take your knowledge.

  • @EngineeringVignettes
    @EngineeringVignettes3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tips on Davinci Resolve, I collect them as a hobby. Learning that system is _fun_ (why did I choose it... why?) I did not know about X2Go, I use Moba-XTerm myself at home and at work. Constantly logging onto Linux VMs and running GUI apps like editors and Xilinx Vivado... It's pretty good, lots of connection options and a fairly painless local x-session on Windows. I ssh into the VM then just launch the gui on it and moba picks it up on WIndows. Cheers,

  • @RanFuRe
    @RanFuRe3 жыл бұрын

    In this video you look a little like I would imagine Hoagie from DOTT would look irl. I like it :)

  • @FckYTAdHandels
    @FckYTAdHandels3 жыл бұрын

    Idk. You seem like a naturel in front of a camera, and you are always entertaining! And you make good educational content... so thank you!

  • @GameTechRefuge
    @GameTechRefuge3 жыл бұрын

    4K really isn't worth it.

  • @onometre

    @onometre

    3 жыл бұрын

    Strong disagree

  • @GameTechRefuge

    @GameTechRefuge

    3 жыл бұрын

    @The Lavian Oh on a CRT, now your talking.

  • @onometre

    @onometre

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fr tho "4k isn't worth it" is the pc gamer version of "the eye can't see anything beyond 30fps"

  • @GameTechRefuge

    @GameTechRefuge

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@onometre My point is more about the effort and expense of setting up a render farm just to go 4K. In time it'll be easier and cheaper once the hardware caches up.

  • @Pasi123

    @Pasi123

    3 жыл бұрын

    Even most movies aren't real 4K yet. And most people don't watch KZread on a 4K monitor, though KZread has really low bitrate for 1080p so 4K looks a lot better even on a 1080p monitor

  • @kaczan3
    @kaczan33 жыл бұрын

    I've had the same problem with my Waifu Wallpaper collection.

  • @billy-waynejeffcoat4828

    @billy-waynejeffcoat4828

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea imma need the magnet link or Google drive address to that

  • @CanDoo321
    @CanDoo3213 жыл бұрын

    It’s a shame you d nod live closer, I’d be happy to share my server setup and how I tackled ZFS and other issues. Drop me a pm if you’d like to nerd out.

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    we decided against ZFS for this as his backup scheme is fairly robust as is, and we were mainly limited by SATA speeds on the SSDs and regular read/write speeds on the HDDs. Besides that, being on Ubuntu the ZFS route was cagey at best, as a distro upgrade might have ruined the ZFS Pool. Trust me, we explored this in depth and we went back and forth for days before deciding that MDADM RAIDs were the easiest and most robust route.

  • @CanDoo321

    @CanDoo321

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gartral cool, I stayed away from Linux for ZFS and went the FreeBSD route, seeing how ZFSs native OS Solaris is dead.

  • @bonesboy367
    @bonesboy3673 жыл бұрын

    You know shjt was wild when he shows up looking like the big Lebowski

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Shelby, I'm curious if setting the nice value high enough on the render job would allow you to use your desktop while it's rendering? I don't know if you can render one project on two graphics cards at once, but that would open up rendering two different ones potentially. I only bring this up because when I was running F@H, because it has the high nice value, I was able to game at the same time with only a small amount of FPS loss, and regular web browsing and Discord felt totally normal, even with F@H pegging my system.

  • @Ziggurat1
    @Ziggurat13 жыл бұрын

    the 3.3v pin that puts the disks to sleep is there on purpose to stop people from shucking drives

  • @eformance
    @eformance3 жыл бұрын

    I have some older NAS machines with 2TB Seagate drives that have 8.5 years of continuous on time, I can assure you that when a drive fails has little to do with when they were put into service. Temperature can certainly affect drives, but I observed that failure rates were inconsistent and not linked to ambient temperature or use. There are short life failures and long life failures. None of the drives, out of 53, were complete failures, only SMART errors. I have replaced all the drives with SMART errors and written a Nagios check that looks for these failures.

  • @Codeaholic1
    @Codeaholic13 жыл бұрын

    I'm interested to hear what specific issues you had with remote rendering without running X. If it's just alsa related there are ways to create a null .asoundrc to give you an alsa device that does nothing. You can do the same for pulseaudio on top of alsa. Kudos for reaching for x2go. Remote desktop, despite being primarily a Microsoft technology is far superior to VNC.

  • @dergrunepunkt
    @dergrunepunkt3 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up to that Raid 5, I used Raid 5 for YEEEEEEAAAAARs on enterprise environments even on commodity HW totally fine

  • @eformance
    @eformance3 жыл бұрын

    You should consider getting a X9DRi-F, X9DRI-F-O, or X9DRi-LN4F+, all of them have more favorable slot configurations than your current board.

  • @varszegimarcell
    @varszegimarcell3 жыл бұрын

    I've fallen in love with my Model M too.

  • @metmanik
    @metmanik3 жыл бұрын

    yaay! new video!

  • @mlzphoto-official
    @mlzphoto-official3 жыл бұрын

    do you _really_ need 4K 60 fps for the type of content you do? lots of resources could be saved/freed with going Full HD "only".

  • @rasz

    @rasz

    3 жыл бұрын

    self inflicted problems, unless AkBKukU produces for Brazzers on the side

  • @chunye215

    @chunye215

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's what I think too. I always watch at 1080p30. But I get that lots of tech enthusiasts like it that way, even if just for the sake of it. And I guess it's a fun challenge to produce at that quality. Gotta justify that rendering setup, plus the higher fidelity the picture is, the more care you just take to produce a clean image. I see the appeal in trying to achieve this.

  • @BrunodeSouzaLino

    @BrunodeSouzaLino

    2 жыл бұрын

    The vast majority of people that record in 60 FPS don't even produce content that would benefit from being recorded in 60 FPS. The same applies for 4K.

  • @MrDanJF
    @MrDanJF3 жыл бұрын

    Off-topic but I'm impressed by the quality of your audio setup - is that a ribbon mic you're using?

  • @TheErador
    @TheErador3 жыл бұрын

    Would like to see the raid performance tips for AF drives etc.

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    Happy to post them here for you: AF is the "logical" version of SMR... they're 4kb sectors on the platter but broken up to 4 512b sectors by the controller... which is fine if you're AWARE of that before smacking a FS on them! if the FS isn't aligned and tuned for it then the drive has to read the 4kb sector, write just the 512 chunk that changed, and write that back to the drive, tanking performance, but READS aren't affected! I avoid AF like the plague, opting for 4kb native (4kn) when and where I can get them, and 512n when the controller I'm pairing them with calls for it Don't use a partition on a RAID as it misaligns the FS to the block devices and slows everything down significantly and just put the FS on the bare array with "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mdX -O sparse_super -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 -m 0 -T largefile" sparse_super puts fewer superblocks on the FS, saving a few hundred MB of storage for this array, the lazy_*_init=0 force all initialization to be handled at creation. -m 0 removes the root reserved space, saving us 300GB of space, an finally -T largefile tuned the array for files over 12GB.

  • @TheErador

    @TheErador

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gartral cheers for that. I never understood why fdisk/gdisk etc doesn't auto align partitions to avoid that whole mess. Would the zfs raidz5 or whatever it's called not be better? Although Shelby said there was a hardware raid card so i guess you lose that write cache...

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheErador we aren't using the hardware raid card because it's not somthing that's easily portable between servers... also while a HW raid card is rebuilding the array the ENTIRE server is down till it's done and it's MUCH harder to recover from a URE. ZFS has it's place for sure... but this use-case was very much more suited to MDADM

  • @TheErador

    @TheErador

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gartral fair. I generally prefer software raid, got bitten by dodgy raid card firmwares in the past.

  • @nathanielbest3541
    @nathanielbest35413 жыл бұрын

    Raid = Redundant Array of Independent Discs .. yes I'm sure others have posted it, but here is my posting Shelby...lol

  • @ZiggyTheHamster

    @ZiggyTheHamster

    3 жыл бұрын

    The joke is that it also means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, so he said "something or other"

  • @squid11160
    @squid111603 жыл бұрын

    How much utilization do you see using nvidia-smi while there is a render going on?

  • @moth.monster
    @moth.monster3 жыл бұрын

    random question why does every lto drive i see on ebay have the one bezel thing missing? do they remove them for datacenter use or something?

  • @leonlionheart5504
    @leonlionheart55043 жыл бұрын

    pop_OS, Hell yeah.

  • @andrew1977au
    @andrew1977au3 жыл бұрын

    Wow is about all ive got for you

  • @rudresh10000
    @rudresh100003 жыл бұрын

    I was fully expecting "Computers: How do they work?"

  • @shadowtheimpure
    @shadowtheimpure3 жыл бұрын

    As far as RAID goes, I see no problems with RAID 5 as long as the user in question goes in without preconceived notions and with full understanding of the limitations. It has its problems (especially with high capacity drives and rebuild times), but it IS still an effective means of providing primary redundancy.

  • @nickwallette6201
    @nickwallette62013 жыл бұрын

    X to go, huh? I’ve been trying to use a Linux VM from Mac OS via X forwarding, and it’s quite clear that it doesn’t get quite the same QA love that it used to. KDE isn’t exactly a bastion of code stability, but forwarded over SSH every proper shutdown is a blessing.

  • @ZiggyTheHamster
    @ZiggyTheHamster3 жыл бұрын

    Something that I like to do (which might be a total waste of time, I don't know), is if I have a RAID5-7/RAIDZx of identical brand new drives, I grab one drive and leave it plugged in for a week and constantly write random data to it for the whole week (while true; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/whatever bs=4M status=progress; done ... in screen so I can close the shell). Given the bell curve of MTBFs, this one should become unhealthy earlier than the others, and that will be an indicator to take immediate corrective action to save the array (like maybe do a full tape backup and order new drives)

  • @ToTheGAMES
    @ToTheGAMES3 жыл бұрын

    Table goes wobble wobble. Sever sweating he might fall.

  • @middle_pickup
    @middle_pickup Жыл бұрын

    I'm interested in your LTO backup workflow. How cost effective is that? What model did you get?

  • @annebokma4637
    @annebokma4637 Жыл бұрын

    For remote rendering, does it matter much if you have the gpu in a x16 or x8 slot?

  • @RisingRevengeance
    @RisingRevengeance3 жыл бұрын

    Consider playing Terraria in a livestream or something. I think it could be a good time.

  • @FerintoshFarmsPhotography

    @FerintoshFarmsPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    No lego island

  • @MakarovFox
    @MakarovFox3 жыл бұрын

    you look more big lol, but is an ilucion for the beard and the hair in the first minutes

  • @eukat3ch
    @eukat3ch3 жыл бұрын

    RAID 5.. into the deep end brother.. good luck.. and trust me on this.. drives dont wear out at the same time, because you bought them at the same date.. for the love of DATA, love the vids keep em coming. On a personal note, i have been running WD Red's for a long time and they do well. It is a lottery though. I am thinking about Ironwolf Pro's for my next storage solution.

  • @blakecasimir
    @blakecasimir3 жыл бұрын

    What is currently the best solution for network based rendering with Blender?

  • @dangerousmythbuster
    @dangerousmythbuster3 жыл бұрын

    I was just thinking about the RAID 5 issues, I don't recommend RAID 5 to clients anymore but it's fine if you're willing to accept the risk.

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    WITH the proper backups he's doing, and the fact that this is an archive target with size and basic redundancy as the goals, the risks were weighed and we decided it was the right direction. Trust me, he's well appraised of the risks and has a robust plan in place for data safety.

  • @dangerousmythbuster

    @dangerousmythbuster

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gartral I think that's basically what I said.

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dangerousmythbuster I was attempting to reinforce, not refute the point. Sorry, that could have been worded better!

  • @dangerousmythbuster

    @dangerousmythbuster

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gartral no problem

  • @JessicaFEREM
    @JessicaFEREM3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't mind having an hour long video tbh

  • @evensgrey
    @evensgrey3 жыл бұрын

    OK, you really need a lift table, similar to the ones This Old Tony and Marius Hornberger have videos on making (out of metal and wood respectively). Global Industrial, for instance, has this: www.globalindustrial.com/p/material-handling/lift-tables/mobile-scissor/mobile-scissor-li-table-330-lb-capacity?ref=cat/b/mobile_scissor Which is a reasonably capable looking mobile lift table for a reasonable looking price, except for the fact that Global Industrial itself has fair to god-awful consumer reviews. Their BBB rating is showing as A+, so they do deal with consumer problems in some manner. (Their products look like standard industrial supply sort of stuff, so it's quite possible regular consumers are just not familiar with how an industrial supplier normally operates and are unhappy with that level of service.) edit: Poking about a bit further, they also have things like this: www.globalindustrial.com/p/material-handling/lift-trucks/office-lab/hand-w-operated-office-li-truck-220-lb-capacity Unpowered light-duty (for this kind of equipment) high-lift lift truck, lifts up to 59 inches, and the platform is 19 inches wide, ideal for rack-mount gear to heavy to comfortably lift. Seriously, if you'r going to use such heavy rack-mount units, get yourself a lift truck or table. It would be disastrous in multiple ways to slip carrying something like that server.

  • @mushroomsamba82
    @mushroomsamba823 жыл бұрын

    1:40 I'm beginning to feel like a (server) rack god

  • @funnypranker34
    @funnypranker342 жыл бұрын

    *looks at his mac pro with 2.2 TB and linux file server with 1.2 TB* I havent even filled that up yet and i still want more storage

  • @actualhyena
    @actualhyena3 жыл бұрын

    Damn Shelby, you could read off benchmarks for Gamers Nexus.

  • @DugB0915
    @DugB09153 жыл бұрын

    So, why didn't you use ZFS pools instead of RAID5? (apologies if you mentioned this...commenting while watching)

  • @iuliantoma4455
    @iuliantoma44553 жыл бұрын

    I'll never understand why people are still bothering with conventional raid when ZFS has basically become mainstream. For years! And NO, nevermind the low hanging fruits usually thrown in your face when it comes to raid 5 and large capacity drives. Personally I just can't stand the insane times it needs to initialize an array before you can do something with it. Or fast init it but then know it will grind them for EVEN LONGER in the background, for goddamn zeroed drives. Or days spent resyncing when the system is otherwise filled at 30% capacity. I also like the flexibility of ZFS, I can take my drives, put them in a bone stock install, import the ZFS pool and have access to my data in a second. Don't need to care abut the hardware spec, firmware revisions, config files or whatever. But hey, maybe that's just me.

  • @genderender

    @genderender

    3 жыл бұрын

    ZFS on Linux could get in the way of Shelby's situation knowing his luck lol. BSD based ZFS means no Davinci Resolve so a no go. I do agree that its a better solution for a file server like this. RAID imo is best for pure file servers of a small amount of disks (like those 4 port NAS enclosures). RAID 5-7 are just meh

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    when we initialized the arrays we tuned it so that creating the arrays and FS only took about 10 minutes. Yes, ZFS is nearly instant, but there were other factors to account for. And it would have been MORE work to turn off the snapshot journal and metadata duplication for data deduplication. Not to mention the ZFS IO driver on linux is kernel specific and has been known to change and not mount a pool between kernels... not a good fit for long term storage. ZFS is a good choice for a NAS... it's not the right tool for this particular job.

  • @moosethemucha

    @moosethemucha

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@genderender you do realise ubuntu 18+ includes ZFS standard in there kernel

  • @genderender

    @genderender

    3 жыл бұрын

    moosethemucha I didn’t say it didn’t

  • @iuliantoma4455

    @iuliantoma4455

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm not gonna argue with you because ZFS under linux is not my cup of tea. It's just when I saw this video I saw enough red flags to make me pay attention. I'm gonna be obnoxious enough to reiterate the old adage that RAID is not the proper way to archive data. It should provide data availability and uptime and not persistence long term. I see tech youtubers getting this wrong left and right, from LMG down across the board, they all seem to get the process skewed. Just because you can cram a lot of drives in a server doesn't mean you should - unless you're selling cloud storage or you're one of those people that fire up cigars with wads of money. Because you have a timeline with defined cycles of projects the data you're storing has a short shelf life, you need to flush everything older that let's say 6 months maximum into actual archives and that could mean only one thing: duplicate tapes. Another save in a cloud is just a wonderful bonus. With LTO-2 you will need 120 tapes to flush a filled up 24TB array. That means TWO SETS of 120 tapes stored in two different locations. That's a lot of tapes! Even if you take a couple of years for full cycle it's still a lot and they keep adding up. This is why I should have halved the array size and put my money on getting a newer tape drive. LTO-5 is already a 10 years old, it's not like you pay any early adopter premium. LTO-6 would be even better. You see then, when I saw this video, IMHO I saw more "wants" than "needs" and a functional bottleneck. That led me to believe that maybe the choice of raid wasn't sufficiently thought of either.

  • @NHMaximiliano
    @NHMaximiliano3 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand anything, but... cool! 😅

  • @circuitsandcigars1278
    @circuitsandcigars12783 жыл бұрын

    "I should be good for a very long time" .. :: 8k video knocks at the door::

  • @elhugo13
    @elhugo133 жыл бұрын

    Man i had to slow down the video for that opening part way to fast for me in 2x speed.

  • @LocalAitch
    @LocalAitch3 жыл бұрын

    Did you read that with peripheral vision? Or was the paper a pure prop? You looked straight at the camera and not the paper during that lmao 😂

  • @GeoffSeeley
    @GeoffSeeley3 жыл бұрын

    Ah, I see you learned that servers aren't PCs and are a whole other world of complexity. You should really be using ZFS for everything as it has other benefits.

  • @Flo8770
    @Flo87703 жыл бұрын

    Buy a 1650 Ultra it has the TU 106-125 Chip and RTX Cores for Video Rendering.

  • @AdolphusOfBlood
    @AdolphusOfBlood3 жыл бұрын

    Did you make sure those drives to got are not shingled?

  • @Gartral

    @Gartral

    3 жыл бұрын

    the 6tb ones aren't we went over that pretty hard, the 8s... well... they're really meant for archival so...

  • @AdolphusOfBlood

    @AdolphusOfBlood

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gartral ehh, if the 8tb drives die he says he will have proper archival backups on tape and offsite, so even if the are SMR and he loses the entire array... It should not matter much anyway.

  • @russianmusicgroup
    @russianmusicgroup3 жыл бұрын

    "SATA AF" hehehehe marked it on my drive as a joke

  • @DanielLopez-up6os
    @DanielLopez-up6os3 жыл бұрын

    Ya need Linus to Make ya your Own Petabyte Server in a few years :D

  • @piecaruso97
    @piecaruso973 жыл бұрын

    As very interesting as those videos are i think you need some help from linus to get one of those multiple terabytes storinators

  • @XanatosDavid
    @XanatosDavid3 жыл бұрын

    If you need HDD's for roughly 11€/TB I have a merchant in the Netherlands with very attractive offerings, I got 200TB my self recently running 16 drives in raid 60 and 4 spares for the future, muhahahaha... About zfs vs HW raid, try doing that with a windows server LOL I know linux is superior but sometimes expedience is more important. And I got 2 spare raid controllers so in case something happens I have a reserve.

  • @samuelyoung1
    @samuelyoung13 жыл бұрын

    raid 5 is fine, far as i know

  • @Beany2007FTW
    @Beany2007FTW3 жыл бұрын

    Top tip - for local archival, just give up on using anything fancy and get a QNAP/Syno. Bang some disks in, set up rsync, and never have to think about it for another five years. Yeah, I know some of the fun is in building it, but I'm a Linux systems administrator, and I do enough of that at work frankly.... I've been really pleased with the wee Syno DS214+ I've had since 2015, it just keeps on trucking along with zero input required, does everything from FTP to iscsi. Absolute bliss compared to the FreeNAS box I had before (although I hear FreeNAS is waaay better now, too)

  • @an2qzavok
    @an2qzavok3 жыл бұрын

    having 50+TB of storage sounds nice, but spinning all this rust 24/7 feels somehow wrong to me.

  • @Hogdriva
    @Hogdriva3 жыл бұрын

    Anyone ever tell you you look a lot like Weird Al Yankovic lol

  • @othinus
    @othinus3 жыл бұрын

    Please cover 486 computers from 1995 era. ❤️🇵🇭

  • @parkerlreed

    @parkerlreed

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wasn't Pentium already king in the mid 90s?

  • @anirocks11
    @anirocks113 жыл бұрын

    Please tighten the legs of the desk that you use at the beginning of the video.

  • @dangerousmythbuster
    @dangerousmythbuster3 жыл бұрын

    As Wendell would say, computers barely work.

  • @ToTheGAMES

    @ToTheGAMES

    3 жыл бұрын

    Another great one is: Learning sand to think was a mistake.

  • @dangerousmythbuster

    @dangerousmythbuster

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ToTheGAMES I believe it is actually "Teaching sand to think was a mistake".

  • @MaxUgly
    @MaxUgly3 жыл бұрын

    Let me just comment before I even watch the damn thing!

  • @staticfanatic
    @staticfanatic3 жыл бұрын

    it always catches me offguard when americans say "what all". it's something you just don't hear elsewhere.

  • @off_on_one
    @off_on_one3 жыл бұрын

    I actually thought you looked better with facial hair

  • @FinalBossOfCanada
    @FinalBossOfCanada3 жыл бұрын

    just to let you know the gtx 2060 is now 299$

  • @FinalBossOfCanada

    @FinalBossOfCanada

    3 жыл бұрын

    (from what i heard)

  • @moosethemucha
    @moosethemucha3 жыл бұрын

    x2go - um where have i been living - thanks for that ssh -X always sucks and VNC is also shitty

  • @nnnnnn3647
    @nnnnnn36473 жыл бұрын

    I see your channel and it always amuses me with yotubers. You have simple projects that you can do on your phone, but you've surrounded yourself with equipment like you were in a space station. ;) Over-invented, over-invested, too complicated.

  • @MisterRorschach90
    @MisterRorschach903 жыл бұрын

    It’s weird seeing a techtuber not able to put dual 2080ti or titan cards with like dual 28 or 64 cores and over a tb of ram.

  • @edwardelrlic
    @edwardelrlic3 жыл бұрын

    Dude u got wonderful hair why dnt make shampoo commercial in ur free time?

  • @orangeActiondotcom
    @orangeActiondotcom3 жыл бұрын

    Computers were a mistake.

  • @BennBirch
    @BennBirch3 жыл бұрын

    Great video spoiled by the desktop pcscenes having a ~6khz tone whining away. Painful to watch. I'm very surprised you don't use LPF/HPF plugins in Davinci for just this sort of thing. With the amount of CRT's you use (I suspect the TRS-80 in the background may be the culprit here) it just stands to reason you'd do that by default.

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