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show off your Riggins style with the view 37 from thermal take a large curved window offers the generous view of your components with included addressable RGB fans for a fully custom interior enjoy the freedom of full-sized hardware high-end water cooling support and dust filtered ventilation for a system that performs as good as it looks click the link below to learn more what's going on guys welcome back to the channel so today's project is actually gonna revolve around tackling a huge issue or a need that we've been faced with for the last couple of months here on the channel you might notice that our image quality for our videos has gone up a notch and that's because one of the reasons apart from Chris who's holding the camera right now is the camera itself which is the sony fs7 beautiful camera but it creates some seriously huge file sizes one project now that we create here in the studio can can take anywhere from three to six hundred gigs which is immense so the other issue is that we have a couple different editors besides me now me Chris and wifey sauce and occasionally a project will have to trade hands and when that happens we either have to do some musical chairs magic where we all swap computers or we have to spend a lot of time taking the files putting them on an external drive and moving them to a different computer it's uh it's been a huge burden lately if you guys will come this way for a moment you'll notice that we have our three workstations set up here let's take a look at one of them this is the one that Chris usually works on you can see that we've got a two terabyte hard drive that's just kind of for backup and then we have two one terabyte SSDs that are already pretty much filled to the brim and there's only maybe two to five projects in each of these drives guys so it's it's clearly an issue and even worse is that we don't currently have any good system worked out for redundancy so if one of these drives goes right now we're kind of screwed and that data is completely lost it's a freaking everyone out wifey sauce has been under a lot of stress lately and she doesn't even do that much editing compared to Chris and I I mean I should give her the benefit that she's one of the most hard-working people I've ever met personally and I can't even imagine what I would do with yeah yeah he does we take 10 minute breaks every few hours it's like a illegal thing so that is but anyway we have a serious need that needs serious tending to and I have the perfect solution today I will be putting together a 10 gigabit storage server which is a project unlike any other that I've ever taken on before and full disclaimer I am a networking newbie there's very little that I know about hard core networking there's still much for me to learn in this regard and also a lot of the information that I share with you guys today will be heavily regurgitated from Wendell of level one techs who was instrumental at helping me get this project up off the ground so huge thanks to him he taught me so much in so little time and also helped me source a lot of the hardware that you're about to see so you guys haven't checked out level one text yet I highly recommend it there's some really great content on there so with that in mind let's take a look at some of this hardware we're working with for starters we have 24 8 terabyte and 302 C ba enterprise level hard drives these things are good for 24/7 operation and it gives us a total of a hundred and ninety two terabytes to work with now of course we will be putting this in RAID 10 which is raid 1+0 so we kind of get the best of both worlds in terms of redundancy and performance so the redundancy side of things that means we'll actually be having the amount of usable data here or usable storage I should say so that's really only only 96 terabytes of workable storage but at least we'll be safe in case of a drive failure or multiple drive failures it also gets us some speed performance by striping the drives together meaning that we'll actually be able to saturate hopefully at least with the read speeds a 110 gigabit per second connection which is very exciting these drives will be living inside of this disk shelf this is an LSI SAS 6 gigabit per second disk shelf we've got a redundant power supply this is just going to be so much easier especially because we'll be connecting this to a host PC using just these two cables which allows for just a very sexy configuration I mean imagine how many SATA cables you would actually have to wire up if you had them going to each individual drive it would just be a madhouse so this is a very clean solution that I'm very excited to to take advantage of today but let's talk about the host PC because this is just a disc shelf after all there's no onboard processing here so we need an actual computer in order to do all the heavy lifting will actually be using the ZFS file system which is known for being a very advanced and reliable file system in that case we're gonna be using FreeNAS loading it up onto an SSD and booting up off of that that's not in here yet but we'll get around to that this is the trooper SC first off from Coolermaster a very nice case tons of an airflow I'll probably be adding some more fans especially to certain areas in the build that get extra hot under these types of server storage storage server workloads we wanted to go the economical route so we went with Rison because it's got you know high core and thread count but also it supports things like ECC memory and so we've got the risin 7 1700 in here we haven't done any overclocking yet or anything like that not even sure if we're going to yet the CPU is being cooled by an Arctic freeze cooler with a 120 millimeter fan I kind of took a chance on this cooler not sure if it's going to work out we can always replace it later down the line if not we've got 64 gigs of tritons er GB RAM before you freak out this is just temporary to get things up and running we actually have a 128 gigabyte kit of G snow kingston unbuffered ECC memory on the way so yeah and then we also have our X 370 motherboard the Tai Chi from asrock beautiful board and has a lot of connectivity all the bells and whistles we could possibly need for this project right here let's talk about what's populating our PCI Express slots starting with the EVGA geforce gtx 1050 Ti we're pretty much just gonna be using this to connect a monitor so that we can sort of visualize and monitor our system real time and then we also have a 10 gigabit ethernet card here this is the Intel X 540 t2 with dual rj45 ports we'll be connecting this to our 10 gigabit 12 port switch and finally down here we have our LSI SAS 6 gigabit per second controller which is a got eight channels to it so there's two ports on the back four channels on each port and if you do the math six gigabit per second that gives us 48 gigabits of bandwidth coming out of this thing which is absolutely crazy one thing i aughtta meant that these SAS controllers are known to get extremely hot under load but they won't actually notify you or warn you at least this one doesn't when it gets too hot so it'll just end up dying if you don't take care of it which is why I'm probably gonna have to MacGyver at some point a case fan that's aimed straight at this card for dedicated airflow so we don't run into any failures additionally we have an Intel obtain 900 P SSD this thing's an absolute animal 480 gigs this is gonna be our cache drive it's known for its incredibly high endurance I mean you can literally write dozens of petabytes to this thing before it becomes unreliable and the read and write speeds are just through the roof some of the best write speeds on the market right now and apart from that we've got an 80 plus 650 watt g-series power supply from C sonic but that's pretty much our rig guys this is our host PC that I cannot wait to get connected to this dish disk shelf once we've populated it with all of these drives so let's go ahead and do that now and hopefully by the end of this little montage I'll be able to show you guys this 10 gigabit storage server in action q epic music all right the NASS is finally up and running thank God it's been such a long process I should mention that this today is like about three or four days after the rest of the video that you've already seen because we had a weekend in between it messed everything up but anyway we're up and running it's functional there's still a lot of optimizing that we have to do to make sure everything's running the best it can but we're operational so that's good right now all the drives are alive and well knock on wood that they stay that way for a long time but Wendell did suggest that we hit the NASS hard with tons of file transfers just to make sure that none of these drives are defective and peter out in the first couple of weeks so maybe after about a week or two if everything looks good then we'll start using it for real I should mention it's a little noisy in here because we do have a large blower fan not the GPU kind aimed straight at our Nick our ten gigabit Nick and the the RAID controller I thought this was an HPA I actually ordered an HPA they sent me a rate controller instead didn't even realize it because I've never really worked with either of those things and I said Wendell the picture I was like is this right he's like that's a raid cart that's actually like a $300 brand new raid cart and I was like well I paid 80 bucks for it and it was supposed to be an HPA so we might we might actually do a little trade because I can still get everything up and running with this raid cart in here but an HPA just makes a lot more sense for my needs and I think Wendell just really really wants my rate card now everything else is looking good there was a bit of a swap aru inside of the system I don't know if you can tell from there but the m-dot 2 adapter that was connected to our octane drive that was initially in the bottom m2 slot of our system had to move that up to the top slot because I completely forgot that it's sharing bandwidth with the bottom PCIe slot which is where our NIC is currently so the NIC wasn't working initially so I had to pop that MDOT to card up a few notches and everything's working fine now the blower fan might be a little overkill it's kind of just what we had at the time but I do have like a little USB fan that probably makes a lot more sense we can actually put the side panel on and stuff getting back to the matter at hand though I think it'd be really cool to show you guys a quick demo of this thing in action so why don't we transfer over to the other room and I'll give you a guys a gig a bit of taste let's go alrighty here we are it declined PC and in the left window we have our local storage we're actually on a one terabyte nvme SSD right now I believe this is our Rd 400 from OCZ and you can see we've got a couple projects in here this is the test file we'll be using it is 50 2.8 gigabytes and and over here on the right the window to the right we actually have our our gnash this is our Nass storage you can see Network Nass and I create a little data set or a folder if you will called test2 there's already a file in here I'm actually it's the same one I just renamed it but let's go ahead and transfer this over and see what kind of speeds were getting boom you right off the bat oh we hit one gigabyte right right from the get-go and then we kind of dip down a little bit but we're still getting anywhere from eight to nine hundred megabytes a second whoo do that so we're transferring about 50 almost 55 gigs here 53 gigs in under a minute guys and we'll be able to achieve these same types of transfer speeds when we're you know transferring files between client systems as well because they'll all be connected to the ten gigabit switch 900 megabytes a second is pretty much right in between what you would get out of a SATA based SSD and an nvme SSD so I can I can definitely live with that and there we go sweet and if you guys want to see a little bit more action here you can open up premiere let me readjust the camera really quick so this clip right here is actually the file I just transferred over to the nest so technically we're editing on our client PC but the footage is stored on our servers so we're gonna go ahead just test this out see how smooth it is this is a 4k file I'm haven't done any like sort of color effects or anything like that but we're we're at full resolution full 100% scaling and I'm just gonna go ahead and play it see if it's move books prefer it to good is clearly a shot of Chris and wifey sauce populating the disk shelf they're being very helpful that day all right you can go to 2x here 4x and I was choppy just for a split second then it smoothed out pretty quickly 8x and bear in mind guys I have not even setup the obtained caching yet obtain SSD caching something that I'm gonna set up momentarily but this is pretty promising so far considering I haven't even messed around with that was this 8x or 16x at any rate I don't think I really edit at this speed very often so this is more than enough performance and it definitely feels like I'm editing off of local storage which is exactly what we want so altogether I'm going to call this one a big win I'm gonna cut this video off now because I've been working on this for way too long this was a super challenging yet equally if not more so fulfilling project I I have no regrets I'm so glad that we're at the point we are now and and we're not even done we actually have like I said a lot more optimizing to do to get our workflow exactly the way we want it follow me on social media at bit wit Kyle both on Twitter and Instagram I'll be posting stuff about the server and just sort of the progress we're making behind the scenes that doesn't really warrant a full video or a part two but if you want to catch all the BTS 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