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well it's only been two years since I built this server yeah this one right here it's been befitting that I'm gonna do something with it now finally that's got a lot of cool hardware in it and we're gonna use it for something seemingly remedial yeah I figured I figured and I figured who better to talk about a delayed project and bring the King delay projects himself vertically I made a video once you know what guys I got new merch it's available now karma calm /jc sense we got zip up hoodies we got tri-blend we got a new logo I digress since 2012 but the rest logo you guys been asking for that anyway well go live it up we can all kinds of stuff zip up hoodies beanies polos don't take my word for it cuz obviously I can't do this ad so just look in the description below and you guys will find the link Thanks no in all seriousness I flew Jerry down here for two reasons one to prove you guys I haven't murdered him I don't hate him as much as you guys think I do and to prove that you can still get away with only buying one to good to give you on the plane House supper it was a first-class ticket if it needed two of those there's it the fighter it doesn't work okay so hardware wise I'm gonna kind of go through this again very quickly we did a whole build video on this where I was like the next part we're gonna actually turn it into a raid and we never did that so it's got the same drives in it that I had initially we had 15 10 terabyte iron wolf drives we have got eight of them in here two of them were in Phil's rig now and then five of them are still sitting in a box that we won oh we can expand it right that's the heart of the thing with underneath we are using ungrate for this though for its ease of use and this flexibility we'll talk about that never actually set one up Jerry has already played around with this and I did fly him down here to help us make sure that this was in its best shape possible he's way more informed than I am when it comes to the software side of things I'm a hardware guy there's no there's no hiding that I'm running a RAID controller here which is the SAS slash RAID controller to control our eight drives so it is using a SAS break out to four SATA per side and there's technically two controllers in there I guess and then they're going to our drives right here and they are numbered so we can kind of keep tabs on what's what but the beauty of is we're not using it as RAID controller we're not reason that SAS basically a SAS or a SATA controller at that point you have more ports to our motherboard because even though we are using an asus WS X 299 pros workstation where do you remember that no geez that's all I do is remember numbers now for some reason on the previous X - 9 WS - 10 G it had like 10 SATA ports this one's got 6 so for whatever reason asus kind of peddled backpedaled and went backwards in the the hardware side of this getting trolled buddy it also doesn't have a 10 G u yr Wireless does have a 10 G wired NIC built in so we had to add one of those too for this we went with the action a qn1 - 107 I'll put links to these in the description I did get them off Amazon the controller if you're curious it's the LSI - 2008 - 8i we were gonna do FreeNAS yes yeah so unread was always the plan because it gave us the ability to with freenas you can't use a box with the head on right it's headless you can't use VMS and i guess you can but it's really convoluted it's very convoluted and from the command line primarily think of it as like it's alright linux backbone or better go freebsd sit similar there's a lot of art you'll get a lot of arguments with the tech community but yeah and yeah ok next based I forget I said that but the point is unread was gonna be a lot easier for us to build a server in a tower like this that you could physically sit at on a box that would run a virtual machine that you could use this as if we're a desktop you could never know the difference but it was also connected to the network to work as an ass our situation for the company has changed in the way that we're doing things now so that's no longer the case or the necessity so I could rip out this this 1929 1920 m79 20 X 10 420 threat Intel CPU solver and go with like a small ITX like a 3 or something is it's just a controller 400 that's all yeah yeah but because the original hardware that's in here is already here we're just using it but I wanted to mention that with unread that was something you could do the reason why we have the Titan X sitting in there is because of the fact that all of that passed through was gonna happen through the GPU so the faster the beef here and the higher degree RAM and all that stuff to teach you the better would have been for that virtual machine experience interacting with the virtual machine and the physical mass inside we're not doing that anymore but we are still using unread now I've never actually done unraised so we're going to do is I'm gonna sit down and just kind of work my way through it Jerry's gonna kind of help me as I go this is not a tutorial I just want to preface that this is the second part of us building this we're we're finally gonna have a play to archive all of our footage because we are definitely starting to use up our storage we are gonna be also turning this into a steam game server so it's going to be mounted to our network through a 10g connection which we already said and I would love a 42 but don't have fiber and all I'm here to do that but I know right it's going to allow us though when we do our benchmarking the problem with our benchmarking is we'll pull out the test bench or maybe have to reinstall an operating system entirely and like when the new rising stuff you know that was all fresh installs of everything and if you've ever had to install a game like let's just say GTA 5 that's like 78 gigabytes or something like that just run everything including even if you have a gigabit down like we do here it still takes like 30 minutes to download the game and that's just for one game so what we want to do is mount this on the network have our games installed here and all of our machines are just pointed to this network drive for the installation location which means your game or Phil's games are gonna be on there my games are gonna be on there Knicks games could be on there and then whoever's I can't you log into on whatever machine is still gonna pull all those files and then when we log in from a machines it'll trigger the updates and all that sort of stuff so that's the other idea behind it I'm most excited about that to be honest and the archiving of footage and the backing up of data and super sensitive stuff it's the fact that I won't have to wait Christine yeah plus Phil combined crypto coins in jail oh yeah all right so let's see the user name here is roots and then there's no passwords you just hit enter could you know that magic of editing so this is the GUI and obviously you get dashboard make sure they plug in be running under Firefox that's why you need 64 gigs around alright so what we want to do right here is the first stage setup J so go to your dashboard right here and click on that you can go ahead and give your machine a name we've already gone in on the last boot and did some of this stuff you got your your nasty server what are we gonna call now I'm gonna call it J ROCs like it like a dog what are you gonna put in there let's see it's important to personalize guys it's really important to personalize your stuff and I know this sounds like some sort of a Hoover Shoei like find rate video but they don't even know we're making this video right now this no as a matter of fact we were gonna use free now really guys look at this yeah we started with three nests at 9:00 a.m. and that's how long it took us today we finally just said okay we're doing under age we were gonna do FreeNAS because we were like well we don't need the pass-through option anymore for BM and all that stuff cuz we're not gonna use it as a physical box if you're sitting at so I ordered these 10g cards and FreeNAS and even though it says they've supported by FreeBSD and fariñas has built a thong FreeBSD it is these NIC cards are not supported and because there's no 10g built into this motherboard we were gonna have a 1g connection for our server which is obviously not good enough so we basically said screw it yeah we'll go with unwrite anyway I think we're happy that we did alright so let's get the disk set up it's very easy to do just go up here and click on main let's your next little option over and down here you have parity disks parity disks are your disks that basically when they're built if you have a failure of a drive in the system the parity disk steps in and saves you basically the reason it's called unrighteous because this is literally not a raid and there's a lot of pros and cons of that but in our case pros it should have called it na DDA are you not a raid matter e there you go patent pending so we want to do here is assign the drives to their roles would and pick one of these drives and then your parity drive to let's go ahead and pick one more now we have to parity drives that's going to show you the smart type of them - oh dude it shows seasonal merge so one of my concerns was that these are these our drives are designed to be in like 2 or 4 you blades to you blades yes which normally have like either Delta or L Takagi fans blasting air at them they're in a data center who cares no masses yeah am i concerned about me filling up all in front of these with drives and being in a standard box like this yeah what didn't have decent airflow but what the fans running full speed on the front of this through an AI o action of an e io on this yes should be an air cooler for the ultimate reliability they're running nice and cool although they're not being taxed right now but uh I can monitor this though yeah if he goes if I'm on the GUI and he goes in he starts like just slamming it with data and reading writing all that we can see a - I will set it up to send you notifications if anything goes sideways so now we've got six drives remaining let's go ahead and start assigning those to these six disc slots just grab the first one from each one go so it doesn't remove absolutely okay they said no no all right so go ahead grab that one and just go down the list until you exhaust all your drives I should give you six but not the SSD not fastest II do not want to add that that's our cache yep go ahead and assign user if I wanted to add another cache I just put the other drive in put it back up and then add it here yes then another that is that so all right so here's our cache drive I assume there's our SSB so we could have done this with all SSDs I guess like - did with one other stuff yep and if we want to add more cache you can just plop does it does it have to be a match drive the same capacity do we know this as far as I know no so I could just pop in a 500 gig if I wanted so okay what I saw earlier I'm gonna assume that but it's possible that if you want to raid those which is another option you can rate the cache drives improve the performance then I would assume you want alright so now what you're gonna see right here is that down here it's building the parity and formatting the drive side so this is at point 1 percent on parenting ok correct so if we wanted to build it out right now test it get it get our network locations and all that set up yep we can do that and then when we're done at the end of the day just tell it to go hope we're on the power outage go ups add up to it and you should have yeah I know that's Nick it's support it supports it - is it all set up now mmm the drives offer we don't have shares with Amelie to access it yeah all you've done is told it you want to make one well we have the warehouse but no doors correct well one does want to pause the rebuild operation that's in progress go ahead hit pause you don't want to hit cancel because if you cancel you're starting over from scratch okay so if you're at like 30 percent after 5 hours then you'd start okay cancel you're gonna kick yourself in the teeth alright so now this is this is pause what we want to do is we want to go and create a share okay so share is basically is it's gonna look like a drive on the network yeah so how we have 8 drives in this machine if we added multiple shares it look like if we added eight of them of the put eight drives yeah so we don't need that we just need a main access point to this box so we have one chair and then M&E broken out in that one chair unless you want to have more granular control you can create other shares so I'm gonna I'm gonna call this big Fang you can rename these at any point now that none of this column yeah okay what you really want to look at those included disks notice how it says all that's good that means that when you're copying stuff to this it's gonna spread it out amongst all those discs best that it can alright so for users you don't need to make a user to X this is this is visible on the network right now yes okay but having the default route with no password account is dangerous because anyone with access to this then could log into it and be disrupted literally anybody on your network to take out okay so we're not gonna do it right now because it's just Phil and I but it's probably best practice to go in here create another user and probably change the password and step on group yep so just like you wouldn't take your default router out of the box and not change the admin password okay so there's a lot of other tools and stuff you could probably look at here but for the city I mean this was never meant to be a tutorial just just kind of showing some of the use case of unread because one of the biggest things like when we when we built this and I said we were gonna be using on raid in that video someone could we're like why using a great free Nasri nastiness we spent two days well you spent all of yesterday that was visible Hardware misconfigurations but it is but and then and in three quarters of today just trying to get FreeNAS to work with our freaking knit card yes and that was and that was both of you and now both of you kind of know what you're doing with Linux at least to some degree you do he does and you guys kind of overlapped who knew what and you guys still couldn't get the damn thing to work I think what you found one user online I got it to work alright so here's what I do I'm gonna get my laptop am i fired up and and then or actually just do this let's go to Phil's machine real quick okay because he's on the 10g my wireless what good is that I mean we can access files but speed is important because you could edit off this if you wanted yes that's not the idea behind it but you could and so let's go ahead since this is wired through cat 5e I want to point that out we are using a 100-foot cat 5e cable running all the way across this video and into the office just to show you don't need cat 6 if you're not running long distances and still why not use it if it's if it's there and it's the same price but this is probably not the best way to do this we're gonna show you still with the read/write speeds are on this we're going to talk about what effects those beats alright so the switch we use here is the Asus xgu 2008 it's a 10 gigabit base which means it has two 10 gigabits connections on there and then the rest are the standard one gigabit we also had to change up our step network set up a little bit some of you guys might have noticed that when we redid the wiring here I the wiring I completely screwed it up where I was going modem to switch to router which was kind of really screwing up our network path and was the way IPS were being handed out was not right and so it was causing us all kinds of problems so what we did was we actually relocated the modem from here he says if that's nothing back out next to the router and then we're going from router to the switch and then the switch to the computers and stuff here but his computer is hooked up to the 10g port and so is the server we just set up out there with that really long cat 5e cable which we talked about so this is the other end of that hundred foot cable so let's go and see now how our cat 5e is doing in terms of dragging and dropping a file so how BIG's this file fill so I made a custom little really big zip that's 15 gigabytes and right so here's a big ol thing the one I made right there right so if I just drag and drop right yep we were getting 1.1 gigabytes per second and that's dropping down a little bit so right to about 475 but I mean we don't normally work off with 15 gigabyte files in fact an entire video when we shoot on our FS v RFS 7 is usually around 20 to 22 gigabytes depending on the project if it's like a PC build with lots of b-roll it's lots of smaller like 1 gigabyte files - so this is actually really really good even 500 megabytes a second considering we're dealing with spinning drives on the 10 G connection is actually something that is um really good so that's that basically um I mean an idiot can do it I kind of sort of did Jerry need it needed to help me so I guess you have to get your own Jerry if you want helpful so we're gonna have Jerry actually copy the file again because I want to see what's happening here with the interface once it's happening with the memory I want see what's happening with the drive temps because my biggest concern is obviously gonna be he's gonna start doing it right now so my biggest concern was gonna be drive timpz this is up soon we're not gonna bleed sir here we go so you can see the CPU beautiful wow that's a decent amount of CPU being used actually might get that but the drive temps are not really changing at all we didn't take a h-street HT thread and you can see inbound 10 gigabits yep copying it to the server is only one way right so do me a favor change the name of it on the server and then pull it back to his machine you got it all right I like having a Jerry to go back and forth so I don't have to walk I'll bet you I'll bet you 2 cents JS 2 cents that it's the same it just sound out lower because it'll be bottleneck by the SSD on my computer one gigabyte that's this is literally faster than any of the drives in there except for the enemy and me maybe all right so now he's copying it over 3.3 3.9 your internal drive is bottlenecking how fast this can copy down nowhere SATA drives here in this warehouse just they're too slow so that's pretty much it for this vlog I guess this is super nerdy stuff that I wish I knew more about like I wish I knew how to actually set up like like windows raid and Nas and all that sort of stuff but the nice thing about the GUI system here the GUI setup here with under aid is that it literally is just click and play I mean it's just that simple it's up and running it's more than good enough for what we are doing we can confidently add drives to this add cache to it and if it wasn't for the fact that Jerry came down here I swear to god this would not have this would still be sitting on the floor in the other studio collecting dust because I was just completely like this was a daunting task for me because I'm a hardware guy not a software guy and I know you run raids and stuff and servers at your house yeah I've used free nails in the past but you've never used this before no ok so why don't you give us like your 60 second review of how this was working with it all right so the thing I like about on raid is that it works a lot like Windows Home Server you used to to work by using each disk independently having its own file system so that if everything blows up and goes wrong you can pull it out and put it in your system and recover your data I love the way that they handle the parity you do lose some performance yet because you don't have that striping capability of RAID controller but what you lose you gain inconvenience the nice thing about this because we're allowing the software itself to control the rate instead of using a complicated RAID controller that we may not be able to get our hands on if we blow it up we're always assured that we can get another drive in there if my SAS controller dies I should be able just replace it with a no SAS controller would be up the road says it could be a me there's anything that can connect those drives you're right it's very resilient drivers support yeah yeah people love that card by the way too so I was really disappointed freenas didn't support that but I'm glad everything's working so hey yeah he'll you have a server now we didn't do it but we have it though he'll build it but we haven't you guys saw it though it's it's a pretty capable piece of software for the little money they're asking for it and they're really good about support so I'm much more comfortable leaving a guy like Jay with this offer then I will be open source free Ness what you got there sir we're gonna we're gonna configure this to controller NIC card huh hey feel like I hear these mines crap coins really well they call the super job