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so now that those days are finally behind us I feel like it's safe to reveal just how much of a complete joke the security was at the old linus media group headquarters there was a barely functional video system remote access that barely worked and only on Nick's phone with no notifications not to mention the video feeds wouldn't told us much if anything about a would-be robber and backing it up with some horrible residential grade alarm system on only some of the doors and none of the windows these were cost-saving measures that made sense at the time we moved into the old house studio but no longer do now that we've expanded to a team of nearly ten people and are working on stuff like our upcoming acer curved 34 inch free sink gaming monitor video that's that's coming drop a like if you're stoked to see that Corsair delivers real mech or nothing with their new strafe mechanical keyboard featuring genuine German made Cherry MX key switches click on this spot right here to learn more yeah the old office security was a bad scene but not anymore this is our brand spanking new surveillance server from data cache dot CA who we chose to work with for a number of reasons there's all the stuff on their site they use only top-notch hardware like this particular trend net switch that they found is great for poa cameras as well as the variety of different cameras that we've got outdoor ones you know fisheye ones regular ones all that kind of stuff they've got a three-year parts and labor warranty with on-site replacement like if something goes wrong they swap out a new camera on the spot they have a system to detect if one of your cameras fails and let you know before you have to find out and they're Canadian which we can get like a motion track little Canadian flag I can wave here but none of that is actually the reason that we ended up going with them in spite of having offers from multiple camera and surveillance companies data cache whether it's the owner Phil or any of the team members who we've worked with there are just our kind of people make sure you check them out at data cache CI slash Linus if you or anyone in your company needs video surveillance their communication was amazingly prompt and professional if questions answered thoroughly sometimes too thoroughly like long emails any time of day and if that's not enough on their site you'll find mention of optional CPU liquid cooling in their machines and hot-swap systems for the surveillance drives these guys are bonafide enthusiasts which is probably why you'll notice that our surveillance server is ridiculously enthusiast grade let's run through the specs so they use an i star us a case for most of their builds because while it only supports 15 drives that's less than the Norco RPC 4224 that we use all the time the sleds are completely tooless you just slide a bare drive in and bam you've added more storage to your surveillance system more on the WD purple drives we're using it a bit poking around inside the guts of our surveillance system are also hilariously overkill like to the point where we could dramatically increase our camera count down the road without any slowdowns even when we're using you know more intensive features like real-time D warping of 360 degree cameras we've got a core i7 4790 quad core processor installed on a sous z97 WS motherboard and while that's not full server grade a Seuss's WS hardware is built for heavy and continuous workloads and gets more validation for obscure hardware like the raid card that we actually scavenged and threw in here this is from our old server our systems got eight gigs of ddr3 memory from Kingston it uses a 750 watt power supply from coolermaster although depending on how many drives and spin up power draw you might want to buffer on the side of a little bit more power supply capacity if you're actually installing all fifteen drives we've just got nine in here and then finally on boot drive duty we've got not one but two of Intel's fast and reliable 730 series SSDs running in raid 1 so this puppy would be pretty hard to take out with a drive failure which leads nicely back to the hard drives we're using I like solid-state storage as much as anyone but for a workload like this the capacities not to mention the price make it completely unsuitable so we went back to good old-fashioned mechanical in the form of w DS purple series of surveillance drives unlike normal desktop drives purple drives aside from being specifically validated in a wide variety of security systems feature firmware upgrades like ata streaming support and W DS proprietary all frame which in a nutshell optimizes them to handle the very unique workload of video surveillance that is multiple many high-definition video streams continuously being written and then overwritten once the drives fill up 24 hours a day seven days a week in a hot server room environment with vibration from other nearby equipment all of this without dropping frames in the recording something that was a major concern for us because like what's the point of a security system that runs great most of the time and then that one clear shot of someone's face there's a corrupted or missing frame or something like that which isn't to say that I would recommend spending this much on a system that only manages to handle recording videos without corruption and playing them back without revealing too much about this part of our new security setup because that would be stupid I can show you some of the cool stuff it can do so there's a mobile app for monitoring this works from anywhere and can actually even stream in hi-def this feature you're looking at is called a missing object alarm potentially very useful in a workshop environment for an expensive piece of equipment that isn't supposed to move so it can actually trigger a notification to me or even trigger an audible alarm if that object isn't detected anymore this shows how the viewfinder can be customized to show some very different live view options so you you can set up tiles to see a normal view of a camera zoomed in view of a camera with even multiple views especially useful with fisheye lenses by the way possible from the same camera depending on what kind of arrangement you want camera locations can also be overlaid on a map of the building so you can see indicators for where there are people moving about and check in on what they're doing cool here we see an intruder alarm and showing how to find a log of these alarms from within the interface oh and this one is cool some of the fancier cameras that you can hook up to this system actually support features like zoom and autofocus which is as simple as just using a scroll wheel on the mouse but this one this last one is the killer feature that gets me all excited like the missing object alarm it detects something that's moved but this one is capable of doing it after the fact so say for example someone enters the kitchen and moves someone else's dishes I can quickly scan through and see who it was yes there is a plan to make sure people only use their own dishes at the new office speaking of the new office this is where I would normally have like some kind of a door something but not today well sort of an ad but it's for a Linus Media Group event on August 21st we will be doing the first ever in-person Linus Media Group garage sale and just general fan meetup you guys will be able to come out to the new office which by that time we'll have the address listed correctly on the Linus Media Group comm website so it's in kind of the Cloverdale area in Surrey and you guys be able to come out there and meet the crew we're expecting it to run from around noon to sometime kind of early evening depending on when things wrap up we might even be doing like tours of the inside we're gonna try and have some snacks and drink some stuff there so come on down and check it out August 21st 2015 if you guys are like watching this video sometime in the future I don't want a bunch of people showing up on August 21st the following year because that would be super sad so yeah I think that's pretty much it guys though if you dislike this video I think you know what to do but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed and even consider supporting us whether it's with our Amazon affiliate code just using our link you can check here for instructions on how to do that buying a cool t-shirt like this one are giving us a direct monthly contribution through the community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff and you guys are looking for something else to watch you're gonna want to watch Luke's video on the compensator the very finest machine the fastest we could build using off-the-shelf parts it is quite the showcase thanks again for watching I'll see you guys