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it is finally the conclusion of personal big update 2015 yes I know it is 2016 now that's not the point the point is that it started in 2015 today is all about the final deployment in the cabinet in the closet so let's make it happen a Pacers as7 20 is a dual interface USB 3.1 type-c equipped SSD with read speeds of up to 540 megabytes per second check out the link in the video description to learn more yeah let's just like tip it okay well I didn't really do anything now I've got to load up all the other junk into the back of the truck here so this is actually our first look at my wife's machine so it also had the front bezel of the same case airbrushed by our neighbor here neighbor Steve let's get this baby loaded up too okay looking good even optical drive LightScribe okay so here's a situation there's actually a lot to do first I've got to get this ruthless bastard up the stairs I have straight up no idea how that's happening these pcs this ups these rails these monitors all need to go up the stairs as well this Nass needs the correct hardware put inside it and finally all of the gear that we are no longer using in here needs to GTFO so let's get down to it shall we okay well this thing weighs a metric shed load but there are some ways that I can significantly reduce its weight then by removing as many of the outer panels and inner components as I can before trying to get up the stairs you move thank you I need more leverage kappa oh okay retraction or something I need more something so what I hate about camera people you never lend a hand they just sit there and watch I think what I need right now is some Nick V's lifting tips all right Nicky be here back with another moving tip okay so we got this big-ass thing here what we want to do is lift with a back twist jerk in a you know jerking motion he knows the most ergonomic way to do this go to sleep supposed to be nothing I'm actually gonna have to go into his room in order to tilt this up okay sorry honey go back to bed oh wow that's a really taste it okay it looks like this is going to fit that's good man this stuff is heavy okay so this end the other one in the room and there already are the clay power ah thousand volt damn ups is that I'm going to be using for the two systems in there my system gets its own cuz it's a little bit more powerful and then my wife's is going to share her ups with the the server slash Nazz life personal rig oh wow this one's a lot of here okay protip I don't don't carry Black Mountain cases by the mounting rail and a sir said let there be monitor upgrades and there were and it was good and finally of course none of this is staying here it's all gonna be rack mounted so here are my rails so I've been meaning to pull out some of the consumer grade gear that I've had in this server for quite some time this ws board is great board doesn't support ECC memory this raid card great raid card doesn't properly support monitoring the disks and now I've replaced all that stuff with a more suitable configuration so while I don't have the ball in six or eight terabyte hard drives that I do at the office I do have one terabyte WD blacks and I am using an enterprise-grade SSD cache in RAID one to allow me to get the best possible performance out of thee yes the you thought they were retired but they're not Emulex ten gigabit network card so I'm actually going to be using those combined with the onboard mix in order to enable not ten gigabit but at least faster than one gigabit transfers between all the rack mounted computers just using single cables from them to each other and actually not having them go through the router of a switch at all I changed up the motherboard to one that has remote management so I've added a little ikv M module right there I've changed out to ECC memory not really necessary with on raid but I want the utmost instability I'm going to be running VMs on here so that I can have stuff like my air video server running on Windows and I can have stuff like crash plan running in a docker container there's a lot of functionality here I may do a follow-up video on just this machine and then I'm running a xeon processor so that i can take advantage of that ECC Ram and then it uses a very similar case to clover server actually it's just the twelve Bay versus the eight day one because at home I don't have those same high-capacity drives so if I want any storage at all I need to have a few more expansion bays there okay so now I got to clear out this corner and I really hope you guys either don't look too closely at or don't judge me for my power setup in here I am going to be working on something little bit better than a PowerBar run through the wall the future okay so most of the network cables running into the next room over there actually need to go away because all of the networking is pretty much going to stay in here now yep that's my that's my wall hole oh no I pulled out the nails this is the world's most get a wall down so step one is going to be our UPS battery backups we're going to put these on the bottom because they're really heavy they're pain in the butt to to move you don't want your finger ending up being all top-heavy and the other main reason is that I don't have shelves for them so I need to sit them on the bottom of the unit so that the entire weight isn't being borne by these puppies really yeah okay one down second ups here we go so now all that's left to do is plug those in to the wall and then all my other devices can plug into lows for power so I don't actually have to get back here anymore okay so for those of you who haven't played around with background stuff before basically you take this inner slide you pop the little latch here all this without slicing your fingers open and then these rails mount to the side of your case with the screws that are included with the rails then you take the other sides of the rails and you mount these inside your cabinet hopefully in the right position which is not always easy wow this is a really shallow cabinet I didn't really is these weren't the same dip as the ones at the office that's okay that is a very minor curveball no I'm one spot hi of course I am yeah it needs to go down just a touch so beard wanted to work up a sweat today thinking to go to the gym today I could mount some server crap let's just stay in place please ah all right fitness fine as long as it's a fit that's weird what are we hitting if we just give it the old ah there you go three units rack-mounted easy okay it's okay it gets easier these rails are so much friggin better they lock on like that no nonsense goes good see this one now now these ones are a little bit more finicky to align here I can live with that for the benefits that they give there we go look at that man I love these rails it comes free of the entire thing so you can just go fook I'm working on the wife PC slide that baby back in there there it is okay last one then I like those rails better Oh fortunately these are really fast to turn hotel it's in so let's get it all wired up then I'm probably gonna get ear mounts for the ubiquity router as well as the neck hair switch at some point I'm gonna give myself another power bar as well up here I have a more elegant solution at the office but this actually isn't too bad I'm just gonna hook those up on top here UPS's are on let's get networking hooked up okay this is going well now Ethernet for waifu pc i mean okay overall not perfect cable management still need some work yeah this is as good as it's gonna be for now okay so with everything hooked up it is finally time for the secret sauce the magic bullet if you will and those of you who have been following from the beginning will already know this but i've had a lot of people asking me who have tuned into personal rig update 2015 later how are you planning to get all of your i/o into the next room one optical Thunderbolt cable per system from Corning that's why I added those as soos funderbolt cards to the systems so all I've got to do is run these puppies through the wall and in theory we're pretty much off to the races how much is left okay okay now obviously a single Thunderbolt cable no matter how magical is going to need something on the other end to make it work so that is where these come in these are Thunderbolt hubs from El Gato they've got 3 USB 3 ports they've got mic and headphone jacks they've got Thunderbolt pass-through if you want to daisy chain more stuff and if you wanted they've got an HDMI out as well as Ethernet we're going to use Thunderbolt 2 DisplayPort to go straight to our monitor and that is all the i/o for the computer again cable management not done but it is somewhat moment of truth time oh that's nice there it is theoretically perfect silence with no performance compromise whoa it worked right away what were the friggin odds of that nothing ever works on the first try for me all we've got to do in theory is get some Thunderbolt drivers installed on the system which I have to do from over here ah yes always connect Elgato Thunderbolt dock okay hey look at that keyboards working it worked once now we just have to do it again all that's left is to run one more Thunderbolt cable and we are pretty much off to the races ah someone was asking for my tweet the other night what desk this was and the answer is it is a desk sawed in half full of cardboard for years for years I have pursued silent computing and in the end Thunderbolt was the answer no amount of water cooling ever made it quite giddy and people asked me July this why would you care about having a window on a record case that's why suckas that's why because that looks flippin awesome so this one's actually relatively tested I have at least tried the a soos Thunderbolt card on this one let's just give her the old reboot and see what happens maybe someone was just jostled loose and chipping and I can just help hello okay let's find our board post code a team's CPU fan error oh that's a big deal have a seat eat that water cool theory we should be fine this time let's go out there you're going to cut out all this stuff so that you just show the part where I'm like ah it goes okay wait a minute how car bars almost finicky Oh crying Oh Matt well there we go just like that my friends Hey look at that g-sync showed up working right away g-sync display connected so it looks like the DisplayPort connection doesn't care at all that it's running through what is this like a 30-foot optical Thunderbolt cable working awesome so there you have it all that remains to be done now and all the noise stays in there speaking of which Braintree their code for easy online payments who is fantastic if you're building a mobile app and searching for a simple payments solution with the Braintree vi0 SDK which is one small snippet of code you can be all set up in less than 10 minutes with their support staff ready to walk you through the process 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