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we could build mundane computers with normal components we could stick to the convenient list of known compatible parts and we could stay safely within the boundaries of modern technology we could do reviews of stuff like smart baby monitors and stack Chua okay what we do have on that note we do have a video coming about the MIMO smart baby monitor so make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that but that's not what we normally do no today we're going to be building a 48 terabyte storage server with 64 gigs of RAM eight processing cores an 80 plus gold power supply and ample cooling all in a case that's not much bigger than a couple of shoeboxes welcome to insane compact Nazz 2014 corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision cherry onyx RGB key switches for sixteen point eight million color perky backlighting for virtually unlimited customization click now to learn more so I was first inspired to do this build when silverstone showed me the ds3 80 a case that they boasted featured support for an ITX motherboard eight three and a half inch hard drives and for two and a half inch SSDs or hard drives to which I replied well ok but what the heck hardware are you expecting people to put in this thing storage geeks on a budget are going to buy twelve or sixteen portrayed cards and put them in an ITX machine are you mad and they said no no no no there's a perfect motherboard for this thing the asrock raksi 2750 d4 i server slash workstation board with a passively cooled until avataan 2758 core cpu support for up to 64 gigs of ECC ddr3 memory dual intel i 210 network cards 12 SATA ports 6 8:03 from a pair of marbella controllers and six from the intel controller two of which are state of three and the other four of which are SATA to a PCIe 8x expansion slot that you can use for raid our expansion or in our case a 10 gigabit NIC card and some really sweet server grade remote monitoring and management stuff that I've never really had the pleasure of playing around with before including power controls and even a display output preview that runs in a little Java plugin in your browser so I said heck yeah man now this board is cool in general but it's most important feature for this build was actually kind of hidden in that massive spec list and it wasn't hard drive support but rather RAM support we're going to be using freenas which calls for some base memory about eight gigs and then one gig of ECC so that's error correcting ram per one terabyte of raw storage space so given that we're planning to use 8 6 terabyte three and a half inch drives in ZFS - it's about equivalent to raid 6 and that two drives within a Vita can fail out right before any data is lost but otherwise not necessarily that similar well we're going to need a whole lot of RAM aren't we 64 gigs is possibly slightly overkill but since the options are going to be 32 gigs in you know a regular four dimm motherboard or doubling it to 64 gigs in this particular motherboard well we're better off going a little bit overkill rather than risking losing data because we didn't have enough RAM so we've got four sticks of intelligent memories 16 gig dims that we're going to be using to keep our data nice and safe there right on the approved hardware list for this motherboard so feeling pretty good about our chances which leads us to the storage drives we're using just about the bad assets storage drives on the market right now see gates enterprise capacity drives they're designed for use in large storage appliances and the most demanding possible environments data centers where vibration from nearby drives all around them needs to be compensated for and performance cannot go down and failure is not an option and I mean not only do these bad boys come prepared for a 24/7 or always-on workload with full Drive Encryption support and a huge 1.4 million our mean time between failure but compared to sigue zone consumer Nass drives their ratings are based on ten times the workload or 550 terabytes per year with a five-year warranty to back it up sug feeling pretty good about these two but obviously these drives what we're using as a small business isn't necessarily going to be practical for everyone and these enterprise capacity drives might not make any sense for the typical home user but for you guys there's the regular Nass Andrade drives that are perfectly good options for a one to eight day storage device and cool little tidbit but I wasn't actually aware of is the Seagate sells them with a data recovery insurance plan now that they're calling Seagate plus rescue that includes shipping both ways a replacement drive that they send the data back to you on and no deductible or limit to the cost of the recovery service what about a 90% success rate so that's maybe something to consider I had no idea that was there until I was researching this build now for the rest of the hardware I had originally intended to install the eight three and a half inch drives from mass storage with four SSDs for operating system and a large SSD cache but further investigation revealed that unless you're free Nass is going to be used for a database workload or like a mail server you may not benefit from an l2 arc or SSD cache at all and even if you would benefit you want to keep the size relatively small like 128 gigs or 256 gigs in those cases so I decided to change gears and use my one terabyte SSDs for dedicated shares that can be assigned to individual video editors to use as high speed storage for scratch disks this server will have up to a twenty gigabit per second link to the rest of the network so it should be enough to keep everyone's storage snappy even if they're accessing SSD storage over their own ten gigabit links then for power I've gone with a silverstone s FX 450 watt module or any plus gold power supply so this is actually the first time I've ever been thankful that a power supply has a removable eight pin CPU connector since this board doesn't require one and there's not a lot of space for cable management in this case so the set up process for freeness once you read the highly recommended by the 'we 60-plus page PDF written by cyber jack from the free NOS forms is actually surprisingly straightforward burn a disk and put it in the system with only the drive that you want to use for your LS installed in my case an old 80 gig intel X 25 M gen one and the whole thing pretty much does itself once you boot it up shut er down to install all your drives or don't the ass rock board has full support for hot swap and then you pretty much boot up and you're dumped at a command prompt where actually things for surprisingly straightforward it might look a little bit intimidating if you've never really dealt with that kind of thing before but it's it's really not you're just going to select which Ethernet interface you're going to check the IP address that was assigned to the system via DHCP from your router and then you're going to go to some other computer on the network enter that IP create a password and that's pretty much it you can do the rest of it if you're not getting into the more advanced features of freenas through the web interface so then Linus why FreeNAS with a ZFS filesystem for this build great question um initially I just kind of wanted to try it since I've never played around with it before and I heard it was great and I thought I might be able to save some money since the three mixed controller setup on this ass rock board will not support a large raid array across all the different controllers and I'd need an add in hardware RAID card which would add expense and limit me to the onboard gigabit networking ports in teaming mode well after doing the necessary research I discovered that due to the ludicrous RAM requirements both in terms of the amount you have to buy and the necessity of ECC support you won't really be saving any money if you want a really high capacity server like ours anyway and I discovered that FreeNAS is surprisingly limited in terms of how you can expand your arrays and whatnot but I decided to go ahead with it anyway just so that I could try it and so that I could salvage my lightning fast networking something that will be important if we have multiple editors working with 4k ProRes footage off the same array at the same time where lots of sequential performance is going to be key so at the end of all that how did it perform then well here you go these numbers are for a 10 gaben SSD based workstation to our server so while it wasn't cheap there's no doubt that when it comes to what we were after which was sequential performance for multiple users we ended up with a pretty rockin and compact little storage box here speaking of multiple users team.com mobile that makes sense that's their tagline and unlike most smaller carriers because you might be sitting there going well I've never heard of ting before they probably have like a like cell towers 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