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so the last time I updated y'all on the storage service sorry can you even hear me over this thing the last time I updated y'all on the storage server that is used to manage all the data that's constantly flowing around here was back in 2012 I mean Linus media group wasn't even a company running out of my garage yet today's video is going to be a close look at one of the new servers that we're adding before the move to our new office and the $1500 Oh network switch that's going to be directing traffic on our new and improved fully ten gigabit network fractal design listens and the define r5 case was made with feedback from you the PC community so click wherever you want to learn more about here and here alright so let's start with a look at our new network switch it's not that our old GS 752 TSX sucks or anything it's got a ton of regular gigabit ports and enough internal throughput that we'd be really hard-pressed to even put a significant load on it as things stand but while for sfp+ 10 gigabit capable ports was fine in the old days when we only had three employees total we've grown to eight team members now four of which will need access to a handful of servers at lightning-fast speed at all times so we're going to be adding a net gear XS 7 12 T 12 port 10 gigabit ethernet switch so here's a diagram of how the network layout is going to work we'll use two of our existing 10 gigabit ports running in a teaming mode called LACP and direct-attached copper cables to connect the sfp+ ports on our new 12 ports which bear in mind that this renders two of our rj45 ports inactive so this will give us a total of 20 gigabits of connectivity speed between these two switches this is important because our main high-performance storage server general bulk storage server will be on the excess 712 T side of things so let's say a hypothetical 40 some-odd gigabit clients from the other side all wanted to hit it at once we want them to have a nice fat pipe to reduce bottlenecks the next high-speed 20 gigabit link will be to teemed 10 gigabit ethernet connections to our brand-new server that I'm building today Wanek server will be replacing our current storage server ruskin server as the day-to-day performance server it will deliver slightly better drive performance thanks to its faster Adaptec 60 805 raid card but since Ruskin's server has such a massive array of 10 3 terabyte Seagate consumer drives in raid 6 some of which are actually refurbished and incredibly irresponsible setup but one that delivered most the space we needed and that we couldn't afford to replace up until now hmm this one won't deliver that much more storage and actually not that much more speed it's instead focused on reliability so it uses eight Seagate enterprise-grade six terabyte drives in raid six for a total of 36 terabytes of storage that can lose up to two drives before suffering catastrophic data loss and on top of that their drives that are actually designed for this workload instead of general consumer drives and there's some other cool stuff going on in the server as well so the revision of Ruskin's server that I showed off in this video when we first went to 10 gigabit was using some weaksauce ITX board and the low-power LGA 1156 of xeon that stuff's for chumps man the backbone of Wanek server system is much beefier we're using an ass rock x99 WS e 10g and x99 motherboard with basically every single bell and whistle and then some that weighs in at a whopping $600 it works with Intel Xeon processors although that's not something that's officially sanctioned by Intel since it runs a consumer x99 chipset with our plan being to install an e5 26 18 L low-power eight core four great multi-threaded performance and very low power consumption it can also handle up to seven pcie 3.0 slots at 8 X 2 16 X bandwidth giving us tons of options for raid or other expansion it can handle up to 128 gigs of ECC ddr4 memory although we'll only be installing 32 gigs of kingston valueram that was generously provided by kingston at the moment and last but certainly not least it's got dual onboard 10 gigabit ethernet ports powered by an Intel X 540 controller that is some kick-ass onboard networking when you consider the cost of buying an add-in card with two rj45 ports running that chipset so the process of building the system was pretty straightforward mostly I actually reached out to an old contact of mine at Norco the rackmount case company not the bike one who provided the 24 drive capable RPC 42:24 that we've actually using for Ruskin server for a really long time and have been extremely happy with so he sent over two more of those cases one for Wanek to give us a lot of growing room and another for an additional machine that I'm hoping to add to the network with a couple of 18 core Zeon's as a network rendering box let me know in the comments if you want intel to support that crazy project maybe we can convince them might be tough anyway so this case supports standard ATX power supplies so I grabbed a 520 series boot SSD a Coolermaster v8 50 80 plus gold power supply a basic video card that I had lying around and at our cooler that didn't end up fitting so I grabbed an Intel stock cooler and got to work the plan is you probably saw on the network diagram is not to have this server replace Ruskin outright but rather to have Ruskin act as a nightly backup for Wanek this has two positive effects number one it gives us something to switch to quickly in the middle of the day if want experience is some kind of problem like a failed drive corrupted OS or whatever else and needs time to rebuild and number two is it allows us to practice what we preach for a change data redundancy like raid is not the same thing as backing up and critical data should always be backed up once locally and then preferably again off-site in the event of a physical disaster but that won't come for us until a later stage now the astute among you may have noticed that my diagram also alluded to a 45 drives 100-plus terabyte server and you might be wondering what's up with that I wanted to do that build log today but the parts haven't arrived in time so you'll have to settle for this one but the ultimate plan when that arrives is to dump everything on it reconfigure Wanek server with purely solid-state storage pull all these six terabytes out of it and then put those in the 45 drives store inator that we have coming for a total of about a hundred and fifty terabytes of raw storage that we're going to use as an archive to replace the awful shelf of random hard drives system that we have going on in our right now which will also give us quick access to everything we've ever shot apart from allowing us to not have to just kind of swap drives onto an external drive dock in order to find old stuff so stay tuned if you're into completely bananas storage configurations guys because it is about to get really interesting I mean even now it's like 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