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and so I'm really excited about this video today because I have wanted to show you guys my new toy for well man I guess it's it's been a few days now since it arrived in the mail and I've spent some time playing with it and it is the product that I alluded to in my iPhone 10's video from last night and it is my brand new switch and then actually also something else that just arrived today that is closely related to it so a lot of you guys complained about the audio in our video last night saying that it was really bad and it's funny cuz like sometimes it's hard but other times it's really easy for me to tell who didn't watch the video and this was one of those cases where it was pretty easy to tell who didn't watch the video because only people who didn't watch past about the first minute would have thought that the audio was bad for the entire thing because the reason we had a bunch of background noise was that I had this commercial-grade network switch running here in the office with me while I was delivering the the lines about sort of the video that I'd rather be making instead of doing the one about the iPhone 10s and a lot of you said in the comments vault come on - I would have rather seen a video about that switch than the iPhone 10s so today I will be obliging you the reason that we got one of these so this is a used del s 40 48 T - om this is a commercial-grade network switch it is a 48 port so you guys can check out the back here this is a 48 port 10 gigabit switch and the reason that we're upgrading to it from our net year 28 port and our net year 12 port there you go it only gets super loud like that during the boot up process is that we have gotten to the point where we're running out of ten gig ports when we first went ten gig we got a 12 port switch thinking that was enough forever you know I would hook up my workstation we'd shrunk to ten gig connections to our main editing server we'd have one 10 gig connection for another editing server and then we'd have our team of six at most video editors all wired in for 10 gig and then we'd have a couple extra ports left over just in case we needed them and then we were like okay now we ran out and we got a bunch of servers now we've got the petabyte project and all that so I was like ok screw it let's just get there 28 port will get there bigger one and now it's getting to the point where even people like the writers want 10 gig networking so that they can look at raw footage because you guys got to understand those red files when you're just playing them back and trying to scrub through them you can see 3 4 gigabit per second on your on your task manager network monitor like they really need more than a gigabit connection in order to reveal them and in some cases especially with something like a crazy project like the the flying PC it is necessary for the writer to go back and scrub through all the footage before it even goes to the editor so they can figure out exactly what is the narrative here where do we need some voiceover and all that kind of stuff so we've gotten to the point where pretty much everyone in the building either needs or at least strongly wants to have 10 gig networking and remember it's more than just what we have hooked up in any given moment for a project we're actually working on there's also the component of like whatever we're testing so let's say for example I was working on oh yeah the Meg store shoot I think we actually just took that out of here but um I had a funder bolt tape deck so it's a Thunderbolt 3 tape drive machine that in order to test the maximum speeds of I needed to have a 10 gig network connection to one of our servers in order to copy files onto it because I wanted to know well I wanted to evaluate it as a feasible way for us to archive our footage and obviously anything that we're archiving would be coming off of our network and then Jake was actually recently working on a project where he was running ten sorry ten 100 gigabit links between two machines now that was just a cable like a machine to machine direct-attached copper cable but he still needed to be able to grab large test files off of our servers and it's nice to wait one tenth the amount of time rather than you know sitting around for gigabit to chug so anyway I was inspired to get a 10 gigabit switch so that we can get every port in the office on 10 gig for those reasons and also because we talked about this on LAN show but we're gonna be getting a significant oh I am so excited we're gonna be getting a significant upgrade to our internet connection here and it's more than just a speed boost so we already have a gigabit symmetric fiber internet connection but it's switched fibre which basically means that once they once some request goes out of our office it actually goes through multiple network switches before it ever reaches some are like a major internet exchange where where it's like where things get really fast ok so the connection we're getting now is not only gonna be five point five gigabit so over five times the speed we are actually leasing dedicated a dedicated wavelength within the fiber so what that means is there is effectively no switching between us and the Vancouver internet exchange Vanek's so this has a couple of effects number one is it means that we will have basically the highest-quality connection possible because we aren't sharing our wavelength with anybody and number two because our ISP is super dope and I don't throw the word dope around lightly because our ISP is flippin awesome even though we're only paying for a five point five gigabit internet connection we will actually have full 10 gigabit to anyone else out of anacs which includes Amazon Google Akamai so for a lot of the services on the internet especially the bandwidth heavy ones we're gonna have effectively ten gigabit internet sorry sorry I got you David sorry sorry dude so ten gigabit internet so now there's actually a compelling reason for any one of our workstations to have a ten gigabit network connection cuz we're gonna have a 10 gig pipe to the Internet anyway other specs of this thing that might be interesting to you guys come check this up so we've got our 48 10 gig ports here and what it was a total switching capacity of this thing it's a 1.4 for terabit per second and it is rated for 3 micro seconds of latency at full load I tell you that date three microseconds of latency is monitoring the stream audio he's a little behind us and this is cool over here these queue sfp+ ports are all 40 gigabit ports so if what we wanted to do was let's say we wanted a high-speed connection over to our land center we could just run one fiber connection from our this would be like our main switch this would be our top of the rack switch so we would run a single connection over to there and we'd have effectively a 40 gigabit link between that entire switch and this one or if instead of bonding connections to our main editing server our nvme server if instead of bonding connections we just wanted to run a single one we could get a cheap like $50 direct attached copper cable and run it from this down to that editing server with just a few hundred dollar network card and boom we have a 40 gigabit connection which means that if we had 4 editors that are pulling footage off of it at the same time there would be no bottleneck whatsoever they could all get their full 10 game the other thing that's really cool but actually there's a bunch of stuff that's really cool about this thing it was not cheap to put it in perspective I could have bought myself probably one each of the new iPhones for what I paid for this thing used but I mean them's the breaks when you want to be on the cutting edge right so there's some other pretty cool stuff about this thing it's got hot swappable fans check that out it freaks out when one of them fails the whole thing can be reconfigured either blowing from front to back or back to front depending on your rack configuration which is pretty neat it's also oh yeah so this is an exotic I'll show you guys this in a minute it's also got dual redundant 550 watt power supplies so this is neat they're hot swappable so if let's say one of them failed outright the operation of the switch is completely unaffected other than just you would want to set up set it up so that you get a warning or something so you can come in pop a new power supply in there and get back up and running there we go let's just put that back boom oh it's gone so yeah it's got so this is you're supposed to use like an adapter cable mine's youth so it didn't come with it so you would adapt this to I think it's serial then you can interface with the the command-line interface of the switch that way or it's got an Ethernet management port or the one that I've actually tinkered with so far as this is funny I'd never seen this before that is a micro USB port on the front of the switch so what you do is you open up here hold on here we go there we go so you open up a program like putty get it all configured I think with the USB to serial driver I have on here I think it's con six and I think Oh hold on shoot I don't know if I have the settings configured right serial come six hurry oh yeah I might have to reboot it in order for this to show up and I also might have to change some the settings here yes it depends it's different from switch to switch and I might have had the wrong thing up just now but anyway that's actually how you interface with it so it's all command-line until and this is another cool feature of this thing and like super stoked on it until you install a third-party OS with a web UI if you're into that sort of thing now I want to open this puppy up Jake I'm not convinced this is faster I think I could go faster with a manual ok you know what very everyone saw how long it took to get those five out fine let's race hold on let's see who can get 5 out I'll do this five you do this 5 ok Ready Set oh damn it get it oh my friends you are seeing the world's first screwdriver race championship okay I was pretty close to top that one all right technically I dropped a screw and you didn't or did you oh wow that was that was after that one and I got a couple more to pull out here actually actually do you mind pulling out the ones on the side thank you I think the main takeaway here is that two heads are better than one or many hands make light work or whatever I'm sure there's something that my you know grandma told me all the time that's applicable here actually that's a pretty good idea I don't think I have one in my office right now thank you all right so what exactly is it that would make a network switch worth thousands of dollars that I mean in terms of the grade of hardware that's inside this thing this is basically a full-blown 1u server other than that it's just highly specialized so this guy right here appears to be an M SATA SSD so it actually uses an SSD for its local storage go figure right this right here I already pop this out if you guys follow on Instagram or Twitter or whatever you would have seen that this is a four gig ECC memory module so I am really curious to see what effect if any I would get out of upgrading it because I'm pretty sure we have some eight ECC memory lying around somewhere in the office right here let's see I think she so I wasn't able to get these heatsinks off it seems as though they are basically glued in place in addition to the screws and I did get this one off but the chip inside there is actually marked so I wasn't able to tell you too much else about it other than just that this thing is flipping fast it requires substantial cooling like these fans move mondo airflow and these heat things are beefy AF like check out how thick these things are can you see that David and naturally all of this is just half of the story today so we can go ahead and shut down the switch now in order to oh shoot I had I'll forget it switching ASIC you think it might so I suspect this one's actually the controller because it's near the memory on the storage I think this is probably the switching ASIC so Asics are for more than just mining even though in the in the climate of the last you know couple of years that's probably the context that the average sort of semi techie person has heard about them in but Asics can be used for all kinds of things just any specialized repetitive application where you don't need a general-purpose processor often you can do it more efficiently both from a cost of hardware standpoint and from an energy standpoint if you use an ASIC a purpose-built chips or what's that verges super chats oh-oh-oh yeah you can you can you can tell me one while I get to the next exciting part of today's unboxing no actually I didn't check if it has already ma that is a fantastic question right now I don't think any of the network adapters that we're using have our DMA support anyway we do have those Mellanox ones that we're going to be using for the 100 gigabit project but that's something that we haven't actually looked into actually deploying yet so a good question wish I had a solid answer for you but unfortunately I don't yet now I'm not a command-line wizard as those of you who've been watching shut up Jake as those of you who have been watching for a long time probably know so honestly the furthest I've gotten to the switch so far is just teaching myself some of the basics in order to hopefully get myself to the point where I can install a web UI because networking isn't my forte in the first place so command-line is definitely not my preferred means of interfacing with hardware yeah just questions is good but you can filter them according to your judgment yeah just hit me with a good question here can you just really that's not a good question can you sing something something something something I don't know any of the words but I think I could probably do the melody yeah I think it's also in Spanish and I don't speak any Spanish so that makes it really challenging for me to-- when i can't find the words to say - okay I think that's probably enough of that painful that was that was really that was really hard for me to listen to and I was the one - he hit me with another one okay finding your channel got me interested in tech again also lol the shirt yeah so this shirt was definitely a James idea he well actually I think it was kind of a team effort Jake really wanted to do an RT X on shirt and then James's contribution was the arrow and then it was kind of one of those it was one of what what happened I thought you were the arrow no my the person wearing it was the thing that was on so then I said what about an arrow I think Nixon an arrow pointing up and I said what going to arrow pointing down and that's the moment that is good yeah okay well I didn't remember exactly how it happened but at least I credited the right person so I'm doing pretty well here anyway oh okay you don't know I wanna I wanna I want to talk about this thing so this is a Super Micro 50:19 DF and eight TP and these guys really need to start using like cooler names for their products because super micro makes some pretty amazed balls stuff and it's always called like a button they should just call this like like the crunch inator because this is gonna be the new router that we are going to pair to our switch and I don't mean like pair strictly speaking you don't you don't like para router in a switch it's just gonna be the router that we're running and then this is gonna be our new top-of-rack switch and I just realized I I never showed you guys a cue SFP+ cable so this is not your mama's network cable but this is what we're gonna want to run for 10 or excuse me for 40 gigabit speeds so you'll get a card that also runs that connector you plug it in like that and then they've got these handy-dandy release mechanisms here and then this is relatively inexpensive so it's direct-attached copper and these are these nice thick copper cables but even with beefy cables like this you can only go so far at those kinds of speeds with the technology we have today so if you want to go any further than you need to get fiber modules and then you need to run fiber and it's the whole it's the whole thing we won't be running fiber from the main network room over to the servers and the others just there's no real reason for it because what we're gonna be doing is like gaming which doesn't is not going to benefit on a LAN from fiber and it would just add additional expense you got to protect the fiber runs with like like armor like something like it's just it's just not worth it anyway what's cool about this guy is that this is basically just a computer it's just a server but they designed it to be kind of purpose-built for routing applications like kind of so only one power supply yeah I was actually I was kind of surprised and a little disappointed to see that that I mean I guess and the odds of it failing are pretty slim but I don't I don't really like the so what we'll probably end up doing is the same thing that we've been doing now I actually had a few people ask me when we did our last tour of the server room why we had two of those ubiquity routers in there and the reason is that we just had another one configured identically as as a manual failover so just we just grabbed all the cables that are plugged into the existing one power up the new one put them in exactly the same spot and bippity boop it's off to the races so it's possible we'll end up doing something similar to that but we get to it yeah I was actually kind of thinking we would do that so casual unboxing says longtime listener first-time caller love your show learned a lot over the years here's a show of support oh thank you very much for that oh that was hard to listen to I'm gonna grab a bigger bit oh I'm sorry Wow brand new brand new machine here alright so let's talk some some basic speeds and feeds of this guy like a lot of Super micros gear this is a bare-bones box so it doesn't actually have RAM or storage in it so it's just a case motherboard power supply in most cases for bare-bones but even though this is running a Xeon processor it's the type of Xeon that most people probably won't be familiar with so after the over the last couple of years Intel Haswell the entire industry has moved away from having motherboards with sockets and then CPUs that fit in the sockets as just the exclusive way of putting CPUs onto motherboards and a lot of the time you'll find soldered processors not just on laptops but even on things like servers so this is a xeon d which is more like an SOC than it is like a cpu like obviously there's a cpu component to it but this bare-bones also includes a processor so it's a xeon d and i'm gonna struggle with the exact numbers of the model's letters nothing whatever but anyway it's a an 8 core 16 thread processor it's 80 watts of its are sorry it's rated at 80 watts of total power consumption under low TDP I hate I hate doing things live for this very reason so it's got an 80 watt TDP but the most important feature that it has for us is actually one called oh crap my stupid computer just locked and I had some of the notes that I needed for this video open on it so I'm just gonna go ahead and open that up yeah thank you 8 416 thread right so the feature we really need is one called quick assist technology now there's a little brother to this guy this is about $1,600 which I know that sounds like a lot of money but in the context of an internet router that can handle a 10 gigabit internet connection actually a value that's like that's like the that's like the cheapo DIY one because we're gonna be running PS cents on this thing but it also has a little brother that has a 4 core rather than an 8 core processor that doesn't have this quick assist technology but that would also be suitable as long as we aren't too picky about our encryption performance so the thing that led me to this one in particular was actually a couple of articles I was reading over on serve the home that is a fantastic website by the way if you're looking at getting into networking network storage really basically because I don't I I the only thing I don't like about them is the name because serve the home makes it sound like it's gonna be just consumer-grade stuff like Synology nas or whatever but it's not at all they do everything from that all the way to the top of the line it's it's really cool they do a fantastic job they're the only ones in the space I think that are really doing it justice right now but anyway the reason that we care about that is that if we want to use IPSec VPN tunneling this has hardware acceleration for it that that quad core version doesn't so that's the real trick so right now with our ubiquity router we're able to get gigabit internet no problem but because it doesn't have hardware acceleration for the type of VPN that we're running I can only get somewhere in the neighborhood of three to five megabytes a second transfer speed so that's 30 to 50 megabit that sucks now there are ways I could optimize it but I think I'm still gonna be limited to probably about 3 to 5 X that which obviously for running a 10 gigabit internet connection is not going to be suitable so we wanted to make sure that we're upgrading the rest of our infrastructure at the same time in order to keep pace with this guy I don't think we're going to be able to do 10 gigabit but what I would like to see is in excess of one gigabit so Telus tells me that I'm gonna have one gig coming to my neighborhood sometime in the future so I would love to be able to have direct access to our servers at work at one gig securely that's kind of the goal of of this upgrade here so we can I mean we can have a closer look at the rest of the hardware and here if you guys would like so we've got a I'm just reading this off the thing at this point but 200 watt 80 plus gold power supply alrighty then it's not immediately apparent to me who the OEM is but it's super mikro built generally speaking we haven't had any issues with their stuff in the last little while so I'm not gonna complain about it we've got a couple of those same type of cooling fans that we actually saw on our switch so there's super thick but really small 40 millimeter cooling fans these things move a freaking ton of air so you can tell right now this thing is configured for front to back air flow what I actually suspect is that we could flip it around without too much difficulty here it looks like these could just be popped out and then popped back in the other way they're just on these little rubber mounts here and I still haven't decided exactly how I want them configured I may want them to be back to front in which case I'd actually have to order some replacement power supplies for the Dell I tried it and it actually won't boot up if you or not I tried it sorry I was reading about it and didn't try this particular thing but it looks like it won't boot up if you have some back to front and some front to back look if your power supplies don't match your your chassis fans so well I don't know how it knows or maybe it was just that they didn't recommend it but I'll see if I can figure that out but if I have these on the back of Rach it's possible that I'll want them sucking in from the back and blowing out to the front all my existing switches are side and taken exhaust so it hasn't really been an issue but um I mean these are just these are just little things to solve pull pull that off put that back in there how what do we got we got a couple of two and a half inch drive cages here I mean typically you wouldn't need a ton of that the only reason I could think of to use these would be if I wanted to throw a couple low capacity two and a half inch SSDs in here and then just have them run RAID one in case you know something failed you know we don't want our our pfSense OS to not boot up I've got a couple you dot two connectors that's like madness so we could run like high-speed nvme SSDs for both of these that would be pretty flippin sick we've got a couple of MDOT two's so this is just a little that looks like a forty millimeter one and then right here is an 80 millimeter one so that's kind of the industry standard we've got what looks like mini PCIe if you wanted to throw like a Wi-Fi card in this thing for whatever reason you got a full size PCIe 16x here I don't know what purpose that serves because if you're familiar with the 1u form factor at all you probably know that it's not very tall as far as I know this board is specific for this system but you never know maybe they have some kind of OEM design that they do that they've they've reused it for but basically the only one you've got access to is this 8x and only if you have a single slot card so what you would want to use that for check this out this is the front of the case so this comes out the front so that would be if you want to add probably more networking capability or that quick assist technology that's what it's called right yeah quick assist technology you can actually get standalone cards for it too but I don't know what their relationship is to the ones that are built into the CPUs themselves it's something that's been evolving over the last five years or so so this definitely requires more research I just wanted to kind of share this with you guys well it's was hot and fresh before I get it all built out oh it supports quad channel memory that's the other key difference between this one and the the half is expensive one that one's a dual channel so because you've got 8 cores 16 threads quad channel memory high-speed storage connectivity you could actually use this not just for internet routing purposes because remember a lot of that is going to be offloaded to the hardware accelerated the hardware accelerated cryptography cryptography hardware on here so you could actually use this CPU with virtualization for other tasks as well if you were into that sort of thing I don't think I'm gonna virtualize our router I might I don't know I can't really think of a benefit to it it doesn't take up a ton of rack space so I might not bother but feel free to let me know in the comments on this video if you think I'm totally wrong and we should definitely run a hypervisor overtop of PF sense I just I mean PF sense is already at a slight disadvantage compared to networking specific hardware using x86 in terms of latency I can't think of any reason to add any more overhead to it but I maybe I'm wrong um at the front sorry oh yeah I'll get to it I'll get to it so here at the front we've got an Intel i3 50 so that's powering four gigabit connections so this would be useful if we wanted to have like separate I don't know like separate VLANs or something like that if we wanted to manage that directly off the router so we would want to so basically those are kind of like separate virtual networks so they don't have access to each other but then you can create rules through your router to allow like certain machines to talk to others or certain types of traffic to cross them so that's not why you might want a bunch of one gig connections then we've got a management port here this will be for our k vm downstairs we've got actually two more 10 gig Ethernet ports so those are powered by what is it there you go annex 557 Intel chipset and then these two right here so these are SFP+ these are 10 gig as well and these are running directly off of the SOC so that's what makes this an SOC rather than a CPU it's got some more kinds of esoteric features built into it that you wouldn't normally find in just a general-purpose central processor so why don't we do a couple do you mind just tilting this a little bit so I can I can't with the hood on it okay Matt jack says that cabl be Fick yes thank you Matt Jack the cable is indeed thick for those of you who are just tuning in we were looking at a fixed cable a little while ago yep Camile notice me senpai yes I have noticed you and our TX bait is so Opie well I don't know what kind of unboxing you guys were expecting to find on youtube today what what's an RT X yeah I mean either oh guys Chat Chat Chat Chat oh who wore it better yeah who wore it better who wore our T X better oh I can't keep pretending I don't know what RT X is PC says out of curiosity how many if at all LMG employees have a conte a plus certification it's not a requirement I guarantee you that probably a good third of us could pass that kind of a certification but it's as far as I know I don't think anyone has an 800 Anthony mate hey can you open the door hey Anthony do you have your ne+ yeah okay DEFCON ta oh that's the same thing yeah I thought they were separate they're mine oh that's right thank you okay so Anthony is the only one who knows anything about that and yes he does have a plus so he actually worked as like a computer technician before he joined here he wasn't just like a weird enthusiast but like really wanted to make videos about technology Alexander says why don't you build a homebrew ten gigabit switching solution you know what it's not impossible that we would ever try to do something like that but as far as I know the best performance still comes from off-the-shelf switches so ya can't can't say nothing like that would ever happen oh boy he moved the thing Adam says Linus you're awesome I'm a doctor but I've always loved networking you've taken my interest to a whole other level that's cool I mean really that's that's that's kind of what we're all about here like frankly our channel is not the place where you're gonna find like the detailed step by step guide for how we configured this thing once we've got it deployed for that you're gonna want to go to like level one tax or did somewhere else please but really you know what we're about is just kind of sharing our love and passion for technology and so if it gets you interested enough that you want to dig a little deeper with other resources like level one tags they're gamers Nexus or whatever else then we feel like our missions accomplished a slider says decided to become a data network engineer after seeing your server room vlogs see exactly like that you know more about this stuff that slider 67 than I ever will I guarantee it if you're already like doing that kind of work and and I think I think that's great like I can't a lot of people get frustrated when we make a video about whether it's 3d printing or networking and they say oh like you guys didn't go deep enough for you you didn't get this quite right or whatever the case may be but the reality of it is we the tech is so wide like it used to be we'd make a video about something that wasn't a PC and people would like lose their minds what do you guys doing but tech is so broad and the reality of it is even with 20 people here we can't be the deepest subject-matter experts when it comes to every single aspect of it but if we inspire other people to dig deeper then I think that's fantastic all right last one folk Johansen says how much is one gigabit fiber connection over there oh okay so it depends if you just want a one gigabit residential connection I suspect it'll be around too high things around 160 bucks for a Telus pere fiber one gigs think it's around that so that's what I'll be paying at home our fiber connection here is three thousand dollars a month for one gig because we have a 99.9 or double nine 99.99% uptime guarantee with a service level agreement so basically if our internet goes down they start paying us is how that works so it's business great Internet we also have many more IPS than you get issued with a standard residential connection and there are a lot of reasons why you might want more than one IP it's a higher grade connection so even our switched fiber here is better than what you're get at your home even if you have fiber-to-the-home what are what are some of the other reasons that it matters we also have we have an allocation of space in our ISPs data center and that's something special that our our ISP did I don't think we'd get something like that through tell us directly and it's it's all on Telesis backbone anyway so we're getting the same effective service but we're allowed to keep servers in their database so we can do off-site backups there what else do we get for our $3,000 a month we get amazing customer service I can literally okay I don't want to oversell them because I don't think everybody gets exactly the same treatment and to be clear it's not because they knew who we were they were great to us before they even knew what - tech tips was in particular their CTO is amazing like I can call him at 2:00 in the morning which i think is 3:00 in the morning his time and he's just like what up what up oh is it this one is this shirt life do you want you want to check okay so anyway the five-and-a-half gigabit connection is gonna be about yeah it's gonna be more it is it's up oh you guys can buy this shirt now if you want apparently it's up on the design DBH store I think is it merged on Linus tech tips comm I feel like here hold on I can I can check I can check that Lloyd yeah merge start line is tech tips comm you'll find it there it's the one on the bottom right Artie axon with the we move the arrow bit so should be noted that this is like a cheap mock-up so if you look closely at it this is just like like a vinyl iron-on like garbage town print but we also adjusted some things so I thought that the nipple instead of being like way up here should probably be more like here so we move this up a bit and I think the arrow is not gonna be quite so long because you can see it kind of gets scrunched up and lost in the bottom of the shirt so we made a couple of changes but yeah this shirt design is apparently live so there you go this video is brought to you by LTT merch check out the link in the video description which isn't there right now what should be there later by yeah Jake dicks gonna put it there now uses lame see mines like mines got dick jokes that makes it better okay you can in the stream anytime now