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this is a video I've been meaning to make for quite some time because I've been meaning to practice what I preach for quite some time and that is to always have a backup of your data preferably one that is off-site which is easier to say them to do I mean if you've just got a few smartphone pictures you can use a cloud account or even burn a couple disks once a quarter to act as your disaster recovery storage solution but if you're talking about dozens of terabytes worth of video and we're talking video that could be needed at any given moment for smooth business operation you better have something a little beefier so meet Kamloops server whether you run a small business or a 1 billion dollar enterprise Rackspace has your dedicated storage environment covered check out the link in the video description to learn more so this project starts actually with undoing most of what I had planned from before I had intended to use the same Norco RPC 4224 case from the high speed SSD server which can handle 24 drives on sleds with a SATA or SAS compatible backplane thing but I star USA reached out and showed me this the ex4 m36 - exp and my plans changed somewhat at that time so at the front of this case you'll find a 24 hot-swappable hard drive caddies that work with three and a half or two and a half inch drives some sick-ass beefy 120 millimeter cooling fans and this SAS backplane that connects on the inside with the usual molex power connectors and SFF 8087 SAS connectors with the difference and this is cool being that it doesn't actually require six SAS connectors for all those 24 drives you can even use just one if you want and the backplane handles routing that traffic to all the connected drives now obviously with just that one connector you won't necessarily be able to run all of those bays at the same speed as if they were individually plugged in but for an off-site backup server well where we'll never do more than gigabit speed to the whole box this is way more than enough but hold on a second line is since when is more than enough enough I thought this is Linus tech gets why aren't you sticking with the Norco case that drives every single connected drive individually at full speed great question and we can answer it by going around the back of the ex4 m36 ESP yes friends that is another 12 drives back there giving us a total of 36 drives of expansion that thanks to the built-in gasps expander boards can be driven off of just two SF 8087 ports absolutely perfect for an unread deployment which doesn't mean that there aren't any compromises that we're making with a configuration like this I mean I get effectively only a 2u height enclosure inside my for you case to install all the rest of my internal components so let's meet those internal components shall we first is our motherboard as e9p au8 server board - masseuse with a couple of features that make it ideal for this build number one is the IPMI intelligent platform management interface module that we've added to it when you can't have physical access to a server because it's a six-hour drive away one of these is critical because it allows you to perform low-level functions through a dedicated special Ethernet port on the back that normally couldn't be done through conventional network control solutions like TeamViewer or remote desktop connection things like altering BIOS settings or hard resetting the machine number two is that it's compatible with some hardware that we had lying around like these for 16 gig ECC ddr3 kingston ram modules that I've actually had chicken about the office since uh kingston sponsorship deal for that whole room water cooling project over a year ago and this xeon e5 26:20 v2 six core that i pulled out of our store inator server when i needed a higher clock cpu to overcome some SMB bottlenecking so i could have tried to source a better cpu in this case because while 64 gigabytes does give me the option to run some of the ends I suspect this machine won't do much more than store files so I kept things pretty light for cooling I obviously couldn't stick with my go to server heat sink the Noctua NHD 9 l because of the limited height that I had to work with so I opted for an NH L 12 with the top 120 millimeter fan removed and since this is only an 80 watt TDP chip with Apple case airflow it's not really a concern to just that bottom fan on there next is our HP a cardan I've actually been using raid cards many of which I had lying around already so it wasn't a matter of extra cost for HPA or host bus adapter duty but what I found out relatively recently is that even ones with good J baud mode so that's just kind of like an HPA mode where you just connect drives and they show up to windows like they're just a drive no raid they don't behave completely transparently which can interfere with operating systems like FreeNAS and on rain getting proper smart data readings from the drives so I'm actually using an LSI 9300 8 HPA so it has zero raid capabilities whatsoever then I've got a couple of mini SAS HD connectors that I can use adapter cables to plug into my back planes leading us finally two hard drives yes my friends the 8 terabyte Seagate enterprise capacity drives are making yet another appearance here in all of their glory these are only SATA drives but for our workload it really won't make any difference and SAS controllers are compatible with SATA drives just not the other way around which you can learn more about here so these are true enterprise-grade drives not the shingled archival ones and they're capable of their full read and write speed so somewhere in the neighborhood of 230 to 240 megabytes per second according to some write speed testing that we did when you're just hitting one drive at a time freaking awesome they also offer excellent resistance to vibrations from nearby machines a must for data center deployment and a massive 2 million our mean time between failure rating with all of them installed then so that's we actually had only 23 left after the ones we've deployed already all that's left to find out is how much performance we can get with so many drives hooked up to a single connector and actually that is looking pretty darn good thanks to the 12 gigabit per second SAS controller we're using and the rated internal bandwidth of about 2.4 gigabytes per second for that SAS back clean at the front we could write to our array of 22 disks at about 2 gigabytes per second then we'll need even if we upgrade it to ten gigabit internet since this server will be off-site freakin ballin speaking of ballin were you thinking you might want a solution that's a little bit less hands-on than this well there's Rackspace it's the top tier manage cloud computing company may pride themselves on best-in-class service across all platforms they've got over three hundred thousand customers in a hundred and twenty countries with ten worldwide data centers whether you run a small business or a billion dollar enterprise you probably have needs for capacity so that is to say magnetic hard drives or flash based that is a high performance storage and I can guarantee you they have some kind of a solution to meet your performance security network capacity and compliance needs I mean they can handle anything Dazz so that's directly attached storage so it's great for like entry-level redundant arrays they've got fan so that's high availability and reliability fully redundant storage that's actually outside of the machine like elsewhere in the data center but with super high-speed links there's Nazz with support for very demanding workloads for example virtualization and scalability up to 20 petabytes of capacity seriously go do the napkin math how much is that freaking incredible and they've actually got public cloud and private cloud based options available as well so you can set up your own server with a scaleable private cloud in your data center or there's and it's supported by Rackspace and VMware they refer to their 24/7 365 support as fanatical and they offer industry-leading service level agreements so the call to action then is pretty simple Rackspace has your dedicated environments covered so check out Rackspace comm /l tt so thanks for watching this video guys if the video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon buying a cool shirt like this one instructions up there or with a direct monthly contribution through our form you get a cool little contributor badge now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what should I watch next great question and you should definitely check out our lightsaber how to build a lightsaber and battle with them thing over on channel super fun make sure you get subscribed to channel super fun we're gonna have lots of cool stuff over there