$1 vs $100,000 Server

[@JeffGeerling]

Thanks to Flexispot for sponsoring the final video of 2023! Use my Code: redshirtjeff for $30 off, and use the links below to buy the C7 chair or E7Q Desk: C7: US: bit.ly/3Gvazpz CA: bit.ly/3N6PHZd E7Q: US: bit.ly/47SyScQ CA: bit.ly/3N7Of9d Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! See you in 2024 :)

[@SumriseHD]

MrBeast is jealous of you

[@dietherdavedev]

i would love a flexispot table :( please

[@dietherdavedev]

I am a maker and would has been eyeing flexispot desk for years now! its the best and quite expensive for me

[@AWIRE_onpc]

First video of 2024, Run Raspian on the massive arm desktop

[@achannelhasnoname5182]

​@@dietherdavedevget a few more subs and I'm sure Flexispot will send you one. Considering how they are throwing their desks at every KZbinr, I would never buy one. Sounds like they're made too cheap if they can afford to give so many of them away.

[@DarrylAdams]

I am glad you are pulling a Linus and getting sponsors to fit out the studio

[@JeffGeerling]

It definitely helps! And I don't plan on spamming sponsorships into every video going forward, I'm using them to help offset the costs of the studio build out this year.

[@kevinj24535]

Spam as many sponsored videos as you like. If that ensures that the content is good and makes projects possible.

[@JeffGeerling]

@@kevinj24535 I'll spam them when I need to :) The nice thing is between Patreon, GitHub Sponsors, and AdSense revenue, I am able to pay the essential bills, so sponsorships mostly help me save for rainy days, or take on specific projects (like the studio build) when I need it! And I hope people who watch this channel are okay with it, especially since I add chapter markers, overlays, and very clear delineations of what's sponsored and what's not!

[@earthling_parth]

​@@JeffGeerlingBelieve me Jeff, your audience is more than okay with it. I'd say contact raid shadow legends to get more upgrades around the studio 😂 Thanks for everything you do ❤

[@JeffGeerling]

@@earthling_parth - Ha! Well now, that's one step too far-I only accept sponsorships from companies I have done or would happily do business with. Games and apps that try to suck in dollars from kids don't get my approval :D

[@DragonKingGaav]

A $100,000 server is finally a computer that meets Windows Vista's minimum requirements!

[@bountoj]

At least!

[@aaronryder4008]

But can it run crysis?

[@LetrixAR]

Still won't have a perfect Windows Experience Score

[@SMuld]

You will never have a perfect experience score on windows.

[@jmr]

@@aaronryder4008 I bet techs test them with Doom on occasion. Seems like an unwritten rule.

[@injeolmi6]

Getting a Lenovo mini-pc is a great idea! And not only for servers, I've seen some school classmates use them as a secondary "school-only" computer. We must stop throwing computers away when they seem to become obsolete. Looking forward to the next server video!

[@erikgiggey4783]

i like the way you integrated content into the advertisement. was seamless, i have been looking for a desk like that, now when my budget allows its currently at the top of my shortlist. i play jack of all trades in the IT space officially i am a sr dev but im also prod manager for all our deployed code and the main linux guru, thankfully i have a unix guru for our unix systems and windows server person to do the AD stuff but i work on all of it. jack of all trades master of none but othentimes better than a master of one :P Merry Christmas, hope you and your family had a great one.

[@JeffGeerling]

Merry Christmas to you, too! And we did, it is a great time even with one kid out sick.

[@flexispotus]

Jeff's videos are always fantastic! The new studio looks great. The C7 and E7Q also complement the studio really well!

[@JeffGeerling]

May they last for many years in this space! I actually bought a tiny 24x42" flexispot desk on sale last week too. A lot different than the massive E7Q!

[@StorageReview]

That's a pretty cool Oxide video at 8:25 😁 Also thanks for the tip to give a heads up for our insurance carrier when we have Red Shirt Jeff out in our lab -Jordan

[@JeffGeerling]

Heh, you do have to keep an eye out on that guy.

[@jja2000]

>"What is a server" Ahhh now the Wolfgang's Channel cameo makes sense 😄

[@koijoijoe]

Excited to see you build your server cabinet out!

[@webfiles4utube]

Nice to see you recording in your new office space. No more concerns with CO2 :)

[@JeffGeerling]

Heh, hopefully not! But I haven't set up the AirGradients yet, so I can't be certain :)

[@Wordsnwood]

Did not know they made chairs, so yeah, I actually learned something from a midroll ad! 🤣

[@JeffGeerling]

Ha, until they reached out I didn't know either! They're decent chairs, though I wish they made a solid sub-$99 option too (sometimes they have sales on the C3)

[@JustinLeif]

Sound in the new studio sounds great! :)

[@basix250]

Nice to see Oxide Computer mentioned. Their offerings look really cool!

[@janmonson]

Excited to see where the rack came from, and see what the plan is for the server. Just built a new machine myself. Got a sweet deal on a Ryzen 5 5600x with mobo, 16 gig of ram, and a RX6500xt for $600 CDN ( about $450 US) dropped in an nVidia Tesla K80. Trying to get Vicuna LLM running so i can self host an AI chat bot to integrate with my Twitch chat.

[@plica06]

I suppose we'll have another 10 minute ad singing the praises of the company that gave that rack to Jeff for free. What's next then... Dr Pepper I suppose in exchange for a lifetime supply of that stuff!

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

I like that the talking points for that chair gave an upper height suggestion - as somebody rather larger than the average and bigger than that chair suggests that is the sort of detail that is far to rarely mentioned. Adjustable chairs only adjust so far, and as I've yet for really find a great solution for myself. Be nice if they also suggested an across the shoulders or width at the hip measurement too - not all tall folks tend to the stick thin that the Scandinavians seem to...

[@toaster98]

Sadly they always forget about us tall people. Its hard to find a chair with proper support

[@humble2246]

The chair is a copycat of the Herman Miller Aeron. The Aeron is far better and literally recommended by physicians

[@toaster98]

Doubt that one is suitable for tall people either@@humble2246

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

@@humble2246 While I can see the similarities in concept they don't look that close to me. And at half again as expensive I'd hope the Herman is better. But it certainly doesn't have nearly as useful a spec sheet for judging which one is the better size for you - or even if any of them will suit - and at that price no way you buy one in hope unless you are a very rich giant... Though from what I can tell from their listed sizes till too small for me on their largest model probably...

[@humble2246]

@foldionepapyrus3441 I am 6'5 the aeron is quite literally the best. The thing is with his chair he is recommending are the exact same points Herman miller aeron claims. Hence why it's a copycat

[@burnte]

I bought a flexispot frame early this year, never got around to setting it up until a month ago, and I absolutely adore it. My workbench is so much nicer to use now.

[@thefancraft0]

can't wait for another office update on that server rack

[@JeffGeerling]

Working on the first bit of it now! Hopefully the video will be ready for next week. Then I'll be focused on wiring up more servers in January!

[@nathanielmoore87]

Funny you should mention upcycling an old mini PC. I have a Lenovo just like the one you showed. I got it for free from work because it barely ran Windows. I put pfsense on it and it's been my router and firewall for almost 2 years. It's been rock solid. I even streamed this video with it.

[@JeffGeerling]

They're surprisingly capable little boxes!

[@phil2768]

I picked up 2 "refurbished" Lenovo M910q mini computers off eBay 2 weeks ago with 8gb ram, i5 7500 CPU and 256gb nvme storage. When I got them they were actually brand new and unused/unopened with all the original accessories and the cost just £75 ($95) each. Absolute bargain for a great little desktop pc or home server.

[@JeffGeerling]

Wow nice! I've never had that kind of fortune on eBay, sometimes quite the opposite!

[@bretdk]

Awesome to see the progress on the studio space. I am only a little jealous 😅

[@JeffGeerling]

Ha! A lot of it could still happen just at my desk, but it is nice to have enough room for proper storage again... instead of piles and piles everywhere. Looking forward to your content in 2024 :)

[@TenForceFalls]

Wait a minute, a studio video??

[@Ybalrid]

"There are businesses that needs Petabytes of storage". I know one near Vancouver in Canada. The Tech Tips man himself.

[@gklinger]

Flexispot desks and chairs ARE awesome, like Jeff. Great sponsor!

[@eldibs]

My brother got a handful of those small form-factor PCs for free from work (Dell Optiplexes, though), I'm using one as a backup for my primary server for Plex redundancy. As long as you aren't expecting to throw a ton of stuff in there they're pretty great, it even handles 4K video transcoding.

[@JeffGeerling]

The transcoding can be a bit dependent on which CPU is used inside, though! Nice that you got some good ones :)

[@eldibs]

@@JeffGeerling Yeah! Thankfully the iGPUs in the ones I got are supported by Plex for hardware transcoding! I was surprised his company's IT department didn't want them back.

[@RossReedstrom]

​@@eldibsdecommissioned equipment that is off warranty end up being very expensive if put in production and it fails.

[@eDoc2020]

@@RossReedstrom A company large enough to have an IT department probably has identically configured systems set up not to rely on local storage. If a client PC dies you swap in a new one and the employee won't even notice.

[@rklauco]

So this is the first real video from the new studio! Congrats! Nice one.

[@sethperry6616]

Its incredible how throwing an SSD in an old computer overhwelmingly rejuvenates it.

[@jbritain]

You don't even need to drop $100 on an old PC as a server! I grabbed one on eBay with a 6th gen i5 for £30, got an extra 8GB stick of DDR4 for £12 (making 16), and chucked in a 120GB SSD I had laying around. It works great as a Minecraft server

[@JeffGeerling]

Nice deal on that!

[@marcelk.4371]

Nice shots with the new studio! Congrats jeff 🎉

[@alphaadhito]

I cry in tear of joy when Jeff uses the 10 grant work station to play Kerbal Space Program 😅

[@shapelessed]

"1.2 billion web pages" As a web designer who knows how much a modern, and especially a "designer" web page could look like, I heavily disagree.

[@JeffGeerling]

Heh, well the question is what kind of web page. If we're talking a news site with 15 MB of stuff on the page load, no way :D

[@tdrg_]

Nothing beats my 2009 Dell laptop. It never fails to fail on me.

[@mahtin]

Number of drives does need to equate directly to power usage … if you can power-down unused drives. That’s a massive “IF”! One company that did this was Copan Systems, with its “MAID” (Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology. Sadly the company closed in 2009 and I don’t know what happened to the technology (or patents).

[@JeffGeerling]

It seems like controllers don't like doing that, so you'd have to figure out a solution in software-and that can get tricky if you want to use any standard arrays like with ZFS, Btrfs, etc. - you'd have to do the accounting yourself. However, it could be done, especially if you want to leave 10 or 20 plugged in as 'hot-ish spares', where they power on, but then in software you mark them for spindown. Then if you need one or two, you can un-mark them for spindown, spin them up, then add them to a pool.

[@williambryce8527]

That desk is awesome! what a cool dining table

[@mrfoodarama]

Wait... until next year you're Jeff Geerling.. but who will you be after next year?!?! Lol, I hope you had a Merry Christmas Jeff, and a Happy and Healthy New Year!

[@JeffGeerling]

Thank you, haha! Still Jeff for now at least!

[@BeeWhere]

Great info, congrats on the new office. I'm finally moving away form my first gen Threadripper running truenas and plex, while it was fun, it wasn't utilized and not power efficient

[@JeffGeerling]

That's the biggest problem with the more exotic systems for homelab use-they just burn so much energy (and are often quite loud) and are severely under-utilized!

[@BeeWhere]

@@JeffGeerling it was fun to play around with for a bit, but then I had kids and with a stable system I and realized just how little I really needed, and my wife preferred uptime, over Tinker time.

[@dany_cool9092]

Hey Jeff! 👋 This video on Al servers is incredibly insightful and well-presented. Your ability to break down complex topics into easily digestible chunks is truly commendable. The exploration of Al server architectures, performance considerations, and real-world applications provides a comprehensive overview for both beginners and tech enthusiasts. I appreciate how you delve into the practical aspects, discussing the impact of GPUs, TPUs, and other accelerators on Al workloads. Your hands-on approach and the demonstration of server setups make it easier for viewers to grasp the concepts and consider implementing similar solutions. Moreover, your clear explanations and engaging delivery make this video accessible to a wide audience, whether they're seasoned professionals or just starting to dip their toes into the fascinating world of Al servers. Keep up the fantastic work, Jeff! Looking forward to more insightful content from your channel.🚀✨

[@JeffGeerling]

Wait a second...

[@spal9725]

If mrBeast knew sysadmin (nice title)

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

But $100000 server doesn't even compare to Jeff's Petabyte Pi Project.

[@pcislocked]

1:03 dude is flexing his rack 😭😭😭

[@JeffGeerling]

But this one is welded, it barely flexes!

[@pcislocked]

ba dum tss 💀💀💀💀@@JeffGeerling jokes aside cant wait for the vlog

[@blackIce504]

Merry Christmas jeff to you and your family.

[@Thewickedjon]

great video as always that flexispot chair is pretty freaking sweet, ty for sharing.

[@jacekruzyczka3058]

I'm quite sure that our editor-in-chief could use this desk and chair very well!

[@UkiyoIkou]

You should do a video on a home theater front ends. Everyone uses something different and I'm curious to see what the best option is when you have to mix media, and games. I've seen some people use windows 10 tablet mode, chimera os, etc...

[@Reconbox1001]

Until next year I'm Jeff Geerling..... Who are you going to be next year??? 😀 Thanks for your videos that makes "computing" into good fun. Happy New Year to you and your family 😊

[@zoopercoolguy]

Even better than a Tiny/Mini/Micro PC is an HPE MicroServer if you can find a good price on one. Real deal HPE server in a package just a little bigger than a TMM PC. I've been running one as a home server for a few years and I love it.

[@sherlockmaverick]

I like the flow of this video! It's fun to see you experimenting with your style lately. :)

[@slave288]

"A little more...like this" Pi Zero. It's a still cheap but powerful upgrade.

[@TheMchip]

uuu recordings made in new studi! awsome :)

[@MrZen42]

So impressive work on the videos you publish! Thanks for the high quality content !

[@QuentinStephens]

Merry Christmas, Jeff. Keep up the good work.

[@hofertyp]

The new man cave ähm sorry studio looks great 👍 also the sound proofing seems to work great 😅 keep up the good content!

[@Saturn2888]

Dunno about you, but my HDD Storinator XL60 with 60 x 10TB HGST drives uses ~500-515W on average. It's insane! If I knew that I think I could've made the case for more SSDs; although, the price of HDDs and power in my area isn't gonna match the price of SSDs (at my needed capacity) anytime soon.

[@JeffGeerling]

That's the curse of price between SSD, HDD, and electricity!

[@radiicall]

The new office looks great!

[@michaelbyrd4004]

I appreciate your work Jeff, thank you.

[@core-computinglab]

Thumb's up for Geerling engineering.

[@nickverstand]

the mr beast of home labs ;)

[@ws_stelzi79]

What a "lucky" "coincidence" that now you are moving to a new office you can accept all these desk and chair sponsorships! I mean all these sponsors must be fighting over who is allowed to sponsor you. 😁😉😎

[@earthling_parth]

Jeff deserves all these new sponsors and more!

[@marvinochieng6295]

I love the channel but i am not sure what to feel when 20.86% of the video is an ad for flexispot and a further 3.47% is an outro ad. Great video though

[@JeffGeerling]

Your percentages are _on point_!

[@aims-pls]

I love the Dalek in the background

[@jumpmaster5279]

Can't wait to see the new studio 😊

[@Somethingfs-sx1ft]

I got a Raspberry Pi 5 for Christmas!

[@JeffGeerling]

Niiiiice! Hope you can do some fun projects with it!

[@maxmyzer9172]

I used a Pico W as a server, it was really nice for simple things.

[@veremenko]

Gaah, that discord notification at 7:40, I kept checking my computer xD

[@XPXWORD]

😂

[@MoraFermi]

Next up, we'll see Jeff get an HPE Synergy blade enclosure, deck it out to the max and then replace it with a bunch of RasPis.

[@Ultimatebubs]

Mad props for the cowsay t-shirt!

[@ti4go]

Shoutout to all the companies that support Jeff!!

[@alanjrobertson]

Very enjoyable, Jeff! Love the Pico - have got it feeding temperature into Home Assistant. Saw the Dalek poster, hope you had time to relax and enjoy the Christmas Day special 👍 I converted my old desk with Flexispot after a Christmas present a couple of years ah, still working nicely.

[@var67]

Well, if I ever saw an excuse for a product placement ad...

[@JeffGeerling]

And now I have a great desk to use for my testing and filming ;)

[@mikaelhakali4980]

Racks are neither used to deliver power nor cool servers. Server halls have massive cooling and you need to mount power strips on them. :-)

[@megatronskneecap]

Lmao, I love the Mr. Beast thumbnail 100k font

[@Stenstorp]

What is that laptop at 2:54? Looks like you need that fancy desk to hold it up!

[@JeffGeerling]

MNT Reform - video on it should be coming 'soon' (not sure exactly when though!

[@zoopercoolguy]

I'm shocked no one else said this already. Nice rack, Jeff.

[@HectorRoldan]

Yay I didn't drool seeing all that hardware!!!! You think in a few years you might design a Laser Engraver and have it go to work on that table putting your Logo and the makers Logo on it for extra style/experience points? Maybe even dremel some grooves to inlay RGB and seal with epoxy for extra zaz?

[@bzuidgeest]

Was there a video in this commercial? I'm not sure. I have nothing against sponsorships, but there has to be some kind of actual video.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Next video: 1000 $1 microcontroller servers racked using glow in the dark fishing lines... 😂 🤣

[@JustinEmlay]

Quick glance at the thumbnail and I thought you were tearing down a Nintendo M82.

[@guy_autordie]

Oh, you're in the studio! Nice!

[@AndersHass]

Those sound dampening panels looks nice and the sound in the studio is excellent (the framed posters also look nice). Nice you could get a nice table and chair through sponsors. Edit: Noticed at the end you did stick something to the panels so maybe the are more meant for that than sound dampening, lol.

[@JeffGeerling]

the grey panels are fabric wrapped around Corning 703 sound panels; I still have a couple more to put up though!

[@AndersHass]

@@JeffGeerling ah I see. Looking forward to the next office vlog.

[@baths4carsraspberrypicomputer]

one of my favourite channels

[@KameraShy]

Good to see Jeff got a Real Man's server rack.

[@acubley]

Was looking at the Lenovo minis, but then heard about them burning the fuses on Ryzen to platform lock them. They went on my naughty list.

[@Mr8perezm]

That was a lot of advertising in one video. Hoping the next one is not as extreme.

[@nicodemuscg]

@RaidOwl Was the creator at 4:49. I could not parse what Jeff was saying and had to go hunt. All I could hear was "raid Allen".

[@gamingwithsparton]

I see the LEDs there on the rack door 🧐 I approve lol

[@JeffGeerling]

Ha! You are sadly in the minority according to my Twitter and KZbin polls! But they are individually-addressable, so I can have a little fun with that lighting :)

[@gamingwithsparton]

@@JeffGeerling sad and exciting news at the same time! I’ll be very interested to see what you do with them, maybe an interesting way to display server stats

[@Klip1LK]

Maybe the next sponsorship will be from Oxide and we can see what red-shirt Jeff can do with a $500k rack 😂

[@DavidPeach10]

"Most comfortable chair in the office." How many chairs does a one-person office have? 😂

[@JeffGeerling]

Four! But two are folding chairs, so they don't count as much :) I had two other chairs at home too, but my wife is taking them over for her sewing room, so she and one of the kids can both sit down there and work on things!

[@whothefoxcares]

if anyone can automate and optimize the Parenting Process, it would be Red Shirt Jeff.

[@YermakTheTrainEngineer]

i just love how you made mr beast style video about server

[@PhantomPhoton]

Flexispot marketing: We're so confident in our chairs they all come with a guaranteed 10 year warranty. Flexispot reality: All chairs purchased after 2016 come with a three-year limited warranty. True story, don't trust any ergo chair that comes with less than a 5 year warranty. That's the bare minimum.

[@JeffGeerling]

I specifically asked about the warranty while I was writing the sponsored portion... it seemed like it's 10 years but used to be 15. Where do you see the 3 year limited warranty information? It wouldn't be great for me to promote a 10 year warranty if that's far from the truth...

[@PhantomPhoton]

@@JeffGeerling On the "warranty" page of their website it states "All FlexiSpot chairs purchased on or after October 5, 2016, include a 3-year warranty." Depending on where you look at their website, the desks come with either a 15 year, 10 year, or 5 year warranty. Seems to vary by model.

[@JeffGeerling]

@@PhantomPhoton Strange... I'm currently seeing "The warranty periods for different models of FlexiSpot chairs vary, and there are also differences in the warranty durations for individual chair components (ranging from 3 to 10 years). You can find specific information in the product description. " And on the C7 at least, it shows 10 years on the product page.

[@PhantomPhoton]

@@JeffGeerling - I sent you the link direct to the page, as you never approved the link to be posted here.

[@tamrix]

Did you consider mixing up the drive manufacturers for your storage? Drives produced by the same company on the same date do have a possibility of having the same defect and failing around the same time.

[@JeffGeerling]

I generally rotate drives in over time; if I had the budget I would do more mixing, but adding in drives over long periods (like 6 at a time) means I could have a batch of 6 fail at some point, but the other batch I added in 6 months later would ideally not have the same issue. But on top of that I follow 3-2-1 backups so worst case I'd just have one server out, and I'd switch to my backup until I get the main local server back online.

[@Spirch]

nice sound in the new studio! i love my huge bamboo counter top (39in x 73in) with t leg shape, before installing the t leg shape it was 5 single post like leg shape (the normal one), it was wobbling like hell you dont want that when the top weight over 175lbs with stuff on it that add maybe 50-80+ lbs and cost a few thousand... this thing is a beast now, it's not going anywhere only thing missing is a motors to move it up and down, maybe someday!

[@catalystguitarguy]

I have 12 of those Lenovo thin clients in my rack. they take up 4U of my network rack. very powerful for the money. I was originally going to run a pi cluster, but when scarcity hit and prices skyrocketed these were about 1/4 the price and 4-12x the performance.

[@kelvin1316]

I got a Dell USFF machine for Home Assistant, so much more responsive then a RaspberryPi

[@lasskinn474]

that the chip is 1 dollaroo in theory is a bit of a cop out. still not a bad price at 6 or whatever bucks in stock. you can however serve with esp32 too and those you can get for around half the price with a board with usb connector and all on the board.

[@alexlandherr]

My media server is in the 1600 USD range. An ASUS PN64-E1 w/ i7-13700H and a QNAP-TR004 running Debian 12.

[@Scooter_213]

Oooh I think this is your first video in the new office?

[@settlece]

my add blocker was not working on this Gratz on the sponsors

[@Supermunch2000]

$100K server? Sonofagun, I'm in.

[@JamesHalfHorse]

I was just about to ask you where you got the sweet rack and if there were any more nearby so I will be waiting on that one. Glad I waited to comment. More on topic I think more dedicated AI hardware for people who don't want the cloud might finally change what we know of as a server and I suspect something like that risc workstation is going to be the answer but we have only scratched the surface of the subject in our home lab.

[@StHabibiJohnsonAhmedFranklin]

Came for servers, stayed for spin.