Building the Ultimate DIY NAS on AMD, Ft. Level1Techs, Unraid, & ZFS (Part 1/2)

[@GamersNexus]

Part 2 will focus entirely on the software side of things! Support GN via the store: store.gamersnexus.net/ Wendell uploaded a video from our office as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYjKl2CVe8-BpK8 (go subscribe to them if you're not already)

[@justacomment1657]

Great Stuff. Finaly ZFS for the Win. No more script based compression...💪👌 i wonder if you guys go with iscsi or the more...slow a.f. nfs version.... @wendel have you encountered iSER aka. RDMA via ISCSI?

[@portwolf2293]

Nailed the intro, that's how you summon socks and sandles 👍🤣

[@danielkaiser8343]

I agree with Wendell most people do not need over 100tb

[@Dygear]

YES! Do the software side of things!!! Also love the Star Trek references.

[@ZeroB4NG]

I'm sure this was the Excelsior Warp Sound Wendel was referring to: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5ytZGBjZ7Bqr9Em03s PS: i always name my gaming PCs DEEP-SPACE-BLUE / DEEP-SPACE-RED (depending on the LED color), but since RGB i do call it DEEP-SPACE-ZERO

[@thepolticalone961]

That intro man

[@michaelmoses8745]

Satanic summoning of stuff. Hilarious

[@thepolticalone961]

@@michaelmoses8745 it was brilliant

[@mohdfaizal6773]

Heh, linus GiD, uh dig 😂👍😘

[@justaman5418]

@@michaelmoses8745 well alot of the electrical symbols do actually look like demonic symbols so eh think about that yin lol

[@jchristie254]

Yeah that was funny. Wendell is the man

[@jinsei3468]

That jab at Linus in the intro was fantastic. I always enjoy the fact that a lot of the tech you-tubers (Gamers Nexus, Jay, Linus, Kyle etc) are in business sense competitors, yet they do a ton of joint projects, and support each other. Just refreshing imo.

[@TAP7a]

everyone stepping in for Hardware Unboxed was pretty wholesome too

[@bobthompson4319]

and 3 years later they are all admittingly friends.

[@NicholasSchott-or4do]

It's really not competition. They arent competing for your money like say plumbers compete for your bathroom remodel. You can watch one youtuber and then watch the other after and it cost you nothing. "Competition" in their job is nothing like in orher fields

[@dressiknights]

OOOOH BOY THO

[@TheEDFLegacy]

OP's comment aged well. Or like milk, depending on how you look at it. 😅

[@daigle388]

i'm legit dying at the linus joke at the beginning.

[@howdoyoudoit3499]

Me too

[@soli-ethd]

RIP

[@DavidtheDoom]

That Intro!

[@javierortiz82]

Linus would be like we overclock this water cooled rgb barf themed $ 300k NAS.

[@scottyhaines4226]

@@javierortiz82 with 34 $1200 NAS 8TB PCIe Gen 4 SSDs

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

something i don't get about the "not him" part of the intro... if you didn't want linus, then why drop all the cpus? that was clearly the summoning for Linus Drop Tips Sebastian

[@KingPinniped]

Kind of like how you can't hold your hand above superheated steam, or dip into the boiling liquid of a cauldron, one must be careful to not touch or get too close to a CPU pentagram with unprotected skin. The consequences are rumored to be dire.

[@HamguyBacon]

They didn't understand what they were summoning.

[@mk_scorpion_]

Best. Intro. Ever. "No not him" floored me

[@Lonnie.G]

Weirdly enough, this might be one of my favorite GN videos. A lot of good information sprinkled throughout and the Wendell - Steve combo is fantastic

[@bunneza]

Not Him ! NOT HIM !!!! ~Tech Jesus 2019

[@Qardo]

Tech Jesus hates him... But let me tell you about our sponsor! *never gets to the point*

[@chubbysumo2230]

To be fair, he did drop those CPUs. Who else was he expecting, except the king of drop.

[@nosirrahx]

@@chubbysumo2230 LOL yep

[@winnieid2727]

@@chubbysumo2230 Lol

[@abstraconcept]

Are these the temptations of Tech Jesus, after spending days wandering in the storage desert? He should have known that one does not live on sponsored goods alone.

[@johngermain5146]

It's great seeing Wendall on your show Steve. I built a dual xeon server with an ASRock RACK motherboard and used to watch Wendall's videos on setting up a NAS server, configuring users and groups, setting up iSCSI, NFS, and SMB shares. What an experience. I was fascinated with the 14 onboard SATA ports (several of which were SATAII and not SATAIII). Now using SAS drives on both an internal LSI controller for my two 8 drive vdevs in my Pool, and an external LSI controller with an Expander for my 24 bay JBOD. Look at how fast things are changing... Love the show.

[@thepolticalone961]

GN: No not you Linus: This message brought to you by...

[@mohdfaizal6773]

Those ads payy off the staff n buy Good hardware. Just as good revenue as selling mod Mats

[@thepolticalone961]

@@mohdfaizal6773 I didn't say anything against ads.

[@ShadowRubberDuck]

TUNNELBEAR!

[@thepolticalone961]

@@ShadowRubberDuck PIA. Private internet access. No tunnel bear

[@amahashadow]

lttstore.com

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

"How can we take something that Linus can do and make it so regular people can do it?"

[@EposVox]

That intro was PERFECT

[@GarrettWard]

oof

[@TheNefastor]

"I always traveil by telecom rack" gets me every time !

[@orenbell1645]

Oscar winning acting right there

[@AlexChambersXYZ]

Ever since Wendell mentioned ZFS, I've been reading about it compared to other file systems and volume managers. This is stuff that was dry in college but exciting once you can apply it in real life

[@WillFuI]

I find it fascinating on how boring school can make a topic. It’s impressive

[@PanduPoluan]

ZFS is just AWESOME. Designed to protect your data as much as possible but still giving very good performance (provided you set it up properly).

[@jadoei13]

5:41 props to the camera man, I always forget that there is actually someone who has to operate that camera when it is just this perfect. Thanks for the awesome work behind the scenes! :)

[@norm1233]

Yeah we all forget the camera man.

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

Speaking of, I wonder if Andrew ever brought his Switch cooler home, lol. Or if he's keeping it in the office as a camera battery charger cooler, lol.

[@MaxDemaraYo]

r/praisethecameraman

[@davidfodre1375]

Steve tried so hard to warn us...

[@moehammadarief]

1:53 Wendell: "what im wearing?" Linus: "LTTstore.com"😎

[@volvagia6860]

I was hoping Wendell was going to say it, then wonder why he said it. :D

[@jas_bataille]

Do not forget the server parts when calling Wendell through your telecom rack. Not that he'll use them, it's a sacred gift your must give if you want him to help you. The more advanced the parts you sacrifice, the better the server will be.

[@Dia1Up]

This really puts in perspective how insane Linus's Petabyte project was.

[@TheHammerGuy94]

and as of a few weeks ago, he needed to call in a specialist to get more storage, because, IT'S NEARLY FULL!!! those RAW 8K Footages!!!

[@stfuna4b]

We have a petabyte server at work (scientific research) ;P

[@djd34d14]

I love how excited Wendell gets talking about computers! This looks like an awesome project.

[@justcode1814]

Cores for sale

[@ChodaBoyUSA]

Steve: "I have some server parts." Wendell: "Oooooh!"

[@threeleafclover6003]

that's how i sound when i find even more proprietary server parts i cant ever use

[@Niarbeht]

"I have some server parts..." "Ooooooo!" I think I might be related to Wendell >.>

[@SOU6900]

Lol I do the same thing when I see an old carbureted engine.

[@abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186]

@@SOU6900 Lol I do the same thing when I see kindergarteners

[@MaelosV]

Thank you guys for this. I'm somewhere in between the groups here. I'm in the enterprise IT world with a lab at home that needs some love. This video helps me review and get back to it. Thank you to both teams.

[@_lime.]

When KZbinrs have storage problems they call Linus, when tech KZbinrs have storage problems they call Wendell.

[@nitin.shakyal]

Yes, Wendell have better knowledge

[@ultimatemeepo]

I mean even Linus brought on Wendell several times that definitely true LUL

[@jacobhicks6048]

So MKBHD is not a tech KZbinr?

[@ultimatemeepo]

@@jacobhicks6048 Nahh he just gets money and product from big companies to say what product features are and it basically afraid to give an opinion on a product

[@griponreality9716]

Tech Jesus will call upon The Lord of Tech A.k.a Wendell 😈

[@JesseGollCodes]

Man, that Linus joke at the beginning was amazing, thumbs up for that alone (sorry Linus, we still love you)

[@SpoonHurler]

I absolutely freaked when Wendell sat the disk shelf on top of the 2U server rack of my dreams. I will definitely have nightmares.

[@mckayver1306]

i nearly died from hart failure.

[@shadowr2d2]

I do have a bad heart. My PaceMaker - *(Ark Reactor) did not fire. But all I was thinking. The *Linus Tech tips intro. Please don't drop it...

[@barongerhardt]

To my experience, that is the normal way to treat servers out of the rack.

[@ammarossdanan]

@@barongerhardt Yep. No problems whatsoever. Perfectly common for datacenter.

[@Carrythedonger]

Yeap completely normal, we stack like dual DL385 G10 on top of each other since nothing will happen. These machines are sturdy

[@patpeatrick]

Wendell is THE man. Good choice getting the vastly more knowledge person to assist with the project.

[@optikel2321]

The lingering high pitches noises of linus sebastian

[@VinniBob1]

Love Wendell.. maybe the only pc guy that can make Steve's eyes cloud over with tech talk..lol love that Silverstone case

[@TAP7a]

Wendell and Anthony operate on a whole different level to the rest of the tech KZbin space. Wendell presumably because he’s an actual IT consultant who happens to make excellent videos, and Anthony because he is The Chosen One so of course he knows his stuff

[@matthijskkr]

I like these short "cinematic" intro's. Keep doing them Steve!

[@saultube44]

Oh yeah, this one at least was very good

[@deinemuddaisdoof]

Been following Wendell since 2012 and Gamers Nexus for now almost 10 years! I really like the collaboration between the two of you!

[@Dj-Mccullough]

"We want things that make us GO". Extra points for the trek reference PC Jesus.

[@davidha95]

Pls. tell me Linus saw this and there's a response

[@TheSolongsidekick]

He definitely knew about it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/maCtn2t8ZslmldU

[@BigHeadClan]

@@TheSolongsidekick Oh god that was too funny, I may need to start watching the WanShow again.

[@daltondcruz9855]

XD

[@Balazs_]

Well then... this is mildly disturbing and hilarious while being a very well made video. *_This is amazing_*

[@mohdfaizal6773]

Well, you wanted helloweeN stuff, n gracious hardware upgrades, in 1 video

[@Balazs_]

@@mohdfaizal6773 wrong... idc at all about Halloween but it was still great

[@chaslinux]

One of the most epic introductions, it was a great laugh, and really nice to see the collab between the two of you. Hope to see more collabs between you and Level1 in the future. Interesting server build.

[@charliethompson-hill3268]

You know when someone works enterprise when you swing your gear around like Wendell , only experience let’s you be that confident

[@think_ffs3934]

THANK YOU for showing all the physical access problems in building a new system. People who don't build computers don't understand that the actual technology is so often the easy part. #thumbsup

[@trsxaelarka4704]

That into reminded me of the good old days of KZbin. Comedy gold 😂

[@haxalicious]

"Chrome uses a lot of RAM!" "Windows Update uses a lot of CPU!" ZFS: Amateurs.

[@makingPAIN]

Have Wendell on more he is a good dude and has a good channel also. Love enterprise equipment, always so over kill.

[@ibonitog]

Amazing how every intro, that involves Wendell, whether on his or on other channels, is just plain awesome! Hopefully we're getting more of these collabs with Wendell!

[@HanZie82]

Oh man that intro had me in stitches. Thanks you have no idea how much i needed that. Thanks for the video, love these videos. Specialy from tech i cant really get myself (or afford).

[@FinlayDaG33k]

3:00 Wendell looking at that server, imagining the world dominance he can achieve with it.

[@gr328]

Nah, Wendell is actually Sulley from Monsters Inc. He's a good guy ;-)

[@ralphiwreckit82]

As someone who has an ITX addiction that I can neither explain or defend it was nice to see a real world ITX build. They aren't just like a full or mid tower build just smaller. Plan on taking a lot of time, even days as you saw parts just don't fit even with the best laid plans. One note Steve, while I love the very high level of knowledge that you bring to the table. I've been in computers since the C64 and can't keep up with all the acronyms and initializations that fly out in your videos. Maybe you could invent something automated to drop a cheat sheet into the video description based on those used in the video? Love the channel.

[@GobblesPlays]

This was so great to watch, the intro was phenomenal

[@GasGearsGames]

Honestly I am not interested in server stuff but the intro was GREAT genuine smile on my face. Howerver I will stay around because I will probably learn something.

[@kostasbezaitis2695]

0:12 What's the max bandwidth of SATAN interface? I though we were still on SATA3 =/

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Sata Express(aka "Serial Advanced Technology Attachment Next" I guess) utilizes two PCI-e lanes for speeds up to 10 Gb/s in PCI-e 2.0 or 16 Gb/s in PCI-e 3.0.

[@timcarpenter2441]

SATAn spec will be released after the EvIL 5.0 enters BETA.

[@drdollas]

666Gb/s

[@solomonshv]

get out

[@pyroslev]

Wendell will always be the IT support uncle to the younger tech youtubers. He is good people.

[@ccvideotech]

" not him, not him" Omg, literally lol! Thank You.

[@ccvideotech]

I get a notification every time someone thumbs up this and the lols still return... keep'em coming!

[@misatzu]

"Not him, *no, *no!"

[@rushnerd]

Once again, the best tech channel on KZbin. I can't believe how they hold my interest in something that is never meant for consumers so well.

[@seanpalmer8472]

1:50 I was halfway expecting him to say "LTTstore.com" and have an ad slide in from the side.

[@Waloshinblog]

nah you are the ad now.

[@akonitony2]

Blowing my mind. I started out on the team in the US Army that wrote the first parameter in COBOL on their IBM System/36 with a whopping 512 kB of usable storage, expandable to 640 with a Frisbee-sized floppy disk that was literally floppy, to download data to a Honeywell DAS-3. We had 53 user terminals and had to run a purex on it at the end of each week along with a couple dump and debugs during said weeks.

[@-kyoto]

This is what happens when you forget the rule of equivalent exchange. You get Linus.

[@exitioregem8466]

all we need to do is exhume body parts, yeet it at linus, and boom

[@ShadowRubberDuck]

0:29

[@georgf9279]

Wendell: ... I would want to put it in a closet and never think of it again ... Steve: Let's use water cooling.

[@radian2323]

That intro was epic!

[@zoinkadoinka]

*Epyc*

[@bardofhighrenown]

Quick Occult Fact: The circle surrounding your pentagram is a circle of binding. So if you did accidentally call up Linus, he would be contained within the circle. Destroying your circle in an attempt to stop the ritual would only set Linus free to roam about the GN office.

[@TheKeleja]

the "what am i wearing" with the LTT hoodie was a nice touch. Now im expecting part 2 to have another Linus intro where he comes back to haunt GN because they didn't call out LTTstore.com.

[@mjc0961]

I'm honestly starting to get really sick of them randomly shilling LTTstore in the middle of videos for no other reason than to shill LTTstore. They should do what GN does: "buy" ad spots from themselves and keep the ad in the ad portion of the video. It's also okay to do it mid video when, for example, GN does a video card teardown and mentions you can buy the mat he's working on. Those are at least relevant. Linus interrupting random videos to tell me to buy a hoodie is straight up bullshit.

[@Contra_1776]

@@mjc0961I though I was the only one since I never saw anyone else mention it, but I had to unsubscribe because of that exact same problem. That method of self promotion is just so contrived and corny, even more so when he gets his employees to do it.

[@jur4x]

@@mjc0961 I think he picked it up from Louis though.

[@ender77769]

IDK how it took me this long to find this video with the golden intro... just amazing

[@LampJustin]

The most epyc intro I've seen in quite a while 😂😂 Wendell's just the best!

[@natanfourie]

Steve: "I've some server parts". Wendell: "Oooooh ! This will work, let's do this ;)"

[@Grizzlybearr0139]

Felt cute might summon Wendell later idk

[@AS-zq2cq]

I have no idea what they’re talking about, but videos like these are still fun to watch.

[@CoalitionGaming]

Fantastic intro haha. "Not him!" lol. Need to explore this topic soon too. These vids will be a great watch.

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

0:57 omfg shuffling around that exposed die CPU broke my heart. I'm dead now. Thanks.

[@CheffBryan]

“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.” ― H P Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

[@Strykenine]

I got that reference.

[@shanewilson3523]

I don't know how I missed this video but I am cracking up. That was the funniest tech video intro! Well done guys.

[@azraelspeaks]

1:17 LOLOLOL!!!! "Not HIM!!!!" Freaking dead!!!!

[@KenjiXSamurai]

That was an amazing intro. "What am I wearing?!" I friggin' love you guys.

[@dondraper4438]

Claims to be setting up server for data storage. *Uses Ryzen 5 3600 with ECC memory modules* Intel: *Surprised Pikachu face*

[@NickCharles]

As someone who built their own NAS/media/encoding/dev server from old/discontinued consumer/prosumer parts, this kind of hits home - much more than any crazy expensive build LTT could make...

[@lukepaxson6020]

"Just Make it Go Geordi" Steve you are the best.

[@PoeLemic]

Wow, this is so funny and incredible. The opening was a shocker. Gosh, I love your channel so much more now. Kudos !!!

[@HitMarkersAreFun]

nice product placement shot of the LTT strips, Linus would be proud! lol

[@ncohafmuta]

"Fly her apart then!" may be the best Sulu line ever

[@lanceripplinger8352]

OMG that intro was soooooooo EPIC!

[@nbrowser]

A server class board, desktop processor support (Ryzen 3000 series) ECC support...this is a flexible solution. This is the kind of thing you call someone like Wendell to find out about, dude knows his stuff.

[@dmonat]

Love the Star Trek name. Hopefully, it doesn't startup the same way, after Scotty threw a wrench into the works! LOL

[@kmi187]

Hands down most badass intro ever on a tech video. The bar has been set.

[@archieleach575]

I had missed out on this one. Almost died of fits of laughter during the intro 😂😂🤣

[@fan2hd277]

Kudos to the use of unRAID simply the best NAS System for both average joe and advanced user.

[@mattparker9726]

I love how Gamers Nexus and LMG and other tech channels are always throwing "just extra" super high-end parts around, meanwhile, this peasant is excited when I find DDR2 ram and a decent dual-core processor.

[@vamwolf]

Mis name tech parts on amazon and ebay is your friend

[@knightcrusader]

Yeah, for real. HEY GUYS I AM GOING TO BUILD A NEW NAS WITH ALL THESE SWEET ASS DRIVES OUR SPONSOR SENT US FOR FREE!!

[@Stratos53100]

Well Said............ Yeah!! Lets just toss around this 500 $ board...

[@miguelvera4252]

just watch out for trogdor

[@mattparker9726]

@@miguelvera4252 the BURNINATOR

[@MickeyMishra]

I have not enjoyed an entery this good in a while! LOVE IT! THANK YOU!

[@jkeeversphone]

Oh my god haha that intro is legendary!

[@bray7677]

I must say your opening scenes are by far the best on techtube channels

[@usp211816]

8:45 Hey, I recognize that logo, that's legit enterprise gear. Oh no, they are going to JBOD it. IBM/Netapp ... Blasphemy those are 2 different companies. Xyratex is the manufacturer of that shelf, they get rebranded all to heck. I think i might like this Wendell person, definitely checking out Level1Techs

[@borisyeltsin6606]

why would they not JBOD it? The standard for this type of operation is zfs for software raid, and glusterfs nodes if scaling with multiple disk shelves

[@usp211816]

@@borisyeltsin6606 the branded shelves have optimized firmware to work with the vendor software. they work better with the software they are optimized for and tend to cause some "undesirable behaviors" if you swap the disks for off the shelf it's slightly better but you have to watch the modules too.

[@dougler500]

Love the intro, love the video, love the project, love the channel, love the guest! You make the best content GN.

[@harryhoudini5706]

22:56 What is the LSI card model number u mentioned?

[@Harlinization]

Yeah - same question - anyone know ?

[@EtherXtreme]

@@Harlinization My guess would be the LSI 05-50008-00 Broadcom SAS 9400

[@jonathans.8650]

@@EtherXtreme It is definitly the: LSI/Broadcom 9405W

[@TheSonorabob]

@@jonathans.8650 well that just significantly pushed up the overall budget. :/

[@Pentross]

Man I really like your space saving scripts setup. I already figured you wouldn’t before clicking the video, but you definitely don’t need Linus’ semi-sponsored attempts at overkill intervention like SmarterEveryDay and Slow Mo Guys did

[@MrBarlien]

This is so wholesome, Tech Jesus building servers with his father!

[@stuartlunsford7556]

I love how it's one year later and I have double the gnserver original capacity at home. Things move so fast!

[@mohdfaizal6773]

08:30 whoaa. He can really handle stuffs. Like lifting some ammo Boxes n rounds

[@hanes2]

When the apocalypse comes. I choose a Wendell on my team. Could be Wendell 2 and Wendell 3

[@b2bb]

Still my favorite intro of any KZbin episode, ever.

[@mapmaes]

As a Storage Engineer it's cool to see someone on KZbinusing recycled hardware for a cool project.

[@Hazard4K]

I've been watching your channel(s) casually but you sold me on naming everything after trek ships :)

[@Tudorgeable]

SATAn cables, never thought of that :D

[@TheZoenGaming]

I laughed so hard at the intro for this vid when I saw the LTT cable tie, and laughed twice as hard when you nearly summoned Linus. Then, I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw Wendell wearing a LTT hoodie.

[@mbe102]

Man, that intro with LTT hits a bit different now... lol

[@9393zach]

god you guys are so much better than like every other tech youtuber i'm glad you're from carolina steve

[@flushroyal970]

12:28 ... "8 10 15 20tb drives in there... Thats more space than most of you actually needed at home" Me: (sweats with 35tb homework folder)

[@jaystannard]

"homework"

[@vamwolf]

@@jaystannard means porn folder

[@alpsalish]

"It's fine"

[@arqrenderz6210]

LOOL EPIC entrance! and VIDEO! good job guys!