I Built a HUGE 336TB Server Without Linus Tech Tips!

Is it possible to build a 1/3 petabyte server on a budget? We say, YES!
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As a video production company, we needed to find a better way to store, archive, and edit our footage across multiple machines. Since we're unable to shell out more than $40,000 on a LumaForge Jellyfish, we decided to build our own instead using old enterprise PC hardware. The end result? A 336TB server (that's 1/3 of a petabyte!) for less than $15,000 total-and most of that was the cost of the hard drives! It's crazy fast, we can communicate over 10 GbE, and edit directly from the server!

[@LinusTechTips]

Doin' it up big league!

[@varunbaliga7334]

hmmmmm linus vs quin 😂😂😂😂

[@snazzy]

You’re the one that inspired me to start this crazy project. Thanks for everything! ❤️

[@sushai1742]

;)

[@thespotterfox1959]

Shots fired

[@InsanitiesBrother]

@@snazzy place your bets ladies and gentlemen. Is snazzy labs going to work with floatplane.

[@jarboer]

Hey at least Linus won’t have the chance to drop it.

[@DxBlack]

He has...in every other timeline possible.

[@markky3050]

You under estimate his POWA!!!

[@cjthomp2005]

YOU DESERVE MY LIKE

[@israellai]

Does he even lift?

[@nils-erikolsson3539]

He will find a way ;)

[@karehaqt]

Is it possible to build a 1/3 petabyte server on a budget? It is if you get 24 14TB HDDs for free.

[@magburner]

That made me laugh too. Those 24 drives are £450 EACH in the UK, total cost for x24 (if you had to pay for them) would be £11,000+. That does not look, or sound like a budget server!!! lololol

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

Thought the same. Have an dual socket x58 board here. More than enough power, also a ZFS pool with ssd cache. Performance is more than enough for me and my Fam, but yeah, HDDs are still expensive if u need like 10 of them lol

[@robinlovell1617]

Ah but he was going to buy them anyway so it's all ok.....

[@DV7Dave]

@@magburner I mean even if he paid for all the drives at $11,000 and $2000 for the hardware, throw in an extra $1000 for accessories and it's still a server on a budget compared buying new equipment and a software solution on top. $15,000 is a very different number to $40,000

[@giornikitop5373]

easy, he means budget for what it is, 120tb 10gbe storage, the cost of the drives cannot be avoided. would you like to see the price on similar jellyfish storage?

[@maxileith]

"I used Ironwolf HDDs for years" A few minutes earlier: "I used only Samsung T5 in the past."

[@jeffwads6158]

Yeah, that was "nice". Pfft.

[@_alucid_]

Maximilian Leith He could have them in his PC, or have them in his home or previous server, the Samsung’s T5 could have been for on the go editing.

[@danielianello]

True, but he did mention he had tried consumer NAS's and didn't like them. They could have had the drives in them.

[@OpLapDancePikachu69]

If it’s not HGST/WD Ultrastar, I have zero expectations.

[@austinevans]

You're giving me some ideas here with our server build...

[@snazzy]

Fly me out there and I'll help you do a terrible job! jk. Just hire Wendell.

[@chesney4239]

Haha nice

[@geogmz8277]

Get a true SysAdmin involved my friend Wendell is your friend.

[@robinlovell1617]

Here's an idea - forget using old junk and call Dell.

[@ZechMadox]

@@snazzy You spelt linus wrong

[@Level1Techs]

I LOVE YOUR SHIRT :D

[@snazzy]

It is SO SOFT!

[@bhume7535]

Who wouldn't love your shirt?

[@geogmz8277]

Wendell! who would tell you 5 years ago that you will become the IT guy for tech KZbinrs? lol

[@brandon6034]

ProNastyNick that’s how mafia works bro

[@mats852]

You should make a Fedora :O

[@d3xbot]

* reads title * Wait... That’s illegal! ... I’m intrigued!

[@Roxxofoxxo]

All I wanted to say was cute pfp!!!!!

[@notawildthingy]

Hahaha! "I didnt need Linus Tech Tips" . . . I called Wendell. Also, FreeNAS for the win!!

[@ratuldeoun7228]

Damn, the fact that you clearly stated without Linus Tech Tips really makes it more hilarious 👏😂.

[@robinlovell1617]

Does the world believe he is the only person capable of throwing a server together? l've watched and it's excruciating.

[@bhume7535]

Yeah, the title should be "With Level1Techs!"

[@mistakay9019]

@@robinlovell1617 Obviously not - he's just the one who shouted about it the loudest?

[@bikingchupei2447]

@@robinlovell1617 na, he was just sponsored by that server or whatever company to promote that thing, and so called "help" mkbhd and ijustine build their servers.

[@Slowdr]

@@robinlovell1617 it not about being capable, is about being able to get it for free or heavily discounted because of sponsors deals.

[@iBDWR]

finally i can store billions of meme compilations in 8k 60fps

[@maze42d]

That would probably get you like 15 hours of footage (when uncompressed)

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

bo diddily

[@AxTechs]

120fps 🤔🤔🤔

[@meloD30]

OK, but you gotta set it up as a personal cloud so you can access your memes on the go.

[@e102gamma6]

60fps? U could go up to way more than that

[@stalman]

I’m so glad you made this video 🎊

[@snazzy]

Thanks so much, dude! It was a fun project!

[@jams_idk_819]

Lol why has no one replied to this comment…apart from snazzy labs

[@EposVox]

Good stuff.. a full built one like this is my next project - I just live in an apartment and need to keep it silent, which makes things complicated.

[@reki353]

Dell Poweredge R710 is the same thing but really quiet!

[@riskybus9925]

0:07 Jesus Quin, y'all used to look like Jeremy Clarkson

[@snazzy]

I'm honoured.

[@riskybus9925]

@@snazzy AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL

[@JoseAlfonsoChavez]

@@snazzy AND ON THAT TERRIBLE DISSAPOINTMENT .. (The Grand Tour version )

[@alwynphua2622]

denim pants & jacket would've been perfect

[@edwinduro9751]

Some say...... It just word dont use jeremy's voice

[@1980sGamer]

*Reads title: Built a HUGE 336TB Server... Oh hello again Linus *Without Linus Tech Tips!* :(

[@SuperSerNiko97]

Why the sad face? I was pretty happy about it

[@1980sGamer]

@@SuperSerNiko97 Because now how am I going to see Linus dropping more stuff?

[@jrok96]

you realize those aren't accidental right? they are scripted right into the bit.

[@1980sGamer]

@@jrok96 Whether they're accidental or scripted, I still can't see Linus dropping stuff. :(

[@gardiner833]

But now change's title after getting majority of views 😂😂

[@szirsp]

"on a budget"... if you get sponsored with $12 000 worth of hard drives

[@myriadtechrepair1191]

Comparative to the other solutions, it was still cheaper. And if you used cheaper drives or slowly purchased your drives I'd say it's a pretty good budget option for these kinds of demands.

[@shaun0531]

meliohe! A budget is a set amount of money that doesn’t mean necessarily cheap. The server even if the drives are $12,000 and the server being $2,600 is still cheaper than a lumaforge, which is $40,000. This isn’t for the everyday consumer this is something that meets his needs. NAS is a great budget option for lower spec requirements.

[@dSlice94]

István Szikra I have card board boxes, an old laptop motherboard, old hard drives laying around, and a glue stick. I’m sure I can make my own using those items and not break 3 dollars

[@Tential1]

If you really needed to do this on a budget he wouldn't have needed to be sponsored and get a walk through. I did this on a budget and it cost me a couple thousand dollars. It's amusing to see that all these KZbinrs created a server around the same time and clearly never thought about backing up their own data until a sponsorship arrived. You think considering it's their job that they would care about their own content that they've created. To do this you need to take apart external hard drive, "shucking", and build cheap Nas, utilizing the sc846 chassis that you can usually pick up for 2 to $400 off eBay with some parts included(I tossed almost everything). You don't need server grade Hardware, but I find running Intel is easier and your chassis already comes with server grade Hardware so you might as well utilize it. I'll upgrade to ryzen when I can tho for power efficiency

[@AperinaStudios]

what read/write speeds (via black magic speediest) are you getting on the system?

[@Drummer52895]

If Seagate gave me $11,000 worth of drives, I'd be recommending them too. Jokes aside, that's pretty neat.

[@TengoReuma]

Yep its easy to say that you build this setup by

[@CJonestheSteam72]

In the UK that £12000 of off the shelf drives

[@sammyswanksmith4807]

I still wouldn't recommend them. I'd sell them to suckers on ebay and buy some reliable drives instead.

[@Chukijay]

Sammy Swanksmith these drives are fine 🙄

[@lostremnant1140]

@@sammyswanksmith4807 It's actually astonishing how much money Seagate wastes gifting drives instead of improving the quality of their products. I've literally never seen a single sponsorship by WD in an entire decade that I've been lurking on YT, and the reason I think about this is pretty simple: they are the best rock solid brand in the industry for HDD, so why would they need to spend money to sponsor a project? What else could you go with if you need a reliable storage? Top lineup uses HGST helium drives, which still is WD. I may have trusted my old Maxtor with PETA interface, but I don't have as much faith in Seagate, and you shouldn't have too if you periodically check Backblaze HDD reliability stats.

[@burnzy3210]

really cool setup but i know from experience that 60 seconds is NOT enough time to shutdown servers, you're gonna want to get a bigger UPS

[@ryanhebron4287]

Realistically he would have up to 10 or 15 minutes with the UPS at full load. Meaning you would have to be pulling 1500w with a pf of 1 to achieve even the minimum runtime for the UPS. That is also assuming your batteries arent old and nearly dead which could give you a runtime of 1 minute

[@mistakenotou7681]

Well you can get a big 18650 bank

[@QuinnGIn1080p]

He's saying that at PEAK LOAD there would have a minimum of 60-seconds for the server(s) to begin the shutdown process. Other than that specific situation happening (never), he is 100% safe with the hardware he's using.

[@NextLevelCode]

Nah he's using ZFS no UPS needed. Especially with only two users. Copy On Write is freaking amazing. I have a zpool that is 8 years old. It has survived many power outages. A bad drive. Even a bad SATA cable that would randomly disconnect a drive sometimes mid use (that one was annoying to figure out). Every time I’ve ever had a problem ZFS has had my back. Resilverd and ready to go. I even dd a /dev/zero over one of the drives once. I know I’m a dummy. Was trying to erase a thumb drive. Ran a scrub and everything repaired no problems.

[@kalaskrille]

Normal people: "Cool video" People in IT "OMG did he just say 'Pro-Leant'"

[@user-ml4ig]

Exactly

[@taogilliam]

thank you. i have always pronounced it like the PRO in professional and the LIANT in reliant. when i heard him say "pro-Leon[t]" i had to hear it a few times to figure out if its me or him that is right(i hope its me).

[@vaelfonia]

Yeah, that makes me cringe. I pronounce ProLiant as ‘Pro L-y-ant’, as if you’re saying ‘lie’ but also sticking ‘ant’ on the end of it. Never heard it pronounced ‘Pro-Leant’ in my entire life.

[@kalaskrille]

@@vaelfonia Pro-lie'ant's the way to go mate. Although these old comments makes me think of the poorly named 2-in-1 HP made called ProOne, which of course wasn't always stylised and so I got a lot of questions about this new computer, "the HP prune".

[@matt1999]

I've been learning a lot about networking recently, and this was a super interesting and informative video! Awesome content!

[@jefgirdler7232]

Derek's not short, Quinn's just a monolith of a man

[@snazzy]

😂😂😂

[@wridecinema8434]

thanks man. I knew someone would come through.

[@cake819]

Linus: makes 100 terabyte server Snazzy Labs: *hold my broken iMac*

[@SmittyEh.]

Actually Linus made a petabyte server.

[@shrishak00]

And his petabyte server is getting full fast and he is going to upgrade soon.

[@capkenway]

he has a 1000Terabyte server (a Petabyte)

[@capkenway]

also linus has 2 SSD only server (i think its 100TB each)

[@killertruth186]

@@shrishak00 I bet that he would make 20 Petabyte server.

[@RedFenceAnime]

0:24 "backing-up most of the footage has been both a logistical and *financial impossibility"* 1:36 "building a 336TB server *on a really tight budget"* 1:54 *"sponsored by Seagate"* "A 336TB server (that's 1/3 of a petabyte!) for less than $15,000 total-and most of that was the cost of the hard drives!" ~12k on hard drives and given by Seagate ~2,6k on the rest. Don't get me wrong 15k < 40k and it's a cool project and a nice video. I basically only dislike the intro: "This was way to expensive in the past" followed by "but now we can do it" _P.S. "we got 4/5 from seagate, thx"._

[@mistakenotou7681]

You get 100tb from jelly fish

[@ShiroKage009]

Yeah, this is definitely way, waaaay more affordable to do this now than it used to. I also think the statement was meant for professionals for whom losing data is losing their only source of income.

[@QuinnGIn1080p]

This video is very obviously NOT aimed at the Average Joe. Sorry you weren't able to catch on to that. It must have ruined the entire rest of the video for you after that point, simply from disappointment..

[@idont3282]

,oo,,i@@ShiroKage009

[@localadm]

Thanks for pointing that out. Really tight budget sponsored by seagate. BS.

[@zacharysandberg]

Fantastic video. There aren't too many creators on KZbin that can articulate server builds as well as you do.

[@DragoonDark97]

My grandson is going to have a 14TB phone..

[@hemishjoseph7401]

Tb what's that grand dad I only know pb

[@MHG790]

*14TB neuroimplant

[@mytester6208]

@@MHG790 what? are you a fish? or want to be a fish? or will you implant it to a fish?

[@JohnDoe-df8bj]

Just call me daddy ;)

[@Jimmy_Jones]

What date do you predict this?

[@zollotech]

Great video and thank you for not saying NIC card...Great timing to as I was wondering about these drives and was going to pick up two of them today.

[@MrBearitall]

Wasn’t the title “I built a 336Tb Server without Linus Tech Tips”?

[@jafizzle95]

Yes, I guess they changed it at some point. I'm not a subscriber but I saw it in recommended before and after they changed the title. Got curious and here I am. Pretty good video.

[@arthdoshi33]

Thay changed the name again

[@harrisonkay575]

Ur detailed videos are second to none. Anybody can watch this video and still have some what of an understanding what your talking about. Good work. Hope to see your channel grow over the years. Best of luck mate.

[@uss_04]

No help from Linus THICC Tips Maybe he needs a tour of Snazzy Labs one day too

[@mondobytes]

I think your server is bigger than my fridge!

[@snazzy]

Nah. About half the size. 😉

[@gangmeow]

Awesome video! good work on finally doing storage right!

[@CompuGuy99]

Love the deeper explanation of how you use your server in your workflow!

[@christian_femia-tutorialsa1157]

That’s close enough to my title suggestion on Twitter, thanks for using it!

[@snazzy]

Thanks for your amazing recommendation! :D

[@nathanwyoung04]

i see you with that tøp logo ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@christian_femia-tutorialsa1157]

Nathan Young yeah one of the best bands ||-//

[@drsenseihugo]

Literally anyone that doesn't do what Linus wants: Linus: Am I a joke to you?

[@nicegy0197]

Honestly, I do consider Linus a joke.

[@TheUnboxerMan]

Nicegy019 he considers you irrelevant

[@nicegy0197]

@@TheUnboxerMan Good on him. If Linus got worked up over the opinion of an irrelevant viewer like me, then he'd clearly be weak minded.

[@VolkerAndres1]

You can build a cheap Server...when you get sponsored.

[@couzin2000]

Yeah. That's really dirt cheap.

[@calderwhite2401]

I love the video! Really good flow of topics/explanations AND your video quality/fidelity is superb!

[@DKVR]

$12k worth of HDD's is "On a budget" for a two-person KZbinr team. Ffs.

[@snazzy]

You’re right. We should probably double the storage.

[@robinlovell1617]

Snazzy Labs You should probably drop the ‘our friends over at .... hooked us up with...’ remarks and just straight up state that ‘.... gave us x thousand bucks worth of kit for free to advertise for them’ because any implication this is a “budget” build is just demolished by this gifting and a non-KZbinr is never going to benefit from such a gift. The server hardware is old and worthless unless rammed with storage which can’t be found for ‘cheap’ and comes with no maintenance contract?! So your advice that this is good solid kit, whilst true, could lead a small business down a very expensive path of data loss because of busted old hardware in a fairly short time. Bad advice. Last point, which really exposes your non-professional IT credentials, Proliant is pronounced ‘pro-lie-ant’ because why wouldn’t it be? ‘Pro’ because ‘for pro’s’ and it overall there’s a ‘rely’ in there to hint at reliability. So yeah, hope that’s helpful when you’re on the phone ordering replacement parts and the rep asks you to repeat the name of the server type. Cheere

[@TAPS147]

@@robinlovell1617 actually I think this is a very solid video. No where does he say that he is recommending this for small businesses or anyone else but he is show casing a use case that works for him. Of course the drives were provided for free, we all know that and he makes that no secret. But why get tied down in the fact that it's worth $Xk when you could achieve similar based on your own budget? You know how much everything else costs, small businesses or anyone else could very easily just start with slightly less that 300TB of storage...

[@robinlovell1617]

TAPS147 Solid in what way? Lighting? Production values? There would be no use case if the drives hadn’t been free. The video wouldn’t have been made. He may not have explicitly said ‘here’s what I did so you should too’ but the message is clear - that he’s a small outfit and here’s an idea. You think this video is

[@robinlovell1617]

Oops hit send ... is aimed at the enterprise? Er no. Home user? No gifted drives for them and nowhere to store this jet-noise beast. Small biz? Yeah. But again no maintenance contract on old hardware that’s reached end of life by any other standards. So the video is just about showcasing this gift that he got and his own video making talents. Some of the tech message in there is not best practice too so overall, no one is being helped much. His use case is making money from views, so let’s not kid each other this is anything but amateurs plugging together kit found in a skip.

[@KarthikKumarViswanathan]

You should consider adding a NVME log volume for the ZFS; This will allow plenty time for coalescing I/O and handle bursty I/O as well; I'd also recommend using a separate boot volume, if necessary. Just leaving it as a suggestion :)

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

He is using a separate boot volume, FreeNAS forces you to. Generally it gets run off a USB flash drive.

[@FatheredPuma81]

I like how you get all this stuff and then you cheap out on the most important part of the build which is the UPS.

[@BixbyConsequence]

Yeah, 1500VA does seem minimal for all of that hardware and its reserve capacity will diminish over time as well.

[@thelanecampbell]

This switch you used is amazing. I doubt I would have heard of Arista without your video.

[@zector4583]

You used LTT as click bait in the title. Then plugged and gave credit to Level 1 Techs and Wendel for being the heroes they are. I like your style. ;-)

[@CruelViper88]

Yup, definitely no Linus...because then something would have dropped

[@carloblanco2165]

This was a fun video to watch, I've been studying for I.T. so this really encourages me on.

[@itslordvamp]

Great video! You explained everything very clearly.

[@wcvp]

When I saw "Without Linus Tech Tips" in the title I was concerned that you did it yourself and it would end up being meh, then you said Wendell helped and I was super happy because he's amazing

[@snazzy]

Wendell is a super hero.

[@cataria3903]

yeah, this system running zfs and being really value and reliable is also inspiring to other creators and home users to build sth. similar on the cheap/far cheaper than this even, that actually has proper reliability and data corruption protection.

[@lilbud951]

I realized that ONE of those 14tb drives would probably set me for life. I wouldn't even comprehend what I would do with 336tb

[@kingneutron1]

Well, if you have ONE 14TB drive, you better have TWO so you can Mirror the thing - cuz it WILL die sometime ;-)

[@SketchbookGuitar]

porn... lots of porn.

[@PeugeotRocket]

I probably have around 6-7TB of data across my various drives. It's mainly just media and game backup, plus some game capture footage. I'm going to need to purchase more storage fairly soon. I could easily burn through a 14TB drive. Whenever I buy storage, I fill it up fairly quickly.

[@tristan6509]

Some people in the 80s said that 1gb is gonna last..

[@Zonker66]

I cannot even grasp what you're saying.

[@abc20723]

You put so much of effort explaining things in your videos. I'm amazed. Keep going.

[@epic_clint]

Nice video. Came for the hardware specs, pricing and info on FreeNas. Even felt your technical explanations neither bored me or glazed my eyes over. That may not seem like a compliment, but I work in a room full of these HPs and just received a decommissioned one myself.

[@shaddyhacker]

Hey there! Can you give some additional details about your setup? It seems pretty cool. For instance what model is that server rack? Thanks!

[@dolfinmicro]

The way this dude pronounces proliant caused my asthma to flair up.

[@AndrewMurphyFilms]

Oh man so dope!! Congrats on the editor as well!!

[@MaestroColby]

This was awesome... I found you from Austin's video and your 10 gigabit home upgrade video, and loved it ever since.

[@snazzy]

Thanks!!

[@MikeTrieu]

Your pronunciation of "Proliant" is just precious 😄

[@ColtonBaldridge]

Also lol'd at "zee file system or ZFS"

[@bobbytables464]

Minor note: You pronounced Proliant as "Prolee-ahnt". It's a portmanteau of "professional" and "reliant".

[@MattHalpain]

great video, I could follow along due to your easy explanation of the components and how they are all used in conjunction together. I would absolutely love to see you do a video on the New Mac Pro this fall 2019.

[@Aepek]

Welcome Derek.....to SnazzyLabs Fam👍🏻✌🏻

[@wridecinema8434]

It’s been a journey, but I’m here to stay.

[@Aepek]

Wride Cinema Happy for ya. Cheers✌🏻

[@jimsbagels1991]

Thats not a 1500W UPS, its a 1500VA UPS which supports 1000w, just FYI

[@matj12]

VA is equal to W. They are both the same unit of power. What does 1500 W represent and what does the support for 1000 W mean?

[@jimsbagels1991]

@@matj12 Nope, they are very different measurements. Spend 10 seconds googling it

[@matj12]

@@jimsbagels1991 They are the same unit but in two different measurements. I spent some time searching for what the two measurements represent but I don't know what to look for so I didn't find the answer. What should I look for?

[@MichalKobuszewski]

@@matj12 Resistove vs. reactive load, true vs. apparent power. Easy to confuse! P=V*I only for cos(phi) = 1 :)

[@rrcoster]

Thanks for sharing this really nice to know for ones that have lower budget limit but could use storage and decent server still

[@Chukijay]

While definitely not what people envision when “budget build” is mentioned, this is super cool. I’d love to build a server like this. This really is big time. Not low-budget, ideal for a lot of people, or applicable to anything but video/content creation or large backup systems, but this is super badass. Congrats on the build!

[@JimmerofOz]

HP Pro Leon? Is it installed with Lye Nicks?

[@RickZune]

Seagate, the only brand of HDD's I've ever owned that have died on me, plenty of them as well.

[@RickZune]

@Blind Bob There are quite a few around tough that pick Seagate as the brand that results in failing HDDs, which is why I guess they are puttning so much into marketing now a days while others ain't.

[@Aaron-hg8jo]

Seagate is garbage now.

[@spyder000069]

My Seagate vs Maxtor dead drive race was neck and neck years ago until Seagate bought Maxtor. LoL. I have built a lot of machines over the last 20 years and have only had one WD rma.

[@jamiemcparland]

@@Aaron-hg8jo I have over 100 Seagate drives in our DC. I've only lost a handful in the past 12 years.

[@Aaron-hg8jo]

@@jamiemcparland a handful?! That sounds awful. Time to switch to another brand.

[@udance4ever]

thx 4 a peek inside an enterprise server - love how modular it looks!!

[@LeGoog2008]

Really good vid! Thanks!

[@Jimmy_Jones]

"Why so much RAM? Well it's cheap." I question this statement.

[@snazzy]

DDR3 ECC is crazy cheap.

[@josephyang3260]

I think it’s all relative, but also ddr3 is old so there should be lots in the market (even though there use to be a shortage)

[@Gcrilla]

Ecc ram is stupid cheap

[@saradietschy]

VERY NICE

[@snazzy]

Time for you to get one too. Treat yo self! 😉

[@goldbrick2751]

I am glad you talk to Wendel, he is an awesome guy and wealth of knowledge. Where di you get the rack case for your stuff?

[@embis3824]

The fact that you reply to nearly all of your comments is amazing bro

[@shadowr2d2]

Linus Tech Tips: "The Jellyfish Fryer". Has pointed me in this direction. I'm glad I have found this Channel. The Tech Community is an Awesome Community. You sir have a new subscriber..

[@DogerBeaner]

Can you make a video about Alfred 4 when it comes out?

[@matthewgray9896]

Good job. Very informative

[@WildBilly91]

As of today (Aug 2021), I cannot find 14 TB ironwolf pro disks but comparable 16 TB units that sell for 730€/unit here in France, which, added to the price of your parts, give you a server at around 20k€ for 384 TB. That's still a down payment for a house in some countries lol. Thanks Seagate for hooking the channel with around 16/17k of HDD so that we can enjoy the vid !

[@dabj9546]

Snazzy: Building a server for cheap Also Snazzy: 10k $ in hard drives...

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

"Without Linus Tech Tips" is an automatic 10K upvotes... :-P Hey, man... 9-track tape is the go-to... ;-P

[@edifymusicvideos]

great video! I really appreciate the info.

[@sidewinder3000]

This is insane! What a genius solution. Hard to believe you can get those speeds from non-SSD drives. Kudos.

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

Linus sees video * Feels heart broken they didnt get to help

[@chooseymomschoose]

"I Built a HUGE jet engine in my closet..."

[@shirokuro73]

We use the DL380p G8s at work, mainly for running VMs. We've had issues here and there, but generally, once they're up and running, they're super reliable.

[@DannyTangtam]

Good video and nice breakdown on zfs :)

[@Ezanity]

love the youtubers view of building a server on a budget lol

[@anianii]

1:50 Half of the Server is probably already full with things like this 😂

[@sofronio.]

the animation on zfs raid is so amazing.

[@rizwanssyed]

Wonderful video. Keep up the good work bro. 👍

[@sokolum]

Should have used NAS4FREE, as FREENAS has enabled some ZFS flags that aren’t used at any other Systems that us using ZFS. This means, you are stuck at FREENAS. And UNRAID, that is a dead duck you want to avoid.

[@BootUpwithBaysharp]

What happened to the old title? The one about Linus Tech Tips?

[@garyreardon11]

Wow nice setup!

[@kozureokami8374]

Thank you, this video is well presented and explained!! I have a Dell R710 and a Netapp disksheft. I need to get the right HBA and cable to connect the two. Which HBA did you get?

[@kian8382]

Linus: "Call me when you need 1PB."

[@bradleyrex2968]

How about a small version of this built into a cheese grader mac pro? 4HDs natively 8+ if you start filling in optical bays. Add any network card you want...

[@KSSilenceAU]

Hey Snazzy, On the subject of upgrades, there's also another method, If you have Auto Grow enabled on the pool, what you can do is pull an old drive on a vdev out, and stick in a new higher capacity blank drive, and let the NAS rebuild the array with the new disk, then move onto the next disk. Once all the disks in the pool have been upgraded, the pool's capacity will magically increase to suit the new disk sizes without having to add additional drives. Also regarding the noise, check the UEFI Settings on the HP Server, there may well be some options to adjusting the cooling profiles to favour less noise, and if the machine lives in a space that doesnt see excessive temps, you should be able to get it decently quiet. All of my Supermicro and IBM / lenovo System-X Machines have quiet profiles, and they really are quiet on most days unless it gets really hot. Cheers.

[@bcver2]

Looks a good set up X1 rack server plus Big storage array What are you protecting the system, i.e on the network? And power wise? Be interesting to know

[@GavinSeim]

Why does it seem everyone who makes one of these gets “hooked up” by a drive company. This is interesting but also nearly 12 minute ad for seagate.

[@snazzy]

Dog the Seagate ad is like 40 seconds...

[@preverthevamp]

I mean they kinda have to. For 24 14TB IronWolf Pro drives you're looking at least $11k in *just* drives. It's a good video, the sponsor spot was ~10 seconds, chill man.

[@bramVE239]

you've just answered your own question...

[@rcoderdev]

8:03 RickRolled for educational purposes only.

[@thatHARVguy]

When dealing with back-ups, you want a system that will: Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

[@djetronakanorte]

Nice one mate I am a proper noob when it comes to this sort of stuff but I do like the easy why you explain and run down what you did how you did it and how it works so I can easily get my friend to help out with any of the builds you show ps I also am a big fan of the power mac g5 it is the desktop I used for music production back in the day so hope the new one will be good

[@Serioussam1215]

What NetApp disk shelf did you purchase? Glad to see that the NetApp disk shelf is able to be used as a passthrough and are able to handle the larger HDD size.

[@jan_harald]

love how THAT's what you have to put in the title now cause of linus, lol

[@lightningeagle2828]

Fire outro music🔥

[@JayMikeWillingham]

I appreciate your giving us knowledge on all things tech...you videos as of late, have been KLUTCH!

[@Ajibolaa]

I love your videos if for anything you understand that old tech isn’t bad tech. People are so fast when it comes to throwing away tech even when they are still cutting edge.

[@techlifts7873]

Quinn, with ZFS it is customary to have 1 GB of RAM per 1TB of storage. With other file systems, it doesn't matter as much but ZFS really needs RAM. I recommend you go for 384GB RAM. Enough RAM is essential to prevent data corruption. -Tobias

[@snazzy]

It's true that ZFS lives and dies by caching, but it's a bit more complicated than the oft quoted "1GB RAM per 1TB of storage." www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-complete-guide-to-freenas-hardware-design-part-i-purpose-and-best-practices/ My cache hit ratio is fine. 100GB ARC when editing and perfectly stable. I'm probably going to upgrade to more RAM just because ECC DDR3 is so cheap, but it's not super necessary with my current workload.