Building the $1,000,000 Computer

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We've unboxed it, we've built one of the servers, and now it's finally time! In this video, we're assembling the ENTIRE $1,000,000 petabyte of flash cluster, and powering it up for the FIRST TIME.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro

[@BakersTuts]

That screwdriver flip at 11:47 was smooth af

[@yazanal-aswad3365]

THAT SHIT WAS CLEAAAAN

[@Licensedbeast]

I just watched that 7 times

[@GhostOfDamned]

Fastest screwdriver in the west

[@AzeroReborn]

WELL YOURS IS ON A CART

[@DDMultitracks]

its kind of funny, he does it in like every video

[@weetabixharry]

In twenty years, I guess I'll be carrying one of these in my pocket. Or in my earlobe or whatever.

[@spooniiboii]

@@Nico-ds9nz I also want to remind your future self that you said ore instead of or

[@turdturd8885]

fr

[@obadaalibek732]

fr

[@TheTopken]

Unsure about that unless the processing is done elsewhere. A lot of modern electronics are running into issues of getting even smaller due to how small they have already gotten. You can only get so small.

[@Nelex5000]

moore's law doesn't work anymore.

[@interuptingcactus]

I work at another clustered file company, Qumulo who also makes these huge systems on Supermicro systems. We're actually kinda competitors with Weka. Can confirm that drive fault protection process they talked about is a really complex process that has scientific whitepapers backing it. When the drive goes down you reprotect the EC stripes for those pages. Then when new drives are added to the cluster you actually want to "rebalance" data so that heavy multistream workloads will hit all the new drives equally.

[@AlexGInf216R]

puff puff pass

[@DylanCrowlGolf]

So how many gigashits per megafart are we talking here?

[@natsufuyuzuki]

@@DylanCrowlGolf this was so funny that I didn't laugh

[@justasciencelover8175]

​@@DylanCrowlGolf😂😂😂

[@blanket_mp3125]

Imagine being a multimillionaire, wanting a computer and giving 1.000.000 dollars to then wait for them to build you a computer with, and THIS is the video they post of the process

[@gurpreetwalia4001]

I would be damned up

[@SteveDonev]

Technically this was sponsored. They didn’t pay anything

[@blanket_mp3125]

@@SteveDonev I said, *imagine*

[@XeroDash0]

What’s wrong with that?

[@blanket_mp3125]

@@XeroDash0 Bro they are playing with the computer like it's a toy. Funny, yes But if you paid for the thing, no

[@willkelly8108]

You know you’re cooking with something special when your cooling system makes the THX noise 18:37

[@kuhljager2429]

I was hoping I wasn't the only one that heard the similarity

[@Gobbbbb]

This deserves more likes

[@parrypotter9207]

underrated comment

[@tacticalkyuubi8147]

Loooool

[@ricozkirihara2798]

now i cant unhear it.

[@mikefung9145]

Linus: There's business grade computer, and then there's enterprise grade computer. Also Linus: Let's YOLO it

[@handlemonium]

Some more EPYC Swiftshader madness across all those overclocked threads would be cool 😎

[@88porpoise]

And then there is Tech demo grade like this project.

[@juliet0001]

and after Enterprise grade you have data center grade

[@Roamer145]

This is honestly normal for enterprise grade.

[@YardleyNowOrg]

@@88porpoise *fingers to chin* i wonder where it all goes

[@matthewbartos2971]

This really put into perspective my colleges server room, literally a 40x40 room full of server racks double the height of the server y'all built. I never really considered how nuts that was until y'all built this.

[@StagnantMizu]

man I always get fascinated by tech, love it

[@jackor33234354368998]

ahh my favourite content, Jake and Linus being children around expensive server equipment. Give me more

[@Snowmentil]

Comment “make this a chain!”

[@danhguitardemos]

I fully agree

[@TheSaintOMS]

MOAR

[@SnOrfus]

100%

[@jamdva8176]

Just the sweeties babies, groanin on their toizzz.

[@SahimTech]

I love how he's put links to the parts in the description like we're gonna build a $1,000,000 PC 😂

[@Yourmama645]

Please dont click that

[@webduelist]

its all cheap smb gear anyways.

[@kalebbruwer]

Well obviously not. You need to build two so you can play with a friend

[@memecity4468]

Im gonna build it

[@realrazoblast4643]

@@memecity4468 ok, go ahead

[@jobturner7925]

Having been involved in setting up a single cabinet blade server system with little to no experience this brought back memories. I laughed a bit to hard when they had the wrong 240 plug.

[@Josh0365]

Linus legit carried me through my IT course in college. Soo nostalgic to see him 8 years later haha

[@Josh0365]

@@animateamor9192 Stands for Information Technology

[@twixieshores]

Cut to 2 years from now: "we blew through our Petabyte server, so we bought another building to store an entire YOTTABYTE of data"

[@dbeerewout]

Yolobyte*

[@inbetween7470]

Yeet

[@pranavarora9976]

Hey man, gotta store that 32K footage somehow

[@freeflub]

but can it run crysis

[@twixieshores]

@@pranavarora9976 32k is for peasants! Linus only shoots in 256k

[@zahawolfe]

I can’t imagine how nervous everyone at super micro was watching Linus handle this expensive tech and almost dropping it several times

[@brucepreston3927]

That's what insurance is for...I imagine Linus knows the insurance people well! lol

[@joekenorer]

Insurance: So you're sending this to a KZbinr whose personality profile includes dropping very expensive things? Super Micro: Yes. Insurance: **cash register noises

[@psihius]

@@brucepreston3927 insurance works for regular stuff. This system is anything but regular and probably half decade in front of what they are planning to do :D

[@HeyBUB]

wrst case he breaks it and gets more views aka more marketing... its all good baby baby

[@Xeonerable]

They probably already wrote it off when they shipped it to LTT. SuperMicro is a big company , this isn't going to hurt them. lol

[@stephenspeliades2941]

Dude Linus is my favorite. I also do IT like this in the states, on an extremely high level lol… but Linus is like a GOD in the IT world… next time I work for one of my clients in Canada I’m gonna try to get in touch and just meet this dude

[@Ughbiscuits]

The next LTT hire is confirmed to be a person just to lift heavy things.

[@jareep]

Necessary skills: Lift heavy things...WITHOUT DROPPING THEM. :P

[@DJ_Penguin]

Literally me as a field tech

[@phillee2814]

Known as "Jack"?

[@kudakwashemashanda395]

Terry Crews

[@bknighty28]

I volunteer as tribute. Ill work for merch and I can start tomorrow cuz I'm Canadian

[@SSYoung125]

With your petabyte project i am becoming numb to numbers "400Gb pers second" "1Pb of storage" No big deal.... wait 1 Pb is 1,000 Tb 400Gb per second is about 50 to 120 times faster then any single m.2 storage on the common market..... thats fast

[@swagatrout3075]

for him its like 4gb/sec and 100Tb

[@pdoge]

You are mixing up gigabit and gigabyte here! 1 gigabyte = 8 gigabit. So the 400GBit connection relates to roughly 50GByte/s transfer rate - which is still REALLY fast though, albeit "only" like 7 times as fast as the fastest consumer NVME drives :)

[@Excludos]

@cak01vej Sorry, my brain can't handle that kind of information. Are you telling me they have to build one of these every day just to keep up with their own experiments?

[@herebejamz]

@@Excludos Purely speculation, but they probably have a bank of similar things that they use in cycle while they process the backlog. Like, one is taking in new information while one or two are being processed. I know absolutely nothing about this.

[@jakehancock5412]

@@swagatrout3075 1 Petabyte is 1024 Terrabytes

[@dennishoeben8036]

Its fun to see this because i worked at CERN in Geneva for a while where they hosted the accelerator computers and servers, we use the copper cabels to.

[@MrJPdupreez]

This is just the best video gentlemen! I could feel your excitement

[@bosh__]

When it switched on for the first time, the sound of the fans was a near perfect harmony of the THX sound

[@bruhgamingnl1315]

Exactly

[@ShaOryDow]

YES, my thoughts exactly!

[@TheMetroidblade]

I was like woah thx

[@BassBoneBarron]

Yep

[@AcIdBARRY]

i had hoped they would cut that in XD

[@Chad-bq7vw]

22:47 the moment Linus realizes how much power it draws 22:48 the moment he realizes he has to pay for it.

[@ryanj610]

As a comparison, you can weld 1/4 inch steel with that amount of Amperage coming out of a 240V. That'll run them about $1 an hour in electricity; not cheap. But not terrible, I guess.

[@exin69]

@@ryanj610 1$ in my country could power on my entire house for 2 days

[@caade_1967]

Did the math itd be a little under 16$ for 24 hours. Expensive for electricity, but not expensive.

[@exin69]

@@2tapkiddyyyy110 depends on your country money value

[@koolid7839]

@@2tapkiddyyyy110 glad I lived in Indonesia 20$ USD is enough to power my entire house for a month maybe 30$ if I use my welding machine and another heavy electronic devices, somehow we are having energy surplus here, thx to my corrupt government I think.

[@tactical_strike7497]

I love the way linus spin his screwdriver without have to dropped it (11:47)

[@iamkio]

I love the chemistry between these two

[@carpincho29]

Whoever does HR for LMG must self medicate after these kinds of episodes

[@huskers1278]

That's Linus and his wife lol

[@fionafiona1146]

There have external HR beyond Team management

[@walkinmn]

That's Yvonne

[@DevinRAR]

They put Xanax in their bathroom auto release air freshener

[@RubberTag]

I don't understand the joke, anyone kind explaining?

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

20:14 For those wondering 75 decibels is considered the limit without hearing protection before you have a chance of irreversible hearing damage

[@Steamrick]

"OSHA requires employers to implement a hearing conservation program when noise exposure is at or above 85 decibels averaged over 8 working hours, or an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA)." The shorter your exposure, the higher you can go, much like radiation and other harmful influences.

[@xmtxx]

To be fair, I'm pretty sure, the standard for soudn measurement is 1m away from the thing. He was way closer than that. No doubt this beast is hella loud. 100db is considered max volume in a nightclub.

[@Philambbydamn1925]

I work on enterprise systems like this almost every single day and its hilarious watching them geek out. I still do it too from time to time.

[@Equitine]

7:44 the insanity of linus being known to drop something (usually important in some way) and yet he still has the confidence to handle equipment of this caliber is the confidence that i aspire to have one day.

[@WelshDdraig]

18:44 - as the fans spin up and reach full tilt (which I'm sure they aren't at that point), all I can imagine is that THX demo that was before feature films...

[@paniniman6524]

I admire Linus' ability to deliver a barrage of heart attacks in under 5 minutes

[@orlagh277]

If he had broken anything there's no way he wouldn't title the video "we broke a million dollar computer"

[@Mr.Marbles]

the electro boom of computers. except not scripted so even more real heartattacks

[@Mike-official]

@@orlagh277 erm

[@RDJE.z0n3]

Can’t stop smirking cause they were like super nerding on this hehe.. so awesome to watch this, i wanna see this playing games..

[@Dgodwin94]

Sill waiting on an update for this. Man this thing is crazy

[@scootbilly]

Linus: has the grip strength to do chin ups on the server rack, but doesn't have the grip strength to pick up a GPU

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

RACKING them chin ups, while wrecking them GPUs.

[@TheBorhork]

It's all or nothing.

[@robocodeboy]

It's because he is lighter than a GPU.

[@no1DdC]

He maxed out STR for his character class, but neglected to invest any points into DEX.

[@GermanMythbuster]

​@@no1DdC *Socks with sandals:* +3 Intelligence, -5 Dex The Linus Build: The only combination of Skills and Items that results in a Dex-Level under zero 😂😂😂

[@eyeslowerthanmygpa4369]

11:47 I like how the most replayed part is where Linus flips his screw driver

[@chrischaf]

not gonna lie... that was a pretty awesome flip ;D

[@seasonedgore7231]

Cyber geeks are gonna be cool as shit in 2077

[@Zigoritos]

Linus is the main character

[@bemusual9254]

clean flip

[@igorz3551]

How do you check the most replayed part?? Wtf

[@Ninako_maid]

*This is one of the coolest idea for intro I've seen after watching 15,000 videos.*

[@Demonitized6000]

dude that flick you did with that tool to open box was sick

[@finnplays0]

you know your PC is good when the fans revving up sounds like the THX sound 😂

[@EvileDik]

Got an EOL IBM AS400 out of a skip in the basement, sounds like a Harrier spinning up, 86dB at idle. It probably has half the processing power of a modern desktop :)

[@Kotafox93]

im glad im not the only one who thought that, i heard it and thought they added that in at first

[@trowabarton101]

Shhh the movie is starting 🍿🤣

[@_yoshivolts_115]

@@Kotafox93 F U R R Y

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

You know it's good when the case is so large that it comes on a pallet and needs to be moved with a pump jack

[@AndreasRavnestad]

This video series is a great example of how recursive LTT's business is. They build servers to store and process the material they film while building said servers. LTT is one of the biggest self-referential meta channels on KZbin. Edit: ITT: People who know that LTT won't keep this server and also what meta actually doesn't mean. Read on to be educated 👌

[@japalocoturbo]

"They build servers to store and process the material they film while building said servers" that feels wrong smh.

[@Chrissjjeeh]

@@patrickkearney8774 it’s not past projects only, but also WIP’s, templates, etc etc etc.

[@Dr.Spatula]

@@patrickkearney8774 Because them being posted doesn't ensure they will remain. Having the raw footage for can be extremely useful for future use and reference. Also, would you want to risk years of work?

[@Dr.Spatula]

They aren't keeping this server so your entire premise flawed at the most fundamental part

[@Axeiaa]

@@patrickkearney8774 Scenario: Russia hacks KZbin, uses some previously unseen exploit to explode all their servers. Suddenly LTTs years of work are gone, nowhere to be found and lost forever. Or they can keep it all and are safe, or in case some other videosite rises up and becomes more popular because people are sick of KZbins poor ad payout and awful copyright system. Or their editors want to put in a clip of a previous video into a current one. There's plenty of scenario's as to why you would want to keep all your files, in raw high quality format.

[@ianwilkinson1659]

Ayyyyee i saw that crown lift. Good choice👌

[@lambsauce6972]

thx sounds on startup you know it’s gonna be good

[@ArcadiaP]

I love how much fun both LInus and Jake have together with all these expensive and crazy components. It's infectious as heck.

[@bigbundle3223]

linus and jake have such great chemistry, i enjoy every video they do together so much.

[@danlandia4399]

Honestly as a big/medium iron IT professional it's kinda cringey. They don't really understand how enterprise gear works. *You don't need full surge power for all devices in the rack. Use staggered power-on, or random power-on delay when power is restored. *They don't seem to understand how server PS deal with 3 phase vs 240 single phase, that just because the PS is 1100W does not mean the switch USES 1100W, the manufacturer just used their standard light duity 1U PS. *Enterprise server fans go full power until the ILO comes online for hardware safety, even if the system is powered off. It keeps the hardware from baking if the ILO crashes and can't manage the fan speed. *Copper DAC cables are NOT expensive. *Copper DAC cables they are using don't have much if any logic in them. Active cables would, but those are not active cables. *Those servers were NOT that loud, this was just standard 1U server noise. Connect power to a rack of Sun/Oracle SPARC servers, that is much louder. I've had DC management call me because my SPARC servers were the loudest in the building and causing comments from the other side of the (100,000 sq.ft.) room. Also ZFS resilver times are dependent on data size, not pool size. it was fast to resilver because there was no *data* to resilver.

[@ArcadiaP]

@@danlandia4399 That's fair, but I'm pretty sure in the past, Linus and co have very much mentioned when it comes to actual enterprise and server stuff, they're just.... doing whatever. Most of Linus' videos and whatnot aren't reallllly that informative, it's just fun. This was quite the fun.

[@Mavis847]

@@danlandia4399 Classic gatekeeping

[@andoletube]

@@Mavis847 Yeah. Can you imagine the watchability of these videos if a proper serious enterprise guy was in charge?

[@HitomiOokami]

I love how just pure nerdy these two genuinely get over this, it's absolutely catching an always end up smiling along with em. Let alone these two make a hilarious pair.

[@jsbzoh6]

When Jake first started he was on the childish side but he’s mellowed out while Linus seems to be more childish and happier overall. They definitely developed some good chemistry.

[@peterbelanger4094]

They are the 'Cheech & Chong', 'Laurel & Hardy' or 'Abbot & Costello' of the geek tech world.

[@fawazgerhard2742]

Well they're nerds so its norma 4 them to be nerdy

[@jackie32]

I wish I had a purpose that'd require one of these machines, I'd just love to geek out over how cool of a startup that is

[@kingmonday2918]

I love watching these adorable nerds do something they love and just living their best lives.

[@tylercoombs1]

I'm thoroughly impressed, Linus only violated 4 Labour Laws in this episode

[@sfisosg7904]

And they are....

[@IRMacGuyver]

This is how Harvey Weinstein got started.

[@EmoChipmonkVOD]

@@sfisosg7904 i would also like to know

[@sarthakchandra]

@@IRMacGuyver duuuuude🤣🤣🤣

[@Chakeis]

It's the charm of the channel

[@klaxoncow]

"As long as nobody tries to tilt it" - Jake, after just trying to tilt it.

[@hurricaneofpuns3722]

A recommendation to Jake and Linus: Buy a molle ballistic plate carrier. I'm a Mechanical Engineer at work and I'm expected to assemble a lot of the stuff I design. Having a molle vest means I can secure a bunch of standard pouches to my chest like a tool belt, so nothing is ever out of arm's reach of me as I'm working and everything has a specific place on my torso. I even have room for an Ifixit kit, a full socket wrench set, metric and imperial allen wrenches, and some other stuff all on my basic vest. Downside is I look like I'm gonna go on a mass shooting when I wear it, but in Canada that shouldn't be an issue for you guys

[@dylonadams1660]

Seeing Linus and his son Setting up a server was so wholesome.

[@saltysoyman6908]

Oh yes. I can’t imagine how cool it would be to handle tech of this scale, so good luck, have fun, and DON’T DROP THE SERVER LINUS!!! I’m just waiting for the video titled “I broke a $1,000,000 computer”

[@CashierNub]

LMAO

[@distelmarc]

DID YOU SEE LINUS PUT THAT BOX WITH A SERVER IN IT RIGHT ON TOP OF THE LATCHES FOR THE BIG BOX AND YOU CLEARLY HEAR IT PUNCTURE THE BOX?!?

[@MichaelJordan-uo2ke]

Trust me its cool and scary. I know from personal experience. Imagine holding computer circuit card that is worth more than Lamborginue. I have. Part of my past work which I am certified for is to fix really expensive computer circuit card/boards

[@kennyb123]

@@MichaelJordan-uo2ke What's a Lamborginue?

[@neek01]

@@kennyb123 Fancy version of a shitty car

[@digitaldwagon]

linus: "I didn't get cut so I don't have to fill out that stupid form" linus' brain:"BACKTRACK! BACKTRACK!"

[@DaimyoD0]

I actually respect that he sort of checked his statement because he doesn't want to discourage anyone in his company from reporting injuries. It's fine if he doesn't want to hassle with reporting his own injuries, but preventing a generally negative perception and work culture toward injury reporting is a ethical decision as an employer. The last thing you want is for your employees to think, consciously or not, that they are somehow whiney or weak or being "that guy" if they report issues.

[@mitcHELLOworld]

That was trippy. I started to read this comment just as he said it.

[@agenericaccount3935]

@@DaimyoD0 Calm down

[@littlejackalo5326]

@@DaimyoD0 That's exactly what you want them to think. Filling out a form for a cut is just for losers. The main reason people get the "you're not what we're looking for at this current time" call, after an interview, is because they're whiny losers.

[@chankwanting]

@@DaimyoD0 There was an episode a while back where he hurt/cut himself minor and was like no this doesn't count. But then Linus asked who I presume is the health and safety staff member who went yes this is workplace injury and basically ordered him to complete the relevant form in. A workplace where a staff member is able to do that to the owner boss who listen, they're fine.

[@haydensmith2539]

Watching Linus Team fumble over standard enterprise mounting hardware warms my heart.

[@angushunt204]

I can't believe you guys started at the top of the rack hahaha, all it takes is one person to pull one of the servers out and the whole thing topples forward.

[@henrystull539]

18:45 You know you have powerful equipment when it makes the THX sound as it turns on

[@WelchDigital]

Came looking to see if anyone else heard it too lmfao

[@bradendude1414]

I remember thinking how cool the DAC connectors looked when I first built and setup our servers and network at work. They previously had CAT 5e everywhere and a combination of 1Gbps and 100Mbps "fast ethernet". For less than the price of 1 server from Dell (that only had SATA SSDs and 1Gbps networking...) I built out a workstation/server that is faster in every conceivable way, has NVMe drives for the SQL database, dual 40Gbps connections, and an "old" network switch (thanks Wendell for the great videos and forum posts!) that has 48 ports @ 10Gbps (rj45) and 4/40Gbps ports. I saw you guys also got your DAC cables from FS, and I gotta say, I was thoroughly impressed at their prices and quality. My deployment has been going strong for over 2.5 years at this point, and it's still the fastest, and most reliable server we've ever had. Put some 10Gbps NICs in all of the engineers workstations, and had their room wired up with CAT6A, and the productivity increase has been phenomenal. Finally got the internet upgraded to 1Gbps symmetrical fiber, and it's made working from home even better. Thanks LTT for really getting me heavily back into tech a few years back. I'm an engineer, but I still do a ton of IT related tasks just because of how much of your content I watch and the curiosity it sparks!

[@Postman00]

Wow we share a lot of the same tech experiences. I just deployed another storage server about two months ago with two QSFP+ connections to two used enterprise 48-port 10Gbase-T switches that each have 4 QSFP+ ports using DACs from FS (great stuff). The bunch of other storage servers in the rack are connected the same way except for the oldest one that's connected via 4 x 10GBase-T LACP. We also wired the entire office with CAT6A and the infrastructure has served the company exceeding expectations for just over 2 years since we moved in. The difference is that we're a video business and I'm an image technician that does IT related work because I absolutely loved it since I was a kid. 10GBase-T has been very reliable and no one needs to mess around with hard disks and desktop-NASes after ingest anymore. The mechanical sliding and clicking of DIMMs, drive sleds, rack rails, and transceivers locking into place never gets old. I'm so glad I get to be hands on with IT even though I ultimately decided to pursue a different career.

[@robertgarrison1738]

What sort of IPMI are you running on those machines? For NOC purposes how do you get them back up remotely on a weekend if they drop?

[@matthewesunderland]

@@robertgarrison1738 most IPMI (or iLo or CIMC) are on if any of the power supplies are plugged in (even when machine is off). Unless both A and B side power supplies have failed, IPMI should be up (in my history with super micro, if you upgrade IPMI to latest firmware, they run fine for years and years). In theory you could remotely cycle the power with an IP PDU, if you really had to. You could also log into your Top-of-Rack out-of-band management switch, where most of your IPMI should be connected, and make sure you are getting MAC/ARP for IP, etc.

[@robertgarrison1738]

@@matthewesunderland why are you responding to me with this? Obviously I know what ipmi is and how it works. I was asking the method for which he has set it up on his custom servers he built.

[@matthewesunderland]

@@robertgarrison1738 You asked "For NOC purposes how do you get them back up remotely on a weekend if they drop?". I have 5 supermicro servers in my basement, all of which have IPMI ports that I have used for years (9+), most of the time remotely over VPN. I was trying to say, short of a loss of power, or a loss of networking, when upgraded to the latest firmware, they never drop (maybe once on one board, I had to reset the IPMI in the very early days ... that required pulling the whole tray out and getting access to the board.) I can't imagine LTT/LMG would be doing anything different. As for the IPMI type, I just logged into the IPMI port I use the most on my server, and it branded SuperMicro, and I see no evidence it was made by anyone but them, it looks like an internal software version called "Redfish". Which from this: www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/redfish looks like an API. Which VMware vSphere can use for things like DPM.

[@roy00100]

Jake, cheers for putting that link in for the rackstuds! it's made my life as an audio/Lighting tech so much easier. i cannot describe how horrible 19" racks can be when you're rigging them yourself

[@curtman1626]

Gotta admit Linus made his best joke yet, “Im Oscar the Tech Grouch” “What the f@ck is wrong with you kids” 10/10

[@sksz33]

He said that the very instant I finished reading your comment, it was kinda spooky tbh

[@Iconium-je1bl]

Linus, I love how you add little bits of wisdom about owning and running companies (like the health form in this video). In many ways, it’s one of the most educational parts of your content, and I always appreciate it.

[@Cloudstone86]

You can run companies, research facilities, military operations etc. all on open source tech.

[@zweiunfirzig]

Linus Business Tips

[@Chris-hw4mq]

Next episode Linus will present Jakes sexual harassement claim: He made me touch his big fat server

[@MAGaming-kn7iw]

That was the most greatest intro I have seen in my existence

[@MohammedFouadHafiz-bp5ew]

You are a good introducer and advertiser 💚

[@guyguy463]

The fans starting up at 18:52 sounds like the old THX intro lmao

[@hedonistic_mushroom]

And so the time-honored tradition of, "Two Men, One Computer" builds continues...

[@wasir3703]

Why are you like this?

[@nopayutube4124]

*One cup memories intensifies...*

[@rswl_mrwn1175]

For what this is useful?can we play games and studing on it?

[@ownedmaxer607]

@@rswl_mrwn1175 this type of machine is beyond your pedestrian "Racecar Johnny" needs.

[@christophernugent8492]

This is more “Two Computer Super-nerds and A Blank Check”.

[@theWSt]

Maybe it's just the KZbin algorithm (I know, this video was uploaded more than 1 year ago), but I have the feeling that you guys build a new overpowered server rack every week 😁

[@jjjj-ms1ln]

19:10 I love how the computer "aw...😥"s.

[@carlwilson4425]

Love the description text: "keyword optimized description (should be two lines long in the KZbin text editor and include the product name) - Copy from Trello"

[@Angie-29th]

LMAO

[@shreyam1008]

lol. . loved it. is this a gag? or was it a boo boo??

[@SivaKanthSharma]

@@shreyam1008 probably a boo boo. They’re done this a few times before. The video is uploaded and readied before publishing, but they forget to change that template description before publishing

[@KenS1267]

When you're assembling a server cabinet get all the rails in first and do a dry fit. You want to be sure you have the spacing right, everyone claims to conform precisely to the U height standard not everyone does and you can get in trouble if you don't check first. You also want to make sure about your cable, power and coolant runs.

[@Darkassassin09]

Makes sense for a server rack you're designing and building yourself, but this is a pre-built and tested setup before it was shipped to them. They're just putting it back together.

[@bigbundle3223]

they also could've absolutely done that and just skipped it in the edit

[@zimbu_]

That's how an experienced professional would do it. This channel employs the yolo amateur methodology.

[@uberubermensch]

@@bigbundle3223 Makes for better views and still curiosity from those that spend too much time squeezing into the back of a poorly placed rack in the main server room that you take all the doors off of it in almost animalistic frustration... Racking trauma never goes away.

[@Exxus61422]

It made the THX theater sound 18:45 😂😂

[@lzr_music]

"Let's game it out" would really need this.

[@An1hony]

finally a computer that can run a geometry dash level.

[@CrystalGrey]

@quicksi _ stereo madness.

[@jbritain]

Probably still can't get 60fps on White Space

[@flexalol7556]

Finally 59 fps on minecraft rtx with upscaling to 69k

[@irmiwolf]

Can it run Crysis tho?

[@lmao1660]

@quicksi _ Untitled 1

[@johnwick5901]

"Linus being a kid that opens his Christmas present for 27 minutes" go!

[@rswl_mrwn1175]

For what this is useful?can we play games and studing on it?

[@BlurryOpossum]

I love how my at 18:45 the server does the computer version of the THX sound 😂

[@BallerTimbo]

Linuses videos always feel like a series of a TV drama

[@AbdullahBilik]

Imagine you hire some technicians to build you a server and they are having this much fun

[@thegambler9994]

Only when there's one server rack to build. God bless the datacenter techs that do this everytime a server farm crops up.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

I've spent the past few months building a data-centre for the first time, and actually, morale and spirits are generally pretty high on site. Not quite this much larking about though!

[@aaronwells3943]

I'd charge the technicians for the privilege. . .scratch that, I'd pay for the privilege to do it for someone else.

[@L30NBL4NK]

Imagine you can have fun at work.

[@wademeyer4495]

I live that dream 5 days a week. It cures my commute blues.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

When you boot real servers they always spin up full speed until the OS boots and can turn the fans down with low load. They are offensively loud when you boot a rack

[@mrblue7020]

Bro I’m surprised some one would spend so much on a pc but still Good luck to you Linus tech the hard work you put to your vids pay off

[@that_one_av57]

"200 gigabytes a second." Kids in 2050: "Slower than my internet 😂😂😂"

[@BrodieChree]

Linus saying "Look at these connectors!" after mentioning he'd love playing with this server even if it was broken is so wholesome!

[@EvileDik]

Weirdly the average UK oven consumes as much power, and doesn't need cables as thick as a babies arm.

[@AIC_onyt]

@@EvileDik those were for networking

[@AIC_onyt]

@@EvileDik the thiccboi powerplug also has to be that diameter, because of voltage drop on long distance. canada has 110ac.

[@combatwombat594]

18:46 when the fans spin up, it sounds just like the loud ass THX movie intro sound from our childhoods lmao

[@redtapionellice5352]

You beat me 2 it

[@combatwombat594]

@@redtapionellice5352 I was like WAIT, I know that sound from somewhere lmao

[@danwat1234]

18:50 It's like the THX sound but compute!

[@horaciolerda]

That would be a cool product. "LTT toolbelt" like the ones for constrction workers but for multiple pc construction tools.

[@SuperMarioDrumming]

Tool sash. PC tools are smaller, so you don't need as much space, and I'd assume you'd mostly only need to grab tools with one hand, meaning a sash would be more ergonomic. Touching your left shoulder with your right hand is easier than your left hip

[@nighteule]

I love how Linus-Jake interactions during server related videos are like 70% innuendos

[@MikkoRantalainen]

If you like innuendos, check out the April 1st series by LockPickingLawyer. The visuals are about locks but the audio makes it sound a bit different.

[@philbishop283]

What ever happened with this machine..

[@shmerps5809]

seems fun to compile packages in gentoo with this

[@TooSmalley]

"I didn't cut myself so I don't have to fill out that stupid form.." Lol I worked as a fish cutter in a processing plant in my 20s and I had to fill out A LOT of those forms

[@jpa1282]

You must be a real cluts

[@TheMetroidblade]

I worked at Tyson. Im very familar with the form. lmao

[@rswl_mrwn1175]

For what this is useful?can we play games and studing on it?

[@printstrname5346]

That rack powering up really sounds like the old THX sounds lmao.

[@karenwang313]

The servers I usually work with only sound like that when somethings wrong with them lol.

[@d3fault1420]

lol

[@abc3615]

18:47 'THX sound effect'

[@FoEKringle]

with that kind of power that thing will figure out emotions

[@Evmations]

linus and jake's energy is unmatched

[@rswl_mrwn1175]

For what this is useful?can we play games and studing on it?

[@thirdpedalnirvana]

I remember when Google announced they had several pedabytes of storage between their servers, and it felt like only a company as rich and powerful as Google would ever have that much storage. This was when having a 1 terabyte in your PC required 4 drive bays.

[@velo1337]

nowadays every midsize company needs that much :)

[@jsbzoh6]

It hasn’t been cheap but my homelab has around half a PB over 24 HDDs and 24 SSDs. About 10 years ago that lab started with an old Lenovo desktop from work and a 1TB drive. I have gigabit fiber internet at home, which in itself is massive growing up in the dialup era. I still get impatient waiting for a 200gb game to download in ~20 mins when back then I had to do mp3 downloads overnight. Hell, just smartphones in general. I’m not that old but I remember having a phone (Nextel i930) with Windows Mobile on it. It got like 2 hours of battery life and there really wasn’t data or WiFi support but it was so cool at the time. Now my 14mo son can navigate a smartphone and tablet.

[@jsbzoh6]

@@velo1337 even cooler, a midsize company doesn’t even need to own the hardware. Just pay someone else pennies and they have conceptually limitless storage and compute available without ever knowing where that hardware actually lives.

[@michaelhenry3234]

@@jsbzoh6 What do you use it for?

[@SocietyUnplugged]

​@@michaelhenry3234 Facebook... stores 4PB every day in their "hive".

[@daidieevans7280]

in the uk we have 2 x 32 amp ring mains for sockets at 230v

[@TheKec789]

I am always so incredibly nervous to watch Linus handle ANYTHING of value. He has the "dropsies" worse than anyone, ever. It's also only going to get worse as he gets older. Please put carpet pad underneath all of your sets! lol. I've never had more fun watching a channel! Jake, ummm...please wear a belt maybe? :)

[@Eagervul]

Okay so today I learned that server rails have the exact same mechanism that I use for my socks drawer. Which is worth nowhere near $1000000. Cool, cool

[@iwontlagback7236]

I don't think you socks drawer can extend a 300Kg load 1.5 meters out.

[@chissum7516]

socks probably cost more than the rails ngl

[@cvspvr]

@@iwontlagback7236 my socks drawer draws ten kilowatts in order to keep all my socks warmed to the exact temperature

[@TheSharker]

@@cvspvr lol

[@zoebaz6969]

Depends on the server. Lenovo toolless slide rails are *chef's kiss*

[@spitfireGamesVR]

Im not gonna lie I got excited just watching you two set this up, and I know NOTHING about servers. Even just the sheer amount of hardware and connections is just... wow

[@sipofsunkist9016]

13:36 they way linus went back in the box sent me

[@bakedbeings]

Back in the day, when setting up a 1m$ PC was easier, you delivered the SGI Onyx and RAID array to the compositor, installed Inferno and called it a day. (In AUD$)

[@vanbatim5906]

Fun watching someone deal with racking systems. As someone who has done it for nearly 15 years it was refreshing to watch those who don't get these opportunities often. I've racked environments that were worth multiples of millions of US dollars. It's nerve racking and exciting when you finally get it all put together, powered on, configured (OS, Applications, etc), and watch the traffic flow. Kudos guys, I enjoyed it.

[@fakecubed]

Hearing about this project on WAN Show is what finally got me to build my own rack and finally get organized with all my various server boxes and random drives that have just been strewn about on floors and tables and in closets and who knows where else. My budget is considerably smaller, my rack is only 15U and I'm using only 9U of it, but as I've been migrating everything, building a proper rack mount NAS, and getting everything nicely organized and cable managed, I've felt like an absolute boss. I even have a proper switch on the thing, it's glorious. So anyway, thanks for finally giving me the kick in the pants that I've needed for a long time now, making me geek out about this thing and making me want to be able to finally geek out about my own modest set-up. I mean heck, I've got rack mounted Raspberry Pis on this thing, overall it's not that fancy. But everything is in one place and clean, and it's already impressed the absolute crap out of my friends and relatives sending them pictures. I should have done this years ago and it's this series of videos that made me do it.

[@swalloich]

At 18:43, the fans getting up to speed sounds like the THX sound.

[@aaronsmicrobes8992]

Those cables just looked to be normal qsfp. You wouldn't need them to be active for such short lengths and the circuit boards in them just have RC filters on each lane. Active cables are typically for lengths over 5 or 10m when you need to boost the signal strength just to get a clean reading at the other end. I used to work for a company that made these and my job was to design, build, and program systems to do electrical performance QA on these connectors/cables (and many other connector standards). Basically automated a fancy oscilloscope and some very expensive multi position switches to collect measurements, process the data, and give an overall pass/fail.

[@brianreynolds5373]

I really hope they installed (off-camera) the small flush-mount screws that supermicro rails need to be fully secured to the sides of the servers. Yes, the rails clip on nicely (9:22) to the server sides via back-to-front force and seem secure . But they'll pull right off the server again with any front-to-back force put along the rail. . . which is likely to happen as you pull the server out of the rack for maintenance. Especially when you're de-racking. This can lead to the server suddenly falling as you pull it out, usually when you hit the stops. Ask me how I know (I didn't rack the servers that taught me this!).

[@dontworryaboutit345]

It'll end up as the 785,000 pc once Linus breaks it

[@johannes960]

when comes the next part?

[@SocietyUnplugged]

12:56

[@brianreynolds5373]

@@SocietyUnplugged the screws to which I am referring screw into the sides of the server. They are tiny and screw in flush with the rails so they don’t interfere with sliding while still making it impossible for the rails to just come “unclipped” from the sides of the server. The concern is that the rails are merely “clipped” and not screwed to the sides. What they are doing at 12:56 is just screwing the front screws in to keep the server from sliding on the rails normally (which can happen inadvertently while plugging things into the back, etc.).

[@Evilch33z]

Nope kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3nbo2yharuXmZY

[@MemesnShet]

Now the editing on this video was on point A great hook,lots of energy from the second you click the video Really entertaining and such an epic project

[@798Muchoman]

At 25:09 we see a man whose wildest dreams and aspirations have not just come true, but been exceeded in every way. Like the culmination of the last 15 years of Linus's career on KZbin in one face of unbridled joy.