Screw Apple, I Made My Own iCloud

[@SAMTIME]

Thanks Zima for sponsoring this one and helping us build the ultimate FUNK CLOUD 😂 ZimaCube Pro Official Shop: bit.ly/4gphSzD ZimaCube Pro Personal Cloud: bit.ly/3XHhpSc

[@EditorHeart]

I'm early 😂😊

[@DailyDoseOfWeirdComment]

me too

[@jaredfontaine2002]

Wow they must have paid you some $$$ for singing😅😅😅

[@DS-pk4eh]

Well this one has basically what othera like Synology or Asustor have. But this is 1K price for cpu that you might not even need, if all you want is cloud like storage, nextcloud and media server. Something like that others have around 400usd. Feels like too much for not so much. Marketing ia atrong with this one

[@fellowcitizen]

1:20 The Curiosity Show moment!

[@youtbe999]

It's heavy because you didn't buy the wheels.

[@LiveAerosmith]

😂😂

[@flipppyRBLX]

you need alot money for that 😂😂😂

[@dh2032]

thats an apple caster joke, and was the 🍏🍏🍎🍎price that was the joke for set of, Home Depot, idea cabernet wheels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@JustherefortheLOLZ]

Made me laugh... I remebember our old Sun E450 that was mounted on wheels. 🤣🤣

[@samuelmunaku3754]

I happily watched this 12 minute add coz I love this guy. Let a brother eat.

[@justin75358]

😂 💯

[@chiefdenis]

For real, he deserves a win

[@raven4k998]

he's right it is heavy because it's quality plain and simple😜

[@TheAncientTwo]

your boy's gotta pay the rent somehow lol

[@StynerDevHub]

😂😂😂

[@PeterRince]

Shame on Linus for crushing other people's dreams!

[@какойтошизик]

What do you mean?

[@ethanmartinez808]

Yeah dude a big booooooooooooooo to Linus🤣

[@orlagh277]

@@какойтошизик you really want me to explain the joke? it'll ruin the joke, but I swear I'll do it.

[@какойтошизик]

@@orlagh277, go ahead, i don't get it anyway.

[@GameBacardi]

Who is Linus ?

[@OkOtChA]

Came for the NAS stayed for the comedy.

[@blancpainbritt]

😂 me too

[@AlexIndigo]

This is the only product placement I enjoyed watching. And product itself looks rad.

[@raven4k998]

it's the death cube run for your life💀💀

[@notachannel7495]

There's this other guy, Ryan George, who is a pretty funny KZbinr (my kids get a kick out of his stuff) and his ad placements can be hilarious. It's an art, that's for sure.

[@AlexIndigo]

@ Yeah, I like his "first ever" episodes.

[@mrbeastchocolate]

Storage is getting so small and cheap that you will soon be able to back up a computer to Sam's chin

[@SAMTIME]

Got a lotta chin-o-bytes up there :))

[@abdou.the.heretic]

​@@SAMTIMEchoked on my blunt 😂😂😂😂😂

[@istrasci]

@@SAMTIME Better than cenobites up there!

[@GameBacardi]

@@SAMTIME Giga-chin ?

[@demonicsquid7217]

He has Harkonnen DNA, leave SaMmY aLoNe!

[@lego_minifig]

For a little over $1k I built an UNRAID server with 40TB of usable storage and 2 parity disks and 4 1TB SSD cashes. I plan to eventually swap out all the 8TB drives for 18TB ones for over 100TB of usable space. It has been fanatic for hosting game, media, and cloud servers. We are truly in a renaissance of used hardware. You can get so much performance for relatively cheap if you go back a few generations.

[@emm4148]

I know bro needs all that space for loads of CyberPunk

[@lego_minifig]

@ I need a whole mining rig just to run the ray tracing

[@emm4148]

@@lego_minifig it’s a joke ur so posed to take the capital letters in the name and put them together and it says something completely different

[@hamdanfareed]

@@emm4148 icp???

[@RealOscarMay]

-icloud- mycloud

[@WellWisdom.]

Niet, our cloud comrade.

[@suvjkumar]

Finally the correct spelling 😂

[@learndesignwithdev]

​@@WellWisdom. 🇨🇳 🤝 🇷🇺

[@daskampffredchen]

@@WellWisdom. If you Port Forward it without a Password that is

[@AndreiSamson2]

@@WellWisdom. Darbo Pajalvatzi communist fella

[@goomyman23]

you should have a million subs in no time. Also this sponsored content actually is pretty good lol as far as they go. Its surprisingly informative honestly - everyone should host their own NAS if they need a few more than 1 terrabyte

[@ramr7051]

Yeah I actually watched the whole thing bc I keep hearing about NAS but have never bothered checking how it works. Watching Sam is always entertaining

[@savagepro9060]

SamTime: " Screw Apple" Apple: "Great. We need a 1000 bottles of Apple Oil"

[@raven4k998]

3 apple stands a month god damn🤣🤣

[@21Shells]

Apple lubricant!!!!???? 😳

[@yt_Ajay_]

That cube song is going to be stuck in my head for the next few days.

[@Denvermorgan2000]

It’s so creepy to know that little Timmy cook is looking at your pics at night.

[@nulach5489]

That's just incredible!

[@MethLord]

I like it when someone's watching

[@tuaioemg-x6r]

And NSA

[@whatthecrit]

That's not how any of it works...

[@Denvermorgan2000]

@@whatthecrit the thing is, nobody knows but little Timmy Cook….

[@jjflash2611]

Sam does a sponsored video and I still LMAO. Great stuff.

[@esIworld]

"DON'T PASS ME THE LUBE" 😂

[@kaelakeluskar]

Yikes, Diddy

[@Redwan777]

​@@evildosOr Epstein rituals

[@rbellot11]

You’re a comedian for sure…

[@unrealengine5-storm713]

Checking on you couple years later. FINALLY getting the attention you deserve

[@beepbop6697]

Very smart to use those super fast (caching) flash drives in the front -- this is "enterprise" stuff we were doing a decade+ ago (in my company) -- now in residential. Now I want to build my own NAS for my house. Great video!

[@waraqas]

When The Cube jingle kicked in I was like... Dafuq? 😂

[@seyramdiaba8244]

Don't pass me the lube😂

[@OttoFilmStudios]

6:52 Sam should quit KZbin to become a professional opera singer.

[@mitcharbiter3371]

Well done, sir! Intelligent comedy and a tech product review.... best of both worlds. 😆

[@Archaeonauts]

I knew this was going to be a sponsored video before I clicked on it. But I clicked on it and watched the whole thing anyway.

[@sparkspl]

I trust this guy more than LTT.

[@edplat2367]

That's not saying much. But this is sponsored content, so take it with a grain of salt.

[@WellWisdom.]

Same here.

[@Southghost5997]

Trust no one. Do your own research.

[@Supremax67]

​@@Southghost5997 -- And what does your research turn out?

[@itsdarkos]

​@@Supremax67 as someone who builds his own server neither are bad resources. But if youre interested in this topic some more, i can recommend hardwarehaven

[@SquidBow]

Funny thing is you can watch your movies at more than locked 720p, even when you don't pay for it

[@yosutzuhruoj]

Yes, but opt for jellyfin instead of plex if you're going to....uh...ethically source your movies. Also, TV shows? ethically sourced from the greenest fields of "radarr" and "sonarr"

[@dizwell]

RAID is _never_ a form of backup. It's redundant storage, but an accidental delete on one disk will be faithfully replicated to all the other disks. Result: data loss. Also, a falling kangaroo from space hitting your cube destroys all data. So, yes: RAID for primary storage, but you still need to take a secondary backup. Ideally, several backups, one offline and one offsite. Incidentally, I prefer Emby over Plex. Pretty similar in functionality, but less proprietary shenanigans.

[@HansHoch-n5h]

Top notch video! Jokes, editing and overall just great! Absolutely love your channel!

[@Nafiur13]

4:20 Imagine if Samtime gets sponsored by raid shadow legends

[@deathsyth8888]

THE ALL NEW GOTCHA CHARACTER! IT'S THE SAME AS ALL THE OTHER ONES!

[@ichijofestival2576]

Wouldn't stop them. I swear, some of the ad-reads I've seen, it almost as if Raid's publisher encourages shit-talking their game. It's very much a quantity-over-quality strategy.

[@Nafiur13]

raid gave one guy 1000 dollars for a sponsor so how could he say no.

[@demonicsquid7217]

rAiD sHaDdUpYeRfACe is actually beyond parody at this point. The brand is too toxic for anyone with even a vague sense of human decency.

[@tudorgt]

bro you’re literally the most (moderately) funny tech youtuber guy 😂😂😂 keep up the good work

[@tg8150]

“Let me throw up in my pants!”….it got me. I burst out laughing. I’d love to shake this guys hand. Pure genius!

[@thedreaming6446]

7:55 Plex knows what people use plex for. It's okay, we won't tell the normies.

[@deathsyth8888]

Sam Tucker: Kiti, we're gonna go get me Cube! We've gonna go to Romania to get me Zima Cube! We're gonna go to Romania, Kiti!

[@MelloWatermello]

LMAO 1st bushworld adventures reference in a long while

[@M_McFly]

1:25 I hope you didn't pay the 18TB price for that EIGHT TB drive Sam!

[@SimpMcSimpy]

Seagate HDD drives have the highest failure rate compared to WD or Toshiba. Always make sure you have at least 5 year warranty.

[@swiftrealm]

The regular IronWolfs don't, you need to purchase the Pros for that. Regular is 3 years.

[@MrPV94]

Can confirm. My Seagate HDD failed in 2.5 years. Had to spend $600 on data recovery. WD has never failed me.

[@SimpMcSimpy]

@@MrPV94 Cloud providers often release statistical data related to HDD failure rate. This is usually based on tens of thousands HDDs. Last time I checked Seagate HDDs were sticking well above WD and Toshiba (in failure rate). WD Ultrastar series is currently the most reliable HDD you can find. Unfortunately, the price is not so friendly :) I use mostly Toshiba MG series designed for 24/7 operation (7200 speed and large 512MB cache), which is also reliable and much more affordable. Plus they offer 5 year warranty. In any case it is the most important to have them in RAID1 (or some other array configuration) and you can sleep peacefully.

[@WaylandGaming]

Would you recommend the Toshiba MG10F series drives for a NAS? It's enterprise grade so I'm assuming it's better than NAS drives? They're cheaper than Red Pro and IronWolf Pro for me.

[@SimpMcSimpy]

​@@WaylandGaming I personally use MG series (20 TB) drives in my home lab server (which serves as NAS, firewall, multimedia server etc.). I think recently they even released 22 TB version. These are CMR drives !!! which is very important. Speed is very good, always around 250MB/s, which for HDD standard is excellent. I have some SSDs that can barely match that once they are 50% full. Depends how you use your NAS, MG series (with 7200 and 512B cache) is little bit above standard NAS series you can find in the market. Recently I run into discounted 20TB MG drives (new ones, not used) and for 300 EUR I got excellent 20TB drive. I bought 2 of these (for RAID1). I also use separate WD drive for NVR alone (WD NVR series designed for 24/7 constant writing operations). I am thinking to buy 2 more MG drives during next 1-2 years to further extend capacity of my home lab. It is worth tracking sellers for any discounts. Unless you have money for WD Ultrastar series, MG is excellent alternative. To be honest I would rather change my drives every 5 years then paying such a high premium for WD Ultrastar.

[@oussama7132]

you either store your videos on multiple drives or live long enough for a nas/hdd sponsor to give you a NAS

[@AdamSacasa]

This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen on KZbin in a while. Learned a bit too, thanks!

[@mattb9664]

Sam's 'as a matter a fact' humor towards Apple.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thatjpwing]

My god, I feel like your musical interlude was inspired by Leslie Hall and her Gem Sweaters. LOVE IT.

[@BoomChockolaca]

So glad Sam is still getting followers, I remember him having 260k subscribers, and now it's 387k. Good job Sam!

[@LANDRYFOREVER]

”Don’t pass me the Lube” got me 😂😂😂😂 Everything in this video is pure art. Thanks bro keep doing good things

[@EditorHeart]

Great Editing every time 😉

[@ANormalMale]

Thanks for the musical interlude it hit the spot

[@toothlessblue]

4:30 Important distinction! A raid is not equivalent to a backup c:

[@deathsyth8888]

Tim Apple isn't going to like this. You will pay for iCloud storage. Forever! Or else... Tim Apple will see to that.

[@Jack_Rn]

This guy is fantastic - 394K subs? I can't believe YT has never recommended any of his videos!

[@amandeeprishi3733]

the only non-nausea inducing funny techtuber out there , the ONLY !!!

[@Kirbydogs9]

I tried to make a cube by using some cardboard boxes, and it worked! Until I realized it was a hypercube and had to start all over again.

[@MrOrtmeier]

Your song was very good mate. I was sad it ended so soon. Great NAS btw.

[@tacoman2345]

The Diddy reference was wild 💀

[@rosaria8384]

Sponsored video done right. I've had a keen eye on NAS devices for my own personal storage needs (especially for gaming, movies, and my personal files across multiple devices), so this is quite interesting. Now onto buying the HDDs themselves.

[@tamiranirwan9966]

What wonderful singing, I was quite entertained!

[@Mongolicious]

Funny thing, I was looking for a good solution for my own cloud storage earlier today, and there you were working on this video. Thanks Sam

[@Prince_Sidon]

So happy you got sponsored Sam! Keep being you. Cheers !

[@michaelkaliski7651]

$1,100 plus the drives makes Cloud storage prices not seem so bad…

[@JustherefortheLOLZ]

It's really not that bad. I think I pay $10/mo for 2 TB in cloud. At $200 per spinning rust device I'll stick with iCloud. Besides, NAS on Apple is highly unintuitive.

[@Invid72]

I decommissioned my old gaming rig and stuck a bunch of drives its mATX case. Installed OpenMediaVault and run Nextcloud and Plex in containers on the resulting NAS. What you get from a device like the Cube is ease of use. If you're technical you can do the same thing for less though.

[@tuaioemg-x6r]

But you can't acces to cloud when isp down unlike mycloud by sam

[@Invid72]

@@tuaioemg-x6r Not sure I follow you. When you build out your Cube it runs in your home network. It's no different than rolling your own server. If your ISP goes down they both go down.

[@iris4547]

@@Invid72 dont need an isp to access local data mate.

[@JohanlastZa]

Buying this NAS will cost R 19 802 in South African currency. Adding 10TB drives at R 70000 each x 6, ending at R 42 000 for the HDDs, totalling almost R62 000. Storage has neven actually come down in price how it once was. The last time I bough a 2Tb Seagate, I paid like R 599 for it, these things are still about R 1500 for the normal cheap desktop variety.

[@EdmundDipple]

Nice video, really enjoyed your presentation! However there’s a couple of points that need to be expanded on here: 1. RAID provides redundancy not backup - this may come across as nitpicking, but it’s important to note that RAID blindly mirrors file updates and deletion. If it’s deleted on the one HDD, it’s gone on the other one. 4:39 I’m not sure what point you are making around the capacity re: drive failure, as the storage pool will still register the full amount of storage available- it just won’t be redundantly stored until you switch in a new HDD. 2. As feature-ful as this NAS solution is, it doesn’t inherently solve the issue of what happens to your data if your house is burgled or sets on fire. While it provides an excellent experience on your local network, you’re still probably going to rely on remote backups of your data in case of a real disaster. Your cloud costs are essentially insurance for your important data.

[@yt678901]

Even i was considering Online storage, but when compared to HDD prices now, you can backup your data to 3 seperate HDDs at similar costs. So I just keep adding HDDs to my PC itself. when i have spare money for them. SATA ports are over, now USB is used.

[@winnie8614]

Well. First rule of backups -- backups should be off site! And this cloud providers have geo distributed backups of each item in cloud. But you got pay for this.

[@kmotlafe]

Give this man a subscribe and a like. The most amazing 12 minutes of my life… 😅 when are you dropping the single? Can’t wait for the LP

[@JamesWilliams-nb6zc]

Never heard of your channel.Sally I was not disappointed

[@KofiBlades]

I love your vibes man. You gained a subscriber here!

[@InPhillyWeTrust]

I'm really liking the song!!!!!! I'm busy, configuring my cube!

[@colourist.]

Apple need you for their next online 'event'!! Best promo presentation I've seen in forever :)

[@stealth_mode44]

The biggest issue with using local storage for storing photos shot using iPhone is basically uploading to anything apart iCloud causes a lot of metadata to be stripped. The backup file is not a true copy of the original. You can try this by checking the editing options on the original vs. The editing options on the backup. You’ll be shocked to see the metadata which has been stripped.

[@idearikas]

Apple should be sued for it

[@TheDefpom]

I've been using a NAS for about 7 years to store all my KZbin videos on, got a 4 bay, only using 3, but is currently 14TB, and very full.

[@mothwaltz4163]

Probably time to get a second one

[@pepsicola5527]

This guy is amazing!! I have a Synology NAS. I’m already up to speed! Haha!!

[@justpatrick_]

I love you sam, you're awesome bro. Love the singing bit 😂

[@nigeldarrah4573]

Ha! This is awesome. I must say you sir are out of your mind in a fantastic way. Keep it cool slick.

[@PaulKoester-yj8ix]

Feels like 2008 all over again. That's when I set up a Microsoft Home Server and it was basically able to do all these things. Based on actual Server 2008 R2, it had a web interface too. I had it running on a tiny chassis single drive, no redundancy.

[@edwardallenthree]

You should always use raid 1+0. Storage is cheap, and the additional performance over raid 5 or 6 in this configuration is noticeable. Just my two cents.

[@TomBauto]

I honestly watched the whole 12mins video, great vid Sam! I'll check if this non-perfect shape cube is available in Asia region. BTW do update on experience if you test it will all 3 gigabit LAN network, I saw it has on the back.

[@gautamt5014]

Seagate used to have 'seagate central' which was a lower cost version of this, and it was brilliant. But sadly, it's very costly to have your own personal iCloud.

[@arhitectura.din.România]

Do not pass me the cube,... or the lube! 😂🎉

[@theronwolf3296]

I do physically offline storage (two separate physical drives), on the premise that a disconnected drive has much less chance of being reached by ransomware or similar before it's discovered. Also the storage is in two different locations (I had fire once). Every couple days, or after new material is added (and also after the system scans clean by the antivirus) I plug in one of the systems and run the backup, disconnecting it as soon as it is finished.

[@paul2s]

Well done! I think you amusing infomercial will sell many cubes :).

[@aperitifs]

We had a bushfire destroy suburbs in canberra in 2003 , the cloud is worth every dollar after you loose everything except the clothes your wearing.

[@radugrigoras]

You just need to have more cubes. Spread them out around the world to your friends. Or hide one at the office. Will say though this is quite a stack of money. Not sure it’s worth the 1100$ USD. If you don’t need fancy trays you can buy a used dell or HP tower with a i5 9600, a used rtx 3060, 4x 8tb drives, and an extra 16gb of ram. Truenas will do the same job.

[@mathis8210]

Thats fine, but be aware that what you put on the cloud is not YOUR data anymore. It belongs to whoever runs the server and they can and WILL access it.

[@radugrigoras]

@@mathis8210 Most ppl don’t have anything that is too top secret, or that anyone would really care to look at. Ohh you got some nudes, who cares, so many nudes and porn on the internet, why would anyone care about yours? Paranoia and ego are rampant these days. Everyone thinks they are sooo important and the government and corporations really care about them. Reality is, your data is aggregated into a large pool and run through an algorithm for statistical research, there isn’t an army of millions of basement dwellers manually going through your stuff and classifying it. Same goes for the face recognition cameras. Do I care that some algorithm is tracking me going to work every day, or tracking me to the grocery store or running errands? No, it’s mundane. But maybe one day, it might catch a car thief, a child predator, a puppy snatcher, the fucker stealing Amazon packages etc. Long story short, I don’t do anything illegal, so them knowing what I do does not bother me if one day it might stop a crime. Same principle as airport security, yeah it’s annoying to go through all those checks, but it sure is infinitely better than being on a plane that gets hijacked and flown into some buildings. None of those ppl ever thought it would happen to them either and I bet if you could ask them, hey would you have preferred that your boarding took an extra hr? They all would have said yes.

[@aperitifs]

@@mathis8210 I ran a school network in 1998, 2 servers with directory replication , There was a directory for staff and one for students, ( There are so many folders that you only click on to attach a login to a home folder ). Only time I would look at the list was when Hard disk space was going down fast, I would sort by Size and then ask that person to remove data if it was excessive. For a world wide cloud system there is ( too many folders). To look at ( and those servers keep logs of what admin did what , or accessed , I would hope (only Top level Administrator can have unfettered access) ( You can store data in the cloud with encryption so only you can see the data )

[@aperitifs]

@@mathis8210 you can store your data in the cloud encrypted, only you see the data . (They can't see it )

[@repairman757]

Early in the morning and you put a smile on my face. Thank you.

[@PotatoVariety]

I was not expecting a cubic song at the end, but I was very surprised and pleased with it.

[@jniska]

@sametime jeeezzzz😂you are loosing it..but I (we all) love it.. keep it going! Well done, the best sponsored clip I have seen in yonks…!❤

[@Not_a_lier]

if cloud icosts 3 stands: that's free real storage if icloud costs 3 apple products: just get a personal storage server so you get more for less, something that is considered unorthodox by Apple.

[@ChristianHernandez-cs2mu]

I truly have no need for this thing but he is so funny I watched the whole thing😂

[@maywe9]

Sam, you're like me, still clinging to your MP3 library, and hence my using a 2017 Android phone: headphone jack, SD card slot,(and absence of my personal hate, punch hole/camera notch)

[@Shytzedaka]

ZimaCube will never find a better sponsor than you Sam.

[@raylab77]

I love your presentation! Real good, fun and educational! Thanx!

[@adamnealis]

Best NAS ad ever!

[@PluckDaBass]

Dude…I fell off my chair laughing! Funny & informative. 🤣

[@SimSimSimmer]

Big fan of your videos. Love from Estonia. ❤😊

[@IKcodeIgorWnek]

Hahahaha, Sam you are great man. Excellent song! 👏🚀

[@vgamesx1]

4:30 Correction good for redundancy, but raid is NOT a backup, the easiest way to understand this is to think what would happen if you get a virus or ransomware on your system or something just goes wrong, the data on both drives are copied and thus you lose both copies, a backup is completely separated and cannot be affected such as a portable drive or another NAS.

[@kelper205]

I want to give you two thunbs up. One for the video and one for the song!!! Please release a Single with it

[@AshRaf-to5gu]

This is such a good thing. NAS technology presented in a easy to understand byte sized pieces.

[@PrazgreenStudios]

The best part of a NAS is that you can self-host open source apps easily.

[@rokkun-san]

Sam deserves over Million subs. Love the song. Nice one Sam. 🎉

[@kjeksklaus7944]

I use Infuse across mac mini as host with external 1TB drive, app for apple TV, Ipad, Iphone etc it's awesome $1 a month. I use plex for music. This looks awesome but when I have to buy a windows PC because I can't play any games on the thousands of pounds of Apple equipment it will have to wait, my own NAS set up is on my list.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

I also just built one, very happy with it, 8 drive bays, and it's a micro case, it also has 2 bays for optical drives! Not trying to promote my channel or anything but I made a video on it.

[@m-alam]

@samtim I was intrigued by your video titled 'Own iCloud,' as the title was very compelling. However, I found it quite challenging to avoid getting a headache while trying to follow your explanation due to your unusual accent, which you made even harder to follow by adding humor. While I understand that using a NAS is a common practice for creating a network or cloud backup, I don’t see the new point you're trying to establish here. Could you clarify?

[@SpaceFairyness]

This is the greatest NAS review I've ever seen in my life🙌🏻 🤣

[@drawzeywazig9096]

Loved it, exactly what I was looking for. Also Nice show and oh the singing .. lovedit!

[@RaineWilder]

A video card on a NAS? 😳 Shut up and take my money!

[@GreenLeafUponTheSky]

So it's basically just a gaming pc. My big case has room for a bunch of hard drives, I could do the same thing.

[@RaineWilder]

@@GreenLeafUponTheSky plus a raid controller

[@tim3172]

@@RaineWilder ... RAID controller? What year is this? I hope you mean HBA and software-defined storage.

[@shifureisaikyou2055]

Thats not a Nas thats a mini pc built with lots of drive bays

[@dutchsailor6620]

As an avid adblock and sponsorblock user I couldn't imagine that I would be enjoying a 12minute add.

[@geoman1420]

Raid 5 (or 6) protects your data from hd failures. But you have no protection against other hardware failures (motherboard, disk controllers, power) or by mistakenly erasing your files. So you actually also need a backup of your cube (cloud or external hds)... 🙂