These are TOTALLY Different - Let me Explain. (U.3 Storage Comparison)

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[@kingkosher6231]

the usb firewire scene literally horrified me, if you're gonna use gore in your videos you need to age restrict it! lol

[@granyte]

I'm gonna have nightmares about that sound

[@CatsMeow_]

Tech gore

[@futurez14]

Links plz

[@paragonpastry]

the sound it made was *P H Y S I C A L C R I N G E*

[@CatsMeow_]

@@futurez14 0:56

[@JeffGeerling]

My Raspberry Pi needs this. 8 of this.

[@defencebangladesh4068]

yes do a video please

[@kataseiko]

Compute card with PCIe.. Then that adapter card and the enclosure. I want to see the result!

[@AaaTeeEyeBee]

Pretty funny seeing a youtuber commenting on another 'tuber's video.

[@LukiRudaka]

Or rather 3.14 of this... heh.. get it.. get it because its pi ah nevermind.

[@altimmons]

Personally I hate the “let’s install something amazing on something crappy. E g watch me install this rtx 3090 into this pi. It’s pointless and adds nothing.

[@blurredwhosbored3887]

For those who don’t know: Kioxia is Toshiba

[@guy_autordie]

Thanks!

[@mnomadvfx]

*Kioxia is Toshiba's flash memory subsidiary.

[@douglas8568]

Thanks too!

[@clashwithkeen]

Also, Western Digital and Micron are trying to buy them because they are leading the way in DDR5 architecture.

[@blurredwhosbored3887]

@@clashwithkeen oh thank you I didn’t know that

[@Atomgray88]

"You probably noticed I just shoved that in there" -Linus 2021

[@ahyaan2552]

Hehe

[@doge5603]

That's what he said

[@stanlee5465]

And She Didn't Notice... -Every Woman With Linus Always

[@bndblazrt]

Linus S ex Tips

[@Channel-wn6bu]

Hehe

[@shivamdhaka8755]

You look a lot nicer with this captain America beard .

[@Quesly]

Fr🥵🤤

[@silenthill4]

Negative. Only beta males have face pubes

[@alpitu21]

@@err ok

[@sahilpatel2954]

@@err Ok I won't

[@agostodandrea3589]

@@silenthill4 he is a beta male anyway but he look way sexier with the beard

[@JeffGeerling]

02:47 - Are you seriously chomping the SAS cables inside the top case of that server?! The poor bits trying to get through...

[@dan2800]

Yea thats why the U.3 ssd was that slow Also some rgb would gain 10% of perf

[@killer2600]

No bits were injured in the making of this video

[@deViant14]

It's ok they're fit girl bits

[@Kringlord97]

I guess those bits won’t be very quick. No quick bits here

[@Tedd755]

I saw that backplane Linus had an immediately thought of yours. :)

[@alliesakat]

"Firewire... now that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time"

[@billgatest7563]

pour out a swig of 40oz for the homie

[@Luke_406]

“I don’t remember owning a Firewire”

[@arhoades]

I still use FW 800, and sometimes even 400

[@rembramlastname3631]

@@arhoades Reported

[@arhoades]

@@rembramlastname3631 🤣

[@Arctic_silverstreak]

4:17 Ladies and gentlemen, we got it _X T R A T H I C C_ linus

[@PeterNjeim]

*W I D E P U T I N*

[@rainbowflash5937]

I want that pic for my own desktop background!

[@calussy8040]

I saw this in the preview yt gives u, and is the only reason that I actually went on this video

[@spiraldj]

I need a high res jpeg of this

[@Arctic_silverstreak]

Look into his Twitter with tweet about pcb and scroll down to the comment twitter.com/Davegills123/status/1367551792133775366?s=19 It's the slim shady version tho

[@jaumegarcia]

“but it’s not nearly as cool” Daniel The cooler Daniel

[@shittyspeedruner2541]

yes

[@samdaniel6053]

I'm daniel

[@itsbtunes]

Me who has no idea what Linus is talking about: -hmm, Interesting

[@monarchus1614]

Correct

[@calebkrauter4027]

Linus taps screen with I-fixit screwdriver. Us: "Nooooooooooo" Him: "And that's a perfect segue to our sponsor, I-fixit!"

[@puttitat2851]

Pc: "OO(F:)". Linus: Oo! Audience: Big OOF....

[@TheDoubleBee]

That drive says "OO (F:)", and it's nearly 7TB, so it's quite a big oof (queue Madison)

[@CatsMeow_]

7tb OO (F:)

[@BujuArena]

cue

[@Nael000]

almost nobody saw the oof

[@CatsMeow_]

@@Nael000 I think everyone except linus saw it.

[@thejumpingjew7917]

For some reason when linus said "yes my friends" i expected to hear "its here and we got one"

[@hyphennate]

Honestly as an IT professional, this is dope and very exciting. Hoping this gets adopted quickly throughout the entire industry

[@allen6778]

Director: A robot Writer: A robot Quality Control: My Landlady

[@3isr3g3n]

This is amazing!! This is going to make server builds so much more flexible if this were to take off!

[@KayJay01]

I can't wait to put this in my homelab in 10 years

[@levinkroenke8515]

I already love the compatability of sas and sata, I don't have any u.2/nvme drives in my homelab but in the future I see this being AWESOME! when it gets more affordable to homelabers like us.

[@splift23]

@@levinkroenke8515 the comparability of SAS and SATA is so fucking awesome! When I started my lab I was on a budget and was thankful I was able to reuse old SATA drives!

[@levinkroenke8515]

@@splift23 for me it was the opposite as I recently bought a dell PE1950 90CADand 8 1tb SAS drives for 80CAD, noone buys sas drives since they can't be used in desktops. But for testing and being able to use the same HBA is the awesome part.

[@splift23]

@@levinkroenke8515 if I could SAS drives for that cheap I'd be all over it! What are you using the 1950 for? When I bought my R720 I didn't realize it didn't have a PERC so I'm limited to 4 drives rn...

[@levinkroenke8515]

@@splift23 Another deal I found is 6 2tb drives for 150CAD. Iam using the server for a bunch of homelab stuff, minecraft server, nas, ftp server, docekr, plex, home assistant, VPN, I also have another old laptop running as a server with ocotprint 3d printer itnerface and a few othter things. I just cannabised the chassy a bit so I have the per running 4 sff drives in the front, and then added another LSI card to runt he 8 LFF drives mounted to a piece of wood. Does your server have any sata ports? mine only has 1 and no power other then for the backplane that had a few spare pins for me to atach cables from a dead power supply from. If your in ontario canada I can send you the link to those drives.

[@devilmikey00]

I don't even use this stuff and this all sounds like a massive convenience upgrade for people who do this for a living.

[@nillercraft2963]

Eyy you got a heart

[@tedboggs4569]

Just want to say thanks for covering data center topics as well as consumer ones. Both are interesting and helpful.

[@dkhemmen]

Fun fact: that's the exact oven they use for temperature testing

[@deejeh9494]

What the hell is this background music? I feel like I'm watching a Disney classic.

[@Si-Al-Ti]

Truly horrible

[@buh5995]

its the vacuum cleaner machine

[@uss_04]

iLinus, nerdy cousin of iCarly

[@ryant2568]

seeing Linus hot-swapping drives like that made me extremely uncomfortable.

[@joshuak4553]

Linus looking like he's about to pop a kickflip down a set of stairs

[@SMBBM92]

What did he say? I was listening to the Hallmark Christmas movie soundtrack.

[@JerryWoo96]

When the cpu becomes the bottleneck of the transfer speed. Drive to cpu: Look at me now, i am the boss.

[@JSG4361]

why is there a sims-sounding song in the background the whole time

[@KitOkunari]

because we live in a SIMulation

[@diamondminer81]

I feel like I'm in a magical forest but it's actually just a tycoon game

[@xivix6710]

0:01 thought for a second it was sponsored by Nokia

[@K-N-L]

Ikr I thought I was the only one who was thinking about the same thing lol

[@dan2800]

Yep

[@MrFoof82]

For those interested in putting these in RAID 10 in a workstation, Broadcom and Highpoint do make reasonably priced RAID controllers. Proper ones. As in, battery-backed caches, either PCIe 4.0 x8 or PCie 4.0 x16. Not hard to shove > 25GB/sec through them for reads, and > 10GB/sec of writes, with triple the endurance of M2.2280 form factors.

[@ricardotejada111]

Great music on this episode. Kudos to the editor.

[@sharpsdark1271]

Linus: "We can hotswap any drive." Me (and probably 3 other people) : Floppy drive?

[@VoxTox]

You're not alone, my friend)

[@Wolf480pl]

Last time I checked, the "bulkier but slower" storage was mostly 3.5" drives, because fitting more than 1TB of spinning rust in a 2.5" drive is kinda hard. So I think the split between 2.5" and 3.5" backplanes is here to stay.

[@PanduPoluan]

10:47 ... holy hell! You know what I thought of immediately hearing Linus's plan? ZFS Storage Array!!! The all NVME portion = ZFS Cache, and the all SAS portion = ZFS storage. U.3 is AWESOME. If I still am working with physical servers, I would push my company to acquire this.

[@danielhartridge1492]

Linus looking more like a mountain man every video

[@timmy7201]

0:58 - The USB into Firewire gave me flashbacks to my previous workplace, where a colleague rammed his USB keyboard into the gigabit nic of his computer. First he got angry his keyboard didn't work, then he kept nagging the USB port was way to 'tight', while forcing it into the wrong 'hole', repeatedly...

[@garethniles6152]

It’s really cool seeing a KZbinr I’m a fan of doing a video of a product made by the company I work for.

[@mr_moose4529]

I feel like a nerd watching these regularly but I'm quite sporty

[@ThorsShadow]

Yes, because we all know, that being a nerd and doing sports and/or taking care of oneself are mutually exclusive. /sarcasm

[@MrTokyoJunkie]

You know, I'm something of a nerd myself :)

[@aknife8336]

lmao i dont even know whats going on

[@pollutedmindmusic]

oh no dont let your ball-handling friends catch you liking computer things, surely your social status would be reduced

[@thisisaloadofbarnacles921]

Shut up man

[@P3d3r0s0]

I just wanted to see the image of Linus wearing himself 4:20 . Dont know what this video is about.

[@joker1859]

"me the average consumer..." Linus don't kid yourself

[@im_Polyhedrons]

7:05 I'm hoping that tiny pillow is a little cheaper than $70

[@TheGilBehar]

I think the title should have something about u.3 in it. If someone tries to find info about it this video would be much easier to find. Great presentation tho gotta love server vids.

[@k94pp]

When he went "Oo Ee" I went "Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing"

[@tobyborrett547]

I had an advert for Kioxia just before this video

[@fesyuki-kun2332]

5:59 looking cool, Linus

[@Bioniclema90]

Can't wait until I can build my gaming computer

[@doppiak2227]

I just want a rtx 3000

[@neostark1480]

How is this comment related to the video?

[@KultFyre]

@@doppiak2227 I just want a gt 600

[@KultFyre]

@@doppiak2227 I’m just trying to play Minecraft bro

[@stephenackerman5707]

U.2 does have some level of compatibility with NVMe and SAS/SATA in the same form factor. The Dell R6525 can do it if you order it with the NVMe/SAS/SATA backplane. It does, however, not use a unified controller chip like U.3, which seems to be the big difference. The NVMe routes directly to the CPU's PCIe lanes, and the SAS/SATA runs to a separate PERC RAID controller. Not all bays are capable of NVMe, only some of them, but I believe they can all do SAS/SATA. Some quick research says U.3 drives will work in U.2 servers, but U.2-compatible drives will not work in U.3 servers, because of how they changed the pin-outs on the connector.

[@brianm545]

The voice crack at the 2 minute mark was my favorite "slot"

[@cybercery5271]

I love watching things that I can't buy.

[@sagebias2251]

I enjoy buying them. But nobody will take my money.

[@TheUndeadslayer221]

Yes, Linus, you are "Putin"; Please stop farting in the studio when everyone is around you. Sheesh.

[@jcast25]

Yeah, that wasn't "OO" Linus, it was drive letter "F".......sooo.....big OOF there boyo.

[@xnama]

4:18 i love LTT Editors. ❤️

[@snowmansteve5011]

10:00 Not as huge as this segue to our sponsor, Private Internet Access!

[@chrisi9167]

OmG iM sO eArLy

[@chloefletcher9612]

I used to own a boutique cloud hosting company - we had racks of 1RU SuperMicro servers, in our datacentre. Imagine the noise, hey....

[@spatel1015]

Man s/o to the entire LTT team the quality of this video is insane, you can literally see the entire pcb gg guys!!

[@OnzaRob]

Being a It pro, this type of content just makes so happy.....inspire the new generation of IT pro's!

[@zector0]

Yes, more people need to learn how to abuse hardware just like Linus, so we "IT Pros" won't ever run out of work.

[@SteveCox1]

Looking forward to eventually getting 100TB+ 3.5" QLC U.3 drives

[@hunterchasens835]

You can take out one of the PCIe brackets and run the cables through an unused PCIe slot out the back. This way the chassis's cover can fit. I've done this with a few Poweredge servers. Running it through an empty PCIe slot, not only look better but will shut up the fans and let you keep the unit to 1U.

[@ifohancroft]

I know this is an older video, but hopefully someone sees this comment and can clarify something for me: So, if I am understanding this right, the idea is that you can get an existing server, plug Broadcom's GBA 9500-16i Tri-Mode Storage Adapter into the PCI-E slot, then connect it to the server's drive bay using cables, then if you get U.3 NVME 2.5" SSDs you can use the server with NVME SSDs even if by itself it is made to use SATA or SAS drives?

[@sandros94]

Love these mist lenses from the 50's that you are using to show that 12k sharpness /s

[@pepperthekobold]

Anyone know the background track running from 6:00 to 9:00?

[@trevorphillips4595]

8:30 Don't pull out, Linus! Go in all the way!

[@raphaelrtw]

That pillow catch was s m o o t h as hell.

[@nicwilson89]

Man, that was really weird seeing Linus with short hair and no beard...the added hair has definitely been an improvement ahaha

[@makispps]

Always appreciate tech lessons with Mr. Linus.

[@stefan6941]

Watching this in x2 speed forces me to focus in a way I have never focused before and it made me cry bcuz of the stress and pressure it puts me in

[@user_nosleep00]

that intro was amazing

[@javiej]

There is a misconception in this video. The U.3 Trimode is indeed faster. Not because the drive side but because the HBA side. The Broadcom 9500 is PCIe-4 rather than PCIe-3 (which was used in the 9400 for U.2), so in principle it can multiplex double amount of U.3 drives before dropping speed. You can't do this with U.2 drives because they are not compatible (cheap converters from U.2 to U.3 already exist, but the whole point is that you need U.3 for doing this)

[@stilldre7739]

when you showed the fire wire carnage I instinctively went to close the tab

[@BebopBob66]

Anyone else feel like a lot of the recent videos have been filmed with a soft focus/haze?

[@tallpaul9475]

00:58 ughhh, that crunchy noise

[@GrumpyTy34er]

0:58 "putting a USB into a firewire port" *Proceeds to shove a firewire connection into a USB port*

[@kumbaj1612]

wouldnt care less about servers but as a simple man i see linus i watch the entire video even the sponsor parts :)

[@funkiecrunch5475]

pressing 1 skips all the ads and straight to the content.. gg

[@planetdragon7261]

I have a Mini Server of Super Micro. Really nice!

[@GeneFJacket]

The amount of cat hair on Linus' shirt is making my allergies go apesh*t from 1600 miles away. Lint rollers, guys, please.

[@sgottoboni]

Introducing the vacuum cleaner.

[@matthewhafner962]

What's up with those credits? Director and Writer, A robot? Quality Control, My Landlady?

[@samishiikihaku]

I was waiting for one of those drives to go flying from Linus' hands in the opening. lol

[@Zauviir]

As someone who has used with many disk arrays over the years I'm looking forward to this

[@xentiment6581]

Nobody: Someone inventing a new standard: HMMM YES ITS *SASS*

[@aretard7995]

Serially Attached SCSI

[@randomtask1340]

Speed holes?? Maybe the ole' Flandersmobile could use some!

[@ZizzyDizzyMC]

U.2 also supports SAS, SATA and NVMe over the same connector.

[@Sausketo]

Dude im an electrician working on the new data centers in Sterling, VA, i wish i could see what kind of stuff they are using, i dont get to because that stuff all comes in after we finish :( it would be super cool to be in the meeting bidding the job out, and being like, did you see the linus tech tips video about yadayada?

[@Di3mondDud3]

I want to see u.3 replace sata 3 on consumer motherboards. Not so we can all use the weird drives. But to open up the field more without taking anything away.

[@jobankandola]

I love watching you videos even though I have no pc and cant afford one just seems interesting I don't know why also considering your Canadian eh and tim hortons is life

[@lenny108]

2:13 this administrator makes important points

[@lancec9621]

I audibly gasped watching you mangle those ports!

[@lancec9621]

Oh my god and then the editor decides to put in the extended cut 😱

[@bobgries901]

So, can we get some videos on the new 64Gb Fibre Channel HBAs announced recently? As soon as we get some SAN Storage that supports it, that is. I'd love to show the community how storage is done in the enterprise space.

[@dgreene38]

I really like the server content. It's sort of like the forbidden land I'll never get to visit.

[@VainSoftGames]

Awesome that one interface can support all those different drives. But do wonder what the price difference will be with this.

[@AcatGaming]

Scalpers: I’ll take your whole stock

[@michael7738]

At first I looked at those disks and asked myself who mounted a parallel-port on top of the S-ATA connector. :-D

[@MDiAngelo]

At this point.... Linus touching the card edges has to be a troll move

[@rohanverma1230]

Looking forward to water-cooled drives... With a little bit RGB

[@palvierflex4344]

When linus Said : in the “old” Days That cant be more then a month ago in LTT time right ?

[@JeffPrince77]

anyone else notice the big grey pube hanging out of the corner of the first drive at 0:17 into the video? GROSS BRO!

[@kb1qzh]

Guessing that's the same Broadcom hardware Jeff Gerling got for his Pi NAS

[@thebeatles9]

feel better soon