Behind this door is my dream desk or can I say my dream office?
Because after all we are working with multiple people in here, so let's check it out.
Welcome to my crib guys.
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Now before we start guys I want to give a huge shout out to Synology in this video.
Over the past months they have been helping us tremendously.
As you can see we work on Synology servers and we wanted to upgrade and that's where they helped us.
Also, we've been working on a brand new class about editing in teams for Premiere Pro.
And also there they have been working very close together with us
to provide accurate information about infrastructure for editing in teams.
And that is basically the heart of the office and we're gonna talk more about that by the end of the video.
For now, you can already check the first link in the description down below for more information.
But now let's start talking about the desk itself and how I've built it.
Basically it's an entire custom build desk and the skeleton of it consists out of these steel pipes right here.
It's basically attached to the wall and so we have this floating desk.
Of course, it is been supported by these Ikea drawers and they're pretty strong apparently
because so far we didn't have any issues yet.
And I can actually stand on this desk, which is pretty awesome.
Now on that steel skeleton, we have these wooden panels right here.
Now, this is full oak and it's pretty strong and
I've chosen for a bright color because I just like to work more in a bright environment.
But the coolest thing of the entire desk is probably this middle column right here.
It's the cable management box.
So let's do an unboxing.
So as you can see guys the desk is pretty strong because I can just stand on it.
Anyways this right here is my aluminum box full of cables.
Lots of cables. That's right
So for every person we have all of the mouse,
the keyboard the monitors all of those cables going into this cable management box
as well as several usb cables that i've pulled towards these connections right here in the front.
So that way we don't have to run to our computer to attach some peripherals to it.
Also, we have an audio jack for the headphones.
So we got everything we need right here, but then where are the computers?
Well,
they are behind me.
Here they are guys the four computers they are tucked away underneath the desk all the way here to the wall.
That way we have more space to sit.
Uh, so basically we don't need to worry at all about these computers in the morning.
We just turn them on and that's it.
Because all the cables from that cable management box.
They all come together here and I've bundled, uh the cables for every computer together.
And so we can easily detach them and still have the cables together if we need to work on these computers.
And so you're probably thinking now:
"Jordy, what's inside one of these things?"
Well, let's check it out. Let's detach one of these.
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The computers here are also custom built all four of them in the office are exactly the same.
Some noticeable components are the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti
Then we've got an intel I9 processor a 12 core running at a 3.5 GHz base clock
so they are pretty powerful and last but not least
64 gigs of ram memory.
Pretty badass.
Now guys, these are actually super computers.
That's right, because the way that they are set up is that they can crash at any given moment.
We can just reinstall windows without losing our files
What?
I know right that is because they are all connected to our Synology NAS.
That's right. This here is the heart of the entire office.
Basically , all the computers are connected to this switch right here
as well as our three Synology NASs that we have.
And so we can all access them through the network.
Now what's so amazing about uh, the synology nas is you can see over there we got a bunch of bays.
And in there we have hard drives.
They are configured in a RAID so that means that one or two hard drives can actually fail.
They can completely crash.
And we can just very simply swap the drives and Synology will rebuild all of your data.
And so you won't lose anything.
So having that redundancy is amazing
So even if you're working alone a NAS already has much benefits for you.
You don't have to buy a big one like these there are many models and I would just go to the Synology website.
They have a NAS selector which helps you find the NAS that suits your needs.
Now,
if you look on the back of the nest, you'll see that there's no monitor connection or anything of that.
So how do we access the synology NAS?
Well, it is connected to the network.
So every computer can access the operating system of the NAS through the web browser.
And from there you'll see that we have different functionalities.
We can give different permissions to everyone who's editing from or to it.
But also we can install different applications with different functionalities.
You know just for example:
We have this security camera outside and so I have the security camera application installed.
All of the footage is being stored on the local Synology nas right here, and I can just watch that, view that
on my tablet right here.
Even from home anywhere where I am.
Now some of you might think you're editing to a server over the network.
Isn't that like super slow? Well ...
Yes, you know if you purchase a router or a new computer
you have to insert this cable right here into your ethernet port.
It not only gives you internet but also access to other devices.
And that has a speed of one gigabit per second, which
kind of works if you're editing alone, but if you're working with multiple people it might get super slow.
So that is why we have adapted our network to support 10 gigabit speeds, which is 10 times faster.
Basically, what we've done is we have inserted a 10 gigabit network card into our Synology NAS
which is perfectly possible.
Some of the NASs also come with a built-in 10 gigabit port
so you can just find all that information on the website.
Then we have to adapt all of our cables, these are not normal ethernet cables.
These are cat 6a cables which supports those speeds and as well as the computer itself.
We had to install a 10 gigabit network card in there.
So once you have all of those things set up, then you can just plug it in and enjoy 10 gigabit speed.
But what is that exactly?
Well, let's take it to the test.
So what I've got right here are a bunch of Red RAW files and they're all stored on the big boy NAS over there.
And I'm now just going to drag them all over to the local computer
and let's check out the speed that we get from here.
As you can see we are at around 1 gigabytes per second.
Now that is just blazing fast guys.
And really I challenge you do try this at home. You'll never get these speeds.
I'm, sorry guys, you know you actually can if you take my class on Skillshare
you learn all about the details on how to set up a proper network
to get these speeds as well as how to set up your Synology NAS
and also a bunch of workflow tips inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
And you know, this class isn't only for those who work in teams.
Also, if you are like a professional editor or you are a freelancer
you'll also gain lots of information from there
because I can highly recommend one of these NASs for basically anyone who takes their job serious.
It's giving you blazing fast speeds,
you get a redundancy and you get a ton of more functionality from it.
So do make sure to check it all out links in the description donw below.
And that guys is my dream desk.
If you have any more questions about the build of it, about the computers that we use or the Synology NAS
Let me know in the comments down below.
Hey jordy, can you stop yapping? I want to start working again.
Stay creative guys.
So this right here is the Copycat team guys.
Uh Yannick is back as you can see
and these guys are super happy with place mats that they use on their table.
Look how happy they are. Ah, they're so special.