- Hey, what's good, guys?
Welcome back to TechSmartt, and I'm here with
basically the tech dad.
You guys know him as Linus Sebastian,
AKA Linus Tech Tips, and Linus had this crazy idea.
So, you might have seen, I mean,
you just tell them the idea.
- This wasn't my idea, this was your idea!
- Basically--
- You came to me, you're like,
oh Linus, I have no idea where we're gonna store
all of our video footage!
Whatever shall I do?
- So, I went to Linus and was like, hey,
I need a server because we're expanding a lot here.
Allegedly, this has 140 terabytes in it.
Is that right?
- Well, that's not actually in here now.
This is just an empty box.
- I haven't built anything ever,
so we're about to build a fat server.
Is this is a NAS or a RAID?
I'm a noob when it comes to this.
This is my first time.
- This is 140 terabytes of
precision manufactured electronics.
- That is the gas.
Whoa.
- Oh, you got 12s.
- You helped me set this up.
I don't even know.
This is the first time I've opened this box.
- No, Seagate hooked you the (censored) up.
So, that's 180 terabytes.
- So, just to give you guys a background,
I have never built anything technical.
The channel might be called TechSmartt,
but that is the complete opposite.
- I mean, the "smart" is with two Ts.
- Okay, how do I do this?
- You're holding it wrong again.
Okay, here hold my hand, right there, hold my hands.
I really do feel like you're tech dad.
Just stop, just stop, you're killing me.
No, don't move that hand!
So, they're rated for use altogether,
so even when they're vibrating next to each other,
that's cool, that's safe.
And, perhaps most importantly,
they have included data recovery service.
- Ooh, so if one of these fails, I mail it in,
and they'll help it out?
- And as long as it is recoverable,
they will do their best, within reason.
Have you been careful with this for the last few months?
'Cause they knew who they were sending it to.
"Handle with care please!!"
Two exclamation marks right there.
- Two Ts, two exclamation marks.
It makes sense!
Wow, 45 drives.
I only count 15.
What's up with that, Linus?
- Because their original enclosure
was all about 45 drives in a 4U chassis.
Now they have models with 15, 30, 60.
Take your time.
- Oh wait, do you want me to put the box back up,
you wanna put the box up?
- No, get out of the way!
Do you even have a screwdriver?
- Yes, of course.
Phillips, flathead, what do you need?
- Phillips.
- You see how quick that was?
- See how he doesn't know that
computers don't use flatheads?
He doesn't have one.
Do you have the screwdriver yet?
- [Keaton] No, do you need Phillips or flathead?
I forgot. - Phillips!
Whoever edits this, you gotta leave that in uncut
so people know just how short the period of time
in between me telling him what screwdriver he needs
and him forgetting what it was.
- All right, I got the flathead for you.
- So, first step is you're going to take off
those six screws.
Do you remember where they are?
- Come on, dad, don't embarrass me like this
in front of my audience, man.
- I don't think anyone could embarrass you
in front of your audience more than
you've embarrassed yourself in front of your audience.
- All right, let's open this up, tech quickie!
- So, just like a normal computer,
it's got a CPU, but it's a Xeon
instead of a Core i5 or a Core i7.
Basically the same damn thing, but more expensive.
Then you've got RAM.
- [Keaton] How much RAM is this and why don't we have
all of these filled up?
- This is eight gigs of RAM,
and the reason we don't have it all filled up is that
this is just a storage machine,
and it just doesn't really need it.
- And if it looks like I'm sweating,
I'm just nervous to be around dad.
I haven't seen him in a few years,
so it's a little toasty in here too.
- You're making me feel very uncomfortable.
This is the power supply,
so this supplies the power, okay?
- [Keaton] That's what it means, okay.
- Then right here, we've got an SSD.
We will probably not end up using this one.
I think you and I are probably gonna run down to Fry's.
This right here is just a USB drive.
Yeah, so this is actually gonna hold our operating system.
Like, you don't boot off a hard drive,
we're actually gonna boot up off this.
- [Keaton] What else we got in here that's new
or that I need to know?
- [Linus] These cables, and these cables,
and all these cables.
These are for the metric whackton of drives.
This is the Storinator AV15.
So, all your drives are gonna go
shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop,
all the way across here,
and this thing's gonna get real heavy real fast.
So, we're gonna have 180 terabytes of raw storage,
but, using unRAID, we actually lose
the capacity of one of them.
So we're gonna have 168 usable,
but what that means is that extra one
is doing what's called parity.
So, parity means that any one of these drives
can outright fail, burst into flames,
so you would actually not even notice.
You could have your machine running the whole time,
you could have all your stuff safely backed up
away from, you know, mother Google.
No monthly fees, no BS, no nothing.
Everything here belongs to you.
- So Linus, now that we've got
basically everything out of the box,
some stuff still in the box,
what do we do now?
- There's not actually a lot of assembly required,
so all we gotta do is take all those drives
and put 'em in here.
Do you guys have knives?
- We don't have those in the States.
That's a Canadian only product.
- We just have guns.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
Okay, so the way to tell how this goes in
is you've got the connector.
See, it's kinda off to the side.
- I'm so happy you came, Linus.
It makes me feel so good knowing I get the time
that we once had growing up, you know?
- Makes him feel so good knowing that I came.
So he's a pleaser.
That's good, that's how I brought you up.
- Who is the funniest out of everyone else in tech?
- Who's the funniest in tech?
Wow.
Tech people aren't really known for their funny.
- TechFunnyy over here, bro, with two Ys.
I don't know about that.
- You're not really in tech.
- Oh, can we get the fog horns going?
- Just stop, stop, you're killing me.
- Wow. - Look at that.
- This is really sweet.
So, you've done this before with MKVHD, iJustine,
maybe there's some others. - Yep, Austin.
- Austin too.
- No, Austine one, the first Austin.
- All right, dad, so what is next?
- So now all we gotta do is connect it to your network,
so we need your network switch.
- So yeah, what is that?
- Just stop, stop, you're killing me.
- All right, our network switch is way over there,
so we're gonna head to Fry's,
which is gonna be so awesome,
and go grab a really long cable.
So, cat six. - Yeah, sure.
- I don't know, we getting, like, a Siamese cable?
What kind of cat?
- You can pick whatever color you want.
- It's adoption.
I wanna get black and yellow,
black and yellow, black and yellow.
You know Whiz Kalifa, that name ring a bell?
I love it.
- It's funny, 'cause I think you're an idiot
when it comes to tech,
and then you think I'm an idiot
when it comes to, like, anything cool.
- Stuff that's pop culture, cool.
I'm the definition of cool.
This is the aisle I've never been down,
'cause I get always so scared and self-conscious
that daddy's gonna hit me if I buy the wrong thing.
I'm the definition of cool.
- So, you still are gonna need cache drives,
but they don't have to be as big.
- I'm broke though, bro, I can't afford the cache.
- Yes you can.
So, they don't need to be as big,
because what the cache drive does do
is it lets you copy files onto it a lot faster.
So the cache lets you write to it fast,
and then it sits on the cache, and then overnight,
it'll flush it to the hard drives.
What this is is this has eight gigabyte ports
and two 10 gig ports.
So what this would allow you to do
is have an ingest station that has a fast link to the NAS.
So, when you're copying things over,
you can copy at 200, 300 megabytes a second.
Marquez didn't do this and emailed me the other week
and was like, hey, so I'm--
- When you're in town.
- I think I probably should've done the SSDs.
- Thank you, Marquez, I'm not making that mistake.
- What I'd really like to do is go with 860 pros,
and we need two.
(upbeat jazzy music)
Wanna do a haul video?
- Let's do a haul! - We'll do a haul!
So, we got--
- Don't dump it out on this.
- Okay, so we got our 10 gig switch.
- A little more emotion and excitement.
Hold it up to the camera, do the hand.
The cameras have a hard time focusing.
They have to do it with their hand
so it grabs the focus.
They're like, so this brush here looks really nice.
- Another ethernet cable.
That's your girl voice?
And then we got a couple one terabyte SSDs
that we're gonna use for a data cache.
- We also lost the screws.
- They've gotta be somewhere.
We probably have it on camera where we put them.
- Can someone just, you know what,
let's just stop it and we'll go back and we'll find them.
I feel like I'm in NASCAR right now
doing a pit stop change.
- Do you have a knife?
That's a tough sticker.
- Screwdriver.
- Okay, well, I mean, if you were gonna open it like that,
I could've done that.
Fine, you know, I mean, why even?
There.
Okay, so I'm gonna hold this for you.
Take out one of these screws.
So, we're doing a little trick where SSDs
have no moving parts, so they don't
really need to be held in that well,
so we're taking the screws from one
and we're using it for two.
- Someone at home is gonna try to build their own NAS
and it's gonna catch on fire,
just because of this one thing.
- Your ratchet is going the wrong way.
Are you not noticing that this is a ratcheting screwdriver?
- See, ratchet in my generation, Linus,
that means a whole different thing.
- Do you need me to show you how to use it?
- Maybe.
- So now, we're gonna take out the other HP1.
- [Keaton] Yeah, I wanna do the second clip.
You know me, I wanna do it,
I wanna feel like I'm contributing.
- [Linus] Here's our data cable.
I'll let you do the other one.
Are you sure you're putting it on the right way?
- I am a little scared, not gonna lie.
- There's an L shape.
- Yeah, right there
- I still can't see what you're doing,
so I'm just worried.
- You gotta trust me, dad.
It's been 21 years.
Oh, I don't wanna disappoint you and mom, no, no!
- It's a really fragile connector.
You shouldn't need to wiggle it.
- Do it for your country, do it for your country!
All right, I tried.
- Can I see?
- Oh, did it with one hand.
Do you wanna close your eyes too on this next one?
- I could.
Our cache is installed!
- Nice!
- We got that cache.
You can say that, right?
That's what the kids say?
Open that.
- Sweet!
You're making this so hard.
- I didn't know you were that into tech.
- Whoa!
Dude, I'm just fiending for the gear.
- So we gotta go put this next to your wireless router
and plug it into the wall.
And also, you need to plug this
into one of the network ports on the wireless router.
So guess what you get to do now?
- Call the number and say we need help?
- No, you get to turn it on.
- Here goes the switch, Ev.
You ready, you cutting this?
You getting this?
Big moment, big moment.
- Big moment, you gotta press the power button.
- I hit the power button back here.
- Yeah, that's for the power supply.
- See, this is why I need the help.
- You turned it off.
No, you turned the power supply off.
It was on out of the box.
- Bro, no it's not, now it says it's on.
- Oh, it's not plugged in.
- Oh!
- So, who's editing this?
How much do I have to pay you under the table
to make sure that all the embarrassing stuff-
- [Keaton] Oh, it's gonna be in there.
- [Linus] Makes it in?
- It's on 'cause I plugged it in,
and that would mean it's on,
'cause I plugged it in.
(laughing)
Do you see a green light on the motherboard?
It's on.
There's a blue light.
(clicking)
(humming)
Oh!
- All right, so I'm on the same network,
so theoretically, all I have to do
is type in http://tower.
- Amazing!
- So that is unRAID Server Pro.
- This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time,
because I've never really ventured down
the technical path of tech.
Okay, so what are you tweaking?
- Okay, this setting right here
lets you decide between higher performance
with more wear on your drives,
or lower performance with lower power consumption
and less wear on your drives.
- If I choose the option where it's more stress
and also higher performance,
is that gonna compromise, I mean--
- It's probably fine.
So you want the higher performance one?
- Yeah.
- Okay, this is really important.
What do you wanna call it?
I'm thinking Tower?
- Call it NAS.
We got some pop culture work to work out with--
- We have nothing in common, you and I.
- Linus, I paid you to be here,
I paid you to be here, just take the money.
- No you didn't, you didn't pay nothing!
We've got two parity drives,
we've got 13 storage drives,
we've got two cache drives,
and we're ready to click start.
You wanna do the honors?
Can you find the click on a PC?
- I don't think I'm ready, let's just power it down.
All right, here we go, the big moment.
- All right, give it a minute.
It's gotta spin all this stuff up.
- Well, here's the thing, so did you know
solid state drives, they don't have anything to spin?
(slapping)
- He hits me so much.
This yellow thing here, parity is invalid,
that's because it actually needs
to build that data set.
- So it's just checking, it doesn't need any data
from me or any media?
- No, in fact, you could even use it right now.
Okay, so you can see right here,
we have unmountable disks.
- [Keaton] All of them, they're firing up.
- Yeah, we gotta format them.
It'll actually take a couple days,
because you have so much storage.
156 usable terabytes is what we ended up with
after some formatting.
- Yeah, two parities.
- Two parity drives.
Now we got a bunch of raw storage sitting here,
accessible over the network.
Next stage is we gotta create some shares.
So basically, what I'm setting up right now
is so that all of your stuff
that doesn't have to be high performance
is just going straight to the hard drives
and not even bothering your SSDs.
And then we could find some file.
Let's go see what Linus has downloaded lately.
Here's an OPPO Find X first look.
- [Keaton] So just straight dragging it
from anywhere on the laptop.
- [Linus] And now we are playing that off the NAS right now.
For some reason it's derping.
There we go.
- And to the NAS's credit, it just was built
and it's still building itself.
- So that's it.
- What, we're done?
Fun time's over?
- That's it.
- I never knew what all this was.
This is my first time, honestly, building anything.
Well, we're gonna put this back together,
but thank you so much, Linus, Seagate, unRAID, as well as--
- [Both] 45 Drives.
- So, that's it for this video.
Make sure you check out the video we did
on Linus's channel in the description, that room tour.
They ain't ready for it!
And you can check out more of Linus's stuff,
link down below, like social media, his favorite.
All right guys, see you later.