Nailzy

Also youtube guide for you - skip to 8:42
 
 

As a technical architect that's been in the game for 12 years now - I agree that some of the info / guidance / idea's are way off with the enterprise / server video content ideas - but I still heavily enjoy watching them without getting stressed out. They are still entertaining none the less and I don't find Linus's attitude poor at all. All I would say is probably chuck a big bold disclaimer on these vids to say to viewers "come to the forums for advice before committing to any ideas / inspiration!"

So basically we're gonna go with
a) stop the clickbait titles
and 
b) be VERY clear that this is not necessarily a solution for anyone, and is merely a fun hypothetical
 
^these are good solutions. well done @Oshino Shinobu and @Nailzy

This is the only list I can find with any specific criticisms, so I guess I'll pick it out of the pack.
 
1. This is the kind of leaping to conclusions that makes me just not feel like responding to these "holier than thou" posts.. but I'll do it anyway. The power plugs for those UPSes are hardwired, and while I am perfectly capable of buying a duplex receptacle at Home Depot and swapping it out, it's a little outside my comfort zone since I've only done it a couple of times, and an adapter was a faster/cheaper option than bringing in an electrician in this case. Not only that, but as any server power expert would know, my servers - each hooked up to an individual UPS for longer run time - only draw about 250-550W under full load.. That's hardly going to be a problem for the adapter.
 
2. I guess you're right. We should just use USB hard drives connected to the editing stations.. or..? Most of the "advice" we've gotten about this stuff has been completely irrelevant because of costs (If I had a dollar for everyone who told us to do our backups to the cloud, maybe I could afford it) or technical reasons, and while we did have the scare with Whonnock - the timing of which was extremely unfortunate because I had a full system backup about 30% done when the RAID card crapped itself. We've grown extremely quickly over the last few years, and a solution that works great one day stops working as well the next. Not only that, but we didn't have any money and basically had to use whatever we could find lying around or that a sponsor would provide in the past. We're only now getting to the point where we can afford to do things "properly" with a multi-terabyte offsite backup.
 
3. Hard to address "I won't even touch".. but I'll try. Whole Room was always structured as a highly experimental vlog rather than a guide, and we ended up discovering and explaining the issues that prevented it from working correctly well enough that the only person (to my knowledge) who has ever tried to create anything similar managed to it successfully. Mission accomplished, I guess. As for the Mineral Oil PC, I can't really imagine what the issue is there.. We literally used a kit. 
 
4. More assumptions. This time about why the motherboards were dying. I can tell you it has nothing to do with what most people think was killing them. Seems to have been related to incorrect mounting pressure (for some reason) on the CPU cooler I was using. Has nothing to do with cutting a small piece of plastic off the speakers (seriously.. can't believe how many people thought that was an issue) or cutting the CPU cooler's backplate (this was covered with 2 layers of electrician's tape to prevent shorting - and it wasn't penetrated, which I can easily check after the fact).
 
And to address "the clickbait titles". Yes, we're using titles that are more clickable, but they are not inaccurate. 10x your network speed is exactly what that video shows you how to do. I even address that "network" =/= "Internet" in the first minute of the video. So.........
 
Yes, we're not perfect. I'd love to do longer videos with a deeper explanation of why I'm doing exactly what I'm doing, but frankly there are LOTS of boring technical videos out there of a bearded white dude explaining some capacitor or whatever. If that's what you want, you don't need to get it from me. 
 
 I know we make mistakes sometimes, but we don't hide them, and we work to fix them. The 10x network speed, which I'm taking a lot of heat for in this thread is actually a great example of this. I gave Johny shit for being sloppy when I had explicitly asked him multiple times to make sure he was following the best practices for IP assignments and we got both Vessel and YouTube versions fixed.
 
This'll be my final word on this cuz I've got other stuff to do today. 

Whole drives. No noticeable performance impact for me, and I've rebuilt all my systems to Windows 10 1511 which allows for XTS-AES 256 bit encryption. Unless someone has the recovery keys, I'd be confident that it's strong enough that if my house got broken into, no-one would get at my data.