A $20,000 Server for some Twitch Streamers?? N3RDFUSION Visit

[LinusTech]

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45Drives Storinator (customized for eATX motherboard)

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Intel Xeon E5 2697 V4

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Supermicro X10DRi-T Motherboard

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Noctua NH-D9L

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What on Earth could a bunch of Minecraft players need a massive server machine for??

 

Edited September 25, 2016 by Godlygamer23
Corrected dollar amount in title.

[79wjd]

$10k, that's still less than how much my dream server would cost....alas, who has $15k to blow on a server. 

[2FA]

9 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

$10k, that's how much my dream server would cost....alas, who has $10k to blow on a server. 

N3RDFUSION

 

[LinusTech]

12 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

$10k, that's still less than how much my dream server would cost....alas, who has $15k to blow on a server. 

 

Added up wrong the first time. It's more like $20k

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

 

Added up wrong the first time. It's more like $20k

Well, since $10k is so irrelevant you miscounted, would you mind sending me $10k? I'd like to convert my server to full SSD storage with 10 4tb 850 Evos.

[Zodiark1593]

Linus certified and approved servers for gamers and enthusiasts. Comes with a free 2 year warranty. If something breaks (reliability yet to be established), Linus will come onsite and fix it himself, along with making a video about it later which will then be posted two months after the fact.

 

btw, care to set me up a computer that can run Windows, Linux, and Mac OS simultaneously? Please and thank you.

[Mark77]

Neat build.  Didn't like seeing the on-screen personalities be so careless in lifting heavy equipment.  Can mess one's back up or do some serious injury to one's toes up pretty bad that way.  Nevermind the danger to the hardware.

 

Would be neat to see what sort of loads that machine actually sees at run-time, and how that benchmarks compared to "bare metal".  Virtualized environments aren't always the best for very CPU intensive loads as there's context switching overhead which can be considerable.

 

Maybe you guys can do a video on that sometime.  Compare running, say, Prime95 and the whole pile of other benchmarks in a VM instance of Windows, versus Prime95 on the actual bare metal hardware. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

And apparently nobody could afford a 1$ calculator.

10,000 =/= 20,000

[flopex]

If I understood correctly, you will have a VM in standby that will only be used when the yearly backup is needed?

 

What about removing this VM and reallocating the resources to the others, replacing this with a Dockerfile that installs all the necessary tools to run this backup. It'll only run when needed such as main server running out of space or scheduled yearly. Not sure if unRaid can do triggers of this sort but wrapping this Dockerfile in a Makefile and scheduling a cron or via a manual run would work as well. Jenkins is a good system for scheduling/triggering jobs but that's probably too big of a setup for just one job.

 

Overall good setup you have with unRaid though switching everything(or most) to a docker based structure would greatly improve performance and could also easily allow for source-controlling any changes you make to each system.

[Guest]

5 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Well, since $10k is so irrelevant you miscounted, would you mind sending me $10k? I'd like to convert my server to full SSD storage with 10 4tb 850 Evos.

Terrible idea to use Evo's - most raid controllers hate them. Not to mention 2012 R2 won't even acknowledge them.

[79wjd]

2 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

Terrible idea to use Evo's - most raid controllers hate them. Not to mention 2012 R2 won't even acknowledge them.

I'm running FreeNAS, so neither of those should be much of an issue. The problem is that supposedly FreeNAS doesn't necessarily work well with SSDs.

 

But, if you'd like to spot me $20k~ to go with an alternative, feel free

[Questargon]

@LinusTech Regarding the backup plan N3RDFUSION has with using a "cold storage" on tape. Does LMG have something similar or are you just relying on your 100TB storage server at the moment? At the rate you're pumping out content these 100TB will run out eventually ... somewhere in the next 10 years or so i guess. I think Linus mentioned something of an offsite storage in one of the server-build-videos when you moved to the new office?

[Bsmith]

I would like to say that the current name of this topic suggests a $10,000 storage server, while youtube mentions in the name and preface a $20,000 server.

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

I really want to know why they need to keep several tens of terabytes of past streams, maybe some big events sure but even as a viewer I don't care about month old streams, archiving it kind of defeats the whole purpose them. Also I am not entirely sure what nerdfusion is because all that was told in the video was a couple guys streaming minecraft  (which of course I know that is not it) which defeats the purpose of showing how much Linus learned as most viewers will be like "WTF 9000 core 100TB storage for MINECRAFTT??", I am sure Mr Tech TIps has some reason to justify this seemingly overkill server better but I feel the uses should have been better explained in the video because as of now with secondary research I still have to assume all of their  streamers use their building to stream simultaneously or something.

[Yummychickenblue]

So the way I understand this is that LMG just kinda gave N3RDFUSION this server, at no cost to N3RDFUSION? It was a gift? This doesn't make a lot of sense from a business perspective. N3RDFUSION's audience is a an audience of people who like watching game livestreams, not technology videos, so there's not a lot of cross promotion to be done. Besides anybody from N3RDFUSION's fanbase who'd be interested in this stuff is probalby already subscirbed. This build wasn't sponsored either so this seems like it's a lot of very expensive hardware to just give away.

[Danielh90]

@LinusTech What vm software are they using on the server? to run all of those vms

[evilarceus]

9 minutes ago, Danielh90 said:

@LinusTech What vm software are they using on the server? to run all of those vms

They use unRAID:

https://lime-technology.com/

[Danielh90]

5 minutes ago, evilarceus said:

They use unRAID:

https://lime-technology.com/

Thank you.