I ( well Snazzy Labs not me) Built a HUGE 336TB Server Without Linus Tech Tips!

Uttamattamakin · May 11, 2019

Snazzy labs seems to be sending up some of LTT's videos with this video from the thumbnail onward.

The long and the short of it is that they have so much video they have to have a purpose built server for it. All server grade hardware. Basically built around an older HP proliant and mounted in one of those ... rolling office space looking desk side server things (don't know the technical word.)

The most interesting part to me. Is that his server has to many spinning HDD's that in theory it will saturate his network connection. So no SSD needed.

His thumbnail mug looks like a berserk viking. (If it wasn't clear enough I am not in any way affiliated with Snazzy labs I just noticed their video.)

TheSLSAMG · May 11, 2019

Cool to see Wendell help him out with setup (I swear Wendell is YouTube's tech wizard at this point) and Seagate providing the drives. The title and thumbnail are definitely a fun jab at Linus as well.

@SnazzyLabs The clip from one of your old iPhone case reviews was a huge throwback lol. I remember coming home from high school just to watch your videos before you went on the mission to Bolivia. Those were the days

Firewrath9 · May 11, 2019

336/14 = 24 drives

you could do that easily with a couple SAS cards, and a 4U storage rack

mariushm · May 11, 2019

meh...a threadripper board with an 8 core threadripper and a ton of ddr4 ecc ...

8 port cards are 80$ each ... lsi logic hba ... so shove 5-6 such cards in the pci-e slots and you have 40-48 sata ports , plus the sata ports on mb plus m.2

or spend ~1000$ for a 40 port highpoint rocket 750 plus cables

did they really need a 48 port 10gbps switch for ~ 500$? doubt it...

Uttamattamakin · May 11, 2019

10 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

Cool to see Wendell help him out with setup (I swear Wendell is YouTube's tech wizard at this point) and Seagate providing the drives. The title and thumbnail are definitely a fun jab at Linus as well.

Linus just looks more .... non threatening yet not unmanly in his. Ya know.

8 minutes ago, mariushm said:

meh...a threadripper board with an 8 core threadripper and a ton of ddr4 ecc ...

8 port cards are 80$ each ... lsi logic hba ... so shove 5-6 such cards in the pci-e slots and you have 40-48 sata ports , plus the sata ports on mb plus m.2

or spend ~1000$ for a 40 port highpoint rocket 750 plus cables

did they really need a 48 port 10gbps switch for ~ 500$? doubt it...

Maybe SnazzyLabs is looking to expand in future. It does mean they could directly network that server with any number of computers they'll ever possibly have. You know "future proof".