Linus builds a storage server for the slow mo guys

[williamcll]

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[TechyBen]

"How much storage do you need"

"About 150tb"

Linus:

[mariushm]

Linus doesn't build anything in this video.

He just opens a box from 45 drives and lets the other guy shove some drives in it.

 

Pointless video and pointless hardware for this guy's need. Very poor choice for what he does - too much space for the data density, too high power consumption (power used by mb,cpu, ram etc 24/7).. it gets filled in 3-5 months and then consumes power 24/7 and takes up several Us of rack space.

He needed those 45 drives systems or something similar.

 

At least he got some hardware sponsored / on discount or something out of it.

 

You can basically buy a norco case with 24 front drives for 500$ : https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811219038

At least he gets 24x 10-16 TB of raw capacity from the start.

Then buy a bunch of Noctua 80mm industrial fans to replace existing ones add mb, cpu, ram and 4 x 30-50$ 8 port HBA cards and unraid and you're done.

 

Linus actually has the machines now to make cases... he could get for example the designs for the BackBlaze storage pod cases, see here : https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/

Can make a case to hold 60 drives. It's a tiny bit longer than a regular server rack it would still fit if you remove the doors or leave some room in the back.

 

[williamcll]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

Linus doesn't build anything in this video.

He just opens a box from 45 drives and lets the other guy shove some drives in it.

 

Pointless video and pointless hardware for this guy's need. Very poor choice for what he does - too much space for the data density, too high power consumption (power used by mb,cpu, ram etc 24/7).. it gets filled in 3-5 months and then consumes power 24/7 and takes up several Us of rack space.

He needed those 45 drives systems or something similar.

 

At least he got some hardware sponsored / on discount or something out of it.

 

You can basically buy a norco case with 24 front drives for 500$ : https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811219038

At least he gets 24x 10-16 TB of raw capacity from the start.

Then buy a bunch of Noctua 80mm industrial fans to replace existing ones add mb, cpu, ram and 4 x 30-50$ 8 port HBA cards and unraid and you're done.

 

Linus actually has the machines now to make cases... he could get for example the designs for the BackBlaze storage pod cases, see here : https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/

Can make a case to hold 60 drives. It's a tiny bit longer than a regular server rack it would still fit if you remove the doors or leave some room in the back.

 

Yeah but norco never sponsored LTT.

[TechyBen]

Tape drive might actually be worth it for them for archive.

[jiyeon]

Giving the Slow Mo Guys 130TB of data is like giving me 40GB of data, I'm gonna use it up in like a week. Was wondering why Linus (and by extension 45Drives?) gave Gavin a 130TB server when clearly Gavin needed more.

[Windows7ge]

My favorite part: 15:40

[Guest]

Linus: Not my video, time for jokes I couldn't say on my channel.

Love it.

[mikeyw64]

I'm just wondering how much it was to ship it back to this side of the pond

[Derkoli]

1 hour ago, sowon said:

Giving the Slow Mo Guys 130TB of data is like giving me 40GB of data, I'm gonna use it up in like a week. Was wondering why Linus (and by extension 45Drives?) gave Gavin a 130TB server when clearly Gavin needed more.

True, Those phantom camera's spit out data at a stupid rate.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, sowon said:

Giving the Slow Mo Guys 130TB of data is like giving me 40GB of data, I'm gonna use it up in like a week. Was wondering why Linus (and by extension 45Drives?) gave Gavin a 130TB server when clearly Gavin needed more.

Because Gavin didn't tell Linus how much capacity he needed. It was in the video.

[mariushm]

Yeah right, and Linus is a moron who doesn't know how much data a Youtuber uses and they didn't have 4-6 months to set up the video (says so in the video).

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, mariushm said:

Yeah right, and Linus is a moron who doesn't know how much data a Youtuber uses and they didn't have 4-6 months to set up the video (says so in the video).

Pot, meet kettle. Btw, you're black.

[TempestCatto]

1 hour ago, mikeyw64 said:

I'm just wondering how much it was to ship it back to this side of the pond

What? Gav lives in Austin, Texas USA. LMG is located in/near Vancouver, BC so no large body of water inbetwixt them.

 

What Linus should do is build Gav a Yottabyte stack of servers instead. That might give the Slow Mo Guys a few years or more.

[mikeyw64]

My bad

[Arika]

goddamn that is a lot of external drives.

 

Phantom cameras will never cease to amaze me at just how much space they will happily eat