Unboxing 3 PETABYTES of storage!!

[Video Beagle]

Hey @LinusTech  .. inspired by you, I am setting up my own storage NAS, so if you want to get rid of 4 of those lowest tier drives (of 5 so I have a replacement), I'd be happy to take them off your hand  It'd be a jump of 12tb to 48tb, but I'm willing to do that to help you out!

 

My Youtube channel hit 1000 subs right about when you hit 10mil, so it's like destiny!

[Tieox]

I'd have paid money for Linus to knock the drives in that pyramid he built. 

 

I know we where all thinking something along those lines when that shot came up. 

[greenmax]

2 hours ago, Kierax said:

I'd have paid money for Linus to knock the drives in that pyramid he built. 

 

I know we where all thinking something along those lines when that shot came up. 

I was thinking its not real, and just a photoshop picture.

[Dredgy]

7 hours ago, RastaGrzywa said:

Linus, maybe You should consider tape drives for long term (archive) storage system?

Can’t work off tape though.

[RejZoR]

6 hours ago, sub68 said:

wait each exos drive is 400 bucks

also each ssd is 1000 dollars 

Well, Linus kept saying "Seagate gave us", not "Seagate sold us/we bought from Seagate". So it's easier if manufacturer hands you over a fuck ton of drives opposed to buying fuck ton of drives.

 

Coz no one who's building a massive storage server like this goes like "Nah, we'll just toss in some Ironwolves, ups they are for NAS, then we'll toss in some Exos. Oh and while we're at it, we're gonna toss in some SSD's for the lolz". No one does that. When you buy something this huge and this expensive you damn well research and plan the thing. Which didn't seem to be the case here. For Seagate it's a drop in the ocean as far as expenses go even for so many drives, but it's a nice promotion for them. So I guess it's win for both, promotion for Seagate and Linus will keep it to work on his future videos.

[Spotty]

14 hours ago, Alex Chipman said:

I wish I could have Linus help Me with setting up a NAS.  My present NAS is a drobo i800 that gets read speeds of 250kbps and write speeds of 150kbps and when all 8 bays are full with 4tb hdds I only get 500GB useable space!

We do have a sub-forum dedicated to Servers & NAS, if you make a thread there I'm sure someone will be able to help you.

https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/84-servers-and-nas/

[ahuckphin]

It's amazing that Segate sends Linus Media Group this many drives.

 

[Sacredsock]

i know it's tricky to talk cost as it becomes time sensitive. but how much does that thing weigh now it is fully populated?

[RejZoR]

9 hours ago, bindydad123 said:

It's amazing that Segate sends Linus Media Group this many drives.

 

Seagate is a huge company. Sending Linus this many drives is nothing for them. I mean, sure it's an expense, but the exposure they got from LTT video was probably worth it. Plus it was a really unusual goofy project which might resonate different and be more "clickbait" if you want than if a big data storage company did their usual storage rack upgrade with some Seagate drives. Linus ain't Instagram "celebrity" with 10k followers, he has a pretty big following and companies know that and it seems to pay off sponsoring things like this.

[Required]

Sure when Money dont play a roll...

Thats my Dealer Price (with Tax) so everyone can calculate what a 3BP cost for us normal people.

			
ST2000NE0025	8719706002585	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 2TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 128MB cache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS und RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 100,31
ST4000NE001	8719706009881	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 4TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 128MB cache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS und RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 171,95
ST6000NE000	8719706006026	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 6TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 256MB cache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS und RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 233,51
ST8000NE001	8719706009867	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 8TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 128MB cache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS u. RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 281,15
ST10000NE0008	0763649121795	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 10TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 256MB cache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS u. RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 350,15
ST12000NE0008	0763649121788	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 12TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 128MB cache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS u. RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 414,11
ST14000NE0008	8719706004374	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 14TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 256MBcache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS und RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 496,55
ST16000NE000	8719706008730	SEAGATE Ironwolf PRO Enterprise NAS HDD 16TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s SATA 256MBcache 8,9cm 3,5Zoll 24x7 für NAS und RAID Rackmount Systeme BLK	€ 547,31

 

[sub68]

On 2/21/2020 at 1:52 AM, RejZoR said:

Well, Linus kept saying "Seagate gave us", not "Seagate sold us/we bought from Seagate". So it's easier if manufacturer hands you over a fuck ton of drives opposed to buying fuck ton of drives.

 

Coz no one who's building a massive storage server like this goes like "Nah, we'll just toss in some Ironwolves, ups they are for NAS, then we'll toss in some Exos. Oh and while we're at it, we're gonna toss in some SSD's for the lolz". No one does that. When you buy something this huge and this expensive you damn well research and plan the thing. Which didn't seem to be the case here. For Seagate it's a drop in the ocean as far as expenses go even for so many drives, but it's a nice promotion for them. So I guess it's win for both, promotion for Seagate and Linus will keep it to work on his future videos.

I know that Seagate that gave him the drives i just thought wow that's expensive.

but yeah seagate that's not a lot.

[GDRRiley]

Don’t send them back. Collaboration time

[rushboarduk]

It's been a while since you talked about the SMR controversy on the WAN Show, but I thought you should know what I know.

 

The day after that video I contacted Seagate myself about the Exos range, since I wanted to know which ones use SMR technology, and only some products in the range list whether they do or not.  The company finally got back to me today, unfortunately saying ALL Exos drives do...

 

If you don't want SMR for the 3 Petabyte Storage, you'll have to use IronWolf Pros. I wish I had better news.

[unijab]

5 hours ago, rushboarduk said:

It's been a while since you talked about the SMR controversy on the WAN Show, but I thought you should know what I know.

 

The day after that video I contacted Seagate myself about the Exos range, since I wanted to know which ones use SMR technology, and only some products in the range list whether they do or not.  The company finally got back to me today, unfortunately saying ALL Exos drives do...

 

If you don't want SMR for the 3 Petabyte Storage, you'll have to use IronWolf Pros. I wish I had better news.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/g67xtm/does_seagate_exos_x16_use_smr/fo7xzcj/

 

[rushboarduk]

No, their tech support explicitly stated ALL Exos drives are SMR, not CMR.  Here is their email for reference:

 

Quote

From your description we can see that you need to know which Seagate drives have the SMR technology to avoid them. Allow me to clarify any doubt. The models on which is used the SMR technology are the following:

Some Seagate Barracuda
Some Firecuda
Seagate Barracuda Compute
Desktop HDD
Exos 
Archive Skyhawk Lite/ Mini

Here below you can find also a specific list with our SMR and CMR drives:
https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/

I hope that the information I provided has been useful and clear. If not, please let us know if there is anything else that we can do for you and we will do our best to provide you with excellent support. 

Whilst the email doesn't list the Exos individually, it doesn't say "some" next to that product line, either, so it contains no ambiguity.

[Senjuu]

As the video is now almost a year old and the Covid pandemic would not have made it easy to colab with other youtubers. So I am eager to know what happend with the remaining 150 16 TB drives. Did they got send back, have I just missed a building colab or does that got postponed to be tackled on when the pandemic is calming down?

[Hello linus]

y on earth would u need 3 petabytes?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!

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[SansVarnic]

23 hours ago, Hello linus said:

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Have you watched any of LTT's videos further back than the last year?

LMG has enough video back log to fill the storage that he needs. Including the increasing demand of the 8k cameras they have. That raw footage has to be stored somewhere.