LTT - are they maxing out their network?

[fatfinguh]

Team,

 

I notice the unbelievable focus on the servers at LTT. Is that absolutely necessary? 40GBS?! I watched a video today where 10GBS wasn't being maxed out.

(note - the Author/Publisher/Creator himself believed Team Linus is absolutely justified) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUAHrhqNKs&lc=Ugzd5C3rBIox8aHxlmx4AaABAg.9Oum1_-WE4J9OuutQqCvqC 

 

Respectfully,

The last idiot still using an FX-8370

[iKingRPG]

Well they have like 50 people, a bunch of which (editors) are constantly downloading and uploading stuff from their servers, they their 1 petabyte server (or however much it has these days) is constantly being backed up to google drive.

 

A lot of the things they do are because they can, they have money, companies often send them free stuff, and and LMG gets to make videos about it.

 

How expensive is upgrading your entire network when you have all these editors saving time (time=money), and you get to make videos about it? Probably pays for itself pretty quickly. LMG just makes so much revenue, they'd be kinda dumb to not have insane network speeds

 

edit: another thing to remember is they now have several channels that upload videos regularly, and for all we know, a 10 minute video could have hours of Raw 8k/4k footage. Thats a LOT of data. Everything from getting the footage to multiple Editors' PCs, to uploading them to YouTube/Floatplane, requires an enormous amount of data, which means they either need a super fast connection to their server/the internet, or they will end up wasting a ton of time.

Edited June 23, 2021 by iKingRPG
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[mariushm]

It's not just about peak transfer speed, it's about lower latency and about features that may not be present in 10gbps cards like enhanced DMA (have card take what it comes and dump it in a memory area without or with minimal cpu interrupts, reducing cpu usage)

Also, as long as you pull fiber to each room, through walls etc, it's not that much more expensive to pull 4 fibers instead of 1 for each desk (if it's even needed, you can have 40gbps through a single fiber) , it's not 4x the price and it's a one time investment you may use for years.

[Lurick]

6 hours ago, iKingRPG said:

Well they have like 50 people, a bunch of which (editors) are constantly downloading and uploading stuff from their servers, they their 1 petabyte server (or however much it has these days) is constantly being backed up to google drive.

They actually can't backup to google drive anymore, that was cut off a year or two ago.