I can honestly say this is the one tech channel that I'm actually excited about when I see it pop up in my subscription box! Keep up the great work guys!
"if you can stick with me" are you kidding I've been waiting for heavy videos like this for a long time! I want full hour videos about all of this I need it!!!
Linus - Super popular, but Canadian. Barnacles - no notes. I don't know the top guy. Paul - Real chill, has cute dogs. Qain - Friend of Wendell, actually ??? elite. Kyle - A true BitWit Jayz - no notes. Jennifer - No girls on the Internet. Ryan = clone. Holy smoke, that's some creepy, but true details.
I'd forgotten how long ago the LSI 8880 EM2 came out... Your video just reminded me of the days when the 1078 ROC controller was taking the storage world by storm right as I was coming into the storage world, working with the field engineering team over there - not to mention the 6Gb first release, where you had everything from ZFS developers at sun working with 600 disks attached, down to the guy in his basement trying to get a new speed record with OCZs drives lol Thanks for the blast from the past Wendell!!
I do love it when TechTubers do overkill builds just for the heck of it :D Next time, i dare you to do a 20 GPU server, just to show Linus and his measly 10 GPU rendering machine who's the ballers now :D
thats the great thing, we spent practically nothing on this and it is still overkill! And, obviously, not sponsored at all. ;) It is GREAT, and made from trash that we have show how/where we get it in other videos. In total we spent only a few thousand dollars on this for everything.
" we spent practically nothing.... .... In total we spent only a few thousand dollars on this for everything." I think you and i have different opinions how much "practically nothing" is :P
You can buy a 01-02 V12 Mercedes CL600 for around $10,000. That is less than %10 of what it retailed for. Do I think $10,000 is a small amount of money in and of itself.... No. That said, If I was able to acquire a functional used luxury sports car for 90% off, I would still consider that practically nothing given the context. You could build a 172TB ZFS for kicks, but chances are there is a necessity for it, so like Wendell said, I took this video as kind of a hypothetical system architect type build. You could play with file systems/RAID arrays/bootstrapping,etc with much less storage.
It actually is practically nothing for 170TB of storage. You would spend around $6000 for the desktop class hard drives if you put them in a raid 0 array. One shelf would be overkill for many. Even 6 hard drives can be enough for the majority. After all, you should think what do you need this thing for and how much space you need.
The SOS in morse code Wendell is doing at the end of the video got me good,killer Krista strikes again. Excellent video,the way you combine useful knowledge with bits is amazing. Than you for this!!!!!!!!!
i am giving a lot of thought to building something like that for my family (maybe not so big). recently my hard drive failure was a failure that i have heard about but have never seen. a platter broke apart. not sure if it was caused by a head crash or not. Anyway.............after i told my wife we lost lots of pics .......lets just say i think my wife and Krista must have grown up together. i will be watching this video a few more times and looking forward to more of the same type in the future. thanks guys.
This. This right here. All day everyday. I love this well thoughtout content. It's not the sexiest most expensive hardware but instead it is the smart solution.
Loved this more technical video I didn't except variety so soon. Also the skit was great and made the pace of this 20 min video seem like is was a 5 minute video. You guys are doing GREAT!!! Keep them coming.
omg the moment u realize the background on the levelonetechs site is interactive :o omg how do i get this gravity star super cool thing as fullscreen maxed out or as an application? what a beautiful distraction!
Thank you for this. I'm getting back into my own lab and this is helping me get back off the ground. I look forward to seeing more of your work and steering people your way.
I have to admit..when he said having a barebone Windows image on the network ready to install...that REALLY peaked my interest. We have it at work and I must say it is really cool to do. Just boot off the network and bam..starts the install...major nerd coolness!!
I remember working on those PER710 Google servers at a Dell facility in Austin. Google required FLAWLESS paint and chassis, and would reject entire servers if there was one chip in the paint. They were also some of the most expensive configurations we worked out outside of the PEC Cloud series servers.
Oh my gosh. The content is just too good on this channel!!! The perfect amount of proper useful nerdy tech, and absolutely hilarious execution. You guys are doing an amazing job. Thank you so much for the content!
I work for a LAN center during the summer and setup a Docker nginx cache using ZFS for all of the different CDN's for games about 5 months back. Think it was around 80TB for Steam/Origin/UPlay/BNet and another 10TB to cache media files from Netflix/TH-cam/Facebook with a FiFo setup for when data starts getting full. It was actually a beautiful system when it was up and running and saved on a lot of bandwidth and also allowed us to let people download their games instead of being limited to the preloaded ones because we had that extra bandwidth headroom. I also setup a similar setup at home for caching my media and games just on a much smaller scale (5TB) and its actually pretty nice when you consider most of the people in my house will rewatch the same TV shows or Movies on Netflix, will download the same windows updates, and we all play the same games. Now instead of the 3 of us downloading a game 3 times, its just the one time. It is so nice lol.
awesome to see this, I only have some hobby projects myself using old enterprise hardware that i got cheap.. actually for my own experiments considering enterprises tend to dispose of them instead reselling them getting enough storage at a decent prize is my main issue(closely followed by finding the right finstacks/coolers for the cpu's in 2U and 1U racks that i can buy used).. really helps me understand the concept without needing to get all the stuff myself
This was fantastic. I would love to see more videos like these showcasing server stuff. Maybe show us how to build a build server or something DevOps related?
I am literally rolling on the floor at that outro..blinking SOS...Ryan is a Clone..the TH-camr pictures, including Barnacules..... And I learned something.. Yippee!!!
was funny but that whould be great to a see an in depth review of the choice you did make for the zfs pool and setup how much l2arc how is it setup you said you have a log device i suppose it the intel that do both l2arc and zil but hey that would be awesome to see
some info in the article, but not finalized on the setup. no l2arc devices -- just added more ram. we'd have to add at least 4 SSDs for l2arc to have it make sense with the workload. the workload just doesn't have a lot of random I/O except for the VMs which are small and use little storage. Right now It is two raidz2 VDEVs per shelf, 4 shelves, with a second zfs pool 4x4tb raidz1. Plus the NVMe for slog. We're experimenting with SSDs in the right hand side of the google enclosure. The 4x4tb as a zfs pool with two mirrors is plenty fast for VMs though. So this is not finalized yet but I'd expect to see a video about it on the linux channel before too long.
Level1Techs you said in the article you could loose a whole shelve but I do not see how your data could survive that. If you loose a vdev in a pool thats it, the whole pool is gone. Thats why I dont like adding vdevs to a pool thats on an second controller if it hasnt redundant pathways like your shelves.
I've read the article, and am trying to confirm that this is basically a giant NAS but with Fedora instead of a specialized software like Freenas or OMV, that uses ZFS? Was a SAN or a scale out filesystem like GlusterFS (what 45Drives use) not an option or too expensive? Any plans for adding an older R9x0 for faster storage or proxy editing? This looks like an affordable replacement to that blade server this channel demonstrated in the "Tek" days. Sorry for the questions, this looks like a well thought out server system. Maybe all you need is a tape drive to handle backups/archives, and possibly solar to reduce the $100 energy bills or the need to power down.
I'm not sure that I've ever commented on any TH-cam video, but this was a seriously excellent blend of the high level project with hilarious cheesey nerd humor. Well done, +1 for fantastic entertainment!
I'd love to see a follow up video on this, going into detail as to how it is done in practicality. It's all very fine with talking about it, but showing how it's done also helps in educating!
It'd be good to see some more detailed videos on the hardware setup and its parts and also on the ZFS tuning and why. For example, interested in see how you set up the multipath and the HBAs. Also, ZFS tuning that you mention on the article. Fantastic video BTW!
Krista Evil Genius page says we are currently on Ryan 4.6. due to fact Ryan keeps finding the secret lair.Wendell tho is original as he has been supplying Krista with Unlimited storage.
Taking the heated air from a pc, server, type situation and routing it through a custom mod old case or enclosure can be made into a jerky maker or fruit vegetable dehydrator. If that is something Level1 is interested in. I used to make jerky with sliced sirloin tip, high mountain jerky cure, wine marinade, spice drawer random additions, on a gas grill modified to minimize a consistent heat. Still have a piece that is 10+ years old and fine. Make captured heated air go through the enclosure and make level1 jerky.
11/10 educational entertainment. Level1 pgp cross over contexts. Cross channel tie ins. Great ground floor for building and tangenting content on. Keep up the great work.
somehow the first thing i noticed about wendells 'cave' was that hes has what im guesting is wallpaper engine running on the 2 top monitors, running some pretty interesting stuff. that ending skit was a blast.
Really excellent video, the best thing that TEK Syndicate ever did was to have the 🍺🍺liver🍺🍺 forcefully separate from the 🍸brain💻! This channel is like that new email account you created years ago without all of the unnecessary SPAM in-between the messages.
Sweet setup. :) Have you guys considered keeping your eyes peeled for a second R710 to set up failover? As long as the HBA cards and SAS enclosures can handle it (dual-domain and all that) you can have a setup that is functionally equivalent to the turn-key TrueNAS boxes or that Dell enclosure with the two computers in it. If you have a couple of Mellanox cards laying around or grab a couple off eBay for cheap, that's a great option for a dedicated crossover connection. If you have your drives set up right, you can suffer the failure of an entire controller PC or entire drive enclosure this way.
It's kinda hilarious (but extremely gratifying to know), this was pretty much the exact same solution (DS4243 disk shelves, LSI SAS 9201-16e, ZFS on Debian) I came up with for our data storage needs in our DCs at work, but we're using 12 bay R510s as our storage heads, and keep the boot disks in the internal bays - gives us some better storage density compared to the R710s. FWIW, these disk shelves are manufactured by Xyratex, and can take the same controllers as some of the Dell Compellent SAS6 controllers (model HB-SBB2-E601-COMP), which support SAS link aggregation.
Loving this video, can't wait to see a followup to it. Though I'm surprised to hear that ZFS is supposedly "bad" at handling IO for virtual machines. I've been running VMs on a pool of mirrors for years now. The only performance issue I've run into was when I switched from iSCSI to NFS. NFS, like CIFS/SMB, is terrible at tiny IO, and modern operating systems are loaded with tiny IO. Switching back to iSCSI was a nobrainer, and the VM performance is very smooth again. One of the things I did do, however, was disable atime. For VMs, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, so those operations end up being wasteful.
This is excellent, this is almost exactly what I have done with my personal file server at home. It is currently up to 60Tb with much more room to grow. It is nice to know that I think the same way in my designs. Now if only I could find a way to make money off it to. Because this is not cheap as a hobby.
Wow, an informative, technical, intelligent and funny video. I'm always cool with the first 3. But adding the funny parts will be great for the channel growth, congratulations and !praise
I think an awesome video would be about backups, how you do them, what you recommend etc. Like in the enterprise channel you talked about snapshots, and stuff like that. Thanks!
I love that SOS with your eye lids.
It wouldn't be the first time he's done that, lol
that really hit the homerun xD
That horror sequence was MAGNIFICENT.
Now THIS is the kind of content I've been hoping for from you guys. Can't wait for more server stuff like this.
god those mini-movies are just on the edge of being most cringeworthy things ever and yet somehow they manage to be funny...
still better than cable tv
I can honestly say this is the one tech channel that I'm actually excited about when I see it pop up in my subscription box! Keep up the great work guys!
I understood about 7% of this, still watched it all though
NO
And I saw this comment 7 years after you posted it. Still liked it though.
That wall had like whole of my TH-cam subscription box.
LOL!.. whoa, those heatsinks... it's amazing how far Krista has come from being on the news, a little socialization can work wonders
Good shit, guys. I wish I had a full server rack to work on. Good deals on bays right now.
"if you can stick with me" are you kidding I've been waiting for heavy videos like this for a long time! I want full hour videos about all of this I need it!!!
Linus - Super popular, but Canadian.
Barnacles - no notes.
I don't know the top guy.
Paul - Real chill, has cute dogs.
Qain - Friend of Wendell, actually ??? elite.
Kyle - A true BitWit
Jayz - no notes.
Jennifer - No girls on the Internet.
Ryan = clone.
Holy smoke, that's some creepy, but true details.
"Top Guy" is TimmyTechTV
Qain's note says "Actually enjoys Elite", presumably referring to Elite Dangerous
whose jennifer?
Y'alls acting is up there with the likes of William Shatner and Ben Heckendorn
the file transfer is coming from inside the house!!
::heavy data transfer sounds::
I'd forgotten how long ago the LSI 8880 EM2 came out... Your video just reminded me of the days when the 1078 ROC controller was taking the storage world by storm right as I was coming into the storage world, working with the field engineering team over there - not to mention the 6Gb first release, where you had everything from ZFS developers at sun working with 600 disks attached, down to the guy in his basement trying to get a new speed record with OCZs drives lol
Thanks for the blast from the past Wendell!!
I do love it when TechTubers do overkill builds just for the heck of it :D
Next time, i dare you to do a 20 GPU server, just to show Linus and his measly 10 GPU rendering machine who's the ballers now :D
thats the great thing, we spent practically nothing on this and it is still overkill! And, obviously, not sponsored at all. ;) It is GREAT, and made from trash that we have show how/where we get it in other videos. In total we spent only a few thousand dollars on this for everything.
" we spent practically nothing.... .... In total we spent only a few thousand dollars on this for everything."
I think you and i have different opinions how much "practically nothing" is :P
You can buy a 01-02 V12 Mercedes CL600 for around $10,000. That is less than %10 of what it retailed for. Do I think $10,000 is a small amount of money in and of itself.... No. That said, If I was able to acquire a functional used luxury sports car for 90% off, I would still consider that practically nothing given the context. You could build a 172TB ZFS for kicks, but chances are there is a necessity for it, so like Wendell said, I took this video as kind of a hypothetical system architect type build. You could play with file systems/RAID arrays/bootstrapping,etc with much less storage.
It actually is practically nothing for 170TB of storage. You would spend around $6000 for the desktop class hard drives if you put them in a raid 0 array. One shelf would be overkill for many. Even 6 hard drives can be enough for the majority. After all, you should think what do you need this thing for and how much space you need.
I wish I was at a point in my life I could say oh this is made of trash, it only cost thousands of dollars and mean it seriously. #lifegoals
The SOS in morse code Wendell is doing at the end of the video got me good,killer Krista strikes again.
Excellent video,the way you combine useful knowledge with bits is amazing.
Than you for this!!!!!!!!!
i am giving a lot of thought to building something like that for my family (maybe not so big). recently my hard drive failure was a failure that i have heard about but have never seen. a platter broke apart. not sure if it was caused by a head crash or not. Anyway.............after i told my wife we lost lots of pics .......lets just say i think my wife and Krista must have grown up together. i will be watching this video a few more times and looking forward to more of the same type in the future. thanks guys.
This. This right here. All day everyday. I love this well thoughtout content. It's not the sexiest most expensive hardware but instead it is the smart solution.
Sometimes I come back to this video just for the sketches - and it's worth it every time!
Loved this more technical video I didn't except variety so soon. Also the skit was great and made the pace of this 20 min video seem like is was a 5 minute video. You guys are doing GREAT!!! Keep them coming.
did wendell blink sos at the end?
Yeah, he totally did!
love the hacker typer in the background lol
He's watching the Internet...
This was fantastic.
Question though, did Krista kill the other guy?
What? Gwendell killed Twendell?
They will just clone a new Twendell
Nothing a tetanus shot won't cure. Plus wendell got to ride the rack like a skateboard.
That was the best part of the video!
17:46 onward is LITERALLY GOLD. The sticky notes, the SOS from Wendell. 11/10
omg the moment u realize the background on the levelonetechs site is interactive :o
omg how do i get this gravity star super cool thing as fullscreen maxed out or as an application?
what a beautiful distraction!
only pity is that scrolling down makes the new star that gets created go off the screen :( not be created at mouseclick...
bug fixed :)
Wonderful, you're very fast at fixing bugs!
hm bug is still there.
on firefox 64 bit, 50.1.0, multiprocess windows forced on, if that matters for it.
nodegarden.js.org/
OMFG the skit with Kreestuh at the end, amazing, and your storage array is surely the envy of much bigger youtubers, even LMG would be jelly.
Loved the episode Wendell, keep it up the channel has been amazing since launch. Best of luck.
Thank you for this. I'm getting back into my own lab and this is helping me get back off the ground. I look forward to seeing more of your work and steering people your way.
I have to admit..when he said having a barebone Windows image on the network ready to install...that REALLY peaked my interest. We have it at work and I must say it is really cool to do. Just boot off the network and bam..starts the install...major nerd coolness!!
I remember working on those PER710 Google servers at a Dell facility in Austin. Google required FLAWLESS paint and chassis, and would reject entire servers if there was one chip in the paint. They were also some of the most expensive configurations we worked out outside of the PEC Cloud series servers.
Oh my gosh. The content is just too good on this channel!!! The perfect amount of proper useful nerdy tech, and absolutely hilarious execution. You guys are doing an amazing job. Thank you so much for the content!
Outro: Twendell was cloned to perform such dangerous tasks! :D
This is all I need in a video, the tech knowledge, the humour, the cringe, all the things in just the right balance!
I work for a LAN center during the summer and setup a Docker nginx cache using ZFS for all of the different CDN's for games about 5 months back. Think it was around 80TB for Steam/Origin/UPlay/BNet and another 10TB to cache media files from Netflix/TH-cam/Facebook with a FiFo setup for when data starts getting full.
It was actually a beautiful system when it was up and running and saved on a lot of bandwidth and also allowed us to let people download their games instead of being limited to the preloaded ones because we had that extra bandwidth headroom.
I also setup a similar setup at home for caching my media and games just on a much smaller scale (5TB) and its actually pretty nice when you consider most of the people in my house will rewatch the same TV shows or Movies on Netflix, will download the same windows updates, and we all play the same games. Now instead of the 3 of us downloading a game 3 times, its just the one time. It is so nice lol.
Please don't stop. Love the humor.
awesome to see this, I only have some hobby projects myself using old enterprise hardware that i got cheap.. actually for my own experiments considering enterprises tend to dispose of them instead reselling them getting enough storage at a decent prize is my main issue(closely followed by finding the right finstacks/coolers for the cpu's in 2U and 1U racks that i can buy used).. really helps me understand the concept without needing to get all the stuff myself
"really popular, but canadian"
Sorry linus
I would LOVE to see many more videos like this, specifically dealing with Networked Storage, raid arrays and enterprise hardware
Level 1 shows are just awesome. I love their humor and dialogue...and the information of course. great job guys. i cant get enough...
Welcome to the club of more storage than brains club. I'm sitting here with 130TB redundant usable space :-)
This was fantastic. I would love to see more videos like these showcasing server stuff. Maybe show us how to build a build server or something DevOps related?
Is Wendell blinking in morse code at the end there? Loved that whole skit.
The end scene was like a game... so cool.
Also maybe put it near the beginning as a prelude for what is still to come haha
I always love watching Level 1. You all are great. Keep it up.
These are the types of videos I love, as a systems admin student in college, this is my jam
I love you guys. Love all the videos so far!
I am literally rolling on the floor at that outro..blinking SOS...Ryan is a Clone..the TH-camr pictures, including Barnacules.....
And I learned something.. Yippee!!!
Huge fan Wendell. Thanks for all the help for us non computer science guys. You are awesome!!
You guys are freaking awesome!!! Hell yes, Gotta LOVE Krista. All the best. Can wait to see more of this.
I swear with the antics I'm just dying for a LOVE button here youtube!!! Ssssoooo Hilarious and Awesome!!!
That was really interesting stuff Wendell... glad you are up again with a fresh new team...
was funny but that whould be great to a see an in depth review of the choice you did make for the zfs pool and setup how much l2arc how is it setup you said you have a log device i suppose it the intel that do both l2arc and zil but hey that would be awesome to see
some info in the article, but not finalized on the setup. no l2arc devices -- just added more ram. we'd have to add at least 4 SSDs for l2arc to have it make sense with the workload. the workload just doesn't have a lot of random I/O except for the VMs which are small and use little storage. Right now It is two raidz2 VDEVs per shelf, 4 shelves, with a second zfs pool 4x4tb raidz1. Plus the NVMe for slog. We're experimenting with SSDs in the right hand side of the google enclosure. The 4x4tb as a zfs pool with two mirrors is plenty fast for VMs though. So this is not finalized yet but I'd expect to see a video about it on the linux channel before too long.
Level1Techs you said in the article you could loose a whole shelve but I do not see how your data could survive that. If you loose a vdev in a pool thats it, the whole pool is gone. Thats why I dont like adding vdevs to a pool thats on an second controller if it hasnt redundant pathways like your shelves.
Love the ending bit, Better start adding shelves. haha
I've read the article, and am trying to confirm that this is basically a giant NAS but with Fedora instead of a specialized software like Freenas or OMV, that uses ZFS? Was a SAN or a scale out filesystem like GlusterFS (what 45Drives use) not an option or too expensive? Any plans for adding an older R9x0 for faster storage or proxy editing?
This looks like an affordable replacement to that blade server this channel demonstrated in the "Tek" days. Sorry for the questions, this looks like a well thought out server system. Maybe all you need is a tape drive to handle backups/archives, and possibly solar to reduce the $100 energy bills or the need to power down.
Can't say that I understood much of what you said but you do sound like a really smart guy!
I'm not sure that I've ever commented on any TH-cam video, but this was a seriously excellent blend of the high level project with hilarious cheesey nerd humor. Well done, +1 for fantastic entertainment!
I'd love to see a follow up video on this, going into detail as to how it is done in practicality. It's all very fine with talking about it, but showing how it's done also helps in educating!
4:33 holy $$$$ that transfer speed. I can only dream
aww, look how young and yellow they are!
We always knew who was in charge! :-)
It'd be good to see some more detailed videos on the hardware setup and its parts and also on the ZFS tuning and why. For example, interested in see how you set up the multipath and the HBAs. Also, ZFS tuning that you mention on the article. Fantastic video BTW!
alright, if Ryan isn't in the next video then I'll be worried
It's ok, they can clone a new one.
Krista Evil Genius page says we are currently on Ryan 4.6. due to fact Ryan keeps finding the secret lair.Wendell tho is original as he has been supplying Krista with Unlimited storage.
Are the two top screens in the back actually doing crazy matrix shit? or is that fake?
Fake, it's just there for effect.
I also hear he's the only person who can do tech support for Chuck Norris. Normal humans SEGFAULT when looking at Chuck Norris's computer.
fav episode, i've been waiting for that for a while. good job keep it up :D
😂😂
I love your intros and outros
😂😂
they're the best!!
😂😂
I have only watched the intro until this moment. Thumbs up!
Taking the heated air from a pc, server, type situation and routing it through a custom mod old case or enclosure can be made into a jerky maker or fruit vegetable dehydrator. If that is something Level1 is interested in. I used to make jerky with sliced sirloin tip, high mountain jerky cure, wine marinade, spice drawer random additions, on a gas grill modified to minimize a consistent heat. Still have a piece that is 10+ years old and fine. Make captured heated air go through the enclosure and make level1 jerky.
Guys, you're nailing it! keep up the great work!
This is some next level stuff! Level1 makes Linus tech tips look like a truck stop
Beginning of the video: "What?! No cutaway? So disappointing."
End of the video: "That was everything I wanted and more!"
11/10 educational entertainment. Level1 pgp cross over contexts. Cross channel tie ins. Great ground floor for building and tangenting content on. Keep up the great work.
I'm now referring to Ryan as Clone from here on out.
somehow the first thing i noticed about wendells 'cave' was that hes has what im guesting is wallpaper engine running on the 2 top monitors, running some pretty interesting stuff. that ending skit was a blast.
best ending ever.
I can see the quality of the videos and studio has evolved a lot since 2017 :) But as neardy as always! I found you through LTT :)
Really excellent video, the best thing that TEK Syndicate ever did was to have the 🍺🍺liver🍺🍺 forcefully separate from the 🍸brain💻!
This channel is like that new email account you created years ago without all of the unnecessary SPAM in-between the messages.
oh c'mon i was really waiting for a jumpscare there
heck yeah, been waiting for this video
How do they both look 6 years younger now
Sweet setup. :) Have you guys considered keeping your eyes peeled for a second R710 to set up failover?
As long as the HBA cards and SAS enclosures can handle it (dual-domain and all that) you can have a setup that is functionally equivalent to the turn-key TrueNAS boxes or that Dell enclosure with the two computers in it. If you have a couple of Mellanox cards laying around or grab a couple off eBay for cheap, that's a great option for a dedicated crossover connection.
If you have your drives set up right, you can suffer the failure of an entire controller PC or entire drive enclosure this way.
It's kinda hilarious (but extremely gratifying to know), this was pretty much the exact same solution (DS4243 disk shelves, LSI SAS 9201-16e, ZFS on Debian) I came up with for our data storage needs in our DCs at work, but we're using 12 bay R510s as our storage heads, and keep the boot disks in the internal bays - gives us some better storage density compared to the R710s.
FWIW, these disk shelves are manufactured by Xyratex, and can take the same controllers as some of the Dell Compellent SAS6 controllers (model HB-SBB2-E601-COMP), which support SAS link aggregation.
Loving this video, can't wait to see a followup to it. Though I'm surprised to hear that ZFS is supposedly "bad" at handling IO for virtual machines. I've been running VMs on a pool of mirrors for years now. The only performance issue I've run into was when I switched from iSCSI to NFS. NFS, like CIFS/SMB, is terrible at tiny IO, and modern operating systems are loaded with tiny IO. Switching back to iSCSI was a nobrainer, and the VM performance is very smooth again.
One of the things I did do, however, was disable atime. For VMs, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, so those operations end up being wasteful.
Hommage to "A beautiful mind" nice sidekick!
This is excellent, this is almost exactly what I have done with my personal file server at home. It is currently up to 60Tb with much more room to grow. It is nice to know that I think the same way in my designs. Now if only I could find a way to make money off it to. Because this is not cheap as a hobby.
a video on the steam docker thing would be awesome :D
Thank you guys for this.
I think I just scorched my shorts. I
Really nice video. I liked examples you gave about usage. Please keep going!
Best channel on youtube!
Show us around in that FreeNAS build!
Wow, an informative, technical, intelligent and funny video. I'm always cool with the first 3. But adding the funny parts will be great for the channel growth, congratulations and !praise
Props for the Digital Unix box in the background.
This Episode was AMAZING!!! I love the backstory and the stuff around the main topic. Very creative
I think an awesome video would be about backups, how you do them, what you recommend etc. Like in the enterprise channel you talked about snapshots, and stuff like that. Thanks!
This is so great.
I need more of... all of this...
You guys are awesome :p seriously the best tech channel in youtube. Keep it up!
Wow the level of acting 'scene' here in this video is breath taking lol awesome guys very entertaining
Awesome video guys. I'd love to see a video about UPSs and automated shutdowns.
Love your videos. Very technical and very precise. Thank you!