Overhauling Our DIY NAS with AMD Threadripper, ft. Level1Techs Wendell
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
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We're building a brand new server to replace our old build! Our old solution was a fully custom Unraid + ZFS build, configured by Wendell from Level1Techs 3 years ago. Wendell is now returning to upgrade us to TrueNAS and a Threadripper Pro solution, connecting with our existing disk shelf and storage.
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00:00 - The Arrival
01:45 - The Server
04:53 - Server Upgrades
09:08 - Starting the Build
14:18 - Installing the Server
15:50 - Explaining the Storage & Controllers
18:40 - Boop Beep Boop
20:03 - The import is done!
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Host: Steve Burke
Guest: Wendell from Level1Techs (linked above)
Video: Andrew Coleman 
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Find Level1Techs here! ruclips.net/user/level1techs
Watch our previous server build with Wendell! (Pt1) ruclips.net/video/Hix0l8cFaMw/видео.html
Wankin With Wendell - Episode 1, turning a floppy dick into a hard drive
Steve, there isn't anything better than a notch quality intro production. 🤣👌
btw @GN the Linux Game Cast of this week is *again* talking about GN/tech jezuz. COLAB WHEN???
maybe something about like linux/proton reporting or "state of" benchmarking idk.. even intel is using dxvk now, the year of linux will always be soon™but the state of things is such that it can actually be now for a good chunk of the tech enthusiast class gamer that has some patience and time for some hassle/fiddling
So... was firmware updated on that controller for 20TB support ?
Sweet, they've perfected Wendell teleportation!
I want a Wendell button. :(
HIGHLY recommended!
dont we all 🙂
@@GamersNexus when can we buy a GN Wendell button
With great power comes great responsibility (something my uncle Ben taught me), thus only Gamers Nexus and a few others are entrusted with the Button
@@zivzulander Uncle Ben taught me how to make rice.
Wendell is an absolute legend and all round nice guy
@@BBWahoo What are you, five years old?
: True and real.
Wendell is the answer
Met him at microcenter in sharonville Ohio when I worked there, awesome guy, was learning from him since tek syndicate days.
Not sure who this is... Who is he...
I love Wendell, he's the IT support for the IT support
One rule I've always gone by: always respect the IT guys.
For there to be an IT^2? Unfathomable
[insert classic Xzibit meme here]
The thing is that the vast majority of tech RUclipsrs aren’t actually IT people. They build computers and read stats. There’s an entire world of actual IT people on RUclips. The cool thing is Wendell has overlap and can do both well.
Tho GM isn't IT support. Maybe closest to news.
@@ShadowManceri GN is the infinity fabric and the clock gen of TechTube. 🙂
I love the fact that summoning Wendell is part of the greater Gamers Nexus lore. Saving the day every single time a high end server help is needed
Hahaha, love that this is now referred to as "lore"
@@GamersNexus I hesitated between that, and the "TechTube Extended Cinematic Universe" 😂
there is so much lore. Beginning from "Thanks Steve!" spoken by several different people (including Wendell!) to intels "you can literally see it!" vs AMDs "you can't see but you can feel it" (and generally: the hilarious keynote reports), and
Going further, how it's impossible to play Rainbow 6 Siege below 600fps and Nvidias fable for Ties vs AMDs fable for the letter X, it all ends up in a disappointment build at the end of the year.
I'd call it TechTube Extended Cinematic Hardware Universe - T-TECH-U
@@Ybalrid No comparison; GN leaves all She-U's standing.
I love this Wendell travels by server rack skit as well.
Been waiting for this video-always love to see RUclips Tech Support aka L1Techs helping out their fellow creators!
They should promote homelab more
@@Logilype I'd love to see them build 'the best home media server with old PC parts' or something like that, the challenge being trying to get Plex, Jellyfin, or something like that running as a first time user, with hardware video transcoding on an older but good-value GPU.
I've got 200 subs wheres mey Wendell?!?! ... i guess that makes sense he cant be everywhere all at once (yet!)
Are you angling for a visit, Jeff?! 😉 Actually, would love to see a collab with you two. 👍 (Hope your recovery is progressing well, btw. 🙏)
@@rogerramjet8395 Why yes, I am ;)
My surgery delayed things a bit, but hopefully later this year!
I love how each time you do a Wendell intro the budget for special effects seems to have doubled.
It's easy to double when you start at $5!
Spared no expense.
The Wendellporter is amazing.. Everyone should have one. :D
Another amazing intro from the GN team. (as well as an informative video)
Anyone have a link to the Wendellporter? I would love to have one.
I really do think it is not much of a stretch to say Wendellporter is a real thing. I bet if Steve sound terrified in a phone call Wendell will literally just appear without having to set up a ram ritual offering. :)
A lot more use than Dr Karen showing up in the Tardy!
Love that intro skit. Lol great way to summon a Wendel!
If only it were that easy for us mere mortals
That is a terminator intro. The gentle version, where you see a high iq terminator, terminating old hardware
I have a teeny, tiny little TrueNAS set up in my home for storage. My starting point for the build was seeing Wendell on GN years ago, then checking out L1 vids and their builds then scraping together the parts around the house to make a shoddy home server and I love it. Thanks to GN and L1 for inspiring the project.
Watching Steve in a Room with Wendell is so intriguing. Steve is so talented and smart yet feels almost intimidated, and who wouldn't because I'm certain Wendell was downloaded from another planet, in the future into an android in Kansas. Their dynamic is so different but fun! The amount of talent on screen for this is mindblowing.
16+8+8=48 #SASMath
#SASMath (I know you understand why you get to 48)
the LSI HBA is connected with 8 external SAS lanes to the 32-port SAS expander in the LSI disk shelf. So there are 24 internal and 24 external drives = 48
@Hans Wurst didn't know. But kinda guessed
@@mark601 I just let that pass. I've only just got over Russel and Whitehead taking 360 pages to prove "Yes! 1+1=2."
Wendell is like a server savant, I don't blame Steve. The sheer amount of info he can pull out of his memory is crazy. I can remember general things plenty well, but ask me to memorize a bunch of versions of apps with varying features, and I'm going to write it in a table and immediately forget it...
From what I've seen I think the actual reason for the 3.3v shutdown on shucked drives is that the SATA spec changed to not use the 3.3v rail and that pin was changed to a shutdown pin. Since the drives used in enclosures are generally relabeled server drives, they follow the new spec and power off whenever that pin is held high.
And PWDIS itself is a server feature, it's there to let you turn a drive on/off remotely. It's working as intended, doesn't actually show up in externals most of the time, and can be worked around by taping pins/removing wire/using MOLEX adapters.
@@Lishtenbird yep. I have a dozen or more shucked drives
Its really refreshing to see Steve asking questions that he doesn't know about. That shows the ability and receptiveness to learn which to me, is the best indicator of intelligence. Knowing you don't know everything will serve anyone well in the long run. Great to see this departure from his usual sheer powerhouse of knowledge on every other video on the channel.
Steve: "We delete stuff"
Wendell: Does not compute.. error..
Don't worry Wendell, as a DBA, I understand you.
How to cause a DBA pain, from experience. Cascade delete in prod! No my app isn't dealing with orphaned records...
Cascade delete? Does not compute....
Set records to inactive, or superseded status... or move "deleted" records to a history table for safe keeping.
NOTHING is ever deleted in the enterprise, even if you think it is. Auditors would love to know why you deleted or changed data. What you hiding?
I consume as much of Wendells content as much possible. Love to see him getting everyone upgraded.
His power grows with each techtuber he upgrades 🧙♂️
Wendell travelling via Server Rack never gets old and here the effects get more and more sophisticated 👍
You can get by the 3.3v shuck issue he was talking about by covering the 3.3v pins with tape (kapton typ.) I do this with my drives.
Works great until you remove the drive, forget about the tape which falls off in the process, and then temporarily panic when you think your drive has died the next time you try to use it. 😁
There's something wrong when this is a valid solution!
@@4.0.4 Why is there something wrong? Taping the third pin just prevents it from making contact causing it not to respond. It's a simple workaround as opposed to snipping wires.
@@SM121982 Try a label maker. Works wonders. I always label my disks with comments.
@@htwingnut But that takes all the fun out!
A threadripper is the way to go for a super fast server, love the editing and production at the beginning, awesome work!
Threadripper for everything!
@@Haargeroya Threadrip the world!
xeon v4 is good to save money
@@deepspacecow2644 I'm still kickin a super old dual Xeon 5060 server....not for much longer tho
Holy shit people noone here knows anything about servers :D Thats super funny.
Seeing Wendell nerd out with server stuff always makes me happy, Kudos to the donor of this system too.
Wendell a guest is in every techtube channel right now. And I love it. ❤️
damn Wendell transcended and able to transport himself through server racks. if only the normal tech enthusiast could achieve such a feat
So happy you upgraded the summoning technology. I mean just with the push of a button. The future is now!
Gave me a little twitch in the eye to hear you delete A-Roll footage and not rendered videos; I do the opposite once I upload the finished video and delete the final render, as I can always reassemble with archived footage and render out again, but not having the footage (as much space as it painfully takes up) makes this impossible. Everyone has their own workflow and SOPs, I just was surprised to hear it was the opposite of mine! Love the episode and always great to see Wendell and you chop it up! 👍
i love the intro skits, perfect amount of fun yet ridiculous
I’m glad we got Wendell after the TS fallout. It’s been so cool seeing him develop as a RUclips personality and share his knowledge on a broader spectrum.
What's the TS fallout?
@@ChiefFalque Tek Syndicate:
Logan, Caine, Pistol. Logan and Wendell were childhood friends IIRC and he helped that channel a lot. Allegedly Logan ran it into the ground. Wendell was also being held back by Logan. Ugly divorce, but the community won in the end. L1 was born!
@@vicviper319 I see, I was oblivious of this important piece of Wendell Lore. Thank you for enlightening me!
I like how GN and LTT have polar opposite philosophies when it comes to retaining videos. LTT is having to turn to full on enterprise style setups and GN is just now upgrading from a standard desktop CPU to a workstation one. A lot more practical and way less power hungry.
Yeah didn't Linus fill petabyte project within like a year?
LTT also makes a few more videos + use 8K cameras and what not ;-)
@@LiLBitsDK and they're data hoarders that would never delete anything. Meanwhile GN yeets stuff off of the drives all the time
The intros you use for any Wendell visit are always GOLD
5 seconds in and Wendell is inside the tech TARDIS, that deserves a like
Steve you don't disappoint with your intros! Great job!
I love that it's now a thing that the self-described IT plumbing guy gets the most dramatic intros. 😁 Wendell is great. 😎 I'm currently setting up a much, much smaller TrueNAS home server with a Ryzen 7900 due to efficiency (great chip - thanks, Steve) and Arc A770 so this content piques my interest.
Why put an Arc A770 in a NAS?
@@DroidBen not just NAS use. I plan on running a bunch of Docker applications and potentially using it for AI/ML media stuff (mainly upscaling old videos, photos) where the GPU could be used. Could have gone Nvidia or AMD, but want to play around with Arc, anyway, and the 16GB VRAM for price made sense.
I'm actually also upgrading my home server but with Ryzen 5000 hardware for lower cost. It's essentially like what you're making but a generation behind and a lower spec GPU : Ryzen 5900X (will be running it in 65w Eco mode), 2x32GB 3600MT C18 DDR4 RAM, Intel Arc A380, Dell H310 HBA, bunch of Seagate Exos X18 18TB drives, Gigabyte X570S Aorus Master, and Geekworm PiKVM-A8.
@@DroidBen Intel Arc cards are the cheapest GPUs right now that do an excellent job at AV1 encode/decode.
@@pr0jectSkyneT the iGPU on the Ryzen 7900 has AV1 decode too, and (at least on Windows) basically lets you run it like a laptop hybrid GPU setup. I was able to render out multiple H.265 videos on a 7900X by using the iGPU, the GTX 1080 Ti in the system, and the CPU cores. Pretty fun. It's too bad it doesn't have AV1 encode, that would have been killer.
I
fucking
LOVE !
This mythology where Wendell is some kind of all-knowing being while being so humble and friendly.
also the fact that he is cryogenically frozen and can be warmed back up to functionnal temp, or can be summonned by a very sophisticated yet user-friendly technological process that we can call "rack-hopping".
This is so cool. Wendell is so cool. I'm glad he got out of his comfort zone and is not stuck behind a wall of monitors now. We would have missed something important.
these intro gags for summoning Wendel forth from The Immaterium are getting more elaborate every time
the intro was amazing! Wendell is such an awesome duuuude, so much knowledge, and easy to understand/follow (except whe he goes mad in threadripper stuff xD)
Loving the mental image of a server rack being a portal to Tech Narnia
The opening reminded me so much of videos we created in high school...in a good way.
Really learned a lot from this video! Never heard of "shucking hard drives" before, but been doing that for years :-)
I love the intros, its clear you guys have a lot of fun making them and i'm sure i speak for most when i say we enjoy them tremendously!
man i love these intros WAAAY more than anyone should!
there's not even any cats in them! tho wendell feature is always a MUST SEE regardless of title or content relevancy to my life.
ty for this, both GN and L1T
You may need to explain how an -8E controller can run more than 8 drives using an expander. And, SAS contollers @12GB/s are twice as fast as SATA III controllers so the expander can survive a little loss in speed. Great show, my favorite use of hardware
Absolutely love the new intros you guys are doing. Keep up the awesome work!
More elaborate intros! More Wendell! This video has it all
The custom intros are great, i know I'm in for a treat when I see one
I love the camera work on the disaster builds and this intro. Please add more its nice to see your guys creative side
I really love these short movie-ish intros at the start!
Absolutely adore that intro. Always a treat when Wendell hops on in.
Wendell videos are always a treat. The technical knowledge getting bounced around mixed with the quips are just * chef kiss *
Great intro. Great topic. I love how easy great tech's make a critical hardware upgrade all seem.
I use TrueNAS Scale too - Its great. 8600K/3060Ti/64GB RAM running Plex with 96TB of space (+SSDs), just makes it so much simpler!
Always lovely to have Wendell over, he gets you excited for THINGS
Loved this microwave sound :D
hahaha, our production quality is so high that we recorded it in house! Not just anyone can do that!
Always love these collaboration videos with Wendell, he's such a legend.
Love the openning of the video
Gotta love Wendell traveling via server rack.
What an intro!
Always great to see Wendell
I'd been long looking forward to this. Thanks!
Yep still love that gag that Wendel travels by server rack/closet.
Awesome video Both of you! I would love more in depth videos on anything servers from port forwarding to simply OS reviews or How to setup transcoding for media servers etc
Don't you get that fix on Level1? I'd go and badger Wendell in the forums if I were you!
Wendell and Steve working together are my all time favorite RUclips collabs.
These are terrific. It brings a smile to my face that in this one small neck of the PC world nice things still happen on a regular basis.
I have a windows server running off a 1950x TR and it easily handles Plex to 3 different end points as well as a RAID5 setup
Threadripper for this application is so good.
Whether I see him on Level 1 Techs or GN, more than half the time I don't know what the hell Wendell is talking about. He's a very smart man! Great video and I'm glad he was able to help you secure even more reliable storage for your awesome content!
So that's how server cabinets work. Wendell intro wins.
That intro is amazing! Good job guys!
Somebody had fun filming and editing that intro. Which was amazin, by the way!
Man GN is getting even more creative with these intros, I fucking love it LOL
I'm 1 minute 30 into the video, and so far, Wendell has stepped out of a server rack so i know this'll be a good one :)
The summonings of Wendell are even better than the thnx Steve meme.
OMG, I loved that opening
You know it's serious when Wendall shows up !
Ahhh Wendell, a fine addition to the Gamers Nexus Cinematic Universe
These are my favourite style & category of videos. 😄 Full Send on the nerdiness!
oh sheez...on time for once. Ok..already blown away by that opening. 10/10
More Wendell always makes things 157.8% better 🥴👍
Finally you upgrade to TrueNAS/FreeNAS! Welcome! Unraid has lots of issues. TrueNAS will work better.
I like the case of choice! Inspiring me to also upgrade/buld myself a new NAS. Mine is really old and lacks a lots of modern/standard features.
Might end up with some kind of VMware ESXi environment and do a TrueNAS VM and such for a more effective solution.
I've been running FreeNAS (core) for years and agree with you that it's not as good in the VM stuff. I'm upgrading my server and am thinking of running TrueNAS on top of Proxmox as a VM.
@@pr0jectSkyneT let me know how it goes if you do something fun :)
@@pr0jectSkyneT might get some inspiration
@@orfeous will do
19:25 Time traveler Wendell giving us hints about the future 🤣
Perfect, I wanted to build a NAS and still searching for more recent parts video but this helps some.
I've been trying to summon Wendell for years, but the microwaves keep tripping my breakers
I'm never unimpressed by Wendell's ability to travel by communications rack.
@12:00 For most people with a home NAS, larger drives makes a lot more sense for a large number of reasons: limited number of drive bays, less power, less noise, less complexity, fewer points of failure. A 24 hour resilver/rebuild is nothing if you have proper redundancy and backup that you may have to do once every few years at worse.
Fire intro. Absolutely bang on m8 🔥🔥👌🏾
This video is worth the long-term damage to the time space continuum.
Is that the "Tardis" for Wendall?! lol
Love the microwave beep+door noise, well done :D
bruh... recently your production quality has gone through the roof!!! GREAT JOB!!!
Steve likes to keep less stuff while linus likes to keep everything.
It's a pretty cool comparison to radically different approaches.
Love how Wendell has figured out a way to save a ton of time and money on travel. More valuable than the RUclipsr snap to get work done quickly.
Videos of Wendell building servers are the best.
That intro ❤love it!
Wendell is the tech I aspire to be but know I'll never be able to reach.
don't we all .
You can be that tech! I believe in you 🤗.
THIS is what I watch for I love these types of videos
Awesome intro !! Bravo!!
I absolutely love when you guys do these fun intros.
This is why I'm subbed to this channel, great video!
that intro, so good lol, didn't expect it from this channel, really awesome!
Always a pleasure to see Wendell.
Amazing intro & collab with Wendell!
Thanks for bringing us along for some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that keeps GN running!
This is especially relevant to me, as I have an aging mini-server (running a 2700k I think?) that I plan to upgrade to use my last gaming PC's X99 hardware, and add 10g networking. It is currently running ZFS... it's amazing that ZFS can just rebuild itself by plugging drives into a new/upgraded system! Tech like that makes things so much easier on people like me, who fumble around with Linux a couple times a year.
I like that old case. That would be right up my alley for my home theater.
The intro was BEYOND AWESOME!
ZFS is cool, but Snapraid has some real advantages for the casual user who just wants basic protection against drive failure. I'd be interested to see discussion of the pros/cons of ZFS vs other solutions in a vid like this.