Budget Storage Server 2022! | 84TB NAS

Welcome to my latest video featuring my new 84tb storage server for 2022! Let me know what you think in the comments below!

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[EngineerDJ_Julius]

I love how 84TB is considered to be a "budget server"

[nocturnalpursuits]

my man earned his like on this one for the full hazmat suit 😂

[supershad]

9:18 WD doesn't do that to discourage people to shuck the drives.
It's an actual enterprise feature, when you have multiple servers with 100s of drive each, you don't want them to spin up all of them once, with that pin number 3, you can schedule drives to spin up in order, so that you don't have massive power spike trying to turn on your servers by all the drives trying to spinning up at once.

[rcald-gzjd]

*Matt* Yes, 10 gbps networking and SSD cache video in the future please. Thank you for producing this piece.

[Diviance]

The 3.3v pin isn't to prevent shucking. Those externals actually use that pin to hard reboot the drive if it freezes for some reason. A lot of NAS systems also support that pin to do the same thing. It has a purpose... it just isn't a widely used option in desktop systems, so they don't usually support that pin.

[nertia]

I applaud your integrity - and your technical prowess; thank you!

[lucasmedina]

I've been looking for a server video like this and haven't been able to find any good ones. This is exactly what I was looking for. Tha k you for the content. It was a super good video!

[bahraenimayoof]

I watched your older video, and I'm very happy to see this update.. I can't wait to see you making more home server videos

[PoeLemic]

Damn, Matt ... You are freaking hilarious ... 6:18 ... I loved that brief intermission of humor, creativity, and ingenuity ... Glad I subbed. Haven't watched much lately, but I'll come back & keep up.

[JadeIsler]

building a NAS as I watch this; amazingly in the exact same case also bought used local for the same reasons as you. I love the component selection, like you said you're way more about it than the big boi yters. Was able to snag eight 4TB Seagate 5900RPM Skyhawk drives for $35 per, paired with an X299 MSI Raider board ($120 used local), and a $200 ebay i9-7900X cooled by a $40 ThermalRight FC140 that performs neck to neck with an NHD-15. Nowhere near your 84TB but your hoarding habit is worse than mine. Subbed, hype for more!

[claytonbaisley]

You can get rid of the front I/O errors by grounding the sense/ID pins on the motherboard headers. I'd suggest soldering small wires to the backside of the board under the header if you actually want to use the ports for your case's front I/O. If not, then just use some jumper wires to attach to the pins directly on the header.

For the USB 2.0 header, short pin 10 to either pin 7 or 8.
For the USB 3.0 header, short pin 10 to any of the following: 4, 7, 13, 17.
For the Audio header. short pins 2 and 4.
For the 1394 Firewire, HP used a proprietary header, so you'll need to either plug in an HP front I/O module and stuff it somewhere in the case, or search the forums to see if anyone reverse engineered the pinout so you can know which pins to short.

As for the fans well, just add a couple case fans and use those headers.

[bendavis]

This video was worth liking just for the PC-Cleaning-Jutsu. But on a more serious note, it's nice to see people doing practical builds that a wider audience can make themselves. Great work.

[ktmcintyre]

As an enterprise storage admin for a global media company, when it comes to determining how many parity drives you want, you also want to take into account rebuild times and the potential to have another failure while you are rebuilding. The larger the drive, the longer the rebuild time.

[kevinpitts]

Dude! You have inspired me!! I have watched this video before but didn't realize the motherboard. I have had a 420 system for 10 years now. I upgraded the CPU to e5-2660(?) and up to 24gigs. After transferring it to another case, I did have to get the adapter cable for the power. I have found that if you jump certain pins on the front USB, firewire, etc., those errors go away on startup. If you want the fans not to ramp up, pins 11, 12, and 5 are a thermal sensor. I found mine in the original case and ripped it out, much quite! Thanks again for your hard work.

[LannisterKing]

love your video dude. have been working with servers for 20+ years they are so much fun you gained a subscriber

[rpelzer]

Interestingly enough, Western Digital is currently (April 2022) pushing out a lot of both Red Pro and Gold 16TB drives for $299.00... they must be getting ready to release a newer, larger capacity drive and need the warehouse space.

[marinrealestatephotography]

Hi Matt: Thanks for the video. I am looking to archive a lot of 4K video footage and am just now exploring storage options. So I really appreciate the info you presented in the video. Thanks again.

[RAZY]

Ur videos are real gold man.
So much detail ....

[nicolebee]

Okay the " PC Cleaning Jutsu" part was completely unexpected and absolutely phenomenal.

[james]

Would love to see a video about setting up things like next cloud on the server as well as a game server and how you set up your modem to allow traffic from outside while keeping your data safe!