The Art of Server Configuration and FreshBooks

As we embarked on our server configuration journey, we stumbled upon an unexpected challenge. It seemed that our system had internal issues that required some creative problem-solving. We were greeted with an array of error messages and warnings, each one more puzzling than the last.

One of the first hurdles we faced was determining which drive to focus on. We tried to identify the root cause of the issue, but it wasn't until we reseeded all the NVMe connectors that we began to make progress. The drives had somehow gotten jumbled in shipping, and we weren't sure how to get them sorted out again. "And we didn't open them all up," one of our team members noted. "So maybe we should just reseed them all." With a collective nod, we agreed that this was the best course of action.

As we worked on getting the drives back in order, we couldn't help but think about what would happen if we managed to get Whonnock running on our system. The prospect of accessing it as part of the boot sequence and seeing how quickly it could access all the drives was tantalizing. We wondered if we might be able to tell right away if our setup was functioning properly.

Just then, one of our team members called out that we needed to check the status of our server. With a flick of the switch, the lights went on, and the system sprang to life. It was like a breath of fresh air had been blown through the entire setup. We cheered as one, relieved that the worst was over.

But just when we thought we were done, another challenge presented itself. The drives were still flailing about, refusing to cooperate with our best efforts. "I got the feeling," one of our team members said, a hint of excitement in their voice. "I got the chills." This was it – we knew that we were on the cusp of something big.

As we worked through the system, we began to realize just how fast things could move. With only four drives down, we had lost precious protection and were rebuilding at a rapid pace. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion – we couldn't look away. "So fast," one of our team members breathed.

But as we continued to work through the system, we began to appreciate just how complex it all was. The drives were a jumbled mess, and getting them sorted out required patience and persistence. We spent hours reconfiguring and reseeding, trying to get everything back in order.

Just when we thought we had finally cracked the code, another surprise awaited us. One of our team members tried to mount the filesystem on one of our larger drives, only to be greeted with an error message that sent us all scrambling for answers. "It's not connected to the internet," one of them noted, a hint of frustration creeping into their voice.

As we struggled to come up with a solution, one of our team members suggested setting up a local Windows time server on our Windows 11 machine. It was a bold move, but it might just do the trick. We worked tirelessly to set this up, trying to coax the system back into line.

But for now, that would have to wait. As we stood there, staring at our screens in frustration, one of our team members suddenly spoke up. "What? I'm doing that," they said, a mischievous glint in their eye. It seemed that we had decided to tease the audience with a surprise twist.

And so, as we took a break from our server configuration woes, we were treated to a special announcement from one of our sponsors. FreshBooks was on hand to offer us some much-needed support, and we couldn't be more grateful. With its intuitive dashboard and reports, this software was exactly what we needed to take our business to the next level.

"We're not accountants," one of our team members quipped, "but we're pretty sure that FreshBooks is going to change everything." And with 24 million users under their belt, it's safe to say that they've got a track record that speaks for itself. From invoicing and accounting to payment processing, this software has got us covered.

So what will you do with the extra 11 hours of time each week? Will you focus on more creative pursuits or perhaps expand your business? Whatever your answer may be, one thing is certain – FreshBooks is here to help. And if you're not already using it, we highly recommend giving it a try. After all, who doesn't love the idea of gaining 11 hours of free time each week?

As for us, well, we'll just say that we're secretly working on our own business plan. Don't tell Yvonne, but FreshBooks might just be the key to unlocking our next big move. Stay tuned, folks – it's going to be a wild ride.

The team at [insert team name here] wants to extend their gratitude to all of their viewers for joining them on this journey into the world of server configuration. It's been a wild ride, and we wouldn't have made it without your support. Keep tuning in, and don't forget to like and subscribe for more updates from our team.

And so, as we close out this episode, we can't help but feel a sense of satisfaction. We may not have solved all of our server configuration woes just yet, but we're one step closer than ever before. And who knows – with FreshBooks by our side, maybe next time we'll come out on top.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(Linus laughing)(thunder crashing)- The million dollarPC, it's alive. (laughs)So much solid metal. I can'teven believe this thing.(Linus laughing)Oh, my goodness.What happened? Hey, where'd it go?- We don't get to enjoy it yet.You gotta build it first, you silly goose.- Today's a very special day.We've unboxed everything. Webuilt up one of the servers.By the way, big shout out to Supermicrofor building the restof it. Love you guys.And now, we are going totake the entire petabyteof the SSD storage projectand we are going to assembleand power it on for the first time.And let me tell you (grunts),it's gonna take (grunts) some power.Just like our sponsor is powerful.- SmartDeploy. SmartDeployallows IT professionalsto image and manageunlimited computer modelswith one Windows image.Search their library for your modelsand claim your freelicense worth over $500at smartdeploy.com/linus.(upbeat music)- Look at how whomped this thing got.- I know it got destroyed in shipping.(Jake laughs)- It looks like a Tesla.- Oh, that's just rude.- What's rude? That's accurate.- Compared to our server room,it's gonna be great having actual accessto the rack from all four sides.(both laughs)- Oh see, that's not so bad anymore.- Are you not gonna take it off, Jake?- Well, I'm trying to make it look pretty.- We're building a thing here.- This is a million dollar rack,you can't have Tesla panelGIFs and, whoa, hold on.Look at this rack. You seehow this has teeth here?Yeah. I think when you loosenthese up, you just slide them.- Oh, that's awesome.The reason you might wanna dothat is depending on the depthof the components you're planningto install in your cabinet.It might be beneficial to havethem much closer up here or,hey, maybe you've gotsome super deep componentsyou're gonna install andyou wanna move them back.- Yeah. Or the front, if youwanna pass through cablestho the side.- Yeah.So let's have a look at this puppy.This is a power bar andthis is a power bar on meth.This baby don't stop. It'lldo 24 amps at 240 VoLTE C,which is somewhere in the neighborhood of-- 5, 6,000 watts.(both laughs)- And we're gonna needanother then, I guess, right?- Yeah. There's another one somewhere.- Look at the thicknessof this power cable.What's our plan in terms of layout?Did they send us a recommended planor are we just gonna YOLO it?- He didn't even send me a photo. (laughs)So I think maybe we go offwhere the cage nuts are,but those don't seem to be inany sort of particular order.- Cool.- Let's just YOLO it, I guess.- Nice.(Jake laughs)I like it.- Oh, you know what?We might actually have toconsider where we put stuff'cause we have pretty short cables.- While Jake's calling tech support.Like some kind of nube,I'm just gonna go for it.Dang, I can't even getthis box open. There we go.This is going really well, so far.Where the heck are the screws?- I've hacked the mainframe,I've gotten the information.So the switch is gonna go backwards.HGX in the top, one storageserver and then the other five.- Okay. Sure.- It should be pretty easy.- Also, confirm these are just randombecause the cage nuts and screwsthat came with the hardwareare just in there.So-- Nice.- I don't know what rack this is,but I don't think it's the onethey used to do the testing.- They just gave us like,maybe it was already beat up.- Maybe.(Jake laughs)- They're like, this is the onethat's been sitting in thewarehouse for like three years.Nobody wants it.- I'm not gonna lie,I have no idea how these work.- Oh, my God. What the f-Oh God, I feel like such a nube.Something like that, maybe?It's designed like thisbecause it's static.You're not really supposedto slide the switch out.There's nothing to serviceinside of it for the most part.Basically, all the thingsyou're gonna need to touch like,put a replacement fan in,is all at the front or the back.So, whoa. (laughs)1,100 watts for a network switch.(screwdriver whirring)Oh, God. (laughs)That's got a little toomuch sauce. (laughs)I put it in like the minimummode, so it should stop.But I guess it's still a drill. (laughs)Sorry, NVIDIA.Wow. We don't reallyhave that many screws.There's only four screws. Oh, God.I guess if I just put one in the middle,that should be okay.Since the HGX is gonna goat the top of the rack,this is kind of what weneed to put in first.I've been looking at the railsand they're not really like rails.It's kind of more like a shelf.You see, there's a bitof an indent back herethat lines up with that guy.And I'm pretty sure thisjust goes in the rackand then you slide the150 pound HGX on topand that's the only sliding mechanism.There's no actual rail.It's kind of scary that just,this is holding that entireserver up on both sides,but I don't see anyother way that it works.So hopefully, that works. (laughs)- This thing is chonktastic,I could probably hang off it.Hold on, I'm gonna try.- Oh, my God.- Hold on. Ready?- You got thatsort of finger strength?Oh, wow.(both laughs)- I maintain that being shortis an evolutionary advantagefor tech geeks.(screwdriver whirring)- Whatever yougotta tell yourself, buddy.- I mean, can you fit in a server cabinet?- Do I want tofit in a server cabinet?- Think of it kind oflike the cool versionof being stuffed into a locker.- I can't think of it.I've never had that happen.Definitely stuffed someonein a locker before.It was consensual though.(screwdriver whirring)- Consensual-- The part thatwasn't consensual is thatwe didn't let them out.- Consensual stuffing?(Jake laughs)Okay. Go ahead and roll.Roll over on me though.- Okay.- I'm the star.- You're a special little guy.- I'm not even the star.This server is the star.- Oh, this is theswitch, but good try.- Put your switch in my face.- Oh, I'm gonna stuffyour face with my switch,backwards, other way.- Well. You're the onewho handed it to me.- Yeah.- Well, look at howthis guy tries to correct me.He's all like, oh. Oh, geez.- You got it. You got thewhole thing. That's all you.- Access to this thingis gonna kind of suck.It's not that deep.- Oh, we should have used rack studs.- Yeah. Where are they?- Oh, okay. Here. Pause.Oh, they're so easy.- That's pretty awesome.- You're doing it the right way?- Yeah.- Yours are justlike 90 degrees off kilter,but I actually don't think it matters.- Okay.- I suppose we'll find out later.- Crap.- What?- I put mine in slightly the wrong spot.- Are you kidding me?- See how it's on kilter?- Oh, my God.(both laughs)- I meanthey're so quick to move.- Aah. Ooh. Aww. Oh, my finger.- Ouch. That didn't sound good.- Damn it, that hurt.I just like jammed my finger into this.No, I'm good. I'm good.I'm not cut so I don't haveto fill out that stupid form.It's a good form. It's an important form.It's work place safety related form.- He's just not gonna make aclaim against his own company.- Yeah. 'Cause thatwould be really stupid.Actually, there are situationswhere it could make sense.Like if I suffered alife-threatening injuryand I couldn't work anymore.- And you were like in the hospital.- Yeah. I think I could actuallyclaim against our companyand it would make sense.Oh, that is so painless.Except for when I got hurt.- Yeah. But that wasn'tthe rack stud's fault.- Yeah. It was really not.- These are sick, man.Just the fact that you don'thave to hold it in placewhile you try to screw whatever it is in.- Yeah.- So nice.We'll have a link tothese in the descriptionwhere you can check them out.- Where's our next set of rails?I mean, are we just gonnaput the compute in next?I kind of feel like we should.I feel like it's theright thing to do, Jake.- Oh. Why are you taking that out?- Oh, it's too heavy.- Just to make it easier.- Yeah. We are not doingthis as all one piece.It weighs-- Can you carry thisby yourself?- I'm not even sure.- You gotta be gentle. Oh, God.That's connectors in the back.Oh, God, if you drop this,it would be game over.- I know.- I don't know whyI just handed it to you.- There's no way NVIDIA wouldsend us another one of these.It's crazy though, because even this,is spectacularly heavy.- Hopefully this rack is still square.- Yep.- Yeah. I'm gonna screwthis one in for sure.- Yeah. Imagine we forget,we throw this thing on theforklift to move it around.- Like, we can, boom.- I don't wanna think about that.It's traumatizing. Okay.- I think this server mightbe worth more than my life.I do have to say,I have a giant ragingserver right now though.- I don't know if I wanna touch it.- You wanna touch it. Here.- I just don't-- Here, touch it.Here, touch it.- No. Okay. I'm uncomfortable.(both laughs)I just want, you gotta be carefulabout these PCIU connections.- Guide it in. Guide it in for me.- Tilt her up there, bud.- Okay. (grunting)- God, it makes such awful noises.- I know.Beauty.- Ooh.- You know, if I'd thought ahead,I might have said, maybewe should build her low,keep the bottom heavy.- I mean.- Oh, there's so much copper in it.(Jake grunting)- No, I think it's okay.- Okay. All right. (laughs)- As long as nobody like tries to tilt it.- Yeah.- We definitely should have waiteduntil we had the rails put in down herebefore we put this thing in.- Oh, we'll be fine.- Go, look at those railsthough. They look awful.- Oh.Oh, really? I mean, at leastit's clearly labeled back.- This is the server that's going on.- This almost definitely goes here.I see it.- You figured it out?Does it just clip on?- It's actually pretty straightforwardand it just clips right on.It's actually kind of nice.All right. Supermicro.All right. We good. We cool.- Whoo, Nelly.You gotta kinda do it the right way.- Oh, shoot.- You just bend the (beep) up?- No, the cage nut isinterfering with the slot above.Look, in my defense,the holes for the rack studs are square.- In my defense, rackunits are square. (laughs)- Well, they can go in anyway. Okay.- Usually. Yeah.We only had to take them all off once.We only have to do this five more times.- I know. Right.It's always fun the first time.And then it's like, oh, after a while,but I'm still gonna have fun.I committed that to myself.- You're in?- Yeah. I'm in.- Keep her straight.- Beauty. And then you canscrew that in if you want.- If we took our rackstuds off one more time,we could cable manage it nowand it would actually be sick.Let's see if it'll fit. Where are they?- I think they're in this cratethat you've convenientlyput the box on top of?- Ready. 1, 2, 3.- I can't believe you've done this.Oh, God. Oh, God.(Linus laughs)- You all plug your computerin with a cable like this.- You plug your puter in.- Your puter?- Your puter- (laughs)- You all plug your pouter in like this?(both laughs)(Linus grunting)Whoa. That's some abuse.- Ah, mint.- Oh, look at that.- Imagine if our server roomhad cable management like that.- I know right. Okay.You gotta stop puttingscrewdrivers on the floor.You just put them on thefloor when you're done.- Yeah.- No wonder you worryabout losing screwdrivers.Jake's all like, oh,the screwdriver's black,I'm gonna lose it. Lookwhere the other one is.He just puts stuff on thefloor when he is done with it.What, were you raised in a barn?- Look (beep),when you got like 17different tools you're usingand there's no cart to put them,I don't have that many pockets.Oh, get away. Get away.- I'm trying to help you.- I'm using mine.- No. No. No.- I found the screwdriver.Move back, move back.- Nature screwdriver.- Don't cross swords with me.- Now, does it matter?Which server goes where?- No.- Okay.- 'Cause it's just network, right?- Let's just grab another one. (grunts)- Put it on top of there then.- Okay. The race is on.You got that one, I got this one.- What? What? No, what?- Here we go.- What? You're alreadystarting, that's cheating.- Yeah. Well, yours is on a cart.- Look, I'm puttingstuff on the floor again.I'm such a bad guy.- Yeah, Jake, way to go.- Oh, I'm taking the rack.You don't need it.- What is this? Wait, what?You get to use the rack as a work surface?- I don't know. You picked the box.You got lots of space on the box.- I did not pick the box.You pointed me at the box.- Wait, there's a box of stuff in here.- I'm gonna take-- Do we know what this is for?- The top spot, man.- Look.- What?- Screws.- Ah. We don't need them.- See you later.(metal clanking)- Ah, Jake.Wait, which ones are my racks?- I don't know.Sounds like a you problem.- Rails, rather.Oh, yeah. I'm so farahead right now, you guys.- I don't think you are, honestly.- This is madness.- You lose.- What do you mean Ilose? It's not in yet.- No.- Crap. (grunts)- Oh, is that heavy? (laughs)- It's gonna be a lot ofwork for the editor to blur.- Yeah. (laughs)Sorry. (laughs)- Just blur the whole boy.- Blur him for a while.I've had enough of his face.- Oh, yeah. Oh, God.You hear those noises? That's failure.- You know what I call it?(beep)Completion. Get out of here.(both laughs)(beep)No.- I'm in, boys.- He cheated.There you go.(beep)- That's so loose. (laughs)You know what though? Silly race aside.That was really fast to install.(Jake laughs)I've got an idea to getthe last server up here.Oh, that box collapsed.- Oh, God.You sure about this?- Yeah. Yeah. I'm good.- Are you just gonna pass it to me?- Look at me. I'm Oscar, the tech roach.Hey, get outta here.What the (beep) is wrong with you, kids?Don't know your ABCs yet.Get a (beep) job.(box cover thuds)- Yeah. That's what myparents have been telling me.(Linus grunting)- I mean, don't help or anything, Jake.- We're not racing on this one.- No. No, no, no, not necessary.- Oh. We didn't even talkabout the servers again.- Oh, that's right.We did a video wherewe showed the servers,but the configurationthat we ended up usingis actually even fasterthan what we showed then.We already covered thatthere's 256 gigs of RAM,a total of 400 gigabit persecond in network connectivityand 64 total CPU cores.But what we didn't mention.- Yeah.These are actually overclocked.I think what they said is 3.7 gigahertzon all cores for these nodes.And then I believe the HGX,which is the big one withthe GPUs is 3.6 or so.The folks at KIOXIA turnedthese things up to 11.It's not necessarilythat you would need itto run a config like this.It's just that you'll want itwhen you wanna go absoluteballs to the walls,maximum possible performance.Keep these network cardsfed. Keep the storage fed.It's just, I don't even know what to say.I'm lost for words. Absolute madness.- The really mind blowingthing about the price of thisis that the kinds of organizationsthat buy this kind ofequipment, they don't buy one.- Yeah. They buy a data center's worthand that's after they already spend tensof million dollars building said buildingto put the servers in.- For those of you whoare new to this project,these are KIOXIA's CD6 data center drives.These are 15.3 terabytes eachand every one of these bays is full.- 72.- Yes, 72.And the reason that we haveto have six separate servers eachwith dual overclocked EPYCs inside,is that in order to pushthe kinds of data ratesthat all these drives can do at once,you just need a ton of CPU.As for this head unit,it's got 128 EPYC CPU coresas well as eight of NVIDIA'sA100 top tier data center GPUs.And this guy does, what again exactly?- Well, when you have this much storage,it becomes a littledifficult to create a loadthat can actually make use of all of it.That's the intention of this thing.- This is just a load generator.- Literally a load generator.(Linus laughs)I mean we're talking like200 gigabytes a second.- Yeah, we sure are.Could you be slightly more casualwith the extensive directattached copper cables, Jake?Geez. Stop.- I'm making a pasta. (laughs)- 200 gigabit per second each.It's one of those thingswhere this hardware could be deadand I would still be excitedto just play with it.- What do you, what? (laughs)- Like honestly, it's just,look at these connectors.If that doesn't get your motor running.I don't know what will, thereare actually circuit boards.There's actual logicbuilt into these modules.So whether you're usingdirect attached copper,like we are, or fiber, inwhich case you have to convertfrom copper to a light-based signal,there is some translation workthat needs to be done in the cable,which is one of the reasonsthat these are so flipping expensive.1.6 terabits per second.Whoa. I actually got chills. Woah.It's a little cold in here too.- I've got really bad news.I think they changed the plugs.- Shut up.- In the shop.It used to be a 3-pole 30 amp,and now it's a 3-pole 20amp. That's really bad.We can at least plug this one in,this will plug in behind the laser.Should we have half of our power?- We confirmed it. Thank you, Jacob.The 3 phase, 220 volt was removedand replaced with 2, 110 volt, 20 amps.What if we just grab a bunchof our filming extension cordsand (tongue clicking).- Yeah, I think there is-- Put them in.- I think there is enough shop.- And drag them over here.- The only problem potentiallyis if this was specked out at 208 volt,'cause I mean, it's an 800watt power supply withoutand a 1,200 with, but there's two-- Should be okay.- 1,600 watts for twoEPYCs and some storage.I think it's probably fine.- Okay. Let's do it.- Okay.- This looks great, Jamie.I think we should be good to go with this.- Okay, cool.- Fantastic.- The folks at KIOXIA said thateach blade peak 1,200 watts.So we need a circuit for each.- Oh, crap.- Yeah. I don't-We might have to scroungesome other extension cords.- Yeah. This is not how itwas supposed to go down, boys.- No, it wasset up. It was perfect.- How is it that no matterhow much planning we do,we always end up like this?- Because there's justtoo many cooks in the kitchen.- It always comesdown to the wire, Jake.- Every time.- Every time.- I literally, I had theperfect solution ordered.Thanks infinite cables. Andeven that, wasn't enough.All right. She's live.Oh.- Whoa.(machine whirring)- Oh, my God.- We have lift off, ladies and gentlemen.It sounds like an alienspaceship. (laughs)It's pulling a thousand wattsand it hasn't even done anything yet.- What?- Four amps.(Jake laughs)We're gonna need hearing protection.- What if I pull one out,you think it's gonna get mad?Oh, wow.Put your hand there for a second.- Okay. Hold on a second.- The static pressure.(Linus laughs)It blows it out.- What's really mind blowingis it hasn't done anything yet.(Jake laughs)- Now that it's actually booted,it's only drawing one amp.So like, 200 watts.I guarantee you thatmost of that power drawwas literally just the fans.I can take my earplugs out now.It's almost like it's barely on.I must have been full chooch. (laughs)Mind you, it's doing nothing.Literally nothing.- Yeah. Pulling 250 Wattsdoing absolutely nothingis still something. (laughs)For context, that's maybe10X what we'd expectfrom a reasonable gaming machine.(machine whirring)A hundred is about like a subway train.110 would be industrial noise.And we're squarely in between.Wait a second. Is this thingpulling 2,500 watts right now?What the heck is it doing?Oh, that's a relief.Curiously, neither pressingnor holding the power buttonturns this computer off.But the only way to dothat appears to be to-Oh, no. I told you that's not gonna work.It's just gonna do that again.(Jake laughs)- Jake.- What, did it just go to sleep?Whatever. We're just gonna shut it offat (indistinct) anyways.That's hilarious.- Wait.It was off.- Oh, that's off?- That's off.(Jake laughs)That made sense, becausethe light was orange.- Oh, it was just the power of supplies.Oh, my God.- That's hilarious.- Oh, my. That's off?- Even when it's off.It draws 250 freaking watts.- After starting everything upand turning the HGX back on,it was right at 24 amp, whichis supposed to be its limit.I went ahead and thethree that we have runningon their own circuits,I unplugged their secondconnection to this, for now.And hopefully, that's enough.Curiously, I think two ormaybe three of the IP addressesfor this A100 box are not pinging.And then when I lookedat the switch down here,you can see that a fewof the links weren't up.I just moved this cableto a different portand now it's blinking.You can see we have one and two.And when it was pluggedin to three up here,it wasn't doing anything.But now, it's happy.Upon pinging all of them again,all eight ports are connecting.That's so much bandwidth.The KIOXIA guy sentover all the informationfor how to hook it up.They failed to includehow to start the array.I'm in the WEKA panelhere and you can see,it just says stopped.I can click on the servers andsee, we got 12 drives there.Look at the drives.- I'm back.- Lots of drives. Allthe networking's working.I think-- This is sucha cool visualization.- Yeah.- What is this?- This is Weka.- Oh.This is the $400,000-- The $400,000 file system.Yeah- Yeah.- Yeah.- That's how you knowyou're in the enterprise whenit's a million dollar projectand the software is themost expensive part.- Back up a bit. So it's not so loud.- I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry.I just, I like to bask.- Oh, stand behind. That's the warmth.It's actually kind of nice back.- Wow.- Well, I mean it's-- I like it.- It's like 20 amps. 16 amps.Yeah. Like-- That's like 3,000 watts.- Yeah. More than that, but yeah.I figured out how tokind of boot the cluster.- Cool.- In the settings,configure, start IO.- Oh, yeah.- Are you ready?- Okay. So wait, isthis gonna generate a load?- No, no, no.This is just starting up the file system.- And it sounds like thatwhen you start your fricking file system?We're up to 18 amps, boys.Closing in on 5,000 watts.- This is such a coolvisualization. I love it.- Oh, I know. It's almost worth 400 grand.Okay. To be clear, it has likeother redeeming qualities.- One failure.- Four drives aren't working?That's like curiously, exactly these two.I bet you a cable is just loose inside.- Gotta be internal.- Yeah.- Is this the one we worked on?- No, it's not.- Oh, really?Oh. It might have just havegotten wrestled in shipping-- Yeah, I'm sure.- And we didn't open them all up. And-- So maybe we should just reseed them all.- Yeah. Let's just give it a little reseedon all the NVMe connectors.- I'm glad it's not theserver we messed with.- Yeah, me too. That would'vebeen really embarrassing.And 1, 2, 3, hop, ho.- I don't know if this file systemis designed to run on a single node,but imagine if we could getWhonnock to run on this,that'd be pretty cool.- Yeah. WEKA, hey, what's up? Huh?We may actually be ableto tell right away.Sometimes, it'll justaccess all the drivesas part of the boot sequence.And we can see if they're all flashing.- Oh, my God. Second monitor.- Hold on a second.I gotta talk to the viewersfor a second here. Okay.Luke's safe. Okay.We got all the Floatplane subscribers.They get that exclusivecontent, all that stuff.But this man, this man, Nick Light.Ladies and gentlemen,if you do not registerto order a screwdriver and abackpack, he's in danger. Okay.- He's gonna lose his job.- Are all the drives there?- Yeah. There's no more alertsanymore, which is great.- Yes.- You know what's so crazy?These NVMe drivers are so fast,that with those four drives down-- I got the feeling.I got the feeling again. I got the chills.(both laughs)This is so cool.- Yeah. With the few drives down,we actually lost acouple percent protectionand it was rebuilding.And then when I putthe drives back in now,everything's happy again.It rebuilt from like98% to 100% protected,in like a minute.So fast.- Oh, wow.- So fast.- Guys, re-silvering ahard drive configurationof this kind of capacity-- Takes like two days.- Is a multi-day operation.Okay?To see something like that doneon the order of seconds or minutes,rather than hours of days.- Crazy.- Wow.- Funniest thing happened.I went to mount the filesystem on the big chungus,turns out the clocks on theservers are out of sync enoughthat it won't mount.- Oh, wow.- It's not connected to the internet.We can't just like go, ping Google time.So I'm setting up thelocal Windows time serveron this Windows 11 machine, sothat I can go on each machineand go, update NTP from this client.Are you ready?- Ready?(Jake laughs)- Oh, my God.Have you ever seen it likethat? Oh, my God. (laughs)(Linus laughs)- Are we gonna show them yet?- No. (beep) no.- The truth is we were planningto tease you guys this whole timeand you're gonna have towait until the next partfor us to run it through its paces.- What? I'm doing that.- What we'll tell younow is about our sponsor.- FreshBooks. 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