Adding 140 TERABYTES to the Studio with Linus!

hey what is up guys mkbhd here and this is a little story about how i've managed my footage over the years so i'm a youtuber obviously and in the very beginning most of those early videos were super simple i would literally just hit the record button and then when i'm done hit stop and then upload that video file all right welcome to my first video there was no editing no extra files none of that i could just keep the file in a folder on my desktop a couple of megabytes upload it to youtube and then share it with the world and then it got a little more intricate i got a camera i got editing software and i started actually stitching together a bunch of different clips and then i uploaded that final video file to youtube and then i just deleted all the raw footage and all the way up to the beginning of last year through all the camera upgrades and all the evolution of how i made videos i've always put everything together uploaded the final video then deleted the footage just keeping the final video file and that was actually fine because anytime i needed to go back and get some previous footage i could just grab it from that final video file and that was fine with me but now it's 2017 and we're not just shooting 1080p and 4k video files anymore we're shooting 5k 6k 8k video files to the point where if i want to go back and use them i'm not getting the full quality out of it so if i want to go back and use clips from older videos i'm grabbing a 4k version of something that was originally shot in raw 8k which isn't the end of the world or anything but imagine in a couple of years having the full 8k clips would be able to breathe new life into them on new platforms so late last year in 2016 i decided i'm not going to delete all the raw video files anymore i'm going to keep everything or everything that's useful so all the high resolution videos everything so that it can be manipulated again and shared later without losing any quality and to do that i would need a lot of storage the average one minute 8k video file coming off this helium sensor at eight to one compression is about depending on what's in it about 10 to 12 or 15 gigs so to put in perspective that casey studio tour that video shoot we did all the videos we got totaled about a terabyte i understand it's completely overkill for youtube in 2017 but again think of youtube in 2025 2030. so a couple months ago i got this thing this is the promise pegasus ii it's a 48 terabyte thunderbolt 3 raid array and i started keeping all the original footage and media on this along with the final video file for every project and to me and a lot of people i'm sure that's a perfectly good solution for a long time huge amount of storage locally attached fast really quiet sits right on your desk you can edit off it it's great but if you do the math at around a half a terabyte per project that's less than 100 videos before it's full so that's where linus from linus tech tips and seagate and 45 drives and unraid come into play this is a 10 terabyte hard drive seriously 10 terabytes in the palm of my hand this was literally a fantasy a couple of years ago now it's real and this is what's called a stornator av15 by 45 drives this is a high capacity storage server with 15 drive bays and yet still small enough that you can put it right next to your desk it's about the same size as a regular pc it has a xenon cpu inside eight gigs of ram a 650 watt power supply and a 10 gigabit ethernet connection and has all these fans in here but when they're running they're pretty quiet so barely audible from like 10 feet away so linus brings this thing over and then basically starts handing me these drives 10 terabytes 10 terabytes 10 terabytes 10 more terabytes and we start populating the storinator with these drives not gonna lie it was really fun to add them in he's got this he's got this he slides it into the rail he aligns it with the bottom rail he makes a slight adjustment and it's in so we get to seven drives of the 15 slots because the rest of them were actually delayed because of shipping but a couple days later i get the rest of the drives and install them myself bam 10 terabytes 10 terabytes 10 terabytes and just like that the 140 terabyte raid array is up and online 15 10 terabyte drives one for redundancy a super secure backup now for all the raw footage i shoot from here on out so linus what are some of the advantages of the setup we're looking at tell me about it 22 seconds this guy gives me but i'm gonna do my best this is a fantastic nas that i flew out here to deliver for the consumption of the one and only mkbhd and it's pretty flipping awesome it's built by 45 drives in a custom enclosure using server grade hardware like the super micro motherboard that has 10 gigabit network speeds so if he wants to be able to dump footage on here super fast then that's going to be a thing and we've gone ahead and equipped it with 15 some of them are still in the mail 15 of seagate's ironwolf pro naz hard drive so these are special because they have a five year warranty they're rated at 300 terabytes of yearly data or something stupid like that and they include data recovery service within the warranty period so that's really special because we're running them on unraid which means that because we're not striping the data the odds of recovering our data fully in the event of a catastrophic failure where multiple drives die is actually much better other benefits of unraid though i'm not 100 sure how he's going to use them are things like being able to run a plex server yeah i'm getting a no okay uh being able to run windows in a virtual machine i'm getting a no um being able to add high-speed ssd caching for multiple people to work off it if you expand the team i'm getting the nod yes okay i'm on a roll here uh how about choosing things to back up to cloud storage like dropbox getting the nod yes okay so it can do all that crap so this is pretty much the only way to have more than 100 terabytes of storage easily accessible in one place at least right now with current drive densities maybe that'll change in a couple years maybe we'll have some crazy 50 terabyte sd cards or something like that but until then this is what that looks like and i think it'll be a pretty fresh start for starting to keep everything combine that with the pretty fresh looking front plate from 45 drives and uh the sweet little chassis we have it in the airy server case i think that's a pretty solid start as a little little piece in the studio too so that's pretty much it thank you for watching i hope you enjoyed maybe you learned something there'll be links in the description below if you have any questions about any of this stuff but i'll hang out in the comments section too and answer any questions you might have thank you for watching talk to you guys the next one peace [Music]

Channel: Marques Brownlee

Views: 4,462,690

Keywords: MKBHD studio, studio, storage, storinator, linus, linustech, linus tech tips

Id: z3X49SYvbo0

Length: 6min 33sec (393 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 13 2017