- My server rack at home always
starts out neat and tidy, and then all it takes is a
project where I've gotta attach a DVD drive to my system
here and a failed router that I just throw a
replacement in for there, and ugh, some contractors who
come and clear the fiberglass in my attic, leaving fiberglass fibers all over the front of my servers. Now all of a sudden it's a
complete and utter mess again, but not this time. This time, sponsored by Pulseway, makers of the software
that allows you to monitor not just your servers, but really any Mac,
Windows, or Linux machine. I am going to be completely
properly cable managing this one cent for all accounting
for the next few projects that I have coming. I will even be, yes, making
my own ethernet patch cables. Look at this. Isn't this adorable? Watch, see? Out goes this, in goes that. (electronic music) Step one is to give everything
the old safe shutdown. I always do this, I turned
off the desktops already so now I've gotta issue
the shutdown command to by Unraid server here from my phone. But we're good. System is powered off. Just as I released that
screw I realized something. This server is not mounted on rails. It's just sitting on top of the UPSs. I better pull that out first. I do have rails for it, I
just never installed them. Oh wow, you can see I was using
the top panel of this case as a filming plan at some point, that would've been a while ago. Looks like because it's fiberglass, so the strands are quite long
compared to regular dust, we actually ended up with almost nothing inside the system itself. So the specs of this
server are kind of unusual. I've got a 9900K processor in here and the reason for that is
a ran into this weird issue where Plex, if you want
to transcode a 4K Blu-ray and also have subtitles baked into it, it's like a single threaded
task that's super inefficient. My 32 gigs of RAM, I've
got a graphics card in here for GPU decoding. Couple of HPAs so power the drives here. I think it's around a 150
terabytes total storage. Couple cache drives and finally, a 10 gigabit nic from Aquantia. And, a redundant power supply. Just in case one of these modules fails, all I need to do then is is just clean off these drive caddies and oh, that's interesting. So it's only the ones that
don't have drives in them that have a bunch of buildup. That makes sense since those are the ones that are gonna be getting the
most air flowing through them. Something I do have an
extra of in case of failure is a hard drive. So this a cold spare, and key note among you might've noticed that I'm using Seagate Archive drives which use shingles magnetic recording. Now it's cheaper and more
efficient use of the platter, but it has a right speed penalty, and as you might've noticed
in WB's recent scandal where they were shifting WE Red shingled magnetic recording
drives without telling anybody, they are not ideal for Raid. But don't worry, for my use case it's fine because I'm not using
Raid, I'm using Unraid, which has Parity and data redundancy, but it does not use stripes
across the various discs. So that means that I'm
all good with these. I get around 220 megabytes a
second writing to the Unraid, then a little faster reading off it. Ooh. Ah. I'm sorry. Ow, shoot. Well, it's good for finding
your keys when they're missing. Lttstore.com I used tennis balls to hold
up the UPSs at the back. I had to find the right
number of tennis balls to support them. The answer is five. It's not stupid if it works. Flat ethernet cables, these
have a terrible reputation. But that said, all I was
using it for was like my Sonos hub thing, so. New rule, any cable that I
don't know where it goes, I'm not gonna plug it in anymore. At least two of these I have
not idea what they're for. Also, gross. Dead bee, bleh. I'm actually gonna be adding some stuff to the server cabinet. Some new switching gear from
Ubiquity and that kind of stuff so I wanna move it up so I can
salvage two more Us of space. This really really is awesome, see you can adjust the length. So here's the first connection
that I can make here. So we're going into one of
the non-power ethernet ports because it doesn't have to deliver power to my other switch obviously. Just the two Ubiquity units, so a router and a switch, and
then we've got these three Us that we could theoretically
move these up into. I'm gonna leave mine on top
'cause I quite frequently end up plugging optimal drives into it and stuff. So that's just gonna stay. Are these cat footprints? For those who are wondering, I'm rocking a 3900X 12-Core processor. I've got a Titan RTX over there. And then I've got this weirdo gigabyte, I think it's a one terabyte MVMe SSD in the PCI express lot down here. I'm running some super old
64 gigs DVR-420 6606 RAM. Not a great pairing for
that processor, I know. And them I'm still using the AX 1500i, this thing is going strong
form the original build as well as this super cool
custom reservoir D5 pump, and then of course X570 Aqua from ASRock. It's one of the few
motherboards on the AMD side that supports Thunderbolt,
which is really nice to have if you can run a Thunderbolt
cable through the wall, use a Thunderbolt dock, you've
got 30 gigabit per second of OI for all your capture
cards and all the kind of stuff that I use over there. Yvonne's rig doesn't
really need to be touched. It's a 60--
- [Yvonne] Why? It looks terrible. - What?
- [Yvonne] Compared to yours? - [Sebastian] Well it doesn't have water cooling.
- It looks terrible! - [Sebastian] It doesn't
need water cooling. - [Yvonne] It's messy. - There. Tuck that there, you know? We can, well we'll clean the filter. All right? - [Yvonne] You weren't
even gonna clean my filter? - Well yeah, I was
gonna clean your filter. Clearly doesn't get cleaned as often. It's fine as it is anyway. 6700K, I think it's got 16 gigs of RAM. You know, you got my old Titan X Pascal. Lots of people would give their left nut for a system like this. So I expect a left nut
from you in the mail. Don't tell me where you got it. I gotta put both systems
forward in order to put your mounting hardware in and that
means basically all the weight is hanging off the front
of this thing right now 'cause it's empty. Hey that's not the, hey
the printer saved the day. After a recent experience
losing a UPS at the office, I just though, you know,
like why cheap out on this? So I splurged a picked up two of these APC 1500 Volt Amp units here. When I was mapping out all of my circuits at my house recently, what I realized is that this
room and everything in it is on a shared circuit with
a whole bunch of other lights and outlets in my house. So what I'm planning to do
is have Brian the electrician come up here and we're gonna
put a dedicated circuit in there for that gear,
meaning that it would be nice to have a little bit more capacity because when that happens,
I'd also like to go back to my plan of having the VR gaming rig that's down in the living room
actually relocated up here so we can do like a super
clean setup down there. That is terrific. No more tennis balls for me. Thanks APC. Help, I'm stuck under a server! (grunting) Okay. Now I get to attach these systems properly for the first time ever, how fun-- (drill buzzing) Is that. I always like to get
power cable management out of the way first. They're just kinda bulky
and it's nice to not have to deal with them when you're
trying to do the finer stuff. Brought both of gaming
desktops to the top UPS and the server to the bottom one. That means that the gaming
desktops won't last as long in the event of a power
outage, but they're just quite frankly not as important. This gives me a lot more time to react and get the server shut down correctly. I know I said I was gonna do
everything really properly but if you think about
it, hot gluing a power bar to the inside of your server
rack isn't really not properly, like it's, I'm pretty sure
that's generally accepted desk practice material right there. One aspect of the cable
management that I can't fix by tidying up the rack here
is the Fiber connection that comes in from my
garage and the display port and optimal USB connections that go out to the room over there. So I made a new hole but
I'm gonna have to run those again, because right now
ever since Collin set it up, they've just been coming
in through this opening and I haven't been able to close it. The cat keeps going out there,
it's a real pain in the butt. Here's the other side of that hole. I totally nailed lining it up. Now we make a new, more bigger hole. Well it's hardly perfect but
it is literally in the attic so I'm not gonna stress about it too much. The good news, is it's a
lot cleaner on this side. So I'm just gonna install
one of those little like brush things here and
then we gonna be good to go. That it a lot better. Small update, I am not bothering with the
custom cables for everything. It is 3:00 in the morning. One thing I'm not gonna
cable manage properly is this ASUS router. Just 'cause it's gonna get replaced, so I'm just gonna plunk it right there. But I mean it's all
still looking pretty good from the front here. I think we are ready for the big test. (mumbles) I am on wifi. See if the computers work. Oh, well that's simple. Mine's up. Mine is (mumbles) yes! Okay. And then yours, we're good. Keyboard working? Yes! Man I am just so stoked
with how this turned out. Check this out. Magnet mounted dust filter. Oh yeah. It's gonna stay tidy this
time, ladies and gentlemen. Of course managing your
hardware is just half the battle and that's where today's
sponsor Pulseway comes in. Pulseway is a real time remote monitoring and management software that
allows you to manage systems and support users from anywhere. So I signed up for their free account which allows you up to two
systems from my home closet here and it means that I can
just login from anywhere on my phone or from a
computer and see things like available memory,
processes that are running, I can open up a terminal
and execute commands, and I can even run automation scripts. It's pretty freaking sick. And if you get into their
more advanced tiers, man you can do some amazing stuff. We're talking full remote desktop access and this really cool new
feature called auto-remediation where you can bascially set up workflows that will fix problems
for you on their own. So you can have something like, actually we had an issue that
this would've been perfect for a couple of years ago
where the Dropbox service kept randomly stopping
on one of our servers that we needed to synchronize
all of the scripts that we put on our teleprompter. So with Pulseway's auto-remediation, you can just say hey,
if this service stops, restart the service, and hey,
fire off an email over to us so that we can keep an eye on how often this bloody thing is failing. It's super cool. Don't take my word for it though, try it out today for free at the link in the video description. We've also teamed up
with Pulseway and Corsair to give away a pretty
sick working from home slash gaming rig. It's a Corsair i140 with a Core i7 9700K and Nvidia RTX 2080, we'll
have those full details down below as well. Thanks for watching guys. If you enjoyed this video,
you might enjoy a recent one where Anthony and I made some
upgrades to our server room at the office. It's definitely worth a watch.
