Taran.... that green screen idea when linus said he lies... brilliant.

So Linus needs a push from sponsors to fix his WAN show PC and tidy up his server room dbrand if you're listening scrapyard wars pls

_Saw the ethernet spaghetti_ - "That's not quite a disaster. I've seen worse." _Saw the power cable management_ - "Holy mother of god!"

nothing screams louder than a suddenly silent server room

Loving the editing. Well done, Taran

Do you remember the good old days when linus was in NCIX? But now he is the boss and he can finally break anything without caring about implications...

Taran had too much fun with editing this video

Now this is something I would love to do even just as an intern to get valuable experience. I love the physical aspect of working on the hardware and learning as I go.

That is what happens when you have bad cable management? More like that is what happens when you are clumsy and waddle around in sandals.

Make the server room great again.

as an electrical engineer i can confidentaly say that all of those power squids are a serious firehazard

I’ve never been on this channel before. I don’t know what any of this stuff is or what it does. But I watched the entire thing because satisfaction.

9:00 Taran I love you. xD the editing is awesome

So today I spent 10 minutes watching two dudes clean a room

"do the editors need internet?" "not anymore" *my Internet goes out*

9:04 only linus would balance multi-thousand dollar servers on a plastic garbage bin.

When the video said disaster, I thought the Watercooled Server sprung a leak.

Loving the new Taran pop ins!

That server room is a great example of "There's no such thing as a temporary solution." Those dollar store power bars were (hopefully) there to just test everything, but then they became semi-permanent solutions until now.

This is what I do for a living and I see this madness more often than I should lol. But there are so many ways to improve this room.

we still want scrapyard wars Linus, ffs

The level of server-level incompetence is staggering, I love these vids because they show a company coming from pc hardware growning up and learning all the basics about server stuff on their own in little baby steps. The honesty and openness about it is great. It did make me wanna jump in from the first move video's to talk about the server room..must..restrain...myself...not..my...problem.

It seems like I watch this video once every 6 months. It’s becoming a routine. I don’t even know why.

00:02:14 that moment when everything goes quiet in the server room. I've actually seen this happen live, in a real 'DC' (Place I worked with their own server room on site... had extension cable/unit on the floor and someone stood on the switch...). That quiet sound, is horrible.

Will you be upgrading the server cabinet with RGB lighting strips?

Taran is on point this week.

Wow! Just found this review and I’m a bit surprised on how far you let the server room go without having it “ cleaned up”. I only discovered your channel a few months ago when I was doing some research. I find your reviews to be entertaining and informative. But as a retired tech I couldn’t understand why the heck you didn’t have a master plan put in place at the beginning of your business. That said I can fully understand your situation. You’re always running at full speed. But I’m happy to see that you’re making a real effort to put things right. Can’t remember having so much fun seeing someone work that loves his work so much. Great job!

I love these videos that are about the awesome equipment that you use in making videos. Also that segment with Taran on the screen was hilarious.

6:10 Suddenly a wild Taran appears.

The Taran meme level has increased to over 9000%

9:00 "Sa..mokin!" HAHA! Tickled me pink!

After about 4 minutes of this I feel really good about my rack situation. Thanks guys! :-)

these are my favorite kinds of videos. I started watching ltt from the moving vlogs and even though I occasionally watch some of the scripted stuff, nothing compares to off-the-cuff videos like these.

Running a $60,000 server on... a $2 power strip. *shakes head* Invest a (relative) handful of dollars into proper managed PDUs and use the proper power redundancy many of your servers come with.

This is a very small reminder of a project I once did: re-organize the patching between patch panels and switching racks in a fairly small computerroom. Had to upgrade the switching gear, too, replacing ‘monolytic’ switches with modular ones. Some cable salad was 50 cm thick and occupied all the space below the false floor. We did it in 3 changes (ITIL) and replaced exactly 20 km of patch cables. It was high profile and risk, but good fun. Conclusion: it pays off to have a good and strickt methodology with *everything* in your conputer room. It really does, all the time.

Loving the Love, and Careless! Great Job Guy's!

I wish my server room had 56 herbs and spices... It's just full of salt after seeing your setup 😂

MAN i love these videos, i'd pay for a vlog channel. common!!!

WoW guys , it was so real life ,but at the same time made light hearted with your presentation . Thank you

Pro-Tip. Don't blow compressed air THROUGH a switch or other enclosed device. Server-room dust can be CONDUCTIVE. It will relocate into little nooks and make a contact bridge where things fry! Oh dear, I lost two switches this way until I figured out I need to VACUUM. Open the switch and always vacuum! This is for PCs and servers too!

WHEN WILL YOU LEARN WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSICUENCISE

#LinusCensoredTips

DUDEE THIS VIDEO WAS SO COOL!! THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US THESE EXPERIENCES!

I love Taran edited videos, THIS IS WHAT I CALL A VLOG!

In Germany we call this Kabelsalat. Cable salad.

Okay this is really stupid. You already make a video in the new server room, but yet you will not release a full video on the completed server room yet...

Kinda looks like ubisofts servers

In California we would call your server room an OSHA violation. The cable management in my wiring closets and server room is worse than yours (by far) but 1) I inherited the mess and 2) mine isn’t about to catch fire.

...But Luke says cable management doesn't affect airflow...

Your cablemanagement reveals your true nature :D

Hello from Germany. Dude the Sandals and the Socks, top notch, what a guy.

Super classified LTT stuff? I am VERY curious... Damn

Wow, Linus. As a data center tech I have been able to discover whole new levels of disappointment thanks to this video haha.

I'll be back in 2020 for Part 2!

I'm studying to become an IT-supporter, and it's so fun to see how this is my first time seeing a company using cisco devices(I study cisco certificates)

Father: hey son what you get up too today Son: I watched two guys clean up a server room

Sponsored by the local fire department.

Im pretty sure that power setup is a fire hazard.

Good god, that is one daunting task, no one can question Linus's work ethic that's for sure.

Truly one of the most entartaining series on the channel.

If you guys keep doing your wiring like that, you will be generating your company revenue from a fire insurance claim on the building. :-(

Honestly if you can't get a series out faster than once every 2 weeks to 2 months then don't make any. Hope this isn't another one of those.... Whole water room cooling, Scrapyard Wars, and Moving Vlogs are different stories I'm talking about Office Redesign and Linus' Personal PC build. (UPDATE if you don't read replies: I get the whole idea of supporting LTT and getting benefits like watching videos early by paying for Floatplane. However, it's really annoying to those of us who don't or simply can't pay to get those videos earlier and we have to wait random unpredictable amounts of time until one day they might show up in our sub boxes. Not trying to sound like a cry baby but, a company of this size should have scheduling ALMOST perfected and not completely neglected.)

I like the way you were cleaning the PC fans, GOOD JOB, it is best to make sure the fins of the fan do not spin. Keep the fins in place while using canned air or the vacuum/duster to prevent damage and make it easier to remove the dust.

I'm shocked and fascinated at the same time. lol

Basically Linus doesn't do anything anymore unless it's sponsored and there is no future planing because it's all done when it turns into a problem. That pretty much describes how the server room turned into the disaster that it is. We need power bars, is there a company that will send us $500 power bars for free while we do a review on them? No, okay then, to the dollar store.

this video should be called extreme makeover: server room edition (part 1)

Glad to see educational channels such as this have millions of subscribers and not just silly "KZfaqrs".

Thank you, Linus. For making people realize the importance of Cable Technicians 😘

I like the gum chewing guy. He's like: Yeah, don't worry. I've seen this thing before. I GOT THIS !

It's like an episode of Hoarders: Cable Management Edition. Sadly, cable management isn't something you do one time, but have to create an active policy that dictates how cables are routed every time something new is added.

Linus... As someone who does installs and cable running in a datacenter, your power delivery solutions before you cleaned appalls me. Very glad you're cleaning it up.

We have this exact server room situation :) So funny to see this!

As a limited energy journeymen technician I say "For GODS sake put a label on something!" Makes plug and play alot easier. I cant wait to see you put it all back together!

This is like kitchen nightmare but with a server room instead of a kitchen.

In our server/comms room at a large data center, we mounted 110 blocks on backboard, permanant cabling from servers, switches, and routers as well as work stations, then use cat5 or cat 6 cross connect wire. Much more flexible than patch panels. Never touch the perm wiring, all done at backboard.

i love how linux always realises things afterwards :D like dust filters to his server rack :D

'linus talking about highly classified LMG information' God damn it! we were so close to finding out linus' porn stache location!

is Taran a meme now?

You commented briefly about reliability problems with long USB cables. We had this problem at work and it turned out to be USB cables that did not meet the specification, specifically the cable shield (screen) not being connected properly at both ends. Slightly less budget cables from the same supplier turned out to be correctly made and hence more reliable.

I loved the editting on this, more memes pls

This has finally motivated me to wire management my Server Rack. Thankyou

I'm disappointed in you Linus. Clean your room!

Damn, that was an epic cable nest!

Before retiring I worked for USPS as a technician in an area with 4 large flat sorting machines (125ft long, 24ft wide and 16ft high. At the front of each machine was a wack with 7ea dual zeon processor rack mounted image servers. Each server had a bank of whiney fans trying to blast air so they wouldn't melt, Xeon cpu's generated a lot of heat back in 2006 and stuffing it all into a 1U case did not help. There were doors front and back that did a great job of turning the cabinets into ovens. their was a bank of high speed fans at the base of these cabinets that were supposed to move enough air to keep everything happy but it wasn't nearly enough air. When i came on shift at 1430 I'd go around and check each machine and I'd open the front and back doors about 3" to help the air escape and that lowered the internal temperature of the computers significantly . The problem is the day crew's boss had a bug up his ass about keeping the doors shut and locked lest nefarious workers tamper with the computers. I tried to explain the problem to him but he said no way. He said those cabinets don't get at all hot and I told him that was because the first thing your guys do is shut every thing down so they can do daily PM on the machines and didn't fire them back up til about a half hour before my shift started (we actively ran mail form about 1500 to 0600 the next morning). Machines that are off do mot generate heat - he just looked at me and blinked. BTW our back server room which had dozens of racks filled with computers and two high capacity AC cabinets the doors on the servers were all missing and I don't they were ever there. Being a practical guy I found out where they hid the keys to all the doors (all keyed alike) and I threw them all out except for the one on my key chain - he went absolutely ballistic but could never prove it was me. he then wanted to mechanically seal the cases which would make working on the computers VERY hard. I solved that by taking the doors off and hiding them in the basement, he vowed to find the guy who did this and fire him, Two years later when I retired the doors were still where I hid them, the computers were happy, and that boss had been moved to a job where he couldn't do as much damage. The PO had some great people working on the floor, they cared deeply about the mail and recognized how important it was to get millions of peices of mail through the machines and out on their way. Some of the managers were just unbelievably dense and their actions could and did delay mail movement.

I wish everybody who is reading this a fantastic day or night!

Destroy ur warehouse and build a new one, cause not just the server room is messy :D

can't wait for the part 2

This looks like every network room I've ever been in. And I've been in a lot of closed, cramped closets with no air flow.

So are you making Club Penguin great again? :D

I love these vlog style doing/making videos so much. more like these would be greatly appreciated : ) keep up the good work : )

9:25 imagine it just starts to rain really hard

If you watched the video released 2 days ago about Linus's watercooled server, you will notice you get a short peek at the finished server room (or near finished server room since we all know Linus likes to keep upgrading). But I am glad we finally get to see the work put in behind it.

What I If toldyou .. you read that wrong

Why don't you guys take advantage of the height of the server room, you can run wires through to the top if done properly, and it will keep wires off the floor. You can also mount UPS's through the walls as well, and just use the racks for other things. This will conserve space.

Good call on the Ubiquity Access points. My company struggled with wireless internet until I installed a couple of those puppies. Been smooth sailing ever since.

To whoever edited this video, thank you

The editing team doing great job but I like to see more crazy effects in the videos.

Taran had way to much fun with this one!

I've only just started watching this and don't have a clue what strategy you plan to use, but when I'm faced with a mess like this I find it easiest, most efficient and the least chance of screwing up when I just remove everything and rebuild from the bottom up.

Would be great to have a cost estimate written in the description.