I DIDN'T get scammed on Facebook Marketplace! - NetApp DiskShelves For Your NAS

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We bought a once $100,000 NetApp storage server setup for $1000, except, we never checked if any of it works. Today we find out if we got scammed, how it was intended to work, and how you at home can modify one of these to provide a ton of storage expansion for a NAS or home computer for CHEAP.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:12 What we bought
4:36 Trying to set it up NetApp's way
10:59 Booting it up
13:39 Repurposing a DiskShelf for a NAS
16:08 Upgrading to 6 Gigabit SAS (IOM6 Controllers)
19:46 Interposers!
20:41 Calling Wendell
22:14 Use TrueNAS Scale, not Core
25:47 SPEED TESTING!

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@dupajasio4801 10 ай бұрын

Jake, you summarized Netapp perfectly. I think only Cisco and Oracle are worse for licensing every single thing. Netapp also licenses capacity, so you pay per gigabyte of space.

@legendyang 10 ай бұрын

This comment should get more likes

@isaiborrias882 10 ай бұрын

That's crazy

@mowtow90 10 ай бұрын

The irony is that they could have restored the licences. Just call the old owner and ask him to login to his NetApp account and download them. They are locked to the serial numbers on the controllers... Also naming the IOMs (the dummest divices in existance that have 0 control over the drives) controllers and the RAID controllers - servers... Come on Jake , you are the more knowledgeable of the 2 , get it toggeder.

@derodge 10 ай бұрын

No, Dell/EMC are by far the worst.

@bretl8130 10 ай бұрын

so does EMC starting with VNX2

@ashamar 10 ай бұрын

Former NetApp engineer here. I worked on these systems (installing, using and selling) for about 16 years and it was a joy seeing you guys setup these old things. A couple notes for people in the comments: 1) Yes, you can add bigger drives to storage arrays, but the big thing to keep in mind is your rebuild times for failed disks. The bigger your drive, the longer it can take to rebuild a drive from RAID, and if you don't have enough spares, or get a multidrive failure, you could wind up with data loss. This is the reason you typically don't see large 16+ TB drives in enterprise arrays, and when you do there is usually a requirement for 2 or 3 hot spares per pool. 2) Why buy something like this when you can get a smaller NAS box that hold has the same capacity? Data accessibility. You do not what to see what happens to a Synology or QNAP when a couple thousand users try to access it at the same time. 3) Linus is right - they are NOT the target customer for enterprise arrays. They need a big vault, but not the access times. And they can afford to spend the time fixing and building their own solutions - they actually MAKE money from the roll your own solutions via views. 4) NetApp is, and has been historically, the most expensive enterprise storage solution on a per TB basis. They are great if you need CIFS, NFS and block storage (FC, FCoE or iSCSI) in one array. But if you just need block or file, there are much better and cheaper solutions. Fun note here - for a very long time, NetApp was the only storage solution that ran actual CIFS - they actually licensed the protocol from Microsoft. This eliminated the weirdness you can sometime get, especially back in the old days, of running Samba in an AD environment. Overall - this was a fun trip down memory lane with this. Great job getting it setup and running on your own!

@lmaoidgaf 10 ай бұрын

@lefourbe5596 10 ай бұрын

it's just so cool that every tech enjoyer and worker get on LTT to share their experience. Internet and Linus does wonders. it must have been hearth warming to see a part of your life documented by THE Linus :)

@bretl8130 10 ай бұрын

that's why there is raid DP who cares

@prgnify 10 ай бұрын

old fart here; "the weirdness you can sometime get, especially back in the old days, of running Samba in an AD environment" gave me a stress response. Thanks. lol

@PascalBrax 10 ай бұрын

Also, netapp disks are formatted with extra two bytes per... Sector? I don't know, but anyway it means all the data on the drive is checksummed, which is great but probably a headache for generic Linux.

@jonchellis2978 10 ай бұрын

"It should be illegal to sell hardware that requires software that you need an account to access." - Love it, Jake. We in the TPM space feel this statement so hard.

@joebob2311productions 10 ай бұрын

I swear Linus and Jake doing server things is something I know almost nothing about yet its entertaining as hell.

@whoawhoawhatsthis 10 ай бұрын

Same...I actually love the server videos... almost all of it goes above my head, but interesting to watch.

@NeverWinterNightShift 10 ай бұрын

@@whoawhoawhatsthis It actually gives me a base to start researching from, since I hear them talk about things in the video and start googling to learn more. I've picked up a lot just off that.

@Pateteee 10 ай бұрын

100% i would like to pay jake to build me a server, even though i dont need it at all. ( i'd be okay with a 2tb hdd) Bur this duo is fun.

@Jamie_D 10 ай бұрын

Same 😂

@TheLoneWolfQC 9 ай бұрын

100%

@eldibs 10 ай бұрын

Not only does Linus save money by paying Jake to manage his servers, he gains money by turning it into content.

@3k.in4k 10 ай бұрын

Truly a genius man 😢

@rokibuca 10 ай бұрын

Jake work for Linus so he gets paid managing the servers is just one part of his job

@mikyhtx 10 ай бұрын

@@rokibucayeah but imagine doing two jobs and only getting paid for one.

@noneyabizz8337 10 ай бұрын

@mikyhtx many people have multiple tasks as their single job responsibility.... You don't know that he's not being paid more for his "extra" work.

@eccomi21 10 ай бұрын

@@mikyhtx it depends on the paycheck and what the job includes. either he gets paid for 2 jobs, or once for 2 half jobs. i myself am in a position where i do a bit of everything and it is both interesting and pays better than if i had "one" job

@K0ALA. 10 ай бұрын

So glad to see Linus’s oldest son Jake is still doing well

@TylerFurrison 10 ай бұрын

I thought Jake was his boyfriend

@SirPoppy 10 ай бұрын

@@TylerFurrisoncringe furry

@ZackMuffinMan 10 ай бұрын

@@TylerFurrison Jake is Linus' son but Yvonne's second husband.

@urjuhh 10 ай бұрын

You can see the company is doing well... as Jake has had a haircut

@Furiends 10 ай бұрын

@@TylerFurrison What a cute couple

@TechySpeaking 10 ай бұрын

"How much money did we waste on these?" "$20" Linus is genuinely happy that, for once, it wasn't hundreds or thousands.

@chuckemtrad8541 10 ай бұрын

Or a hundred thousand like a lot of the lab equipment.

@DeinonychusCowboy 10 ай бұрын

15:11 can we just shoutout startech for making every weird adapter under the sun? Every time I have some stupid idea they're at the top of the amazon search.

@bizzarechipmonk 10 ай бұрын

One of my favorite things with this channel over the years is watching Jake get more comfortable in front of the camera and even better at explaining technical details at an understandable level. Not that he was ever bad at either, but watching someone flourish is always fun

@BastetFurry 10 ай бұрын

Waiting for our Linux Queen to come back in front of the camera as a main. ❤

@reilandeubank 10 ай бұрын

Every video i watch with jake just makes me wish i could be friends wiht him hahah

@bradonhoover3002 10 ай бұрын

He even teed up that sponsor segue pretty well!

@John69420 10 ай бұрын

Now he just needs a gym arc to become gigachad

@StormCrusher94 10 ай бұрын

Such behaviour from companies should be illegal. Just locking basic functions of harddrives behind login credentials.

@seigeengine 10 ай бұрын

It's effectively a form of extortion, so... yes, yes it should be.

@ClaggyPants 10 ай бұрын

Only this is true enterprise kit. It's designed to make NetApp's customers money. They might spend a fortune to buy and operate the equipment but then they're going to make a fortune in turn. Everyone in the chain with the exception of the ultimate end customer, usually the general public, is going to make their coin and take their pound of flesh in setups where these things are typically used.

@JeffDeWitt 10 ай бұрын

No, not illegal, but people just shouldn't play their game and either put them out of business or force them the change their behavior.

@hinuiiik 10 ай бұрын

@@JeffDeWittIt just isn't working. Enterprise customers already pay huge prices for literally everything. They will continue to pay for a comparatively small licensing price. Non-enterprise customers and the environment are hit the hardest and the companies have no reason to care.

@pesohernandez1091 10 ай бұрын

@@seigeengine Spoken like someone who doesn't have a need for enterprise grade storage.

@jean-christophebettinelli8727 10 ай бұрын

As a former Netapp Certified Engineer, it’s really funny to see you trying to understand how to connect and use it. Also the Ethernet cables for the shelves (ACP) are not any more necessary with the recent versions of Ontap.

@guytech7310 10 ай бұрын

I liked you labeled yourself as *former" NetApp Cert. Engineer. The companies I work with all ditched them a decade or more ago.

@Sammysapphira 10 ай бұрын

@@guytech7310 What do companies use for storage these days? Does everyone just rely on AWS or other cloud infrastructures?

@himaro101 10 ай бұрын

@@Sammysapphiracompany in in is embarking on a 6 year plan to decommission all it's data centres around the globe and migrate to AWS. So we may have done 1 or 2 of them in 10 years... 🤷‍♂️

@lwkett 10 ай бұрын

@@Sammysapphiramost companies moved to cloud. The big companies who still remain on prem build their own storage stack. Netapp is still used. Pure storage is one of the more 'newer' and fancier on-prem system. I still think that Dell/EMC has the biggest market share for data center storage though...

@avann2006 10 ай бұрын

Former NetApp remote support engineer here. Takes me back to the old days...

@GrizzLeeAdams 10 ай бұрын

I rescued some older netapp fibrechannel disk shelves and an iSCSI SAN, turned out there was a relatively easy nvram patch to make it think it was an engineering test unit and unlock all the licenses by default (thanks netapp for leaving the configs for every model in the firmware image, even though they were IBM and Sun branded netapp shelfs). installed sas to fc interposers and maxed out all the units with common off the shelf drives.

@Franknakano7 10 ай бұрын

Please make the "it should be illegal to sell hardware that needs a software and key" a bigger point. Literally tons of ewaste is being created by these enterprise companies especially CISCO. They will tell everyone it's for YOUR safety and security, but it's just greed. That netapp server is just garbage, which is really sad.

@TechPorkChop 10 ай бұрын

What do you expect for something that old. Now the new NetApp AFF-A800, A250, NS224, those are lighting fast.

@marksapollo 10 ай бұрын

So very true. Tons of e-waste ends up in landfills every year due to it. Should be made illegal.

@generic6099 10 ай бұрын

PERFECTLY GOOD HARDWARE WASTED BECAUSE OF A STUPID SOFTWARE LOCK, and consumers of all ranges still gets gaslit into buying the *newer and faster hardware with more software/hardware interlocks* for their supposed benifits.

@GReaper 10 ай бұрын

@@generic6099 This is actually why the DMCA actually made it LEGAL to hack/crack such equipment when it was past the manufacturer's support cycle. It makes it reusable, doesn't take any money from the company, and reduces e-waste if taken advantage of.

@nickallain 10 ай бұрын

We ran something like this when I worked at a university. We dropped one in our building, another at a building down the street, and another on another side of the country. Each night, they all backed up to each other. Video editing teams on the campus would dump all their footage to the server and we could edit completely from the network. The brilliance was getting people stop storing the university's historic footage on portable drives sitting on desks...above a restaurant. At one point, one of servers sat in my actual office. A student worker wanted to test performance so he wrote and read files from it all weekend. I came in the next Monday and my actual office was 110F.

@mrnmrn1 10 ай бұрын

It's not a good idea to run these outside of a server room. It will be full of dust within months. It needs air filtration and air conditioning to work reliably in the long term.

@button-puncher 10 ай бұрын

OMG and I can't imagine the sound either. When an enterprise device goes in to 20k RPM mode with 80 fans.

@Reac2 10 ай бұрын

Wrote and Read all weekend? I hope he didn't hit all the drives all the time. That's like smoking a 4 packs a day for a week. That server lost like 40% of its remaining life expectancy

@nickallain 10 ай бұрын

@@Reac2 it was years ago. As far as I know, it was fine.

@veryboringname. 10 ай бұрын

@@Reac2 writing and reading for 2 days will make it lose 40% of its life expectancy? So if they did it for a few weekends it would have died?

@BigHeadClan 10 ай бұрын

I used to be a data Center technician and a few of my clients were oil and gas and had 2-3 dozen racks of fully populated netapp disk shelves like that in their DCs. They were usually around for 3-5 years before getting replaced with higher density models. It was effectively a lease program from netapp, I did get to see a sneak peak of Zen before it was officially on the market which was pretty cool.

@Playmylevel 9 ай бұрын

@AlexanderHenry-hz3tdwhy the spam?

@TotlKaos 9 ай бұрын

Kinda leasing.. we have a large amount of Netapp in our company. Usually what happens is that they will End of Life (EOL) the unit and you have to replace it. EOL prevents support and when you have a large enterprise you need the support and the ability to get spares as well. Netapp will not ship any parts or give any support for EOL systems. So you are kind of stuck. We have been researching AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google but the pricing model is what knocks us back. Instead of a one time payment and use the equipment for 4-5 years we have a nonstop monthly payment.

@ZGDX_Smiling_ 10 ай бұрын

*5:41** IS THAT A FIGHTER JET TAKING OFF*

@goober-ll1wx 10 ай бұрын

Jake is 1000% correct here, it really should be illegal to sell hardware this locked down... 🤬😡

@giovannimantegna769 10 ай бұрын

worst is in the smart home sector where remote access is subscription locked

@goober-ll1wx 10 ай бұрын

@@giovannimantegna769 that's not affecting millions of dollars of hardware.....yet

@MrCroky123 9 ай бұрын

yeah .... blame it on the "socialists" ... oh wait !!!! XD XD XD

@someguy4915 9 ай бұрын

@@giovannimantegna769 But in anything 'smart' it's more an issue that everything is run in some random 'cloud' server somewhere so after a few years the company switches that server off and all your smart stuff becomes e-waste with no (reasonable) way to fix it... Here it's just fully functional hardware that is meant to be sold to large companies that would rather pay for a support contract than risk having downtime, kind of like an insurance package. So naturally NetApp doesn't want to sell or deal with small parties that won't buy their product. While it is annoying, nobody really is going to use it like that anyway. More annoying are HPE and Dell locking BIOS updates behind a paywall... You buy a server with 2 years of support, it has a bug in the BIOS firmware that makes it crash once every week or so for two years. After two years they bring out a fixed BIOS update that you can't download because your support contract has ended... (True story) Basically they sold you a broken server (actually 250 servers...) that they didn't fix for 2 years only to then tell you that after 2 years of problems you need to pay them even more to finally get the server you thought you bought two years ago...

@kindcolt5707 10 ай бұрын

I would love to see more home server stuff, something like a practical and affordable diy nas setup for a small family. A simple build with some of the configuration for the essentials of a family-oriented homelab. Including things like file and computer backups, media server ect.

@factsandstuff2832 10 ай бұрын

Interesting

@mgkleym 10 ай бұрын

Craft computing does a lot of home lab content. Mostly a mix of obsolete enterprise gear and weird chinese market stuff.

@katrinabryce 10 ай бұрын

@@mgkleym Serve the Home is another good channel to look at.

@peterbaumgartner4878 10 ай бұрын

You could repurpose your own gaming PC if you have a high core count and enough RAM with proxmox. Basically proxmox is essentially free VMWare made by an Austrian Company. Granted their support hours follow Austrian time but its a great free tool that lets you cluster everything together and multiple VMs.

@denshi-oji494 9 ай бұрын

Depending on needed storage and data throughput... unRaid on your choice of hardware may be a great option.

@mikeperry420 7 ай бұрын

I bought the same setup for my company. Was awesome to see you guys run into the same exact issues as i did. i never could get access to the fans and man o man the fans spin! fast forward a year and filled with 12tb drives. i use half the array to replicate to itself. I love it!

@b4mvt 10 ай бұрын

Definitely my favorite kind of LTT content, love seeing videos like this.

@zachb4047 10 ай бұрын

LTT needs a channel that is dedicated to home lab / home server and networking!!!!

@H22Designs 10 ай бұрын

This!!! I agree 100%

@Felix-ve9hs 10 ай бұрын

Best advice before start building a homelab: decide what you want to learn. Most people just create a homelab because they like buying and playing with hardware, but dont have any real goals that they want to reach. 🤔 (For me its learning about IPv6, High availability network and storage, ZFS and FreeBSD)

@austeria2669 10 ай бұрын

LLT (Linus Lab Tips)

@ayuchanayuko 10 ай бұрын

No no, call it Level Two Tech (LTT)

@trevorcarl9515 10 ай бұрын

@@AlexanderHenry-hz3td hail satan

@UltrawideBenchmarks 10 ай бұрын

Linus and Jake giving the finger to NetApp is the highlight of this episode

@Pateteee 10 ай бұрын

Makes me want to go and do the same. I dont think this was good ad to netapp. Even though most of us watching wouldnt be buying server stuff.

@enigmalfidelity 10 ай бұрын

Back to the LTT content we all missed. I see a bright future for the company as a whole. Good choice, Linus!

@Koalateatimes 10 ай бұрын

I really really want to see more DIY and Enterprise server videos. Data hoarding and management along with how all of this stuff works would be awesome to learn. Stuff on with Access and SQL. Be kind cool even though we have stuff like True NAS.

@ateiviz 10 ай бұрын

I used to work as a hardware maintenance engineer for a company in Ireland and used to look after the likes of "legacy" IBM and Dell systems. These had gone past the support life that the OEM would provide unless you paid them ridiculous amount of money. I used to deal with all the same issues that the lads are coming across, licensing, hardware procurement etc. It's all a huge pain in the hole to force companies to keep paying the OEM to maintain them.

@Joliie 10 ай бұрын

Same, but there are companies out there that specializes in supporting out of support system. The main issue is there is not likely to be any firmware updates to them, but we had old IBM servers running with good support from 3rd party. That said, we only had PSU and HDD problems, but they had the systems we still used in stock for a "quick" replacement. Boy did it make a difference in speed and time used to replace those old systems :)

@ateiviz 10 ай бұрын

@@Joliie oh yeah, I used to work for a 3rd party, I realised I didn't specify in my comment initially 😅 you're spot on, we mostly dealt with HDDs and PSUs, we very seldom had issues with network cards. One of the challenges with the service was also knowing the command line for the iSeries and the xSeries systems. It was good fun 😊

@WolfetoneRebel1916 10 ай бұрын

Ah Ireland, a nation of data centres and storage engineers.

@j377yb33n 10 ай бұрын

@@WolfetoneRebel1916 don't forget incredibly hodgepodge internet access!

@Aguyinachair 10 ай бұрын

I tear down enterprise computing equipment like this as my job rn. The licensing problem is the tip of the Iceberg, especially when you start to consider networking equipment. Some of it can't be reset without the root password and require a reflash to even log in. I got started taking tech seriously after learning how to build a PC from Linux back in the NCIX days. I love your mission and your philosophy on life/work

@dan-star 10 ай бұрын

@AlexanderHenry-hz3tdstop Spamming

@AZMTB 10 ай бұрын

When I worked for Konica Minolta in one of their datacenters, we used NetApp for storage. Cisco blade servers down one row of cabinets, booting off of and VMs running off of NetApp tiered storage down another aisle, all connected via multiple 40g backbones. Pretty fun experience!

@erik365365365 10 ай бұрын

Jake and Linus both do such a good job bring this all down to my level. Their knowledge knows no bounds

@bahamutbbob 10 ай бұрын

When i was in IT, I spent 2 days in an old server room (that we were moving out of) just zeroing a bunch of servers we were going to surplus. That was a thing that took a lot of time.

@Jehty21 10 ай бұрын

@@TheInfidel_SlavaUA why would it need many man hours? Just start the process and do something else.

@cerealport2726 10 ай бұрын

I had a similar task at a defence contractor when we were preparing desktop computers for return at end of lease. Hundreds of desktops had to be wiped, re-imaged with the original OS, any front panel USB ports reconnected, and any extra drives removed. Equally, the new replacement desktops had to be imaged and have their front panel USBs unplugged. Whatever the IT setup, its still labour intensive process, plugging and unplugging PCs, checking serial numbers, etc, and it's hard to justify creating a really lean process for something that was done in bulk once every few years. The machines that were used in high security areas were easier to deal with. the hard drives were removed and destroyed.

@uss-dh7909 10 ай бұрын

Lol, just getting my home server set up right now, four 4TB drives that used to have data on them have been zeroing for about three hours right now and scale says its only 36% done. What did I do in the meantime? Well, I'm moving house so I showed the house to two potential buyers. Real estate is so not my gig.

@NavySeal2k 10 ай бұрын

O_o takes 20 seconds to take a drill to a Harddisk, you can speed this up by stacking them 3 high. We never give away harddisks.

@cerealport2726 10 ай бұрын

@@NavySeal2k Firstly, doing it yourself doesn't meet government data destruction requirements, Second, the disks to be destroyed were sent to another company so the process can be certified and verified. Thirdly, as I said, these were the fastest computers for us to deal with...

@jajssblue 10 ай бұрын

Gotta love a Linus and Jake excursion into IT equipment!

@internet_userr 10 ай бұрын

Gotta love how no one asked!

@internet_userr 10 ай бұрын

@internet_userr no one asked for your opinion

@Locutus 10 ай бұрын

They usually have 1 or 2 videos a month together, so it's not unusual.

@TechTipsUSA 10 ай бұрын

Information technology technology

@42pyroboy 10 ай бұрын

you must be new choncho

@DilemmaCS 10 ай бұрын

These IT videos with Jake are the only videos to keep me entertained and intrigued the whole time I watch it.

@Bandana_Assault 10 ай бұрын

Love this. Reminds me of watching Home Time (a home improvement show that was on in the 90's)

@dragon2knight 10 ай бұрын

I'm a computer flipper and almost always rely on Marketplace and Ebay for my parts. I sometimes use specialty places like Jawa, but only when I'm desperate as their prices are non negotiable and almost always too high (my experience). Glad to see something like this antique can be had on Marketplace, it's always why I almost daily check on there 'cause you never know.

@mrmotofy 10 ай бұрын

I just picked up a Dell R210 ii with 16Gb of Ram for $50, 8mi from me...from Marketplace. I couldn't believe I finally get a deal like that and that close

@cptbaker 10 ай бұрын

The seller must've thought Linus was the worst negotiator, for offering to pay double of what they thought they were offering 😅

@shannonduckmanton243 10 ай бұрын

But they still sold it for $1000? Lmao I'd be pissed

@Rederis 10 ай бұрын

@@shannonduckmanton243In the original video, they meant to sell it for $500 and accidentally added another 0

@catcrasher711 10 ай бұрын

I legit cannot think of something in LTT history that has made me laugh as hard as that moment in the video.

@inku2015 10 ай бұрын

@AlexanderHenry-hz3td which fairy tale is this from?

@corkhead0 10 ай бұрын

The shelves are worth roughly $300 to $400 each empty. They are quite popular in the home lab space since it's a cheap way to host a large number of drives. Linus actually got a great deal. Maybe not so much once you account for the time it's going to take Jake to remove 96 drives.

@fischreiss1649 10 ай бұрын

Working with NetApp for like 3 years. The Storage Products were the one who brought me in IT. Its still very nice to work with it. Nice finally see a Video on LTT.

@linuxguy1199 10 ай бұрын

I buy used NetApp drives all the time, I re-flash the drive firmware and replace the proprietary 520 byte sectors size with standard 512 byte sectors. One of my servers (an HP Proliant DL360) has been running 8 of them for 5 years nows, somehow without a single drive failure even after moving the server 3 times! They must choose their drives well since they've been so reliable (compared to other drives I've used).

@TylerFurrison 10 ай бұрын

520 byte sectors sound like hell

@PascalBrax 10 ай бұрын

@@TylerFurrison2 extra bytes are for checksums

@linuxguy1199 10 ай бұрын

@@TylerFurrison They are, to flash the drives I had a PCIe to ExpressCard adapter I plugged into my laptop (Thinkpad T430), then I had a SuperMicro HBA I hookup so I can do 4 drives at once just using my laptop (since my server RAID controllers will not recognize them as valid drives). Boy did it take forever too since the tool I used had to do a slow wipe of the entire drive afterwards.

@Shoult55 10 ай бұрын

The other reason the platters are smaller is that speed at the outer edge is reduced which makes things like NVH easier to manage. On a 5400 or 7200 rpm disk it's pretty manageable for a full size platter. But double the speed and things can go pear shaped pretty quick.

@glebglub 10 ай бұрын

also, inertia. the smaller platter size makes them less wobbly for a given thickness and RPM. I'm sure there's hundreds of old videos on youtube of people making CDs literally explode by sticking them on a drill and letting it rip

@gblargg 10 ай бұрын

I was thinking about pure speed and acceleration, limiting the RPM so the platter wouldn't shatter. Don't know whether that would be the case if the platters were the full 3.5" size at 15k.

@glebglub 10 ай бұрын

@@gblargg yeah, that's what I was getting at with "intertia", which is related to speed, acceleration/deccelartion, linear and angular momentum, mass, centripetal force, etc. there's a reason consumer drives were typically 3600-7200 RPM. though most likely they wouldn't shatter, they'd still wobble/deform, which would mess with the read/write head and strain the motor. to counteract the platters deforming you'd need to make them thicker and stronger, increasing their mass and as such the power the motor needed to drive them, which would also increase the noise to an unacceptable level for consumers where they typically work next to the computer, as opposed to a separate server room all in all, thank feck SSDs are reliable af now (just not for long-term achival purposes afaik since they're basically billions of tiny capacitors that slowly lose their charge)

@TatsuZZmage 10 ай бұрын

You ever seen a 15000 RPM disk decide it would rather be shrapnel?

@solarbirdyz 10 ай бұрын

I was wondering last time if there were interposers for this kind of use case. Nice video.

@kaismets 5 ай бұрын

Having worked with NetApp FAS system a lot, seeing you struggle with all the daisy chaining is fun :D

@eliyang 10 ай бұрын

Jake is that person that Linus hired full time to take care of their mission critical infra. 😅

@Locutus 10 ай бұрын

Why is that funny?

@philb5593 10 ай бұрын

He was hired as a video writer. Took over some of the infrastructure duties over the years

@BenjaminArntzen 10 ай бұрын

@@Locutusperhaps because Jake does a terrible job of it (love you Jake, sorry :'()

@fitybux4664 10 ай бұрын

If you buy something that is bog standard like a NetApp, EMC, or other storage vendor, you don't need "a Jake". Jakes cost a lot, and often their time is better spent on other custom things instead of keeping shoestring / duct tape hardware working. This is like managed vs unmanaged services.

@Locutus 10 ай бұрын

@@philb5593 Still not funny. It's great that he was able to move up in LMG.

@markusbart8092 10 ай бұрын

I had one of these storage shelves. Turns out the fans are not just crazy loud, they also draw a lot of power. Like, A LOT. Swap them for Noctua NF-A8 FLX (2 per PSU) and the system becomes a lot more manageable both in terms of power draw and noise. With an all-SATA setup and dual PSUs, I had it hooked up to an unraid server with an IBM M1015 HBA. Worked like a charm. Only downside for me was that Unraid could not spin down drives or read SMART data (I was using interposers).

@NightFig0 10 ай бұрын

Same Here. Damn interposers

@ChrisMuncy 10 ай бұрын

Love this deep technical dive as I can see myself doing something exactly like this! Thanks gang!

@Rosco785 10 ай бұрын

I have been running one of these units at home for my media library and love it to death. Got 12 bays populated with refurbished 10TB sas disks

@dwreck5424 10 ай бұрын

I'm a field engineer for NetApp, the disk controllers are called IOM modules and the server controllers are called Controllers. This is so awesome to watch!!

@Jehty21 10 ай бұрын

Was the 🖕 part also awesome to watch? 🤣

@floydlooney6837 10 ай бұрын

Are they always so loud?

@ulwur 10 ай бұрын

@@floydlooney6837 If you plug in all power supplies the fans slow down.

@dwreck5424 10 ай бұрын

@@Jehty21 kinda lol. I actually love my job.

@dwreck5424 10 ай бұрын

@@floydlooney6837 when a power supply is missing the system kind of panics and ramps up. So plugging in all the power supplies will fix that. Also when the system is at loader it ramps up as well.

@gilramos5767 10 ай бұрын

At my workplace, we get these all the time as e-waste. My first step is to remove the controllers in order to obtain the NICs, which are usually 10Gb Intel x520's. Sometimes there are flash cache cards. Then I examine the NetApp SAS drives for health. We usually throw these away because they have seen a lot of use. The JBOD enclosures are then tested. We sell the drives if they are in good condition, the x520s, and the JBODs for local pickup or wholesale. Everything else is for scrap price.

@Agh0sty 10 ай бұрын

Honestly its a good time learning about servers with jake and linus❤

@DarkTangoFox 10 ай бұрын

I love these Jake and Linus videos so much.

@seikojin 10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of my HP days. Hauling server hardware around MS campus and deploying unreleased goodies. Most lab managers loved me due to being proactive on distributing the hardware instead of hoarding it in one lab. I did a lot of research into storage limits and wondered why no one did daughterboard adapters to socket SD cards into 3.5 bays. The solutions that have been made in the trailing dozen years still haven't really did the right things or taken off. Right things being controller and cooling.

@7rich79 10 ай бұрын

There are several gotchas with buying enterprise hardware on the "grey market". You won't have a maintenance contract, which also prevents you from getting some or all of the software and / or licenses. If you want to get this, most often the vendors will say you need a maintenance contract. But, they will backdate this to when the maintenance lapsed. So if you buy the hardware from a thirs party in e.g 2023, and the maintenance lapsed in 2020, the vendors will make you backpay from 2020.

@cheekychillipepper 10 ай бұрын

for some reason I loved this video. i like the idea of old hardware videos and its nuances

@EightPieceBox 10 ай бұрын

We had something similar at work around 2005. It was about half as tall as that one, loaded with enough 15,000 rpm SCSI drives to reach 1 TB. The dumb part was it was used to store MP3s for a radio network's music library, and all the files were in one directory, at least when they first set it up. It was so slow! 😂

@powerpower-rg7bk 10 ай бұрын

I am so glad you guys tried to get the normal NetApp environment up and running before retrofitting everything. The learning experiencing of working with HA hardware/software is a valuable experience. One important step after getting everything working is testing it. This includes going full chaos monkey and unplugging random cables and seeing how it reacts vs. expectations. Though those one finger salutes were warranted for NetApp given the enterprise lock downs on licensing. 13:10 More modern SAS disks now have multiple arms so that two operations can be performed simultaneously. To further improve parallel operations, that half the stack of arms can act independently of the other half, permitting up to four operations on a single set of platters. Awesome for hard drives but far behind even SATA SSD in terms of raw IOPs. 19:47 The interposers permit both controllers to see a single SATA drive. You are correct in that most controllers can operate a SATA drive however in that chassis only one of the two will ever actually see it. One of the benefits of SAS is its support of multipathing to the drives which is critical for HA. That means both controllers have access to all the drives simultaneously and if one controller fails, the other still has access. Another way of looking at it is that a 12 Gbit SAS drive actually has 24 Gbit of aggregate bandwidth across two links. This is how modern SAS SSD can keep up with NVMe to a degree. However, the new hot swappable NVMe form factors like E3S also support multipathing to provide HA functionality. Throwing 22 TB SATA drives into these does make sense for bulk storage of video. Using all 96 bays would permit ~1.8 PB of capacity after formatting/redundancy. Since LMG is mostly a video shop, I'd disable compression. The controllers will still try to compress that video data which just consumes power without much of a result. I would also consider moving smaller files to a different storage pool build around SSDs while keeping compression on.

@greenprotag 10 ай бұрын

This was a super solid pick up for small business mass storage. For personal home use, Linus is definitely correct. A nice little mid to full tower desktop with 4-8 drives or a micro ATX/ mini itx nas chassis with sleds makes a great custom rig. For me, I am dabbling in home lab gear, so we (roommate co-op) picked up an older sandy bridge super micro 12 disk server. It's a bit warm and the cores are not particularly fast, but as a pure NAS solution on unRAID it's perfectly good for our use case and easy to use. As a side note, I personally have smaller shares for my virtual machines in ZFS and a windows storage share for my hyper-V config. So I have very diverse set up MOSTLY for personal educational purposes.

@bradclapp4022 10 ай бұрын

Definitely cheaper options out there but if you want a solid case with support for drives you can't go wrong with a fractal design R5 or R7!

@ethanlevin9419 10 ай бұрын

I haven’t built a computer in a while but after watching this channel for years I was able to without any hiccups. Much thanks to all your mistakes that helped me learn.

@mariestarlight 10 ай бұрын

As someone who used to work for a big web hosting company that used NetApps, it is possible to trick a netapp into accepting *any* drive, you just have to do a low level format that changes the size of the sectors, if I remember right. But anyway, we had a specific machine running linux we used to basically turn normal SCSI drives into NetApp drives. (our netapps were all scsi)

@mattsonn 10 ай бұрын

I love deals when people just want something gone and literally any amount of money is a bonus for them. It’s a win win. I get a lot of tools like that.

@Gamer4Eire 10 ай бұрын

It's lovely to see the fun these guys have and the respect Linus has for Jake's skills and innovation.

@f36443 10 ай бұрын

Did this for our enterprise some years ago, and while it saved us money in the short run, we ran into trouble sorting PSU's for the shelfs pretty quickly. They were not available new, and the used ones were limited warranty and way overprised. Literally cheaper for us to buy all new with a 5 year warranty and part supply garuantee after that.

@DavidCross24 9 ай бұрын

The camera-tracked video overlays are really nice :)

@ericr5481 10 ай бұрын

Regarding the interposer to go from SAS to SATA: I am pretty sure that another important reason for it is the multiple controllers that access the disk. SATA doesn't offer an ability for multiple controller connections, which is important for the high availability fail-over to work. The interposer offers that multiple connection access while using a SATA disk. Also, regarding the idea about hiring a person to manage the storage for you and therefore not needing the high availability: I don't think that makes sense. If the array is mission critical and it needs to be back online ASAP if it is down, then you still need high availability features even if you hired someone to manage it. (I'm probably just incorrectly reading into that comment though).

@hudimudi 10 ай бұрын

i like videos like this, that are more tech oriented and go into details of the respective hardware and software. The extra depth may not be suitable for the average audience, but for others it may be really nice to watch.

@kernelpickle 10 ай бұрын

I knew there was gonna be a call to Wendell with this one, but I do enjoy watching them learn the hard way that enterprise stuff is managed by teams of experts for a reason.

@icemage 10 ай бұрын

The smaller platter is pretty standard on 15k drives, on top of seek times it’s also smaller to reduce the stress on the spindle when spinning that fast. Remember how anything over 56x cds would cause them to shatter?

@ChrisFaulkner 10 ай бұрын

I remember back in 1999, the job I was at in Oak Ridge got a 4TB EMC storage array (Before Dell acquired EMC). The unit cost our company about 8 million dollars. Had a built in laptop to manage the array locally or you could manage it remotely, which I did and was able to get the array programmed to our business' needs in a few days. Never touched an array device of this size before and was absolutely a beast. Was louder than the Sun e10000's we had running. Insanity. yes, 4 TERABYTES

@ChrisFaulkner 10 ай бұрын

@@AlexanderHenry-hz3td Muhammad is gay.

@Silverheest 10 ай бұрын

Love the server related videos! Wish you guys could do even more of 'em :D

@Thundy 10 ай бұрын

16:15 You can see Linus go through all 5 stages of grief as soon as Jake says "luckily"

@jeremyfortunethe1st 10 ай бұрын

You can use Linux to rewrite the bit sector size on all those drives and use them on standard equipment thereafter. I can forward the command prompts to do it but i suspect you guys could figure that out. To recap. Netapp doesn't have proprietary firmware on the drives. They are just formatted with a non standard sector size

@H22Designs 10 ай бұрын

This helped me out a lot! I acquired a Netapp 12 drive disk shelf from a business I did some work for. Its just been sitting in my office for about a year now not doing a thing. Without the license key they are basically useless, as they found out in the video! So, thanks for pretty much answering all my questions I had about repurposing this paperweight thats sitting in the corner of my office!

@cidercreekranch 10 ай бұрын

Back in the late 90s, early 00s, NetApp was a critical part of the hardware architecture when we designed and built a cluster base publishing system that generated maintenance documents for all in-service commercial airplanes from Boeing Commercial Airplane. It's ability to easily serve a total of 1000 cluster nodes with failover capability was key.

@gucky4717 10 ай бұрын

10:00 that is the huge problem power consumption. One of those 600GB drives takes 10-16W... times 24 per shelf, times 4 shelfs is 1-1.5kW (JUST the drives alone). That is 2-3 times more then my complete high-end gaming setup with 5800X3D, tuned 4090 AND OLED TV.

@williamrockhill8018 10 ай бұрын

thank you Linus for this video I have been waiting for it

@dietcokedude 10 ай бұрын

these are the best kind of videos LTT makes! :)

@BenJamminJamz 10 ай бұрын

If you did a budget build for an old server like this, step by step, and aimed at small business owners I bet we'd eat that up. I know I would.

@thewhitefalcon8539 10 ай бұрын

They did videos about their storage array servers. Petabyte Project

@haxicgamerhun 10 ай бұрын

I love your server related videos.

@andrewcopple7075 10 ай бұрын

I hate when things should "just work", because when they don't, the troubleshooting is typically an absolute nightmare.

@Suhlirvideos 10 ай бұрын

I love watch tech savvy people work. I would really enjoy working with you guys if I lived there.

@samuelmatheson9655 10 ай бұрын

You'd expect the company to not want the bad publicity and just throw the old software at them.

@PatrickHoffer 10 ай бұрын

But then it would devalue anyone that bought it originally. They’d rather keep their current customers happy then worry about LTT’s viewer base.

@demikus 10 ай бұрын

Based on the cost and intended demographic for these servers, I doubt the "general public" that is 99% of LTT's audience matters at all to NetApp.

@WolfetoneRebel1916 10 ай бұрын

Yea, that's not how Enterprise licensing works.

@fitybux4664 10 ай бұрын

None of their customers are on this channel though. Their customers are golfing IT managers, not down in the trenches IT geeks.

@davidpeterson2083 10 ай бұрын

I have always suggested to friends to buy computer parts off facebook marketplace although this isn’t what this is, it is always nice to see a successful working purchase from it.

@PorlacrestaLolvide 10 ай бұрын

FR, where i live you always find the best deals in marketplace, just gotta know how to tell a scammer from their profile and how to purchase something from a stranger with no intermediary

@seetuesday5576 10 ай бұрын

Once you change the shelf id, you need to powercycle the shelf for the change to take effect. I can see blinking shelf id's so that could be an issue. The previous os probably is limited to 16 disks per bus, need to change that to 255, like the linux on has.

@johndododoe1411 9 ай бұрын

So a software layer in that BSD build assumes the old SCSI2 limit of 16 IDs per 16 bit bus ?

@crazman123 10 ай бұрын

I like the overlays, it helps with the explanation.

@bertski7950 10 ай бұрын

This story reminds me of buying an Alienware in 2008 off ebay, which the seller scammed me because the BIOS was corrupted. I had everything I needed to get it working again besides the firmware which little did I know at that time that Dell bought Alienware and would not provide the firmware because I needed an account to access which was only possible if I purchased it from Alienware directly.... 15 years later and no one as fixed these consumer laws.... What if we had the support of the a media company to do something about this for the greater good?

@l2xv674 10 ай бұрын

Those Netapp Heads went eosl thats why they wanted to get rid of it, you wont get any parts or support from netapp anymore (very expensive anyway like 3k+ a month per 2heads, depending on your contract with netapp). The Netapp Disks are formated in their own Format (WAFL) with a different block size (iirc 520 size instead of 512 what is common) so you have to reformat them first (if even possible, never tried that)

@JoeStuffzAlt 10 ай бұрын

Even if it can only use hard drives in a very slow way, it's useful. My main desktop has a 10 TB hard drive and I'm more than happy with it being like a Tier 3 storage device (Tier 1 is NVMe and Tier 2 is SATA SSD). I like to call the 5 TB (old HDD) and 10 TB drives in my system hoard drives. Anything I don't use often, I can park on the magnetic drives

@olivert.7192 10 ай бұрын

server / enterprise content is always the best

@HenryBlackie 10 ай бұрын

I love buying up old tech and reusing it like this. Sometimes you can get really lucky and get perfectly good hardware for an amazing price.

@blackraen 10 ай бұрын

10:57 Jake summarizing all of my complex and highly nuanced feelings about NetApp in 1 second.

@user-gq4zt9hf6e 6 ай бұрын

I personally think it is better to have many low capacity drives, then few high capacity drives. It takes less time to repair the array with low capacity drives. I think it improves the access speed when the information is spread across more drives.

@Slainshadow42 10 ай бұрын

It was Jake's laugh for me @ 14:43 LOL

@ilya_ash 10 ай бұрын

Looking forward to part three with the actual deployment! It would be somehow used for the lab, I guess?

@TheMx5Channel 10 ай бұрын

I like these vlog styles video's about things they buy, or the lab.

@dschaedler 10 ай бұрын

For ltx you could give away random drives within these hdd cages where the contestants pick a bay at random and take the drive in there home, maybe with cool stuff on them? Or just for the hardware..

@bitmaster2000 10 ай бұрын

So when Linus left, everything started to work.

@slim5782 10 ай бұрын

love the server stuff, could you please do some cheap homelab server case reviews?

@NotCerius 10 ай бұрын

I love how Riley always does the sponsor spots because oh my lord is it entertaining to see him.

@cfisupply 10 ай бұрын

I was lucky and bought several servers and disk shelves off a local university for little to nothing (like $50-100 each). Videos like this one have helped so much over the years.

@adrianrubio408 10 ай бұрын

17:20 Ying Yang Twins - Whistle While You Twurk hahahahahaha love you Linus!

@p_serdiuk 10 ай бұрын

LTT probably could find someone with a license to access the download but they would probably not tell us

@Darkk6969 10 ай бұрын

They probably could but at this point they proved that the hardware can be repurposed without all of that license non-sense.

@DanielChristiansen 10 ай бұрын

Netapp allows license transfers in this case... Just get it in writing from the seller and you are good to go...

@greggv8 10 ай бұрын

Why bother when they can replace the server with one that's much higher performance, has no proprietary BS, and the software is free?

@15fakeaccount 10 ай бұрын

But pirating NetApp firmware is like watching youtube with uBlock on! Anyway, I am expecting that someone have already sent required files to Linus already.

@WhatAboutZoidberg 10 ай бұрын

Always love take your kid to work days. Jake is starting to teach Linus things he forgot now.

@Locutus 10 ай бұрын

It's understandable. LMG is not some small upstart anymore. Linus has to split off various duties from himself to run the business. He can't be editing, writing, fixing, managing, renovating, buying, merchandising everything himself as he could in the early days. It makes sense to split the day-to-day infrastructure off to someone who is dedicated to it. Jake is that someone.

@alexrobidoux2062 10 ай бұрын

Be mindful of the SATA vs SAS is the third pin connector won't put your drives to sleep or to be discovered. Since your array was already SAS, i'm just putting it out there cuz i know lots of people had the same issue...

@OneBiOzZ 10 ай бұрын

I have a fractal define XL case with 15 disk drives .... absolutely fantastic server case its quiet, well ventilated, professional looking (with the metal side panel) and all with plenty of elbow room and being surprisingly cheap for what it is