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Rants, reviews, how-tos and any old thing that I upload.
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If you really want to go down the rabbit hole or watch me very occasionally livestream, observe my other channel at ruclips.net/user/ScottDotExtras
And on Twitch very very rarely at www.twitch.tv/scottdotdot
PCIe Bifurcation Frustration with Icy Dock ToughArmor NVMe and 3 PCs
In this video I try to test out the Icy Dock ToughArmor M.2 NVMe Mobile Rack for PCIe slots. It supports 2 removable NVMe drives placed in the included sleds, and (almost) fits an x8 or x16 lane PCIe slot that supports bifurcation to get 4 juicy lanes to each of the SSDs. I test it out with Samsung 990 Pro and Western Digital SN850X 4TB drives.
That being said, it turns out that not all bifurcation implementations are created equal, nor are all PCIe slots. Hence the frustrating aspect. Buy it with a generous return policy in place, if you buy it at all.
Just to be 100% clear: This is not sponsored in any way. If you couldn't tell from the length of the video and the conclusion. But anyways,...
That being said, it turns out that not all bifurcation implementations are created equal, nor are all PCIe slots. Hence the frustrating aspect. Buy it with a generous return policy in place, if you buy it at all.
Just to be 100% clear: This is not sponsored in any way. If you couldn't tell from the length of the video and the conclusion. But anyways,...
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Wood You Like to Repair a Raritan Dominion IP KVM?
Просмотров 6842 месяца назад
In this video I repair a Raritan Dominion LX-108 IP KVM in a very professional manner using wood. It goes on for quite some time, but that's at least more appropriate for RUclips than other platforms. No biggie, you can always skip around using these chapters. 00:00 Intro 01:23 Opening it Up 3:47 Checking out the PSU 10:22 Background on the KVM 11:46 Testing Without the PSU 14:19 Trying to Fix ...
New Home Backup Server (Dell T640 with 18 20TB Disks)
Просмотров 27 тыс.2 месяца назад
In this video I create a new backup server from a Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 with 18x 20TB Seagate Exos refurbished drives. Also there's some more ranting about backups in general. But idk, there are chapters so you can skip to whatever. And it's not technically a server, in that it doesn't serve files. It's really more of a client that takes files from other servers and holds onto them. But I cal...
Shoving an RTX 4080 into a Dell Precision T7865
Просмотров 12 тыс.7 месяцев назад
I just got my most expensive single computer ever. It's an already-outdated Precision 7865 with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 64-core CPU, direct from Dell. RAM upgrades from the manufacturer are always a bit of a rip, so in this video I upgrade it to 512GB. Also, I find out for the first time whether a consumer graphics card (PNY / NVIDIA RTX 4080 16GB) will actually fit inside the moderately-...
LeCroy WaveRunner 64Xi-A-N Oscilloscope Upgrade Attempt (a bit rambly, but it shows a full teardown)
Просмотров 5469 месяцев назад
I got this LeCroy WaveRunner 64Xi-A-N Oscilloscope from eBay because I needed a faster scope than my best 200Mhz Siglent model. On eBay it looked super clean and in good cosmetic shape, and was shown and claimed to be working. When I received it, it would kinda start up, but the display was blank and overall it was unresponsive. When I went to make this video showing the investigation, it power...
Using Clonezilla to Upgrade the SSD in a New Computer
Просмотров 19 тыс.Год назад
Upgrading a new computer for my sister with a 1TB WD SN850X NVMe SSD. *This is also my first real foray into vertical video, and was kinda a test run for shooting, editing, and general workflow. So if it looks a bit odd on the main RUclips platform, my apologies.* It's an HP Envy TE01-2275xt with an i7-11700 8-core 2.5GHz CPU and 16GB RAM. I originally purchased it during the height of the vide...
Bury Your Backup Servers Underground ⚰️
Просмотров 9 тыс.Год назад
Related video: QILIPSU Outdoor Enclosure with a Computer Inside... Because. ruclips.net/video/qegaLn-cvVw/видео.html Bury your computers in your back yard for fun and profit. Wait, no, not profit. Expense. I dug a grave for a couple of Raspberry Pi 3 B coffins (additional coffin with Raspberry Pi 4 coming eventually), and connected them to a TRENDnet power over Ethernet switch to keep them aliv...
Keyboard Monitor Combo | Not for the IT Professional (Ficihp / BQAA / Kwumsy)
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.Год назад
I take an extensive look at the Ficihp / BQAA (I think they rebranded?) keyboard and monitor combo, and try it with a bunch of different devices and operating systems. As you can see behind me, I have a lot of servers and other miscellaneous computers. I usually set them up on the very bench/table at which I shoot these videos, and I wanted a simple solution for whipping out a monitor and keybo...
Blackmagic ATEM Studio Converter Demo and Troubleshooting
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 года назад
I talk about my experiences troubleshooting and testing the #Blackmagic Design #ATEM Studio Converter 2, and then open it up for good measure. 00:00 Intro 01:29 Overview of Device 06:43 It Didn't Work 08:39 Troubleshooting Story 11:17 10Gbps SFP Module Works! 13:44 More Troubleshooting / Fix 16:46 Minor Annoyance 17:19 Single Fiber Demo 18:29 Inappropriate Fiber 19:24 Redundant Power 20:28 Look...
Gutting a TrippLite ISOBAR and Adding an Ammeter for Some Reason
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.2 года назад
I remove the insides of a dead-ish #TrippLite #ISOBAR power strip and it's probably good to fall asleep to.
Razer Deathadder Left-Handed Edition Scroll Wheel Transplant (Skip to THE SOLUTION Chapter)
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.2 года назад
I repair the scroll wheel on a #Razer #Deathadder Left-Handed mouse after dropping a hard drive on it. Check the chapters to skip right to the solution. This is after doing a hardware button swap on that same mouse: ruclips.net/video/n00ioWfDE9k/видео.html 00:00 Wheel Mouse Optical 01:15 Razer Deathadder Left-Handed 02:23 Razer Deathadder Right-Handed 02:48 The Problem - Broken Scroll Wheel 03:...
Automatic Transfer Switches! (Feat. Server Technology Fail-Safe and Tripp Lite PDUMH20ATNET)
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.2 года назад
I look at automatic transfer switches from #ServerTechnology and #TrippLite and describe why you might want one. 00:00 Intro to ATSes 01:28 Server Technology ATS Intro 02:08 Practical Demonstration 05:30 Transfer Switch Timing 12:32 Tripp Lite ATS Intro 15:10 Tripp Lite Settings Demo 19:35 Practical Utilization of an ATS 21:35 Double the Fun! 24:33 Outro 25:05 Time-Lapse Construction of 120V Te...
Unboxing and Review of the Unihertz Titan and Testing with Google Fi
Просмотров 14 тыс.2 года назад
I test out the #Unihertz #Titan phone on Google Fi to see if it's worth it as my wife's new daily driver. 00:00 Intro 00:20 Unboxing 03:15 Pricing and Specs 04:58 First Impressions 07:23 Accessories 09:10 Setup 13:33 Activating and Testing on #GoogleFi 19:16 Easy Call Recording 21:22 Messing Around with the Camera 24:47 Grand Conclusion #projectfi #5g #4g #cellphone #mobilephone
Exploring the Sonic Foundry Mediasite Recorder from 2008ish
Просмотров 8412 года назад
I open up this device from the past to see what it was all about, and how useful the chassis might be for modern purposes. This is the edited version of a live stream I did almost 2 years ago (just got around to it), so if you want to see all the faffing that went into it, a recording of double the length is available here: ruclips.net/video/4_xDG0fsMU4/видео.html
Mysterious Test Box Assembly
Просмотров 2722 года назад
I assemble a small 240V 30A distribution box for some future purposes. Oh yeah, the Extras channel is here: ruclips.net/user/scottdotextras BOIYOIYOING!
DMX for the Basement - Chauvet DJ DMX-4 and ADJ myDMX-RM
Просмотров 9 тыс.2 года назад
DMX for the Basement - Chauvet DJ DMX-4 and ADJ myDMX-RM
Banggood USB and Multi Meters (TOPK, MUSTOOL MT007, ANENG 620A)
Просмотров 3,9 тыс.2 года назад
Banggood USB and Multi Meters (TOPK, MUSTOOL MT007, ANENG 620A)
APPLLP Max Watch Type Thing (aka LOKMAT Smartwatch)
Просмотров 41 тыс.2 года назад
APPLLP Max Watch Type Thing (aka LOKMAT Smartwatch)
Creating a Backup Server from a HP DL380 G8 (StoreOnce 2900) | HW to SW RAID Conversion | Rambling
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.2 года назад
Creating a Backup Server from a HP DL380 G8 (StoreOnce 2900) | HW to SW RAID Conversion | Rambling
Teclast F7 Plus Review | Comparison to Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 2
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.2 года назад
Teclast F7 Plus Review | Comparison to Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 2
reMarkable 2 - Unboxing, Demo, Review (and Rant About Clouds)
Просмотров 3,1 тыс.2 года назад
reMarkable 2 - Unboxing, Demo, Review (and Rant About Clouds)
Amazon Glow - Unboxing, Demo, Teardown, DESTRUCTION, Rambling
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.2 года назад
Amazon Glow - Unboxing, Demo, Teardown, DESTRUCTION, Rambling
One-Netbook's OneGX1 Pro Mini Laptop - Didn't Buy it for Gaming (with Teardown)
Просмотров 38 тыс.2 года назад
One-Netbook's OneGX1 Pro Mini Laptop - Didn't Buy it for Gaming (with Teardown)
AA Lithium Rechargeable Comparison: Jugee, Bonai, Amptorrent, EBL, Tenavolts, Gigastone, Deleepow
Просмотров 44 тыс.2 года назад
AA Lithium Rechargeable Comparison: Jugee, Bonai, Amptorrent, EBL, Tenavolts, Gigastone, Deleepow
WAudio W-3900 Power Conditioner - A Surprisingly Mediocre Thing
Просмотров 21 тыс.3 года назад
WAudio W-3900 Power Conditioner - A Surprisingly Mediocre Thing
QILIPSU Outdoor Enclosure with a Computer Inside... Because.
Просмотров 5 тыс.3 года назад
QILIPSU Outdoor Enclosure with a Computer Inside... Because.
Pyle of Lies - The Pyle PCO875 Power Sequencer and "Conditioner"
Просмотров 13 тыс.3 года назад
Pyle of Lies - The Pyle PCO875 Power Sequencer and "Conditioner"
How do you change the light mode? I am going insane but the tiny button just clicks it on / off.
Cancer And Reproductive Harm
Okay that was a good review but you just forgot to talk about the application and mobile application through which you can share and upload your contents
Yes the EMI filter is not very special but if you look at the used materials and time it takes to produce something like this, it is a fair price. Because their is a lot of manual labor involved to assemble it. On most equipment this filter won't do much, but it does filter HF so I would not call it snake oil. I have seen similar filters in products that costs thousands, now then we are talking about unfair prices 🫤
I'm always curious about what data people are storing on these servers. All I can think of is video formats, like raw editing videos or like movie storage. What else would you do with it?
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Allmax actually asked if they could use excerpts from this video in some promotional posts on social media. I said yes. Full disclosure: I didn't take any sort of payment from them. Not so much as a free battery. Nada. And I think I said in the video, but I paid for all those batteries myself. So if you see this video being used by the company, it's totally cool with me as they should be happy with these results. But this test and any upcoming ones (annnd there will be another shortly) are completely independent, NOT sponsored, and I could care less in advance who wins. So fwiw my results are as objective and accurate as they can be. I don't even have monetization enabled on RUclips, so I technically lose money on these things. They do satisfy my own curiosity, though... as well as yours, I hope!
Wow . What a homelab! Mine consists of a hpz440 and a hp ml30 gen 9. Some day maybe mine will look like this. If I hit the lottery that is lol. Really awesome setup you have!
I love that you give your information at the beginning lol makes me wanna see the whole video and subscribe
Since you are serious about your backups and already have a capable server, then I would definitely split the array at the cost of usable space. Used system, used drives - it's not that hard to have an error on the array and every time it happens it will resilver or scrub. On ZFS maybe 2 RAIDZ2 vdevs or 4 RAIDZ1?
I had a unit but it didn't have a harddisk. Can you guide me from where can I get an image of the harddisk
hello, I have this watch, not bad, but far from optimal, the rotation of applications even with an application it blocks the watch at startup, I swear, no software updates, but still a good product for the pric
I appreciate that you aligned your mobile phone with the top and bottom of the camera viewport, not once but twice 😂. Thank you for looking out for your ND viewers ❤
The sad fact is very few consumer/prosumer boards even support bifurcation because of the limited PCIE lanes consumer CPU's offer. Even worse is most of the ones that do only support it on the X16 slot. I ended up rebuilding one of my machines with an Epyc CPU/mobo for both the PCIE lanes and the painless bifurcation support so I feel your pain with something that on the surface seems like it should be simple.
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That girl at 0:36 was on Intervention. She was addicted to inhaling whippets not oxygen.
Most SSD labels are designed to be thermally conductive so there isn't much point in removing them.
Intel and AMD are super stingy when it come to PCIe lanes on mainstream platforms.
I remember my first attempt to make a server out of prosumer hardware. Back then, I had at least 5 Firewire drives, and 5 PCI slots to work with. I did it with the PowerMac G3, and ran into a problem where I ran out of connections I could make to the System on OSX 10.3. Found a work around that would allow me via the terminal to get more than 10 connections, but later changed over to the Dell PC I bought. The things I did to hook up 32 drives to the thing was miraculous in that small case. A Combination of Multiple Combo cards, (Firewire, Ide, USB 2.0, & Internal and external Sata ports) along with more USB 2.0 cards filling up the rest and IDE and a dedicated SATA card. What scared everyone is the amount of wall warts I had daisy chained with those stupid extension cords for the external drives. The crazy thing is? I only have had 2 disk failures out of those drives after all these years. In fact the ACOM Data Drives, the only thing that has been a problem is the rubber on the drives starting to get gummy. Other then that, there was a power brick that failed, but thats it over nearly 12 years of constant on time. Even more shocking was I has an Uptime of over 2 years on that old machine before I noticed the capacitors bulging on the motherboard, so replaced the board, and upgraded the CPU and RAM. Today? It needs some new caps again. Only reason why I took it out of service a long time ago. Today? Everything fits on One 23TB harddrive I had on all those drives. And a FRACTION of the power as well.
Unfortunately? Why is unfortunate that this system has a ThreadRipper Pro? Our marketing team uses these machines for rendering, previously they used a PC workstation, a render now on their ThreadRipper Pro is done in 4 ~ 5 faster than the intel.
You have to look at the capability of the CPU and the Chipset of the motherboard. Alot of motherboards have two 16 lane slots but only support one 16 lane and one 8 lanes electrically. AMD or Intel processors and chipsets both have limitations depending on model. I ran into the same problem with SAS raid controllers...
If you are expecting big changes from a power conditioner ypu are horribly mistaken. It is for the most part snake oil. Shielded power cprd snake oil. Power conditioners can help but very marginally. Certainly will help your gear ride through lightnin strikes
I bought some Energizer nimh rechargeable batteries 🔋 in 2011 and somehow they still work to this day! That being said they did set unused for about 5 years but i recently recharged them and put back into use and there working fine! 13 years old i dont understand how but energizer really does keep going and going lol Great video brother 👏 thanks!
Libre office is so ugly, on man. They should give that thing a UI overall.
Pcie lane configuration on Amd/Intel consumer motherboards are dependent on the cpu lack of pcie lanes. Most of the consumer cpus just have 16+4 or 16+8 lanes. You need to find a block diagram showing how the motherboard manufacturer has allocated the lanes to figure out what happens when different bifurcation modes are applied. The Ryzen pro 4750G is eaven worst regarding pcie lanesz it has already consumed 8x för the integrated GPU so your 16x slot only have 8-lanes on that motherboard. For that motherboard/cpu config to work you would have needed x4 x4 x8 or x4 x4 x4 x4 settings, your on the right track when you try to desxeibe the pcie lanes but you missed that your cpu only has 8lanes. The Ryzen 7. 3700x system has 16x lanes but you used the wrong setting. You should have used x8 x4 x4 settings for your settup. When you swapped you gpu to the lower slot you would have needed a x4 x4 x8 setting in the bios. Swap the gpu back to the upper slot and put the nvme card ind the lower slot and select x8 x4 x4 for it to work.
Noticed you were using the screen snippet tool to capture a window. Check out Alt + Printscreen - Does pretty much the same thing but it automatically limits the area to the currently active window.
Try greenshot
Great video brother i appreciate the test 👏. I recently bought EBL disposable lithiums to try in my 🔦 flashlights and trail cameras but never thought about rechargeable lithiums!! Thanks again buddy
Your graphics card uses a flow-thru fan/sink that is partially blocked by the Dell Precision shroud. It would likely perform better thermally if you cut out an inch or so off the bottom of the shroud to allow the graphics card an easier path to send heat in to the shroud’s flow.
The opening was no surprise for me and neither is the fact that it got good reviews (I see stupid all the time)...
power consumption = terrible.
With all of that space in there, one could truly build a fairly decent "conditioner". Perhaps chuck a toroid isolation transformer on one side or mounted to the baseplate.
I have two of these, they are fairly well made, unlike some of the Furman garbage I've owned. The hospital grade models have more traditional outlets, which seem to be superior in clamping force.
mains through banana jacks... After being shocked through 240 a couple times.. just like holding a soldering iron by the hot end, even when powered off... something I would never do 😅
You got my subscription after: "... mouth hole on my face..." 17m57s --- Priceless 😂
Thanks for the great video. I've been considering one of these for a project. :)
Chinese junk Lithium Ion batteries with 1.5v buck converters built in. Buck converter fails, burns your house down or the very least, destroy your device... Just buy Eneloop Ni-MH AA's and be done with it.
Good video. Thanks for explaining the test setup. Have you seen XTAR batteries? I have use their chargers to test 18650 cells for capacity. I did notice a review showing the XTAR cells have RFI (radio interference) which is bad news. I use a lot of batteries around my radios so I keep looking. Oh did you test the batteries or cells here for RFI?
your show so salute, tip your fedora or what ever you like .. just keep up the interesting stuff! and thanks
Holy f**king thermal paste. Even the Verge has standards.
A couple of things I didn't get to in the video if anyone was curious: Noise was about 55dBA @ ~0.5m from the front of the chassis with the disks under full load (array consistency check). At idle it was 45dBA at the same measurement location. (Though one catch is that it was in a small and otherwise empty/echo-y closet, which probably made it measure louder than it would have been in some kind of proper acoustic chamber. Mainly I was concerned with relative measurements, so it served well for that.) It drew about 105W at idle without any HDDs, and ~235W at idle with all 18 HDDs installed. Under full disk load it was almost bang on 300W most of the time. To put the sound in perspective, the previous setup was about 66dbA. That was mostly due to the HP D2600 DAS that was perched on top of the old server. (I had spec'd the server itself to be super quiet. Didn't measure it independently, but it was much quieter than the Dell for sure.) But one important thing with sound levels: The D2600 fans ran faster and were of a much higher pitch and buzzier than those in the T640. So even with the disks working hard, the T640 "felt" far quieter than just that 11dB difference. It's more like a low "woosh", and not distracting or uncomfortable to be around... though of course that's fully down to personal preference/tolerance. I should be posting a follow-up soon, so you can see and hear what I mean. And here it is now: ruclips.net/video/Secv5P01k2M/видео.html
Does anyone know how to make custom watch faces to these lokmat watches?
What a build!
Dude, im a little new to the channel here. What the heck are you doing that youll need 400 TB of drive space? Man oh man that's a ton of storage.
I testes here with my AA Eneloop pro (news): the registered mAh: 2550mah tested with Liitokala Lii-M4
User benchmark 64 core 32 core… Incredible
Awesome video, can this host a WordPress site?
You forgot power draw numbers, with and without drives. Also, dont salute w ur left hand. Nice video. Thanks.
Yep ... Pyle be like that.
(I am editing this as watching it) It’s really too bad There isn’t a raid 7 for software or hardware raid, i’m surprised that you didn’t use zfs or truenas core for z3 (there is a new os in development called hexos to make it far simpler to use truenas as I find it annoying to use) if you are using md raid it does support live replace so if the source drive is still functioning you can do a source and target for drive replacement it basically makes a raid6+raid1 mirror with the spare drive once miring is successful it removed the old drive (any uncorrectable read errors will be handled by the parity to correct them the rest of it is done as a straight mirror from the drive so all the other drives stay idle) zfs also has always supported live replace and is the recommended way if the old drive is still working When buying used dell make sure it has included idrac enterprise license (slightly annoying my 3 blade server I got extremely cheap only had basic so I lost remote access control after 90 days as it converts to basis after trial ends and the idrac key costs more then I paid for 3 dells) Also what I use for boot is pci-e 2x sata m.2 card that pull the power from the PCI bus and 2 sata cables from the card to plug into the motherboard sata ports (Most dell servers have at least two on board) use raid1 mirror boot Too bad we didn’t actually see the wait times because it looks like just from the front of the Dell machine drive lights (guessing 40% utilisation ) and It is running the rebuild on one thread because when it means 100 that’s 100% of one thread not every thread on the cpu (that will be like 800 assuming 8 threads available)
The constant swearing when I am trying to teach my kid about computers made me very angry having to tell her to go do something else. She doesn't need to hear this kind of language when being taught about computers and servers. very disappointed you kept throwing out the F bombs. Not acceptable by me. Not impressed at all. no need to be swearing.
teach your kid how to be a man, unlike his father