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Hey everyone, if you're interested in PC tech, could I tempt you to take a quick look at a video I just put together about my home file server? I've been wanting to get into doing videos like this for quite some time now and I figured that this would be a neat start!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hkEioRzuc
Let me know what you think (about the server AND the video composition)!
Video Composition: It's nice but the White Balance ishorriblea bit off. You look like a Zombie and use more light.
First question which came to my mind when I saw this on Youtube: Why? Is this not a bit overkill for home use?
"The pirated media comes in through the hard drives here and does a reverse 720 noscope in the cpu fan and then exhausts out the back, making the media legal. powersupply spins this direction i think"Quote:
Originally Posted by Btcc22
freelancer buy some lights please. You'd need a few from different angles to illuminate the case right tbh.
Freelancer stop stealing from work
Please steal neat stuff for me too thank
liked nd subscribed would watch again
Yeah the white balance is pretty off, I tried to correct it with some color grading in premiere but yeah... I got some plans to buy some more camera stuff to make things a bit nicer by the end of the year hopefully.
This was shot on a Canon T1i which is pretty terrible for video. Gonna probably buy a T5i body with a 50mm STM lens.
Use it to host halo maps
I think Dennis has that covered. Also, I need to be greedy and hoard my 15 Mbps upload just for me.
How much were things? The enclosure? Sliding case thingies?
The chassis is this:
http://www.norcotek.com/RPC-4224.php
You can pick them up for about $400 or so. Includes the back planes and hot swap caddies. The rails were like $40. All the other hardware should have prices readily available on newegg. I'd recommend getting the 9265-8i now that it's out though, faster and in the same price point.
The server rack itself runs for close to $1000, but I got it around $200 because work was getting rid of it haha.
That's the bit I was having a hard time believing. Those things (even the cheaper ones) are stupidly expensive for what I imagine they are made of. We're talking trampoline levels of profit. You could buy the sheet metal, cut/press, assemble yourself for a considerable fraction of that. There's not any special shit you have to do when making them is there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cortexian
Not really, it's two metal sides, two doors (you can get any combination of vented or solid w/fan mounts), top and a bottom, 4 casters, and 4 of the corner parts that have the holes for mounting rack rails into them.
Materials-wise they're definitely not worth it. They're marked way up because they only make a limited number and sell them pretty exclusively to data centers and businesses large enough to need their own server racks as opposed to a few server machines here and there.