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Hey yeah it's an old force of habit, but I think technically they are still different. I do `sudo su -` so that I load the root users profile too, as I often have a different bashrc or even screenrc. A quick test seems to show `sudo -s` or similar inherits the current user environment? But then from the man pages it looks like I could just do `sudo -i`. That's if sudo is not deprecated shortly 😅

Many thanks mate!

Hahah yeah I like Vic, I fly over once a year, but I hate winters there. Had an ankle reconstruction living in South Yarra. Bastard of a place on crutches in winter haha.

Absolutely seconded! I also wish they made a 1RU version!

Wut? 😕 Righto, mr Bot!

Hey mate, as per the description and video I'm using TrueNAS 24.04, and yeah most of my shares are SMB/CIFS but I may split out an iSCSI target for one of my other hosts.

"I get that you're a young bloke getting started, so I'm not going to beat you up on this. lol" <- Hahahha. Best not to make assumptions, "mate". To give you some background, since you're new around these parts; I own five ICT-related companies, have worked in the industry for nearly 20 years, and am a senior systems engineer who looks after dozens if not hundreds of Linux and Windows servers and VM hosts, many with large flash or spinning DAS and NAS arrays over both copper and fiber, for local govt and enterprise. I am very well aware of how RAID arrays work, and I'm also most certainly not a "young bloke getting started" by any stretch of the imagination. I am very well aware of the heatsink concerns. As I stated in the video, it's a bodge job because the one I had ordered weeks ago has not yet arrived. I explained that in more detail in one of the other comment replies, along with giving an overview of how it's performing from a thermal standpoint given that. In short; it's performing perfectly fine. I am using ZFS, with RAIDZ1, so I've got the redundancy I need. The WAN connection here is 100Mbps symmetrical fibre, and I replicate it all offsite to my home which is 100/40Mbps copper. It just rsyncs nightly so I have another copy in case of fire/theft/flood etc. Negative comments never put me off. People are very welcome to think what they want regardless of how well informed they are - as you have quite clearly - and yeah I learned a lot about TrueNAS from this, as I'd never used it before. The last time I touched it was back in the FreeNAS days. Everything else I'm quite familiar with, hence explaining different aspects of it and reasoning for my decision in the video. For what it's worth for you; I make these videos for my own entertainment. In the five years or so I've had content on UA-cam, and even running the associated ecomm site, I've never taken a single dollar in profit. It either goes to giveaways, improving the quality of the content, or other related educational and community aspects. Re the drive type; SMR is perfectly fine for RAID arrays, but, the performance can be hindered depending on your use case, and of course it depends on the actual array type and configuration too. In my instance, I am primarily reading large BRAW files that are from 50-500GB ea, and then writing smaller MOV files after editing, so suits SMR would not likely be a problem. That all being said and done, both the WD Purples I had before, and the HC560s I'm using now, are CMR, so your point here is kind of moot. Regarding the performance, I also covered this in the video, and in some other comments, but long story short it bursts at 9.9Gbps when serving from ARC, bursts at just over 1Gbps when serving from L2ARC, and sustained read and writes are about 500MB/s depending on if it's reading from the inner or outer parts of the platters (475-525MB/s roughly). This exceeds my requirements, and even my expectations, giving plenty of headroom for future growth if we move from 6K to 8K filming or similar. Thank you for the thumbs up, however, you're very welcome to change that to a thumbs down if you feel the need after reading this reply. It'd match the thumbs down I have given your comment for jumping to conclusions with minimal reasoning, if any at all. I also want to thank you for the input either way, it is appreciated, and your comment may be helpful for others that are less familiar or for aspects of it like SMR vs CMR and the use cases that I skipped in the video, given it's slightly out of scope. Take care.

Hey mate yeah I quite like the X99 / Haswell / Haswell EP range - old, same as the X520 NICs I guess - but just when all the tech needed in average virtualisation comes in like SR-IOV, etc. I've got some 1U server coolers, but getting air flow through them without a plastic baffle sucks. The one I cut down was a 2U, as I've got piles of them from retired servers. The one I ordered from AliExpress will be a perfect fit, but they've now refunded me as it was lost in transit it seems 😑 This works for now anyway, as it's not under heavy load. Will look into HexOS, cheers for that!

Yeah I considered it, but that would only give me 20TB of space, which I'd nearly max out. RAID5 gives me enough throughput that my editing won't be interrupted, so for the additional space and same level of redundancy I'm happy with that 😊

For OP's use-case, with only 3-5 drives, I'd go with zraid1 instead of using mirrored drives, but yeah, ZFS is a way better choice.

@@theantipope4354 Very correct here. I have it setup as ZRAID1, and most of my use is big (50-500GB) sequential read/writes.

Very true, but I am guessing you skipped some of the video - I had explained that it was ordered weeks ago, but had not turned up yet, so this was just to get by. And I do know and acknowledge the issue with the heat pipes - see the other comment. It sits about 60C under 30% load though, so still doing what's required. The Xeon is honestly overkill, but what I had spare hah. Cheers for your input though!

You're very welcome to your own opinion, even if it is wrong, but the cost is real with all links in the description, and the results work perfectly; 9973Mbps across the LAN 😘

Man you could even just read the description. I'm not going to respond positively with such a lazy comment.

@@PlatimaTinkers I read it, I says drive credit.. I don't know what that is or whether anyone else can get "credit" for the drives they buy

@@RetroBerner I explain that in the video. And yes some places to buyback. If you're not going to be positive in your comments, bugger off and waste someone else's time mate. I've not no interest in drama queens.

@@RetroBerner the credit is for selling old drives. I once got a house for 400 dollar. Sold my old house to cover the new house..

@CalmDandelion-eq5wt Sure.. but that doesn't mean the house cost $400.. your title is misleading at best, if I'm being generous. Yes, in the end you are into that build as much as you say, but the way it's worded would make any novice reading it think that that's what it would cost them.

Hah yeah, it was just all I had to finish the build, and I've ordered a replacement. Just better to have that jank thing than nothing at all. It's running well either way though; sits at 57C in ambient 32C with about 10% load, and it's peaked at 70C when it was under load. Even if not as good as factory, the copper still wicks heat upwards, the aluminium still spreads it, and the airflow dissipates it.

Oh man I was going to argue your point, but you're right that I completely forgot the PSU! A $9 cooler is negligible haha but yeah, turns out $400 USD by the end (I filmed in two parts of course). I have updated the title and put the costs breakdown in the description. I based that on my actual costs too, not the current costs - which would be cheaper. Also yes you're absolutely right about the drives, however, these are 50-500GB BRAW and MOV files we're working on, typically BRAW ingested onto the NAS from the USB-C SSD after filming, then read during editing (local render cache on the editing machine), and then exported to MOV back on the NAS, thus the purples were actually a very good fit for it. At least from a cost effective standpoint. The random reads are very minimal. The unfortunate side is that with 3-4 drives in RAID5 you're only going to see a ~25% improvement, so getting 220MB/s with bursts up to about 265MB/s is the best you can expect from RAID5 of WD Purples. Moving to RAID5 of these Ultrastars though, by the same math, then gives ~365MB/s with bursts of ~435MB/s. We've of course got the SSD cache and RAM cache in front of that with ZFS, so even more gains 👌

Ain't wrong my friend, but as mentioned in the video they are still wicking heat quite well - just not as well as they could with the vapour/liquid cycle. And as mentioned, I have ordered a better one (link in the description). Better to have a busted heatsink than none at all, and it appears to be running well - has not exceeded 70C and sits about 57C.

Yeah I couldn't find an X99 board that was ITX and had both 4 RAM slots and 6+ SATA ports. Space was definitely the issue; would have had to give up the X520 to put in a RAID controller otherwise.

@@PlatimaTinkers Asrock EPC612D4I has 4 sodimm DDR4 but it's expensive What's current idle power draw ?

@@sybreeder86 Yeah but then it only has 4x SATA ports (not enough) and no M.2 for the OS drive 😅 Will stick a meter on it and measure the power draw when I've finished moving the ~17TB of content over!

You need a board with 4x4x4 bifurcation. Lenovo p520 with nvme pci card will do the trick. Low power

consumer boards/cpus do not have enough pci-e lanes for a proper all-flash storage. you will have to be in the xeon/epyc territory and that's where things get very expensive and much bigger in size. there are some off the self flash storage from asus iirc, but the cost is high and performance is not nearly good enough to justify it.

@@giornikitop5373 A 2011 socket xeon has 40 cpie lanes and is very affordable with the chinese motherboards like in the video. Or if sata ssd speeds are enough for you, you can pretty much use any motherboard cpu combo.

Yeah that's a bit more specialty. You could do it, disregarding the link saturation you'd hit, but you'd not be getting the best throughput you could - you'd just be getting the great random read and IOPS. I have seen boards designed for it, but honestly do not recall them right now. If you were to use this board for it, since it has the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, you'd want to just use the 2x 2.5GbE onboard, and then put a flash RAID controller in. Probably looking about $150 AUD for that.

@@PlatimaTinkers sounds like maybe it wouldn't be the worst idea to go with SATA SSDs if I don't need the super-high-bandwidth-per-disk from NVMe. I'm thinking much more about durability than performance here (performance is just a nice side benefit).

Yeah I probably should. To be honest, it's pretty basic, but I decided to install Scale instead of Core, so I can use the VMs in it. Given I have 8 cores / 16 threads, I'm going to replace the RAM with 2x 16GB modules and move some Docker instances over.

Hahah thank you mate, much appreciated. And yeah pretty awesome board, a LOT of potential. I did a 2nd video touching on some ideas I have for it too 🤘

Yeah all the PCB schematics are actually available on the Orange Pi website as best I know. Else check out any Radxa CM5 or the official Raspberry Pi CM5 schematic. The boards themselves aren't hugely complicated, the main intricacies would be impedance-matched and terminated traces for the high speed I/O, likely a PCIe switch, and then network PHY and maybe USB controller.

My friend I don't think I can give you a proper answer here, as that question is very loaded. NAS is Network Attached Storage, so yes, it basically is already since it has a network port and runs Samba. Can you plug a pile of HDDs into it? No.

@@PlatimaTinkers That's what I was wondering. Thanks!

@@alessandrofonseca7796 NP!

Hah no idea hey. Most revenue is going back into the shop stock right now, so could maybe do less in cash like $150 USD, or more in shop credit like $300 USD Would have to be damn good though, and include all assets! Can always provide inspiration etc, as I know a few I like. Feel free to flick me an email!

@@PlatimaTinkers Will do the needful, sir.

🤘🤘

Yeah so I've learned a bit more and used it since then too. The terms can be slightly confusing! So Bianbu Linux is the BSP for all uses. It has all the drives etc. There is then Bianbu, which is the desktop or server OS, based on Bianbu Linux, and they also do a NAS and OpenWRT set of images based on the BSP. In my testing of the SpacemiT MUSE Book, you'll see if try the GPU a bit more, and have mixed results. Honestly whatever image / configuration the MUSE Pi had was the best, I'll have to go back and check that. The MUSE Card was not too good, and the MUSE Book I had the best results with Bianbu 1.0.15 after some Chromium tweaks.

Oooh nice. What brains did yours have?

@@PlatimaTinkers rp2040-zero. Planning on swapping out for an esp32-c3 so I can use it for Bluetooth as well.

@@Zeloverevolution That's awesome, have you got a blog post or video about it?

My friend that is an excellent idea! I unfortunately cannot find an obs-cmd or similar command that does that though, so would have to hard-code it, but still doable! Definitely good thoughts for a revision/improvement. Cheers

@@PlatimaTinkers did not mean obs profile, level 1 is for obs, 2 might be for kdenlive, 3 for tuxkart or ...

@@jyvben1520 Oooh okay yeah got you. Interesting idea!

Oh nice! Didn't consider using an RP2040 - keyboard library works fine? I'm definitely gong to have to print thinner keys and caps so I can label them too! RGB I kind of need for the status displays, but can definitely improve it by just making a single simple PCB that slots in I think.

@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece Are you making this available ??

Yeah had a back and forth, they figure it was dead dead. Eg perhaps one of the PCIe switches that links up to the comms was dead. Another arrived a week or two ago 😊😊

Because it does not need it, HOWEVER, you can get the Ultra Wifi model, or you can attach SPI wifi like an ESP-01S 😊

Yeah mate check my other videos :P (maybe it was a shorts, I forget)

@@PlatimaTinkers cool, looked at the short. The new version looks good. Any chance these can bee reflash to espresense without opening them up? Sorry I'm a bit of a noob on esp32 (just played around with one dev board)

@@Dude6978 Sorry for the brief response before; was still at work so rushing. Yeah mate absolutely; Athom stuff is all open source, and the new ones are actually pricks to open. You can order them with Tasmota or ESPHome on them, and both are very open and configurable platforms, but it's not hard to re-flash over-the-air if desired. I just have never needed to as I used ESPHome for all my stuff, connected to Home Assistant 😊

@@PlatimaTinkers nice all good! I might get a test unit and try. Basically just want something I can place around a few rooms so it knows where I am + plus where I left my phone 😂

@@Dude6978 Yeah definitely worth it. Especially for how cheap they are, and how much you can do with them once you've really gotten to know their make-up.

No worries noTZuck, very glad to hear!

Absolutely, paid it homage! Pinned 🤍

Great info, cheers for that!

Absolutely 🙏

Yeah mate no reason for it not to; this CM5 base board has 2-lane MIPI CSI connectors, so as long as you're using a camera of the same spec eg Raspberry Pi Camera Board v1.3 it's compatible. You then will just need to ensure you have the correct overlay installed, which if using the Orange Pi OS you can do with `orangepi-config` from memory. Once you install the right overlay, and as long as you have compatible drivers/software such as libcamera, it should work fine like any other camera 😊 The overlays are the key bit, as SBCs / embedded systems don't typically use AHCI for hardware discovery like computers, they use the Device Tree method instead.

You clearly didn't watch the whole video, or weren't wearing your glasses 😅😅

@@PlatimaTinkers i mean, for the price, people looking for that aesthetic could enjoy it.

@@nexiara I think if you felt it in your hands you'd disagree. It felt about as reliable as one of those clear plastic takeaway containers that Chinese food comes in and snaps the first time you open it 😅

@@PlatimaTinkers Hmmm, maybe! i recently bought a camera from aliexpress for like 10 bucks and it lasted like 3 or 4 months before i eventually broke it, but all the footage it captured had this pretty neat 1990 - early 2000 feel to its images.

@@nexiara Oh yeah that's a good point. I do have an Canon Ixus 75 from ~2008 though which has a similar feel! Recently sold an old PowerShot A510 from 2005 (run on AA batteries) and I've still got a Fujifilm FinePix F70EXR. Might have to look around my old boxes and see if I have any pre-2000 cameras!

Yeah I'd say you're on the mark there! Doesn't always happen though, seems based on colour/lighting at times. Eg some boards it'll focus on, some it wont!

Cheers mate, cost two extra days just because my USB ports were acting strange haha. Worth it though!

Good to know! I have tried a few things, and normally I use the auto-switcher which works well, but I've started building a little camera controller pad for it all anyway (like a Stream Deck). If it's not done soon, might consider hot keys. Cheers mate

@@PlatimaTinkers i am using a pico w and circuitpython, runs a webserver + usb hid output, control via any tablet/smartphone.

Hey yeah seems stock is a pain, mostly on Taobao. I'm talking to them about onboarding more distributors!

Yup! 😁

If you watch the video, you'd find out!

My friend you are much more observant than I am 😂Nice work!

In the video description is a title 'Documentation' with a link next to it. Click that.

Turns out if you plug an RJ45 end into a switchport with perfect accuracy, not touching the sides - nothing but net, as they say - you suddenly gain magical powers that imbue you with the ability to understand the OSI and TCP model, binary subnetting, how VLANs and POE work, and the fundamentals of radio communication. Hah. Nah, just self-taught and then got a pile of vendor certifications. Didn't end up using them much, but then bought into an ICT company that provided some level of IT support to local businesses, so grew that to include enterprise networking along with a number of related services 😊

@@PlatimaTinkers quite the creative mind. :) ICT = international cargo terminals? integrated co-teaching? information and communications technology?

@@WizardsAnonymous The last one :P

Well it turns out beers are pretty bloody cheap there, and after checking with my missus she also agrees on the amount of good eye candy on those beaches haha.

@@PlatimaTinkers everybody wins! 🍻

@@0xKruzr 🤘

Hello. How to read the documentation? 😑

​@@PlatimaTinkersWhere is this in the documentation?

@@gemshunt9637 It's in the part labelled "Stop being lazy, do your own damn research, and find some manners"

Great query - will test it tonight or tomorrow for you. Cheers

@@PlatimaTinkers thanks for following up on that! am I right that everyone is sold out of these right now?

@@0xKruzr Only available on Taobao it seems. Not sure Arace even got stock to start with

@@PlatimaTinkers ah, sad. hopefully the popularity will convince them to produce more!

@@0xKruzr I've been going back and forth with the product manager from within SpacemiT on it!

That is in the video, and in the datasheet 😊