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Booting all your computers off of one server sounds like a great idea, right? In theory, yes. In practice, though? Not so much. But that’s why we’re here to show you how iSCSI works, its benefits and disadvantages, and why KIOXIA is so awesome for sending us so many blazing-fast drives.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:23 How does this work?
3:17 Jake hates this server
5:09 Trust us, these drives make sense
6:03 The long term plan
6:35 This server is soooooo great
7:07 Time for software
10:05 The difference between iSCSI and SMB
11:00 Installing network cards
12:40 But where do we boot from?
14:30 Installing Windows
17:30 It’s ALIVEEEE
20:18 The disadvantages
21:48 Thanks KIOXIA!
22:25 Outro
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This explains why my jobs laptops suck so much…
I'm more interested in running Windows on a ZFS Pool. I was reading up and Steam Library doesn't play well with ZFS.
This thing… same AS OTHER "trendy cloud" solutions arent solutions… not even when in your own server room… TOTALLY TOTALLY TOTALLY one hundred percent against any of THIS SHIT! a Machine simply has to have every part that it needs to work – period! what I buy should better work and function as intended on north pole without anitnght else then powerbank and solar panel… no freakin updates no comunication nothing— full machione working alone! same with games… who the fck wants milion clones of same MMO bullshit without any originality or Idea??? PC games were a thing, for time when you had no live frineds around or you prefered to play alone… it was about stories, experiences you otherwise wouldnt encounter in your life… movies you could relive… now? clone afterr clone – only content are endless new skins – while you better be payin an monthly fee to be able to run the game and on top of that – not only games wont function without connection but now they try to push RAM??? MEMORY??? wtf??? NEVER EVER EVER EVER !!!!
i pitty your kids so hard lmao. Sure they get fast pcs but half the time they arent even operational or they gotta transfer stuff every week or so lmao
I would love to see a headless LAN center edition and how to manage multiple computers at once and keeping everything updated including a LAN cache
Bro has an intro in 2024 💀
huh, he didn't drop the drives.. atleast not on video.
For a second I thought that they would only use RAM as storage lmao
Remember kids – you wouldn't own anything…
Yay intro 🙂
Oh, I thought linus was leaving, was going to start watching the channel again 😔
PXE boot is probably more useful in a corporate, thin-client environment, where the boot images are downloaded to local storage, then the system runs from there or from RAMDISK, but at the end of the session, everything is purged. and the workload is not latency critical. once I played around with a linux distro (SLAX maybe), that booted from CD, loaded everything from RAM, and never needed to touch the CD drive again, until reboot. it was a pretty basic desktop experience, but it had a working browser, with internet connection. what else do you need? 😀
So you basically showed what thin clients can do, you basically changed fat clients to thin clients…
I’m curious now too! It’s a really a great video if build it with all the fine tuning, networking and IT
Important to note – I chose that exact mainboard (X670E PG Lightning) because of multiple PCIe choices ASRock made and in this case, one in particular can be relevant to you – in the BIOS settings, under the USB4 menus, they allow you to connect the Thunderbolt add-in card to nearly any PCIe interface interface in the system, including the m.2 ports! This means that with the appropriate adapters and mounting, you can free up your CPU-connected 4.0×4 PCIe slot for a high-bandwidth NIC, and have your Thunderbolt cake and eat your storage over PCIe 4.0×4 too.
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Me: throws up arms RAM caching!
You are right that it is a pain in the ass to setup, but I think you guys somehow did something wrong. the speeds should be faster, I got it faster on older hardware, sas ssds for example.
maybe its single threaded and u need like a ryzen???
I can’t wait for them to recreate Linus’s server room as a set.
ayy PHP mentioned
For a NAS host, the three main things are the ease of use of the management system, good disk alignment, and the maximum upstream and downstream rates of the network port.
someone still using hdd out there somewhere "is that your definition of slow?….:(
and fun fact to anyone who donno…kioxia is the new name for toshiba somehow…so they're really great! I use plenty of them on my systems for years now and they still running like new..X3
Cool, but you can use a HBA iSCSI for that too.
This can work really well, but not really without high availability for the storage servers. Having to shut down every PC in the house just to patch the NAS is kind of a non-starter. I bet this is either getting rolled back, or Linus is going to go all in and do this on top of clustered storage. It's definitely possible without spending crazy amounts. It is pretty important to find boards for the endpoints than can run dual x8 cards, and one of those is reserved for the NIC. Get in touch if you guys want some pointers on how to pull this off on a budget – it's possible with just consumer boards and Linux, no expensive enterprise software needed.
Does Linus have a $6000 electricity bill??
Would love to see Jake go in-depth on Proxmox!
I just do capacity reporting on SAN and even I know that was an awful setup. Probably about the bare minimum to get something to work.
The only cool thing you could do with PXE ist just provide an Boot server where you can select the OS yout want to install on your PC.
last played rust 2018 …
@Linus Tech Tips Sorry Linus I can you please make a video for broken GPU casing issues? like my AMD RX6600 eagle one of the screws holding the casing broke and i really dont know what to do about it. im tired of searching everywhere and i really dont have a way to upgrade or fix it because i dont find any video anywhere about how to fix my GPU
Good luck with games that have DRM, many games will have problems even if the setup is properly done. When I tried this a few years ago I couldn't even get games from the Xbox Store to install, let alone run.
Why messing around PXE-booting and mapping the volume, if you are buying second-hand Mellanox cards on eBay, just buy a proper iSCSI HBA ($100 for 2x10Gbps) that will take care of the initiator, present the storage to your motherboard and will have proper hardware acceleration for iSCSI traffic.
Make sure you use jumbo packets and isolate your iSCSI network, just dedicate the crappy onboard Realtek NIC for internet. And for the love of god, your prosumer-grade router shouldn't be touching the iSCSI network.
The SAN should have ACLs in place so each machine's initiators can only access its own boot drive, not sure why you need to do MAC filtering from a web server, the IQNs would be much easier to handle if you do dynamic discovery, and using static IP addresses should be easy enough.
The StarWind software used in this video is paid, the free version can only be managed from PowerShell and is an absolute PITA to manage, so for the people that intend to use this for more than 30 days, you should look into other solutions.
I love how Jake just has full license to RIP on Linus like this.
Ok… I think it is better to use VDI for this cases… but yeah nice experiment
Oh yeah great, will you send me some enterprize lvl drives and a amd epic server…
I need a copy of the Date Night Ideas book on Linus' desk…. or at least my wife would say I do!
Meanwhile – "Date Night Ideas" 🤣