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Amazon wouldn't let me, so I built my own 20TB Snowball

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  • description: I flew up to Canada with a 20TB hard drive. After building a new storage server for a friend, I proved I was faster than the Internet—sorta ;) Things I mentioned in the video, in order of appearance: - Pigeons are Faster than the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pz2kMxCu8I - 45Drives Beast: https://45drivesstudio.com/configure/studio-beast?utm_source=Geerling&utm_medium=Geerling_Beast&utm_campaign=Geerling_Beast - 45Drives Dead Silent Server: https://45drivesstudio.com/configure/silent?utm_source=Geerling&utm_medium=Geerling_Silent&utm_campaign=Geerling_Silent - ServerPartDeals: https://serverpartdeals.com - Sean Hodgins: https://www.youtube.com/c/SeanHodgins - ORICO Hard Drive Case: https://amzn.to/4vtzj9o (As an Amazon Associate, I earn for qualifying purchases) Huge thanks to 45Drives for paying for my travel expenses for this video, and providing the Beast server for Sean! Also thanks to ServerPartDeals for setting Sean up with storage! And finally to Josh from 45Drives and Sean for showing some wonderful Canadian hospitality! Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Level2Jeff Contents: 00:00 - Pigeons are Faster than the Internet 00:34 - Station Wagons are, too 01:12 - Oh, Canada 01:56 - 45Drives brought two studio servers 03:29 - Hard drives and SSDs 04:25 - Building the server 05:06 - Server ASMR 05:57 - First boot into Rocky Linux and Houston UI 07:05 - A surprise guest on the CRT 08:38 - Just as Wendell predicted... 10:29 - Did my data snowball melt? 11:55 - Full-size GPUs in the 5U chassis 12:44 - Down to Sean's machine shop for a DIY rackmount
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