@spudmonk13

Never ever stop making content! This is some of the best content I've seen in the homelab space I've seen in years. I've recently been planning a big upgrade and this is exactly the content I've been looking for. Current setup is a 24 bay SM chassis running unraid. I've just recently upgraded everything in the house to 10gb available. The old server is running an older SM JBOD motherboard so I wanted to update everything. Ended up going with a Threadripper 3790X and 128GB DDR4 for the "application layer". The plan is to start the new server and run in parallel and add the first new hard drives to that machine so I can transfer all my old data over and destroy the data on my old unraid box and then I can transfer the new hardware over the 24 bay SM and have a nice new setup there. The part I was researching was changing to a distributed model for data so this video has been a gold mine for me. With how cheap you can get older SAS3 SM 45 bay JBOD chassis this seems like the best route. I'll be very interested in the topology video because I was debating between mirrored pairs or going with a Z2 or Z3 setup. I used FreeNAS back in the day so familiar with zfs but its been quite a few years since I've used it. It seems like running a ceph setup or something to be able to add nodes (or drives) horizontally makes sense for scale. I'm planning around a 1-2PB physical capacity at the moment (planning much much into the future as this is a long term plan...current setup is sitting around ~200TB).

@BhEaN

OMG, where have been this channel during my entire life??? Awesome content, awesome hardware, awesome communicator and AWESOME skills! I love it!

@SyberPrepper

Not many people could make SAS controller's interesting.  You remind me of some of my DEC instructors who could provide a large amount of information in a short amount of time, and made one hungry for more.  I'm looking forward to the next segment.

@UpperJeuno

Barely a minute in, and I have to say, keep up the awesome work on this material Jeff! :)

@bentheguru4986

I used to use loads of SM chassis with the JBOD boards like you demonstrated. They worked OK but the backplanes became extrememly touchy with age and I got the irrits with swapping supposed failed drives. Went to EMC chassis and not a single drive since, 60x HDD's and HW RAID, simple and fast. 
LOL, I started out with Norco's. They still good for small users and a media server.

@m1dnightcrisis

Thank you for clarifying all of that! I bought a SAS2 HBA thinking it would be enough bandwidth. Now i know i need a SAS3 HBA. Conveniently the case manufacturer offers a 12G replacement backplane with an internal expander to upgrade. The SAS2 HBA will then be used for a small SATA SSD array.

@pepsipimpin6010

Your videos are gold, Jeff

@r25012501

Please don't stop making your stuff I learnt a heap just watching!

@br3nd4n

Damn, not first. Good to see the CTO is back!

@GravTsport

I love having truly brilliant friends. Always thoroughly impressed.

@Tofflus

You sir just got yourself a new subscriber!

@brendan9623

Fantastic video. Ive been looking into building a NAS but was struggling to decide between the three configurations you outlined. This really helped clarify some of the considerations between them. Looking forward to the next in the series

@bcm50

Awesome!! Happy you’ve covered this

@HksF16

Great video in time for my homelab adventure, thanks Jeff.

@blu4able360

I've seen your homelab on reddit a few weeks ago!

@muthuvels9558

Can you please continue project Roscoe 🙏. It was very informative. And you mentioned FPGA in your videos, so please make video on MOSFETs sir how it works to understand the electronics better

@leandrocosta4283

What OS do you use on your NAS? Magnificent your structure congratulations!

@michaelsims7728

Love your video Jeff!

@DigisDen

Hi Jeff, I really do hope you will do one on the other type of storage you mentioned, ie a higher iops, perhaps lower capacity array so serve VMs.

@ws_stelzi79

Oh yes! If a server gets way too hot just put some LEDs on it and it will be way cooler! 😇🤪