I DIDN'T get scammed on Facebook Marketplace! - NetApp DiskShelves For Your NAS

So glad to see Linus’s oldest son Jake is still doing well

Not only does Linus save money by paying Jake to manage his servers, he gains money by turning it into content.

"It should be illegal to sell hardware that requires software that you need an account to access." - Love it, Jake. We in the TPM space feel this statement so hard.

I swear Linus and Jake doing server things is something I know almost nothing about yet its entertaining as hell.

Jake, you summarized Netapp perfectly. I think only Cisco and Oracle are worse for licensing every single thing. Netapp also licenses capacity, so you pay per gigabyte of space.

Former NetApp engineer here. I worked on these systems (installing, using and selling) for about 16 years and it was a joy seeing you guys setup these old things. A couple notes for people in the comments: 1) Yes, you can add bigger drives to storage arrays, but the big thing to keep in mind is your rebuild times for failed disks. The bigger your drive, the longer it can take to rebuild a drive from RAID, and if you don't have enough spares, or get a multidrive failure, you could wind up with data loss. This is the reason you typically don't see large 16+ TB drives in enterprise arrays, and when you do there is usually a requirement for 2 or 3 hot spares per pool. 2) Why buy something like this when you can get a smaller NAS box that hold has the same capacity? Data accessibility. You do not what to see what happens to a Synology or QNAP when a couple thousand users try to access it at the same time. 3) Linus is right - they are NOT the target customer for enterprise arrays. They need a big vault, but not the access times. And they can afford to spend the time fixing and building their own solutions - they actually MAKE money from the roll your own solutions via views. 4) NetApp is, and has been historically, the most expensive enterprise storage solution on a per TB basis. They are great if you need CIFS, NFS and block storage (FC, FCoE or iSCSI) in one array. But if you just need block or file, there are much better and cheaper solutions. Fun note here - for a very long time, NetApp was the only storage solution that ran actual CIFS - they actually licensed the protocol from Microsoft. This eliminated the weirdness you can sometime get, especially back in the old days, of running Samba in an AD environment. Overall - this was a fun trip down memory lane with this. Great job getting it setup and running on your own!

"How much money did we waste on these?" "$20" Linus is genuinely happy that, for once, it wasn't hundreds or thousands.

As a former Netapp Certified Engineer, it’s really funny to see you trying to understand how to connect and use it. Also the Ethernet cables for the shelves (ACP) are not any more necessary with the recent versions of Ontap.

One of my favorite things with this channel over the years is watching Jake get more comfortable in front of the camera and even better at explaining technical details at an understandable level. Not that he was ever bad at either, but watching someone flourish is always fun

Such behaviour from companies should be illegal. Just locking basic functions of harddrives behind login credentials.

15:11 can we just shoutout startech for making every weird adapter under the sun? Every time I have some stupid idea they're at the top of the amazon search.

I rescued some older netapp fibrechannel disk shelves and an iSCSI SAN, turned out there was a relatively easy nvram patch to make it think it was an engineering test unit and unlock all the licenses by default (thanks netapp for leaving the configs for every model in the firmware image, even though they were IBM and Sun branded netapp shelfs). installed sas to fc interposers and maxed out all the units with common off the shelf drives.

We ran something like this when I worked at a university. We dropped one in our building, another at a building down the street, and another on another side of the country. Each night, they all backed up to each other. Video editing teams on the campus would dump all their footage to the server and we could edit completely from the network. The brilliance was getting people stop storing the university's historic footage on portable drives sitting on desks...above a restaurant. At one point, one of servers sat in my actual office. A student worker wanted to test performance so he wrote and read files from it all weekend. I came in the next Monday and my actual office was 110F.

Please make the "it should be illegal to sell hardware that needs a software and key" a bigger point. Literally tons of ewaste is being created by these enterprise companies especially CISCO. They will tell everyone it's for YOUR safety and security, but it's just greed. That netapp server is just garbage, which is really sad.

I used to be a data Center technician and a few of my clients were oil and gas and had 2-3 dozen racks of fully populated netapp disk shelves like that in their DCs. They were usually around for 3-5 years before getting replaced with higher density models. It was effectively a lease program from netapp, I did get to see a sneak peak of Zen before it was officially on the market which was pretty cool.

5:41 IS THAT A FIGHTER JET TAKING OFF

Jake is 1000% correct here, it really should be illegal to sell hardware this locked down... 🤬😡

LTT needs a channel that is dedicated to home lab / home server and networking!!!!

Back to the LTT content we all missed. I see a bright future for the company as a whole. Good choice, Linus!

I really really want to see more DIY and Enterprise server videos. Data hoarding and management along with how all of this stuff works would be awesome to learn. Stuff on with Access and SQL. Be kind cool even though we have stuff like True NAS.