Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

[Flaming Dumpster]

I don't know much about this kind of stuff so I'm looking forward to someone who does breaking down just how stupid it might be.

I'm late to the party but I work with these NetApps as part of my day job so here's some thoughts;

• He bought the 3 Gbps shelves (DS4243) and is an absolute moron for doing so. I believe you can replace the IOM3 controller with an IOM6 to bring it up to 6 Gbps but there's a good reason why the guy accepted the ultra lowball offer, these things are basically e-waste in this configuration.
• His explanation of the difference between a NAS and SAN in terms of discussing SMB file locking is moronic and shows Linus and crew have no clue what they're doing. They also describe slicing up the storage for VMs in a way that creates a 1:1 relationship between LUN and VM which is not how it's done usually.
• LOL this line from Linus at ~9:30: "Also because you're not using TCP/IP, you guys I'm assuming were just plugged in using iSCSI over Ethernet? You're using a completely different protocol!" Gee Linus I wonder what "i" in iSCSI stands for. Retard. Personally I've only ever seen these things connected with fiber channel though.
• Pedo stash talking about installing Linux on the controller at ~17:30. He's going to be very disappointed, I looked at buying a NetApp HBA gutted from a FAS and it turns out only a few revisions may work and they're way more trouble than they're worth. The way most people use these is with a normal external LSI SAS HBA in a server and a special QSFP to SFF-8088 cable.
• 18:00 did they do literally any research? You can put SATA drives in DS4243/4246 shelves and tonnes of people do this. NetApp even supplied SATA drives with interposers as an option but you don't generally need interposers if you're a normie.
• 20:00 the guy mentions the 520 byte sectors. This is a total nightmare with NetApp, one issue I have at work is we have 512-byte formatted disks but the idiots keep sending us 520-byte warranty replacements.
• 21:00 LOL it was listed for $500, they misread it as $5000 and accidentally offered $1000. Fucking idiots.

The controller runs some proprietary thing from NetApp called "ONTAP" can be kinda managed via a web UI but really requires CLI knowledge to meaningfully use. Its CLI is a-grade autism and much of the documentation is paywalled.

In my view they'd be suicidal to actually use ONTAP. Also, from what I gather, they're expecting to create a bunch of iSCSI LUNs and plug a bunch of Windows PCs into them as an alternative to SMB? You can do this in the sense that the volume will probably mount but you'll very rapidly experience disk corruption.

Windows does support clustering NTFS with "Cluster Shared Volumes" but this is a server feature designed for high availability of services like MSSQL, file sharing, etc.

What a disaster.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

So I looked into the drive health for my Hitachi Ultrastars in my dinky raid 6 setup. it is using an LSI controller (old dell perc). 6 drives active.




am i asking for trouble? The disks range from 50K hours to 75K hours. I have two drives in the 50K range as spares from when i downsized the array a couple years ago

 

[Nabeshin]

His explanation of the difference between a NAS and SAN in terms of discussing SMB file locking is moronic and shows Linus and crew have no clue what they're doing. They also describe slicing up the storage for VMs in a way that creates a 1:1 relationship between LUN and VM which is not how it's done usually

n my view they'd be suicidal to actually use ONTAP. Also, from what I gather, they're expecting to create a bunch of iSCSI LUNs and plug a bunch of Windows PCs into them as an alternative to SMB? You can do this in the sense that the volume will probably mount but you'll very rapidly experience disk corruption.

I'm not versed in ONTAP and that part of SAN but from what I got, he will setup the VM's to access the drivers directly(by passthrough). If this is what he's doing, oh boy, this is how you break atomicity in filesystem that doesn't support multiple instances of it (clusters) like NFS or CEPH and ended up breaking everything when something goes wrong. I hope in a few years to see the new video of how they lost everything again

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I'm not versed in ONTAP and that part of SAN but from what I got, he will setup the VM's to access the drivers directly(by passthrough). If this is what he's doing, oh boy, this is how you break atomicity in filesystem that doesn't support multiple instances of it (clusters) like NFS or CEPH and ended up breaking everything when something goes wrong. I hope in a few years to see the new video of how they lost everything again

The impression I got is that they view iSCSI as an alternative to SMB and they were going to try and use it for file sharing via a single LUN mounted on multiple machines. The trick Microsoft performs with Clustered Shared Volumes is there's one owner of the disk that is handling NTFS metadata. If multiple machines mount a single NTFS volume at the same time, the metadata will get screwed up and the next time chkdsk runs, it'll shit the bed and mark the volume as bad.

SMB is fit for purpose and these guys are just being stupid. File locking issues are probably owing to their retarded workflow and editors likely blaming the tools when they're failing to close applications once their portion of a project is handed over. ONTAP does support SMB and I'll laugh if that's what they eventually end up doing. I have a feeling they've already realized the NetApp gear they bought is a dud and it'll end up as a lousy Christmas present for one of the fat sweaty nerds.

Every department (finance, video/editing, marketing/design, etc) should have their own pool; and with that pool should comes its own unique backup. That way if a catastrophic problem does occur and wipe out, let's say the finance department, it's not gonna take your marketing or other data with it.

Are you talking about having bespoke file servers for each department? If so, I have to disagree. You end up with a lot of nonsense that gets little maintenance when you reinvent the wheel over and over. They could use something like FSRM in Windows to create a single cluster, create different LUNs for different storage tiers and to act as that logical separation. If you use DFS, you can actually have a singular path with many folders that point to entirely different locations.
e.g. \\lmg\Finance\ could actually point to \\lmgfs01\finance$, \\lmg\CreatorWarehouse\ points to \\lmgfs02\creatorwarehouse$, etc.

If you're an FSRM autist, lmgfs01 and lmgfs02 will just be file server roles that can be picked up and transferred from one node to another at will. (Basically each role has a virtual IP and the other node will grab it once it becomes the owner)

It's totally transparent, users are none the wiser and you don't even need to be domain joined if you use a standalone DFS namespace. Makes things 10x easier when inevitably you gotta migrate to a new server as nobody has to update their drive mappings or shortcuts.

Though Excel niggas don't need SMB shares anyway as they can just use SharePoint (or Google Drive since apparently they're a Gsuite shop)

 

[Nabeshin]

The impression I got is that they view iSCSI as an alternative to SMB and they were going to try and use it for file sharing via a single LUN mounted on multiple machines.

Oh boy, I thought that but I didn't wanted to believe that they were that stupid and inept. This unlike other methods can make the data unrecoverable.

It's funny that if MS didn't fucked their NFS implementation more than the SMB one, they could have a way better performance

 

[tehpope]

Linus add another channel for the workload. Gamelinked.

The video is mostly about how they're using a $2500 blackmagic greenscreen compositor to speed up work. And how they created the new set virtually in UE 5.

 

[Miller]

The video is mostly about how they're using a $2500 blackmagic greenscreen compositor to speed up work. And how they created the new set virtually in UE 5.

So just like Alex Kurtzman, he saw The Mandalorian and decided that he needs a virtual set.
This is beyond retarded. Why not have one real set and re-dress it for each show?

 

[Belegar]

For my card, I've always used Nvidia when building a PC, but building my own PC? I'm going to be looking at cost first. As long as it can do what I need it to, and it can fall back on the big core and ram I'll give it, I'm open to a AMD, or even Intel card if it fits the requirements I need it to accomplish. I'm not a turbo gamer, let me make that clear. Basically: can it run World of Warships fast at 1080p and possibly a plasmacam CAD software in the future? That's the power I need, and something in the 2070 series is what I'm thinking of, but if cheaper alternatives show that they are just as capable when I'm ready to build my PC, well alright then.

Plasmacam as in the cnc software? That old hunk of junk hasn't been updated since forever it will run on anything, even something like a 10 year old laptop. The main issue is getting one parallelport as you cannot use a usb/parallel converter to connect to the CNC.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Here is the first video from Gamelinked. I thought it was going to be game reviews, but it's just techlinked but more annoying. Linus badmouthing CDPR's PR is like a Canadian calling a Californian a fag.

As for the last WAN show, didn't really listen to it, but it was just 2 hours. My apathy for how shitty the videos have been in the past month are carrying over into the WAN show. They are in PC Building Simulator 2, and the new CEO will likely show up on WAN Show soon to talk about things.

In sad news, Tranthony's grooming announcement video has reached 1 million views.

 

[TheDataHorder]

So just like Alex Kurtzman, he saw The Mandalorian and decided that he needs a virtual set.
This is beyond retarded. Why not have one real set and re-dress it for each show?

watched the video this morning, apparently its because they dont have enough space in office and im guessing taking down a set and putting up a new one would take too much time and effort (understandable, it wouldn't be very viable if they had to do that every time)
but at that point if you don't have enough space for another channel, why the fuck are you making another.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Plasmacam as in the cnc software? That old hunk of junk hasn't been updated since forever it will run on anything, even something like a 10 year old laptop. The main issue is getting one parallelport as you cannot use a usb/parallel converter to connect to the CNC.

I first learned on Plasmacam, then Torchmate, don't judge me lol, getting ahold of a plasma table to practice on is a rare thing, i'm lucky to know how to do it at all

 

[Pee Cola]

Linus add another channel for the workload. Gamelinked.

Oh FFS. Just when I thought I flushed out all the LMG niggercanceraids from The Algorithm, it's going to start recommending Linus' faggot shit to me again.

This cunt is the T-1000 of YouTube.

 

[Rei is Shit.]

So just like Alex Kurtzman, he saw The Mandalorian and decided that he needs a virtual set.
This is beyond retarded. Why not have one real set and re-dress it for each show?

Because he can play with fun toys while taking a tax ride off and making his company more valuable.

 

[Nabeshin]

The video is mostly about how they're using a $2500 blackmagic greenscreen compositor to speed up work. And how they created the new set virtually in UE 5.

I'm gonna leave be honest this is one of the few videos in recent years of Linus that I really liked. While Linus setup is very duct taped by messing with multiple different workflows and platforms that don't easily integrate, that kinda approach is something that I like but I wished that they went more in-depth on both the hardware mixed from blackmagic, the SLAM with iphone and integrating everything in the end.

A bit of tangent but coffezilla, uses a similar tech to what linus is doing and he is a 3 man youtube channel job but instead of trying DIY everything, he's using a software that integrates everything that Linus wants called aximmetry. I cannot say if the software is expensive or not but considering what Linus pays for softwares like Labview that he uses on the Labs, this would be nothing near it.

If the Linus editor who will deal with it happens to be a sort of Taran, where he would highly optmize this workflow and to document everything, like how he did on LTT, Linus could be sitting on a game changing tech. Taran is what made LTT to be able to push a lot of videos every day with his workflow and the only thing that makes Linus setup of this virtual set tech troublesome is the amount of lose ends and single point of failures that it has but I doubt that the editor will be a taran 2.0.

 

[guiltyspark85]

Linus add another channel for the workload. Gamelinked.

The video is mostly about how they're using a $2500 blackmagic greenscreen compositor to speed up work. And how they created the new set virtually in UE 5.

The UE engine motion tracking stuff seems like something they might use once or twice, before they get bored with the novelty and stop using it. It reminds me of several years ago when Alex convinced Linus to buy a heap of equipment for a workshop. They were excitedly talking about how they're going to use it for all sorts of videos, but after that all I can recall them doing is machining their own heatsink.

 

[TheDataHorder]

nobody will ever be able to get to taran's level of obsessive efficiency.
dude used 3 fucking keyboards combined with multiple custom lua and auto hot key scripts that allowed him to do things beyond keyboard shortcuts.
hell he's got a 2+ hr video on the basics of using auto hot key with premiere.
i respect this man, he's the kind of autist you'd see here on the farms.

 

[tehpope]

The first episode of GameLinked is #25 on trending currently.

 

[Soggy paper straw]

nobody will ever be able to get to taran's level of obsessive efficiency.
dude used 3 fucking keyboards combined with multiple custom lua and auto hot key scripts that allowed him to do things beyond keyboard shortcuts.
hell he's got a 2+ hr video on the basics of using auto hot key with premiere.
i respect this man, he's the kind of autist you'd see here on the farms.

I loved Taran

For those unaware, he still uploads to his channel - https://www.youtube.com/@TaranVH/videos.
I don't share any of his interests, yet the way he talks is entraining so it works very well as background noise

 

[WelperHelper99]

The UE engine motion tracking stuff seems like something they might use once or twice, before they get bored with the novelty and stop using it. It reminds me of several years ago when Alex convinced Linus to buy a heap of equipment for a workshop. They were excitedly talking about how they're going to use it for all sorts of videos, but after that all I can recall them doing is machining their own heatsink.

Even if they did all that, they would save it to that cursed server instead of having multiple backups on flash drives and other storage media. Shit would get messy real fast with that much data

 

[BoJack Horseman]

Any word on when Shrek is coming back to LTT?