Paying for Cloud Storage is Stupid

Snatch and smash is the viral trend that's breaking all the rules and maybe your phone. This clip with over 6 million views on Tik Tok shows an old man sneaking up on an unsuspecting Zoomer, snatching her phone away from her and smashing it right in front of her - hey, Billy did it. You see this on the TV news, it's fake news, dad, look, he's the same guy with a different hat. I looked him up with reverse AI and his employer on LinkedIn just says he has contracts at Google and Apple, it's just a gimmick to promote iCloud and Google, one you have. high driving, true, no parents, my generation can't afford BMW, disturbing, if true, now it's time for today's tech tip minute, where we'll show you an affordable way to safeguard your data.

Look at this. I press this button and instantly my photos. They're streaming over the internet, but instead of going to an expensive

cloud

storage

provider, I'm backing them up to the NAS board right behind me. Wow, look at it. Heck, of course, network attached

storage

or Nas devices are nothing new. What's special here is the value. The elec CM 3588 Nas kit costs about what you'd spend on 2 terabs of

cloud

storage per year and its Rockchip ARM-based processor crushes the CPU in this big $700 New Zealand name. As a bonus, it's so efficient that It can work with only 2 Amp 12vt Input.

There's one more thing you'll need to know before you can stop

paying

that monthly subscription and we'll tell you all about it after the super micro break if you need high-performance servers to back up. Its super micro AI and machine learning workloads are here to offer great options. Check out their scale oneu and 2u pedis storage servers at the link below, although you can buy the CM 3588 standalone, it's really meant to be included in your $35 Nas package. kit that comes equipped with 22 gigs ethernet three HDMI ports one in two USB outputs 3 USBC one Micro SD slot and the star of the show four full size pcie gen 3 m.2 slots how's this for just $35?

I mean I guess if you remove the expensive parts like the os and ram, a pcb and some connectors, it even has gpio, it still doesn't cost much, all we have to do is install a nice little heatsink, snap it in its place and that's it, but this ease of use is only part of the story, the other part is modularity, for now it is friendly. He only has this board, but in the future, who knows a SATA version for hard drives or maybe one with a PCI Express bundle that would be cool and what's cool?

It's in the future, if your daughterboard still meets your needs but you want more performance, you could potentially upgrade your little NZ's brain without having to throw everything away. I mean, no promises, the first iteration has to be successful for it to exist. a sequel, but as it stands now, I love it. This version of the compute board comes with 4 gigs of DDR 4X memory and no onboard storage, so the expectation is that you use the SD slot on the nas kit or upgrade to the 8 or 16 gigs of RAM versions which include 64 gigs. emmc storage. We ended up with the ladder which raised our price to $160.

It's not cheap, but it's a really solid value considering it's a one-time cost, like our LT HH One screwdriver. driver with a lot of different bits, let's install these units, but while we're at it, let's talk about the options we have in each one Of these slots, it is a pcie gen 3x1 connection, which limits our bandwidth a bit but also opens up some very interesting doors for options, for example, with cheap adapters, we could turn each of these into up to five SATA ports, which would It would give us support for 20 conventional hard drives. We were more interested though in a small power efficient solid state Nas now with only one lane per port.

We're not going to set any speed records here, but realistically our 2 and 1/2 gig network interface is going to throttle us long before those pcie lanes, which realistically gave us a lot of flexibility when it came to of choosing our SSDs. We don't want anything that's unreliable, so we're not going to go for the cheapest, but we also don't need to spend a fortune, so we went with these 4TB mp34 drives from the Team group for $165 each, they're only 3rd generation, but they have a 5-year warranty and they even come with a dam cache, although that shouldn't really have an impact on the relatively sequential video editing work we'd do at a trade show or something and, in fact, most Naas are pretty similar whether you're using it to backup photos and movies to your PC or even running a video streaming server with Plex or Jellyfin and, plus, since you're setting up your own, you can choose drives from smaller capacity or can fill only two. slots they run them in a mirror for redundancy and then 6 months later when you get a nice paycheck you can add one or two more so some of you are probably wondering why you need a NZ instead of just use external hard drives, good to start. these things suck, they are a single point of failure and are very easy to lose in comparison, a Naz can be shared with anyone else on your network, which leads to point two, having all your data on your personal machine is something that I have argued for years that your daily driver is the one most likely to be infected by malware or suffer a malfunction that puts the data on it at risk, and said that a single copy on a Nas is also not best practice and that You should always follow rule 321, three copies of your data on two types of media, one of them off-site.

Now we generally turn to backs for these types of projects, but since this board is based on Arm, we were forced to look for another option and finally settled. in omv or open media Vault, Alex's conveniently friendly website includes a link to Google Drive which has all the installation files and instructions for the different installation methods. We will go from an SD card to our emmc storage. The process lasted approximately. 25 minutes and in the end it gave us an IP that we could use to access the guey for the open media vault, we chose raid five to balance protection and capacity and after compiling and syncing we were left with almost 11.2 tabs capacity.

We want to connect it to our Windows computers, so we enable SMB, the protocol Windows uses for network file sharing, and then create a shared drive. Let's see how we made different copies of media files from our desktop to our little Nas, completely saturating our 2. and 1/2 gig interface which is incredible. I wonder how much CPU usage is occurring. Yes, you can actually check that we could check that yes, quite a substantial amount, it's not very powerful and transfer it back. Wow, there you have it, it's almost like that's a lot of interface for a 2 and 1/2 gig connection, did I mention it's completely silent, barely warm to the touch, what am I listening to, no fan, whatever, it doesn't matter , do you know where there are fans? subscribe to seaplane This is all well and good, but it doesn't answer the question of how we protect ourselves against the very real threat of snatching and crushing.

Well under the add-ons section in OMV, you can grab a photographic prism and an AI. powerful photo library that we can use a separate app to sync, in our case we use photo sync, so for just over $5 we can sync our photos with almost any storage solution you can think of, including Photo Prism, and What's really cool is the sync can work both ways, so if your phone ever goes out and you need to replace it, you simply give up photo sync and can re-sync from your Nas to any new phone, you don't get no monthly subscription, just a one-time payment of this amount of dollars. for the application compared to more common configurations, x86 processors in traz or unraid for example, we had moments where we needed a little more tinkering and knowing how to make things work, but after Jake spent a couple of hours prepping Plex and running it in a Docker container, this little guy handled streaming excellently for two simultaneous clients, at least at 1080p, it did once we upped it to 4K, that was a different story, but hey, if you're not very satisfied with the playback of this device, it's okay, you can do it. run the Plex server on a more powerful machine in your house, say your gaming desktop and then use this as a small external hard drive, all you need is a network switch.

However, I'm curious to see how it will handle video editing. Turns out the entire editing department is having lunch right now, so I guess I can do this. I'm cleaning. I'm starting to think we have our Apple Vision Pro video here. This is the Facebook version, although that's where it's super unpleasant. awesome aspect ratio I can't even tell what the hell is going on people watch videos like this this is terrible but you know what nas isn't why don't we try 1/5 resolution? It's not the fastest thing out there, but realistically this. it's reasonably heavy 4K footage, this was a great moment in this video and you can't really appreciate it at all because of the

stupid

aspect ratio, yeah Facebook, so it's pretty good and if Open Media Vault isn't your thing, the Elex's list of supported operating systems includes Ubuntu versions compatible with Debian and even Android, so what are you waiting for?

It's a Linus siiz Nas that can scale up to 32 terabytes of storage with a top price of $160 if you're okay with doing a little work and the value. This is especially evident when looking at the cost of larger storage plans from major cloud providers. Google, for example, wants $600 a year for its 10TB cloud storage plan, meaning it would take less than a year and a half to pay for this. Exactly NZ in this configuration with all the SSDs and that's with us doing full LTT and doing a solid state NZ, so what can I say other than giving this little boy a strong recommendation, just like I give him a strong recommendation to this little boy? and for our sponsor super micro, their pedis-scale storage servers are designed and optimized to support data-intensive workloads like AI and machine learning.

They have convenient rear and front I/O configurations for easy networking. They are available in 1u and 2u form factors and are compatible. up to 32 of the latest generation of pcie Gen 5 nvme SSDs, they also offer AMD epic 9004 series sp5 single socket processors and up to 24 non-dark slots, that's smart, plus their titanium level redundant power supplies of 2000 watts will keep them working to reduce maintenance costs and downtime, not to mention the supercloud composer. The cloud management platform gives them access to a unified dashboard to integrate tasks into a single intelligent solution, so don't wait, Learn more about Super Micro's pedis scale servers in the description box below.

I enjoyed this video. Go check out the 90 terabyte NVME server I ended up building and didn't take home. It's quite the opposite, but it's still a fun educational video.