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

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!

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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