Extreme Studio Makeover: Storage Edition!

The radio station was down to a few gigabytes of free space. I asked my friends at ASUSTOR, and they saved the day with their rackmount NAS, along with some NAS hard drives from Seagate.

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Mentioned in the video (some links are affiliate links):

ASUSTOR Lockerstor 4RS: https://amzn.to/3i1rqnz
Seagate Ironwolf NAS 4TB Hard Drives: https://amzn.to/3MIcPvk
Asustor Rack Rails (AS-60XR): https://amzn.to/3t3JHXR
Synology Rackstation RS820+: https://amzn.to/3tPonEH
Main channel video on 3-2-1 Backup Plan:    • Backups: You're doing 'em wrong!  

The NAS and hard drives were provided to us by ASUSTOR and Seagate, respectively. No other form of compensation was given, nor were they given any control over the content of this video.

Contents:

00:00 - Storage intervention!
01:00 - Lockerstor 4RS walkthrough
02:28 - Delivery
03:39 - Rack ears
04:58 - Drive trays
06:07 - Floppy drive - still alive!
07:21 - Rack mounting
08:02 - Sysadmin ASMR
08:52 - Cabling
09:49 - Power on
10:46 - Network setup
11:34 - RAID levels
14:00 - Blinkenlights and Windows Update Woes
15:13 - File copy test
16:40 - Notifications and security
18:06 - Summary