Best Of The Render Farm (Compilation)
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You don't understand. All right. Who's our next guest going to be who like breaks a house trying to get you your thing? No, it's not like that at all. Is it mobile games? They can be expensive. They can be, but it's not mobile games. I want to build a render farm. That's not as exciting as you're trying to make it seem. Well, come on. I am personally. I do think that's interesting because I'm interested exactly at what the infrastructure for that is and how you said that. But like to normal people, that's an even tougher sell than lenses. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to be honest. Oh, come on. I'm going to let you cook here only because I filled up my Synology the other day. I've had it for, I don't know, 10 years.
I've had it for a very long time and it's got 30 terabytes of storage. Last night I went to transfer some files.
How does building a render farm impact Mark's workflow?
It's full up. Damn. So if you've got space for me, Mark, I'm in. Yeah, so I think, Wade, you'll like this because you know when I was doing that whole hard drive stint, which people forgot about when the lenses took over, but I was doing a hard drive thing there for a bit. Yeah, when you were Thunderstruck, whatever it was called. Yes, exactly, Thunderbolt. So I built a server that has 400 terabytes of storage, right? Because I was like, I'm going to future proof this. I had to win a whole hard drive kick. I got some refurbished hard drives. If there's one thing I love is that doing these hobbies and trying to find a good deal for them, even because it's so expensive, a lot of these things. So I always try to find like the good deal for it.
So I bought refurbished hard drives. And in every way, that's a big no, no, no, don't do that. But it just so happened in a specific situation that I did this. There was some cryptocurrency that was based on hard drive space. I talked about before. Yada, yada, yada. But render farm is different because it's extremely difficult to get server infrastructure at a cheap price unless you just so happen to be in an era where everyone with a data center is replacing their hardware with this new fancy AI bullshit hardware and they're throwing everything out at incredible discounts and you can find the most amazing server hardware ever on ebay for steep discounts okay how much is a steep discounted 400 terabyte oh you're not gonna like this i'm talking like 50 plus discounts right how much is a 4090 right now right 49 couple grand isn't it
2,200 bucks or something? 4090s right now is like two grand. Like around that, it's still very expensive. You can get some things with a 4090 in it, an entire CPU, RAM, like power supply, motherboard, case, all this shit for $2,400. So 400 more than the card and a 49 in there. 400 more than the card itself for the entire fucking computer. With a 2TB NVMe, it's got 64... Look, even my camera agrees. What the shit? Why is that happening? Why is there a thumbs up on your face? It's just so positive. You can get all that for $2,400. And that's still a lot of money. But you talk about getting the computer with the 4090 in it for that. Now, here's the real kicker. That's just domestic level computer hardware, right?
At steep discounts. Because now is a better time than ever in the history of forever to get a computer. Because there are so many companies that are trying to clear shit out to get this new shit in.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:30
2
How does building a render farm impact Mark's workflow?
1:30–4:07
3
What are the challenges of setting up a render farm?
4:07–6:25
4
How does Mark compare server hardware prices?
6:25–8:13
5
What are the pros and cons of refurbished computer parts?
8:13–9:52
6
How does Mark plan to optimize his render farm?
9:52–12:42
7
What are the technical issues faced with server management?
12:42–16:12
8
How is Mark's experience with customer service during setup?
16:12–1:42:34