A viral trend involving an elderly man snatching and smashing a phone, debunked as a promotional stunt for iCloud and Google

Snatch and Smash - A viral trend involving an elderly man snatching and smashing a phone, debunked as a promotional stunt for iCloud and Google

An introduction to an affordable data safeguarding method using network attached storage (NAS) devices

Tech Tip Minute - An introduction to an affordable data safeguarding method using network attached storage (NAS) devices

Highlighting the cost-effective and efficient features of the FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit

Value of NAS Devices - Highlighting the cost-effective and efficient features of the FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit

Exploring the affordability and modularity of the CM3588 standalone NAS kit

CM3588 Standalone and Modularity - Exploring the affordability and modularity of the CM3588 standalone NAS kit

Discussion on memory and storage options for the compute board, with consideration for performance and cost

Memory and Storage Options - Discussion on memory and storage options for the compute board, with consideration for performance and cost

Selection of power-efficient SSDs for NAS usage and the advantages of using a NAS over external hard drives

SSD Selection and NAS Usage - Selection of power-efficient SSDs for NAS usage and the advantages of using a NAS over external hard drives

Installation and setup of Open Media Vault (OMV) on the NAS, including RAID configuration and file sharing with Windows-based computers

Open Media Vault Installation - Installation and setup of Open Media Vault (OMV) on the NAS, including RAID configuration and file sharing with Windows-based computers

Integration of PhotoPrism and Photosync for AI-powered photo library and sync functionality on the NAS

PhotoPrism and Photosync - Integration of PhotoPrism and Photosync for AI-powered photo library and sync functionality on the NAS

Discussion on setting up Plex server and video editing capabilities on the NAS, including performance considerations

Plex Server and Video Editing - Discussion on setting up Plex server and video editing capabilities on the NAS, including performance considerations

Overview of supported operating systems for the NAS and a value proposition comparison with major cloud storage providers

Supported OSs and Value Proposition - Overview of supported operating systems for the NAS and a value proposition comparison with major cloud storage providers

Sponsorship message for Supermicro's petascale storage servers and their features

Supermicro Sponsorship - Sponsorship message for Supermicro's petascale storage servers and their features

**Protect Your Data with Affordable NAS Solutions**

*Viral Trends and Tech Tips*

In the latest viral trend, an elderly man is seen snatching and smashing a phone in a video that has over 6000000 views on TikTok. But don't fall for the fake news! It's just a stunt to promote iCloud and Google 1. In today's Tech Tip Minute, we'll show you an affordable way to safeguard your data.

**Affordable NAS Solution**

- The FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit offers a cost-effective way to back up your data.
- It costs about the same as 2 terabytes of cloud storage per year and outperforms big name NAS devices.
- It is powered by just a 2 amp 12 volt input, making it efficient and cost-effective.

**Modularity and Performance**

- The CM3588 is modular, allowing for potential upgrades in the future.
- It comes with 4 gigs of DDR4X memory and options for 8 or 16 gigs with 64 gigs of eMMC storage.
- The PCIe Gen 3x1 connections provide flexibility for various storage options.

**Setting Up Your NAS**

- We used Open Media Vault (OMV) as the operating system for the NAS.
- With RAID 5, we achieved almost 11.2 terabytes of capacity for data storage.
- The NAS can be easily connected to Windows-based computers for seamless file sharing.

**Protecting Your Data**

- Use PhotoPrism and Photosync to sync and protect your photos with the NAS.
- Avoid the risks of using external hard drives as a single point of failure.
- Follow the 3-2-1 rule for data backup: 3 copies on 2 types of media with 1 offsite.

**Performance and Value**

- The NAS handled streaming to 2 concurrent clients at 1080p with ease.
- It also performed well for video editing, making it a versatile and cost-effective solution for data storage and management.

**Conclusion**

The FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit offers an affordable and efficient way to safeguard your data. With its modularity, performance, and value, it outperforms traditional cloud storage options and provides a reliable solution for data backup and management.

Don't miss out on this small but powerful NAS solution. Learn more about Supermicro's pedestal servers in the description box down below.

"Protect Your Data with the Affordable and Powerful CM3588 NAS Kit"

To sync photos and work as a separate application

To support data-intensive workloads like AI and machine learning

- The video discusses a viral trend of snatch and smash involving an elderly man and a young woman's phone
- The video then transitions to a Tech Tip Minute segment, showcasing an affordable way to safeguard data using a NAS board
- The NAS board is modular and offers flexibility for storage options, and the video demonstrates its performance in handling video editing and streaming tasks

- The ELEC NAS supports various operating systems including Debian, friendly WRT, Ubuntu, and Android
- It can scale up to 32 terabytes of storage with a top spec price of $160
- The cost is significantly lower than larger storage plans from major cloud providers
- The NAS is recommended for its value and performance
- The sponsor, Supermicro, offers petascale storage servers designed for data intensive workloads
- The servers support the latest generation PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs and AMD Epyc 9000 4-series processors
- Supermicro's cloud management platform provides a unified dashboard for integrated tasks
- More information about Supermicro's pedestal servers can be found in the description box below the video

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:57 CM3588 NAS Kit Introduction
3:39 SSD Options
5:19 Why Bother with a NAS?
6:06 OpenMediaVault Setup
6:59 Speed Test
7:40 Backup Phone Data
8:29 Extra Tricks for the CM3588
9:10 Video Editing Test
9:53 Conclusion
11:41 Outro

It's the viral trend that's breaking all the rules, and maybe your phone.

This clip with over 6000000 views on TikTok shows an elderly man sneaking up on an unsuspecting Zoomer, snatching her phone, and smashing it right in front of her.

Look, it's the same guy in a different hat.

I reverse AI searched him, and his LinkedIn employer just says he has contracts at Google and Apple.

It's just a stunt to promote iCloud and Google 1.

Now it's time for today's Tech Tip Minute, where we're gonna be showing you an affordable way to safeguard your data.

I press this button and instantly, my photos are sinking over the internet, but instead of to an expensive cloud storage provider, I'm backing up to the NAS board right behind me.

Of course, network attached storage or NAS devices are nothing new.

The friendly elect CM3588 NAS kit costs about what you'd spend for 2 terabytes of cloud storage per year.

And it's arm based processor from Rockchip crushes the CPU in this $700 big name NAS.

As a bonus, it's so efficient, it can be powered by just a 2 amp 12 volt input.

There is 1 more thing you'll need to know before you can stop paying that monthly subscription, and we're gonna tell you all about it after the break.

Super micro, if you're in need of high performance servers to support your AI and machine learning workloads, Super Micro is here to serve for up some great options.

Check out their pedestal 1U and 2U storage servers at the link down below.

Despite being able to purchase the CM3588 standalone, it's really intended to slot into their bundleable $35 NAS kit that comes equipped with 2 and a half gig ethernet, 3 HDMI ports, 1 in, 2 out, USB 3, USB C, a micro SD slot, and the star of the show, 4 full-sized M.2 PCIe Gen 3 slots.

I mean, I guess if you take away the expensive bits like the SOC and the RAM, a PCB and some connectors, it even has GPIO.

All we got to do is install a cute little heat sink, click it into place and we're done.

But this ease of use is only part of the story.

For now, FriendlyELEC only has this 1 board, but in the future, who knows?

A SATA version for hard drives or maybe 1 with a PCI Express slot.

And what's cool is in the future, if your daughter board still meets your needs, but you want more performance, you could potentially upgrade the brain of your tiny NAS without having to scrap the whole thing.

The first iteration kind of has to succeed for there to be a followup, but as it stands right now, I kind of love it.

This version of the compute board comes with 4 gigs of DDR4X memory and no onboard storage.

So the expectation is you either use the SD slot on the NAS kit, or you upgrade to the 8 or 16 gig RAM versions, which includes 64 gigs of eMMC storage.

We ended up with the latter, which brought our price to $160.

It's not cheap, but it's a really solid value when you consider that that's a 1 time cost.

But while we're doing that, let's talk about the options that we have.

Each of these slots is a PCIe Gen 3x1 connection.

So that does limit our bandwidth a little bit, but it also opens up some very interesting options.

For example, with inexpensive adapters, we could turn each of these into as many as 5 SATA ports, giving us support for 20 conventional hard drives.

We were more interested though, in a tiny power efficient solid state NAS.

Now, with only 1 lane per port, we're not gonna be setting any speed records here, but realistically, our 2 and a half gig network interface is gonna limit us long before those PCIe lanes will.

Which realistically gave us a lot of flexibility when it came to choosing our SSDs.

We obviously don't want anything unreliable, so we're not gonna go with the cheapest thing, but we don't need to spend a fortune either.

So we picked these 4 terabyte MP34 drives from Team Group for $165 each.

They're only Gen 3, but they have a 5 year warranty, and they even come with a DRAM cache, though that shouldn't really have an impact on the relatively sequential video editing work that we would do off of this thing at a trade show or something.

And for that matter, most NAS duties are pretty similar, whether you're using it for a PC backup, photo and movie backup, or even running a video streaming server with Plex or Jellyfin.

And besides, because you're configuring your own, you can choose lower capacity drives or you can populate just 2 slots, run them in a mirror for redundancy.

Then 6 months later, when you get a nice paycheck, you can add 1 or 2 more.

So some of you are probably wondering then, why do you need a NAS instead of just using external hard drives anyway?

They're a single point of failure and they're super easy to lose.

By comparison, a NAS can be shared with anyone else on your network, which leads to 0.2, having all of your data on your personal machine is something that I have advocated against for years.

Your daily driver is the most likely to be infected by malware or to suffer a malfunction, putting any data that's on it at risk.

With that said, a single copy on a NAS isn't best practice either, and you should always follow the 3-2-1 rule.

3 copies of your data on 2 types of media with 1 of them being offsite.

Now, we usually turn to TrueNAS for these types of projects, but with this board being ARM-based, we were forced to look for another option, and eventually we settled on OMV or Open Media Vault.

Conveniently, Friendly Alex website includes a link to a Google Drive that has all the install files and instructions for the different methods of installation.

We're gonna be going from an SD card to our eMMC storage.

The process took about 25 minutes, and at the end, gave us an IP that we could use to access the GUI for OpenMedia Vault.

We chose RAID 5 for a balance of protection and capacity.

And after compiling and syncing, we were left with, dang, almost 11.2 terabytes of capacity.

Now we wanna connect it to our Windows-based computers.

So we enable SMB, the protocol that Windows uses for network file sharing, and then create a shared drive.

Different media file copying from our desktop to our tiny NES.

Completely saturating our 2 and a half gig interface.

I wonder how much CPU usage is happening.

It's almost like that's a lot of interface for a 2 and a half gig connection.

Did I mention it's completely flipping silent?

This is all fine and good, but it doesn't answer the question of how do we protect ourselves against the very real threat of snatch and smash.

Well, under the plugin section in OMV, you can grab PhotoPrism, an AI powered photo library that we can use a separate application to sync to.

So for just over $5, we're able to sync our photos with almost any storage solution you can think of, including PhotoPrism.

And what's really cool is the sync can work both ways.

So if your phone ever dies and you need to replace it, you just re-sign into Photosync and you can sync back from your NAS to whatever new phone you get.

No monthly subscription, just a one-time payment of this many dollars for the app.

Compared to more Common setups, x86 processors on TrueNAS or Unread for example, we did have times when we needed a little extra tinkering and know how to get things working.

But after Jake spent a couple of hours getting Plex up and running in a Docker container, this little guy handled streaming just great to 2 concurrent clients, at least at 1080p it did.

Once we bumped it up to 4K, that was a different story.

But hey, if you're not super satisfied with the playback off of this device, that's okay.

You can run the Plex server on a more powerful machine in your house, say your gaming desktop, and then just use this as a beef caked out little external hard drive.

I am curious to see how it'll handle video editing though.

As it turns out, The entire editing department is on lunch right now.

I am starting to think we've got our Apple Vision Pro video here.

This is the Facebook version of it though.

I can't even tell what the heck's going on.

It's not the fastest thing ever, but realistically this is reasonably heavy 4K footage.

This was such a great moment in this video.

And you can't really appreciate it at all because of stupid aspect ratio.

And if OpenMediaVault isn't your thing, ELEC's list of supported OSs includes versions of Debian, friendly WRT, Ubuntu, and even Android.

It's a Linux sized NAS that can scale up to 32 terabytes of storage with a top spec price of $160, if you're okay with doing a bit of work.

And The value is especially apparent when you look at the cost of the larger storage plans from the major cloud providers.

Google, for instance, wants $600 a year for their 10 terabyte cloud storage plan.

That means it would take less than a year and a half to pay off this exact NAS in this configuration with all the SSDs.

And that's with us going full LTT and making a solid state NAS.

So what can I say other than I give a strong recommendation to this small boy, just like I give a strong recommendation to this small boy?

Their petascale storage servers are designed and optimized to support data intensive workloads like AI and machine learning.

They have convenient rear IO and front IO configurations to make networking easier.

They're available in 1U and 2U form factors, and they support up to 32 of the latest generation PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs.

They also tout single socket SP5 AMD Epyc 9000 4-series processors, and up to 24 DIMM slots.

Plus, their 2000 watt redundant titanium level power supplies will keep them chugging along, reducing maintenance costs and downtime.

Not to mention, their super cloud composer, cloud management platform, grants you access to a unified dashboard to integrate tasks into a single intelligent solution.

So don't wait, learn more about Supermicro's pedestal servers in the description box down below.

If you guys enjoyed this video, go check out the 90 terabyte NVMe server that I ended up building and not taking home to my house.

It's kind of the opposite of this, but it's still a fun educational video.


Speaker 0: Snatch and smash. It's the viral trend that's breaking all the rules, and maybe your phone. This clip with over 6000000 views on TikTok shows an elderly man sneaking up on an unsuspecting Zoomer, snatching her phone, and smashing it right in front of her.

Speaker 1: Hey Billy! Did you see this on the TV news?

Speaker 2: It's fake news, Dad. Look, it's the same guy in a different hat. I reverse AI searched him, and his LinkedIn employer just says he has contracts at Google and Apple. It's just a stunt to promote iCloud and Google 1.

Speaker 1: But You have the iDrive, right?

Speaker 2: No, dad. My generation can't afford BMWs. Unsettling if true.

Speaker 1: Now it's time for today's Tech Tip Minute, where we're gonna be showing you an affordable way to safeguard your data. Watch this. I press this button and instantly, my photos are sinking over the internet, but instead of to an expensive cloud storage provider, I'm backing up to the NAS board right behind me. Wow, look at it go. Of course, network attached storage or NAS devices are nothing new.

What's special here is the value. The friendly elect CM3588 NAS kit costs about what you'd spend for 2 terabytes of cloud storage per year. And it's arm based processor from Rockchip crushes the CPU in this $700 big name NAS. As a bonus, it's so efficient, it can be powered by just a 2 amp 12 volt input. There is 1 more thing you'll need to know before you can stop paying that monthly subscription, and we're gonna tell you all about it after the break.

Super micro, if you're in need of high performance servers to support your AI and machine learning workloads, Super Micro is here to serve for up some great options. Check out their pedestal 1U and 2U storage servers at the link down below.

Speaker 0: ♪♪♪

Speaker 1: Despite being able to purchase the CM3588 standalone, it's really intended to slot into their bundleable $35 NAS kit that comes equipped with 2 and a half gig ethernet, 3 HDMI ports, 1 in, 2 out, USB 3, USB C, a micro SD slot, and the star of the show, 4 full-sized M.2 PCIe Gen 3 slots. How is this only $35? I mean, I guess if you take away the expensive bits like the SOC and the RAM, a PCB and some connectors, it even has GPIO. Still doesn't cost very much. All we got to do is install a cute little heat sink, click it into place and we're done.

But this ease of use is only part of the story. The other part is modularity. For now, FriendlyELEC only has this 1 board, but in the future, who knows? A SATA version for hard drives or maybe 1 with a PCI Express slot. That would be sick.

And what's cool is in the future, if your daughter board still meets your needs, but you want more performance, you could potentially upgrade the brain of your tiny NAS without having to scrap the whole thing. I mean, no promises. The first iteration kind of has to succeed for there to be a followup, but as it stands right now, I kind of love it. This version of the compute board comes with 4 gigs of DDR4X memory and no onboard storage. So the expectation is you either use the SD slot on the NAS kit, or you upgrade to the 8 or 16 gig RAM versions, which includes 64 gigs of eMMC storage.

We ended up with the latter, which brought our price to $160. It's not cheap, but it's a really solid value when you consider that that's a 1 time cost. Kind of like our LTT screwdriver. Yeah, 1 driver, many different bits. Let's get these drives installed.

But while we're doing that, let's talk about the options that we have. Each of these slots is a PCIe Gen 3x1 connection. So that does limit our bandwidth a little bit, but it also opens up some very interesting options. For example, with inexpensive adapters, we could turn each of these into as many as 5 SATA ports, giving us support for 20 conventional hard drives. We were more interested though, in a tiny power efficient solid state NAS.

Now, with only 1 lane per port, we're not gonna be setting any speed records here, but realistically, our 2 and a half gig network interface is gonna limit us long before those PCIe lanes will. Which realistically gave us a lot of flexibility when it came to choosing our SSDs. We obviously don't want anything unreliable, so we're not gonna go with the cheapest thing, but we don't need to spend a fortune either. So we picked these 4 terabyte MP34 drives from Team Group for $165 each. They're only Gen 3, but they have a 5 year warranty, and they even come with a DRAM cache, though that shouldn't really have an impact on the relatively sequential video editing work that we would do off of this thing at a trade show or something.

And for that matter, most NAS duties are pretty similar, whether you're using it for a PC backup, photo and movie backup, or even running a video streaming server with Plex or Jellyfin. And besides, because you're configuring your own, you can choose lower capacity drives or you can populate just 2 slots, run them in a mirror for redundancy. Then 6 months later, when you get a nice paycheck, you can add 1 or 2 more. So some of you are probably wondering then, why do you need a NAS instead of just using external hard drives anyway? Well, for starters, these things suck.

They're a single point of failure and they're super easy to lose. By comparison, a NAS can be shared with anyone else on your network, which leads to 0.2, having all of your data on your personal machine is something that I have advocated against for years. Your daily driver is the most likely to be infected by malware or to suffer a malfunction, putting any data that's on it at risk. With that said, a single copy on a NAS isn't best practice either, and you should always follow the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of your data on 2 types of media with 1 of them being offsite.

Now, we usually turn to TrueNAS for these types of projects, but with this board being ARM-based, we were forced to look for another option, and eventually we settled on OMV or Open Media Vault. Conveniently, Friendly Alex website includes a link to a Google Drive that has all the install files and instructions for the different methods of installation. We're gonna be going from an SD card to our eMMC storage. The process took about 25 minutes, and at the end, gave us an IP that we could use to access the GUI for OpenMedia Vault. We chose RAID 5 for a balance of protection and capacity.

And after compiling and syncing, we were left with, dang, almost 11.2 terabytes of capacity. Now we wanna connect it to our Windows-based computers. So we enable SMB, the protocol that Windows uses for network file sharing, and then create a shared drive. Let's see how We did. Different media file copying from our desktop to our tiny NES.

Wow. Completely saturating our 2 and a half gig interface. That's awesome.

Speaker 2: I wonder how much CPU usage is happening. Yeah, you can actually check that.

Speaker 1: You can check that. Pretty substantial amount. Not very powerful.

Speaker 2: And transfer back. Wow. There you go.

Speaker 1: It's almost like that's a lot of interface for a 2 and a half gig connection. Did I mention it's completely flipping silent? Barely even hot to the touch. What am I even listening for? There's no fan on it.

Just whatever, it doesn't matter. Do you

Speaker 2: know where there are fans though? Flowplane. Oh. Go subscribe to Flowplane.

Speaker 1: This is all fine and good, but it doesn't answer the question of how do we protect ourselves against the very real threat of snatch and smash. Well, under the plugin section in OMV, you can grab PhotoPrism, an AI powered photo library that we can use a separate application to sync to. In our case, we used Photosync. So for just over $5, we're able to sync our photos with almost any storage solution you can think of, including PhotoPrism. And what's really cool is the sync can work both ways.

So if your phone ever dies and you need to replace it, you just re-sign into Photosync and you can sync back from your NAS to whatever new phone you get. No monthly subscription, just a one-time payment of this many dollars for the app. Compared to more Common setups, x86 processors on TrueNAS or Unread for example, we did have times when we needed a little extra tinkering and know how to get things working. But after Jake spent a couple of hours getting Plex up and running in a Docker container, this little guy handled streaming just great to 2 concurrent clients, at least at 1080p it did. Once we bumped it up to 4K, that was a different story.

But hey, if you're not super satisfied with the playback off of this device, that's okay. You can run the Plex server on a more powerful machine in your house, say your gaming desktop, and then just use this as a beef caked out little external hard drive. All you need is a network switch. I am curious to see how it'll handle video editing though. As it turns out, The entire editing department is on lunch right now.

So I guess I get to do this. I'm scrubbing. I am starting to think we've got our Apple Vision Pro video here. This is the Facebook version of it though. Hence the super obnoxious aspect ratio.

I can't even tell what the heck's going on. People watch videos like this? This is terrible. But you know what isn't? The NAS.

Why don't we try 1.5 resolution? It's not the fastest thing ever, but realistically this is reasonably heavy 4K footage. This was such a great moment in this video. And you can't really appreciate it at all because of stupid aspect ratio. Yeah, Facebook.

So it's pretty great. And if OpenMediaVault isn't your thing, ELEC's list of supported OSs includes versions of Debian, friendly WRT, Ubuntu, and even Android. So what are you waiting for? It's a Linux sized NAS that can scale up to 32 terabytes of storage with a top spec price of $160, if you're okay with doing a bit of work. And The value is especially apparent when you look at the cost of the larger storage plans from the major cloud providers.

Google, for instance, wants $600 a year for their 10 terabyte cloud storage plan. That means it would take less than a year and a half to pay off this exact NAS in this configuration with all the SSDs. And that's with us going full LTT and making a solid state NAS. So what can I say other than I give a strong recommendation to this small boy, just like I give a strong recommendation to this small boy? Oh, and to our sponsor, Supermicro.

Their petascale storage servers are designed and optimized to support data intensive workloads like AI and machine learning. They have convenient rear IO and front IO configurations to make networking easier. They're available in 1U and 2U form factors, and they support up to 32 of the latest generation PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs. They also tout single socket SP5 AMD Epyc 9000 4-series processors, and up to 24 DIMM slots. That's not DIMM, that's smart.

Plus, their 2000 watt redundant titanium level power supplies will keep them chugging along, reducing maintenance costs and downtime. Not to mention, their super cloud composer, cloud management platform, grants you access to a unified dashboard to integrate tasks into a single intelligent solution. So don't wait, learn more about Supermicro's pedestal servers in the description box down below. If you guys enjoyed this video, go check out the 90 terabyte NVMe server that I ended up building and not taking home to my house. It's kind of the opposite of this, but it's still a fun educational video.

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