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Chilldyne Podcast – liquid cooling solutions for data centers focusing on leak-proof design and efficiency for high-performance servers.

Brian rarely gets to sit down to a podcast with a doctor. However, today, he is joined by Dr. Steve Harrington, CEO of Chilldyne. We have been keenly interested in liquid cooling technologies, and there are more popping up all the time. But we have a soft spot for Chilldyne.

Some background on Dr. Steve Harrington. He is the CTO of Chilldyne and the founder of Flometrics. He is an expert and inventor in Fluid Dynamics and thermodynamics, designing pumps, valves, nozzles, flowmeters, aircraft cooling systems, rocket fuel pumps, rocket test stands, turbine flow measurement systems, medical ventilators, air/oxygen mixers, respiratory humidifiers, CPAP machines, spirometers, heat exchangers, vacuum cleaners, oxygen concentrators, motorcycle fairings, infusion pumps, electronics cooling systems, wave machines, data acquisition systems etc. But wait, there’s more. His expertise extends to electronics, programming, optics, nuclear physics, biology, and physiology.

Steve has more than 29 years of experience in fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. He has consulted for aerospace, semiconductor, medical device, racing, electronic cooling, and other industries. He has over 25 patents and has completed projects for NASA, DARPA, SOCOM, and USACE.

When he is not busy, he is a part-time faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, where he teaches an aerospace engineering senior design class where students instrument, build, and fly liquid rockets. He is also a surfer, a pilot, a scuba diver, a boat and car mechanic, an electrician, and a plumber.

There is much to learn about liquid cooling and we think this podcast will help answer some of the questions on the minds of IT and data center professionals everywhere.

That should be enough to make you interested in listening to this entire podcast. However, if you are strapped for time, we have broken the pod down into five-minute segments so you can hop around as needed.

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“Hot” New Technology: Liquid Cooling

Brian opens with a pun about liquid cooling being a “hot” technology in data centers. Liquid cooling has come full circle—once abandoned with the advent of CMOS, it’s now making a resurgence due to the intense heat generated by modern processors.

From Supercomputers to Jet Engines

Steve provides some personal history on his journey to liquid cooling, starting with cooling supercomputers in the 1980s. Fun fact: His expertise in cooling rocket engines and laser systems translated well to modern data center liquid cooling.

Why Did Liquid Cooling Leave?

Liquid cooling took a break because CMOS technology was thought to have solved the power problem. Surprise! Power demands are back with a vengeance.

From Aerospace to Data Centers

In aerospace, liquid cooling isn’t just about cooling; it’s about reliability over time—think planes, rockets, and lasers. Data centers, on the other hand, need uptime and longevity, adding unique challenges to Steve’s transition from aerospace.

ARPA-E Grant and the 2 Kilowatt Chip

Steve’s foresight included partnering with ARPA-E to develop a cold plate for a two-kilowatt chip. This foresight is paying off, as more data centers are bidding for projects with these high-power chips.

Liquid Cooling: A CFO’s Nightmare?

Testing liquid cooling systems can cost millions. Convincing CFOs to sign off on such “experiments” is no easy task, especially since they don’t fit neatly into the financial spreadsheet. It’s like buying a $2 million test drive—it sounds fun but is risky.

Sharing Secrets: The Meta Paradox

Meta and other commercial giants tend to lock up their liquid cooling secrets tighter than the company’s algorithm. Sharing is caring, but not when there’s competition involved.

Chilldyne’s Leak-Proof, Negative Pressure System

Chilldyne’s secret sauce: a negative pressure system that’s essentially leak-free. If a leak happens, air enters instead of coolant spilling, keeping the chips safe from a soggy fate.

Handling Leaks: When Not to Panic

Even with leaks, Chilldyne’s system keeps running.

Liquid Cooling Data: The Missing Chapter

Industry-wide data on the impact of liquid cooling on wear and tear is sparse. Liquid cooling can feel like more of a mysterious “beer conference” topic than an open discussion.

The Biodiversity of Data Center Coolant

Did you know that the local bacteria in your water supply can mess with your liquid cooling system? Different regions have different microbes, which can wreak havoc on data center coolant systems, leading to clogged plates and overheating GPUs.

Coolant Chemistry 101

Chilldyne has a built-in chemistry lab to monitor coolant quality. Forget your sterile water dreams; this is a battle between biology and technology.

Coolant Additives: A Budget Dilemma

Don’t cheap out on your coolant chemistry unless you enjoy emergency maintenance.

PG 25: Gamers’ Friend, Data Centers’ Enemy

PG 25 is great for gamers—it doesn’t freeze and prevents bacteria growth. However, it attacks seals, leading to leaks over time, making it less ideal for long-term data center use.

Chemistry’s Role in Data Center Maintenance

Data centers often forget that liquid cooling isn’t a “set it and forget it” solution. It requires regular monitoring and maintenance.

The Additives That Keep the Cool

Chilldyne uses low-toxicity additives: a splash of antibacterial and anti-corrosion chemicals.

Say No to PG 25 (Sometimes)

PG 25 is a “don’t freeze” lifesaver for gamers shipping their liquid-cooled rigs but less so for data centers.

Facility Water is Just the Start

When installing a CDU (cooling distribution unit), Chilldyne starts with distilled or reverse osmosis-filtered water.

The Cold Plate Clean-Up Crew

One customer refused to use recommended additives, leading to a clogged, hot mess in their GPUs. Chilldyne stepped in with a chemical cleanse, but if a cold plate gets too gummed up, sometimes it’s game over—time for replacement.

 Liquid Cooling ≠ Set It and Forget It

Electronics may run smoothly for years, but liquid cooling? That’s a different beast.

Water: The MVP of Cooling Fluids

Why stick with good ol’ water? It’s cheap, non-toxic, and performs well—especially in single-phase systems.

Immersion Cooling: The Slow Burner

Immersion cooling with engineered oils has some potential, especially in edge zones or moderate power servers, but it’s just not efficient enough for today’s two-kilowatt monsters.

When Pipes Get Silly Big

Watch for logistical nightmares as cooling systems scale up.

Electrical Limits: The Real Bottleneck

While liquid cooling systems can scale, there’s a limit to how much electrical current a chip can handle.

Don’t Forget the Chiller

While cooling towers are ideal in many places, some regions require chillers due to water scarcity. Go with a cooling tower.

The Leaks Won’t Tell You

Unlike server components, liquid cooling systems aren’t yet smart enough to give you advanced warnings about leaks.

The Problem with Positive Pressure

Positive pressure systems that detect leaks with special tape are reactive—they shut down servers when something goes wrong. Negative pressure systems like Chilldyne’s, however, keep the servers running even with minor leaks, avoiding costly downtime.

Compatibility Chaos

The issue with buying parts from multiple vendors is compatibility problems.

Plumbing Isn’t an IT Skill

Data center operators are skilled in networking, cybersecurity, and power management—but they’re not plumbers or chemists. That’s where specialized vendors come in.

Switch-Over Valves: The Fail-Safe

Chilldyne uses switch-over valves to provide redundancy in cooling systems. These valves work like airplane safety mechanisms—if one system fails, the other kicks in without the servers even noticing.

Scale Matters: The 100kW Threshold

Steve suggests that liquid cooling isn’t worth the hassle unless you’re dealing with over 100kW of compute power.

Fortune 500 and Beyond

Big companies are already there, but even mid-tier enterprises are starting to feel the heat. The power consumption of GPU-packed servers means that liquid cooling will soon be a necessity for many organizations.

The Rack Scale CDU That Wasn’t

Chilldyne has a design for a 50-100kW rack scale CDU, but no takers yet.

The Four-Inch Pipe Problem

Liquid cooling systems max out at around 1-2MW before the plumbing gets unwieldy. Keeping the system manageable is key.

Electrical vs. Cooling Limits

We’re approaching the point where electrical limits are more problematic than cooling capacity.

The Heat Disposal Conundrum

It’s not enough to cool the gear—you’ve got to deal with all that heat.

The Chip Temperature Tango

There’s a balance between cooling efficiency and chip performance. Design systems that can go colder if needed because the next-gen chips might perform 20% faster with lower temperatures.

Data Center Math is Getting Hard

Factor in cooling tower efficiency, GPU performance, fan speeds, and a whole lot more. The math behind today’s cooling solutions is critical for optimization.

HVAC and IT: Strange Bedfellows

HVAC engineers and IT teams used to operate separately, but liquid cooling is bringing them together.

Keeping the IT Guys in the Loop

Encourage collaboration between hardware providers and cooling experts to ensure the solution won’t melt under pressure.

Get Started with Liquid Cooling Now

Steve recommends starting small, but start now.  Get a system, run it, and learn from it before you’re in too deep.

The Danger of Overconfidence

Some companies are planning massive liquid-cooled data centers without ever testing smaller systems.

Lead Time: It’s Real

Lead times for liquid cooling systems can range from 16 to 52 weeks. So, better get those orders in early!

Spec Confusion with New Racks

NVIDIA’s new MVL racks are on the horizon, but specific water temperature and chemistry guidelines are still unclear.

Home Lab Mentality: Get Your Reps In

Steve encourages enterprises to take the “home lab” approach: start small, mess around with it, and learn.

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Closed-loop liquid cooling from JetCool delivers power efficiencies and increased CPU/GPU performance.

Liquid cooling continues to gain traction in the enterprise, especially with the intense compute requirements associated with AI. CPUs and GPUs are running hotter, and traditional air cooling struggles to keep those temperatures down. We have covered several liquid cooling systems over the past few years, with JetCool being a standout player.

After running into JetCool during SuperComputing 2023, we brought their technology into our Ohio lab, nestled inside an R760. To say we were impressed would be an understatement. To gain more insight into this technology, Brian invited JetCool founder and CEO Bernie Malouin for this podcast.

Bernie describes himself as a technical professional with demonstrated experience from concept studies through deployment. By the way, Bernie also holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. That’s impressive, but before he founded JetCool, Bernie spent eight years at MIT Lincoln Labs. He was the technical and programmatic lead for a multi-sponsor research project to implement advanced cooling technology in high-power RF devices for advanced electronics applications.

Although this podcast is less than 40 minutes long, Brian and Bernie cover a lot of ground. It’s worth viewing or listening in its entirety, but if you are short on time or need specifics on a particular topic, we have broken down the conversation into five-minute chunks so you can skip around.

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06:00  Clarify Liquid Assist, please

10:00  Relationships with the chip makers

15:00  Let’s talk about pumps, cold plates and radiators

22:00  What happens when the hose breaks

25:00  Looking for the signals

30:00  Yeah, but how much does it cost?

37:00  Silence is liquid gold

Wrap-up: Stop by JETCOOL at OCP in October!

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This week, Brian is joined by Matthias Haas, IGEL’s Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Storagereview Contributor, and preeminent EUC expert Tom Fenton. IGEL Technology is a virtual desktop and end-user computing leader focused on thin client development.  Check out Tom’s recent coverage of IGEL Disrupt.

This week, Brian is joined by Matthias Haas, IGEL’s Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Storagereview Contributor, and preeminent EUC expert Tom Fenton. IGEL Technology is a virtual desktop and end-user computing leader focused on thin client development.  Check out Tom’s recent coverage of IGEL Disrupt.

Matthias describes himself as an “EUC visionary helping customers to future-proof their endpoint deployments at scale for a multi-cloud-enabled world.” He has been in IT for over 15 years, starting as a System Engineer focused on Linux security. During his tenure in software development, Matthias developed a deep technical understanding he used to create customer-oriented solutions. These products and solutions had a clear technical strategy but also answered customers’ day-to-day challenges.

Although a successful business model, IGEL has moved away from the hardware business typically associated with thin client technology and developed a secure, purpose-built thin operating system. Creating a thin operating system addresses the current transformation in multicloud deployments. The disruption to virtualization generated by Broadcom’s recent VMware acquisition adds angst to users dependent upon cloud technologies. Of course, many of the major hardware. Many enterprise software and hardware vendors have jumped on the VMware migration bandwagon. Still, IGEL has addressed this effect on end-user computing, creating a secure, easy-to-use, thin operating system.

For those unfamiliar with Tom’s work, he has over twenty years of experience working with virtualization and cloud technologies and over twenty-five years of Enterprise IT experience. He has a track record of keeping up with new technologies and presenting solutions to complex problems. Tom has been a key contributor to Storagereview.com.

This is an essential topic since EUC touches most of us daily. Although shorter than most of our podcasts, it is packed with information. If you have the time, give this a complete view, but if you are strapped for time, we have provided a time-stamped breakdown of the transcript.

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05:00  What do you mean it doesn’t support Windows 11?

10:00  Build that app

15:00  It’s agnostic

20:00  What’s needed to run a system?

25:00  Neural Processing Units

30:00  Running workloads on an endpoint

35:00  Digital signage infrastructure

39:00  Wrap up

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This is another live podcast in which Brian checks in with long-time friend and industry veteran Jonmichael Hands for this fast-paced, technically focused podcast. Jonmichael is currently the Senior Director of Product Planning at FADU but has an extensive storage, networking, and blockchain background.

This is another live podcast in which Brian checks in with long-time friend and industry veteran Jonmichael Hands for this fast-paced, technically focused podcast. Jonmichael is currently the Senior Director of Product Planning at FADU but has an extensive storage, networking, and blockchain background. He also has a patent for Accelerated data recovery in a storage system, a recipient of  The Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology Award, and, while at Intel, was a member of the NVM Express marketing group.

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If you are interested in flash technology and want to hear more about the future of SSD in this AI universe, you will enjoy this one. But if you are only interested in a few topics, we have highlighted them in five-minute increments.

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Brian invited Peter Skovrup, VP of Product Management for Pure Storage, to continue their conversation from the Pure //Accelerate Las Vegas event in June. Brian and Jordan spent a few days with Pure, learning the latest for what’s new with Pure Storage technology – like their 150TB flash module!

Brian invited Peter Skovrup, VP of Product Management for Pure Storage, to continue their conversation from the Pure //Accelerate Las Vegas event in June. Brian and Jordan spent a few days with Pure, learning the latest for what’s new with Pure Storage technology – like their 150TB flash module!

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>This is another live event where the audience gets to ask Brian’s guests questions as they arise throughout the conversation. In case you missed it, our first two live events had a few hiccups, but we seem to have ironed those out now. This jam-packed session covers hardware and software, the all-important NPS scores, flash technology, and how it all fits together with Pure Storage solutions.

This is an exciting conversation that also tends to be a learning experience. If you have the time, it is worth listening to this entire podcast. However, if you are short of time or need to find details on a particular topic, we have created an easy way to jump around the podcast to get to the issues that are most interesting to you.

The podcast timestamps have been broken down into five-minute increments to make finding what you are looking for easier.

00:00  Introduction

06:00  Core Products

10:00  Why DFM is important to Pure

15:00  Energy Efficiency

21:00  Questions from the Live Audience

26:00  Pure Storage Evergreen//One

30:00  Back to the importance of NPS

36:00  Introduction of Pure One

42:00  Finally, mentioning AI

45:00  SuperPod at scale

51:00  Data Management

58:00  Managing data for AI

62:00  Wrapping up

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Brian goes for another live podcast this week featuring Jakob Dellinger, the “air cooling guru” at Noctua. We have featured Noctua fans in a number of our reviews, most notably our recent “Noctua Unveils NH-D15 G2, Thermosiphon, and Next-Gen Fans” and the HomeLab45 update “The HL15 Homelab Server Goes Shhhhh with New Noctua Kit.”

Brian goes for another live podcast this week featuring Jakob Dellinger, the “air cooling guru” at Noctua. We have featured Noctua fans in a number of our reviews, most notably our recent “Noctua Unveils NH-D15 G2, Thermosiphon, and Next-Gen Fans” and the HomeLab45 update “The HL15 Homelab Server Goes Shhhhh with New Noctua Kit.”

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Noctua has taken fan assembly to a higher level with products for everything from laptops to data centers. They pride themselves on innovation and reducing fan noise levels across the spectrum. Based in Austria, Noctua (the Little Owl) was founded in 2005 and quickly became one of the most acclaimed suppliers of premium-quality quiet cooling products that are apparently inspired by, but do not smell like, coffee.

This is another live podcast where our YouTube audience joined the conversation and submitted questions to Jakub and Brian. We are pushing the boundaries on these live podcasts, inviting our audience and guests to have a genuinely interactive conversation on topics that interest them.

After dealing with several hiccups at the show’s beginning, Brian got down to business. His first question was, “Why do people love your products so much?”

00:00  Introduction

05:00  Finding the inspiration

10:00  Scratch ‘n Sniff

16:00  Squeezing Enterprise boards into workstations

20:00  PC and Workstation case design

26:00  How to check for performance loss

31:00  Questions from the audience

35:00  Showing off new products

40:00  Cooling GPUs

46:00  More on the HomeLab 15

50:00  Wrap up

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For this show, Brian sits down with Anthony Cusimano, Director of Technical Marketing, at Object First. If you are not familiar with Object First, you can check out our deep dive earlier this month, Object First Ootbi: Simple Ransomware-Proof Backups For Veeam.

Another live podcast! Thank you to all who attended.

For this show, Brian sits down with Anthony Cusimano, Director of Technical Marketing, at Object First. If you are not familiar with Object First, you can check out our deep dive earlier this month, Object First Ootbi: Simple Ransomware-Proof Backups For Veeam.

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Here’s a brief intro to Object First. It was founded by the original founders of Veeam and introduced its flagship product, Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box-Immutability), in 2023. Despite the common skepticism surrounding the notion of “ransomware-proof” technology, especially in the context of backups and storage, the technical prowess and on-premise testing of Ootbi suggest they can make this promise a reality for many organizations.

Anthony has been with Object First for over two years and serves as its Chief Evangelist and Director of Technical Marketing. Prior to joining Object First, Anthony spent six years in sales and marketing with Veritas Technologies. Throughout his career, he has focused on security and preventing cyber attacks.

This is an engaging discussion covering the departure of Veeam founders to establish an appliance hardware company, that runs Veeam! Customers enjoy enhanced security by controlling both the software and hardware.

If you don’t have the time to watch end-to-end, we have highlighted segments below.

00:00  Introduction

05:00  Getting more information

11:00  Security Measures

16:00  Questions from YouTube viewers

20:00  Beating the drum for Zero Trust

25:00  Cooking what’s next

30:00  Looking at mid-enterprise

35:00  Hey! What about AI?

40:00  Attacks work because they are clever

45:00  Talking hardware

50:00  The case for smaller customers

55:00  Cutting the tube

60:00  Neverending Story

65:00  Wrap up

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Brian welcomes Andy Klein to the Podcast this week. Andy is the Principle Storage Cloud Storyteller at Backblaze. In addition to the storyteller role, Andy currently serves as the Technical Marketing Director. Andy has been associated with storage and security technology for most of his career and has been with Backblaze for over 12 years.

Brian welcomes Andy Klein to the Podcast this week. Andy is the Principle Storage Cloud Storyteller at Backblaze. In addition to the storyteller role, Andy currently serves as the Technical Marketing Director. Andy has been associated with storage and security technology for most of his career and has been with Backblaze for over 12 years.

Brian and Andy discuss storage technology and direction and how Backblaze uses and qualifies drives for use in their data centers. This did prove to be a lively discussion around storage products, but not necessarily data center storage products. Backblaze is a service adored by home users.

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Andy is one of the techs behind the Backblaze-generated quarterly storage report. The annual report details failure rates for hard drives and, in a limited sense, SSDs in use at Backblaze. Backblaze is one of the best in being open and communicative about drive usage and failures.

We decided to go live with this podcast and invited our Discord to join. Of course, since it was live, ran into a bit of an issue getting started, so there had to be a restart to get back on track.

00:00 Introduction

05:00 Operational details

10:00 Procurement Process

15:00 Making it easy to track drive changes

20:00 Transitioning to Enterprise drives

25:00 Operational considerations

30:00 Form factors

35:00 Experimental Tech

40:00 Protocol for failure

45:00 Finding the right chassis

50:00 Using Solid Technology

60:00 What’s exciting for the future?

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Our podcast has Brian introducing Jordan Winkelman from Quantum Corporation.  If you remember, we did a deep dive review of Quantum Myriad a few weeks ago. To prepare for that review, Brian traveled to the Quantum office in Denver, where he met up with Jordan in the breakroom. The discussion expanded to include AI topics like security and surveillance, all things storage and a bit of space-related topics.

Our podcast has Brian introducing Jordan Winkelman from Quantum Corporation.  If you remember, we did a deep dive review of Quantum Myriad a few weeks ago. To prepare for that review, Brian traveled to the Quantum office in Denver, where he met up with Jordan in the breakroom. The discussion expanded to include AI topics like security and surveillance, all things storage and a bit of space-related topics.

Jordan has spent over 25 years in the technology industry with technical roles supporting advertising, retail, medical, VoIP, and enterprise software and infrastructure solutions. More recently, for the past eight years, he has supported scale-out storage and field technology practices at Quantum. Jordan brings a wealth of experience in designing, testing, validating, and optimizing technology solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Quantum was very engaged in the review process and provided great support and detail. This podcast reveals the same level of attention from Jordan and provides a lively discussion on storage, security, containers, and a lot more.

Jordan and Brian go deep on technology and how the storage market has progressed over the years. There’s reminiscing about old 40MB storage drives and how difficult it is to get funding from Silicon Valley for a storage company startup. It’s a fun discussion and worth the time.

If you want to skip around the podcast, we have provided a timeline below, so feel free to jump to the topics that are more important to you.

Live on our Discord.

00:00  Introduction

05:00 Talking about Hard Drives

10:00  Meeting customer SLAs

15:00  Is it local, or is it streaming?

20:00  Live clips

25:00  Networking impact

30:00  PCI is changing with Gen 4, Gen 5, and Gen 6

35:00  AI means different things to different people

40:00  Power and Cooling

45:00  Where is the best place to store non-revenue data?

50:00  DNA Storage

55:00  Fitting media into a footprint

60:00  Wrap up

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45Drives has been a cloud-scale staple for some time, delivering some of the first purpose-built storage servers for service providers. Over time the company has added many more servers, most recently an exciting 15-bay rig designed specifically for the homelab enthusiast.

45Drives has been a cloud-scale staple for some time, delivering some of the first purpose-built storage servers for service providers. Over time the company has added many more servers, most recently an exciting 15-bay rig designed specifically for the homelab enthusiast.

Doug Milburn joins the podcast to discuss the origins of 45Drives and the considerations that went into the HL15. Doug also discusses some of the roadmap for the homelab line, which should get enthusiasts bubbling in the event the HL15 isn’t your cup of tea.

Doug describes himself as a “geek by birth.” He likes everything electronic, computer, mechanical, whatever, studying physics for a couple of degrees, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and picking up everything else along the way.

We are just starting our test and review of the HL15, to get up to speed on our progress check out our unboxing and setup video here.

The podcast was done live on Discord – join Discord to keep up to date with all the latest from the SR Lab!

We are transcribing the podcast here, so you can skip to sections that might be more interesting to our listeners. However, if you have time, catch the podcast in its entirety. You won’t be disappointed. The YT video in embedded below for those who prefer the visuals.

00:00  Introduction

05:00  Integrating everything

10:00  Get up to speed on the HL15

15:00  Working with government agencies

20:00  Cold storage

25:00  Delivering a clean build to customers

30:00  Building affordable home lab equipment

35:00  Built in North America

40:00  People have their own idea of what they want

45:00  You can’t please all the people all the time

50:00  Looking at the hardware build design

55:00  Question from Discord audience

60:00. Things you should and shouldn’t try

63:00  Wrapup

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