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ServeTheHome provides insights and analysis delivered to you since 2009. We specialize in the data center industry with servers, storage, and networking.
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BREAKING: We have heard that Intel is exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the pioneering and popular Intel NUC line of mini PCs
@intel
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Intel showed an 8 core CPU with 66 hardware threads per core for.... 528 threads per socket? The chip even included silicon photonics networking
@Intel
@IntelNews
@IntelBusiness
@hotchipsorg
#HotChips2023
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The AMD Instinct MI300 was shown at CES 2023 this year along with new details about the multi-chip CPU, GPU, and HBM3 memory part. That is a big chip!
@AMD
@AMDServer
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In our STH Q2 2023 Letter from the Editor, we get into the personal side of STH and give an update on the STH YouTube channel's silly growth rate
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The ASRock Rack ALTRAD8U-1L2T is set to bring 128 Ampere Altra Max Arm cores to new places in this mATX form factor motherboard. This is awesome for Arm developers.
@ASROCKRACK
@ampere
@arm
#ISC23
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Three weeks early and weighing in at just over 4kg, STH's newest team member arrived this week
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STH turns 14 today so a few thank yous and quick updates are in order. It is hard to believe STH has been around this long! From a side project while doing consulting to serving millions of folks each month.
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We saw the AMD Instinct MI300A (giant APU) and MI300X (GPU) at SC23 and learned new things about AMD's new AI and HPC platforms
@AMD
@AMDServer
@GIGABYTEUSA
#SC23
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BREAKING: Intel confirmed to STH that it is exiting its longtime server business and selling the unit to MiTAC parent of Tyan
@Intel
@IntelBusiness
@tyan
@Intelnews
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Intel IFS and Arm announce a deal to bring Arm mobile SoC designs onto the upcoming Intel 18A process in a big win for Intel
@Intel
@intelnews
@arm
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AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa Gaps Intel Xeon with 96 cores and a massive new platform. This gen/gen performance and efficiency gain is almost unheard of in the industry. We get deep in the details. Grab some popcorn and dig in:
@AMD
@AMDServer
@AMDNews
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We deep-dive into the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Sapphire Rapids, to see a huge leap in Xeon capabilities
@Intel
@intelnews
@IntelBusiness
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Ahead of our full review, we have a quick look at the new Minisforum MS-01, the SFP+ 10GbE system with a lot of cool features
@Hi_MINISFORUM
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Today marks the end of a 27 plus year journey for what was one of the best technology sites ever. You will be missed
@anandtech
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In a stunning twist, NVIDIA shows the Intel Gaudi2 is roughly 4x better performance per dollar than the H100 in its MLPerf Training v3.1 results
@MLCommons
@NVIDIA
@NVIDIAAI
@NVIDIADC
@intel
@IntelBusiness
#AI
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AMD, Intel, Broadcom, Cisco, Meta, Goole, Microsoft and more are backing the UALink standard as an industry alternative to NVIDIA NVLink
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The Intel Xeon Max 9480 is a crazy CPU. Not only is it a HPC focused part with 64GB of HBM2e onboard and 8x DDR5 channels, but you can even do things like pull all of the DDR5 and it just works booting OSes and even running VMs
@Intel
@IntelBusiness
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The new AMD EPYC Bergamo will have 128 cores, 256 threads per socket meaning a common 2U 4-node platform will have 2048 threads. This is a processor segment that we expect will account for more than 25% of all data center processor sales within 5 years, so it is a huge deal.
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There are Intel Silicon Photonics 100G QSFP28 2km CWDM4 optics out there for under $6 that appear to have come from a hyper-scaler. It is fun to see these optics available after we first covered them in 2017.
@Intel
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Holy moly! Axe/ wire cutters + Liquid cooling = No problem! with
@Chilldyne
@Supercomputing
#SC22
This is only the second time someone has told
@Patrick1Kennedy
to destroy gear like this.
@PenguinHPC
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Broadcom said it will support AMD XGMI or "Infinity Fabric" on its next-gen PCIe switches and we expect future XGMI NICs in a big counter to NVIDIA as the MI300X is selling like crazy
@Broadcom
@AMD
@AMDServer
@NVIDIA
$AMD
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The Apple M3 family of chips launched with some advancements but also intentionally shaky performance claims that should warrant a look by consumer protection agencies
@Apple
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The AMD EPYC 9754 128 core and 256 thread part is a fantastically fresh take on cloud-native computing that beat our high expectations
@AMD
@AMDServer
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At SC23, we saw the Cornelis Networks 576-port 400Gbps Omni-Path CN5000 director switch with a whopping 48kW of power supplies
@CornelisHPC
#SC23
@Supercomputing
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We get hands-on with the AMD Pensando DSC2-100G Elba DPU in a secret lab to see the hardware and how VMware integrates the 100GbE cards into vSphere
@AMD
@AMDNetworking
@VMware
@MyVMUG
@Dell
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Thanks to all of the STH readers and viewers who stopped by to say hi at LTX Expo 2023 this week. Here is a quick recap
@LinusTech
#LTX2023
@IanCutress
@linusgsebastian
@geerlingguy
@Level1Techs
@crosstalksol
@CraftComputing
@christitustech
@ThePhawx
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We take a look at the MikroTik CRS504-4XQ-IN and see how this sub $699 (street price)/ 45W switch may be the perfect SMB and
#homelab
100GbE and 25GbE switch. This is an impressive and compact package.
@mikrotik_com
@MarvellTech
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We go into why an entire line of high-end
@Dell
switches and possibly even a
@HPE_Cray
US military supercomputer have misspelled stickers that say American "MegatrAnds". This prompts big questions on how well the supply chain is being checked.
#SupplyChain
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Intel announced Thunderbolt 5 with 80Gbps-120Gbps of connectivity for higher-end displays, storage, networking, and eGPU connectivity
@intelnews
@intel
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The Intel Silicon Photonics Connector shown at Intel Innovation 2022 for co-packaged optics is a huge deal for the industry
@Intel
@intelnews
#IntelON
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It took just over 9 months but the STH YouTube channel doubled from 100,000 to 200,000 subscribers so it is time to mark the milestone
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The Gigabyte MC13-LE1 is an AMD Ryzen 7000 series AM5 server motherboard with ECC DDR5 support, 10Gbase-T, and IPMI management!
@GIGABYTEServer
@AMD
@AMDRyzen
@AMDServer
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The STH YouTube hit a HALF MILLION subscribers. This is just the start as we push forward past the big 500K subscriber mark
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Intel Performance Strategy Team Publishing Intentionally Misleading Benchmarks - We dissect a single result to see what Intel is doing to make the Platinum 9282 series look acceptable. How did this pass muster?
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The new MikroTik CRS310-8G+2S+IN is an 8-port 2.5GbE switch with two SFP+ ports and a beefy Marvell switch chip. Finally MikroTik 2.5GbE! Now hoping we can get one soon-ish to add to the 2.5GbE switch Buyer's Guide
@mikrotik_com
@MarvellTech
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New 256 core AmpereOne Arm server CPU with 12 channels of DDR5 announced and more at the company’s 2024 update.
@AmpereComputing
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With the Intel Core Ultra 200V series, Intel is making radical changes. The new chips ditch Hyper-Theading, get a new iGPU, and onboard memory and more
@intel
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Intel announced the end of the traditional CPU + GPU HPC architecture as we know it with some big roadmap updates
@Intel
@IntelHPC
@IntelBusiness
@AMD
@AMDServer
@NVIDIA
@NVIDIADC
#HPC
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Gigabyte twists the DDR5 memory slots to fit 48 RDIMMs into a 2U AMD EPYC 9004 dual socket design
@GigaComputing
@AMDServer
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At Intel Innovation 2023 Intel formally disclosed that it will have a 288 core Sierra Forest Xeon with all E-cores for cloud-native servers
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We take a look at the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs with onboard HBM2E codenamed the Intel Sapphire Rapids HBM shown at Vision 2022
@Intel
@IntelBusiness
#IntelON
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ASRock Rack did it! In our ASRock Rack 1U4LW-B650/2L2T review we see why this AMD Ryzen server offers a huge power/performance gap over Intel's alternatives in this space. This is AWESOME!
@ASROCKRACK
@AMD
@AMDRyzen
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This new R86S Pro now has twice as many cores and twice the RAM, twice the onboard eMMC, 3x 2.5GbE, 2x 25GbE, and WiFi. This will revolutionize the portable/ home lab space
@Intel
@NVIDIANetworkng
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AMD announced the date for the EPYC 7003 series codenamed "Milan". We cracked the code how
@AMDServer
may or may not have coordinated with a popular cookie brand to communicate the March 15 date prior to today's announcement. Very clever
@LisaSu
and
@AMD
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Today, STH turns 15! The last year has seen some of the biggest changes that somehow we managed to navigate as a team.
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We tour Intel's AI playground as we get inside the Intel Developer Cloud's Oregon location and give you a tour of the cool hardware behind those SSH sessions:
@Intel
@intelnews
@intelbusiness
@IntelDevTools
#AI
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We delve into the new AMD Instinct MI300X GPU, MI300A APU, and see how AMD has built packages to go head-to-head with the NVIDIA H100 and win
@AMD
@AMDServer
#AI
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Ampere AmpereOne is shipping to select customers with 192 custom Arm cores, PCIe Gen5, DDR5, Bfloat16 support for AI, and more
@AmpereComputing
@arm
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This is a new fanless low-power homelab system with a 6W TDP Intel CPU. If you want way more performance and I/O than a Raspberry Pi 5 or ZimaBoard in about the same price band, then this is peerless in today's market
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In our HighPoint SSD7540 review, we see how this PCIe Gen4 x16 card lets you add 8x M.2 NVMe SSDs to a system. Featuring 8x Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe SSDs
@Sabrent
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In our ASRock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T review, we see why THIS is the Ampere Arm motherboard that so many have been waiting for
@AmpereComputing
@Arm
@ASROCKRACK
@Noctua_at
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This fanless server might have EVERYTHING including an Intel Atom C3758, 4x SFP+ 10GbE, 2.5GbE, SSD slots, and external HDD connections. If you are making a NAS, firewall, or virtualization host this can save over $1000 and is silent
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We test the new Intel N100 Alder Lake-N 4x 2.5GbE fanless firewall and virtualization appliance to find a MASSIVE generational performance jump and a number of quality upgrades
@Intel
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We take a look at the massive Microsoft Azure HBv4 heatsink that cools two AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" CPUs dwarfing others we have seen
@Microsoft
@Azure
@AMD
@AMDServer
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This is the HUGE new Intel Xeon Granite Rapids CPU that will arrive in 2024 and that will offer a much higher level of performance
@Intel
@IntelBusiness
@hotchipsorg
#HotChips2023
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Behold the AMD Instinct MI250X in a HPE Cray EX sled
@AMDServer
#SC21
@Supercomputing
@HPE_Cray
@HPE
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The new AMD EPYC 8004 "Siena" is the company's low-power Zen 4c processor line ranging from 8-64 cores and 70-225W
@AMD
@AMDServer
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We take a look at the massive Micron 9400 30.72TB and see how this is not just a large PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD, it is also perhaps the fastest of its kind
@MicronTech
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We saw the 150W and 75W Intel Arctic Sound-M data center GPUs at Intel Vision 2022 and heard a bit about the target applications
@Intel
@IntelGraphics
#IntelON
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Broadcom ended the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor era relegating VMware admins to a path similar to mainframe admins
@MyVMUG
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On the eve of
#SC22
we saw upcoming 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids platforms and even the DC GPU Max PCIe card for the first time
@Supercomputing
@Intel
@IntelNews
@Supermicro_SMCI
@ASUS
@Atos
@Lenovodc
@QuantaQCT
@HPE_HPC
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We get hands-on with the massive Intel LGA7529 socket at OCP Summit 2023. This is the 12-channel DDR5 socket for Intel's 2024 generation CPUs
@OpenComputePrj
@intel
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In our AMD EPYC 7371 review, we show how this frequency optimized processor is now the fastest 16 core x86 CPU around. It will change the narrative of AMD EPYC (Naples) versus Intel Xeon (Skylake-SP) in a market shifting manner.
@AMDServer
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The 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" will be a Zen 5 server CPU with up to 192 cores and 384 threads per socket later in 2024
@AMD
@AMDServer
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We take a look at the awesome ASRock Rack AM5D4ID-2T/BCM motherboard that brings 10Gbase-T networking to a compact AMD Ryzen AM5 platform
@ASROCKRACK
@AMD
@AMDRyzen
@Broadcom
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We take a look at the 64-port 400GbE Broadcom Tomahawk 4 switch chip and the LGA8371 socket it uses to show some fun networking hardware. Very few get to see these cool chips!
@Broadcom
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We tested WD Red SMR v CMR drives to see if there was indeed a significant impact with the change simply using them as replacement drives. We found SMR can put data at risk 13-16x longer than CMR.
@westerndigital
@freenas
#ZFS
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In 2025 Intel Xeon D will get HUGE with the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids-D platform. 100GbE, AMX, media encoders, lossless compression, 8-channel MCRDIMM memory, and more. WOW!!!
@Intel
@Intelbusiness
@hotchipsorg
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Our AMD EPYC 7702P benchmarks and review. Redefining what is possible in a single socket with 64 cores and 128 threads. The TCO impacts are enough to see massive socket consolidation on 3-year and 5-year replacement cycles.
@AMDServer
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Intel showed its GPU Max 1550 series at SC23 but it also expects to have a 144GB class Gaudi3 AI accelerator in 2024 to compete with NVIDIA's newly announced 141GB H200
@Intel
@Intelnews
@IntelBusiness
#AI
#SC23
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At Hot Chips 34, Intel showed off features of its upcoming Ponte Vecchio GPU, but more importantly, it discussed oneAPI and D++ software tools
@Intel
@IntelGraphics
@IntelBusiness
@hotchipsorg
#HC34
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STH had a great visit with
@AmpereComputing
today and was able to hold an 80-core Altra
@Arm
processor. Here it is next to a strategically placed Diet Coke can for scale. This is a big package that dwarfs current Xeon socketed parts.
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Tesla brought its Dojo V1 networking hardware to Hot Chips 2024 and announced that it is donating its own TTPoE protocol to the Ultra Ethernet Consortium
@ultraethernet
@Tesla
@hotchipsorg
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We bought 1347 used data center SSDs to learn more about actual SSD endurance needs
@solidigm
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In a progress update, the upcoming Sabrent Rocket X5 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD is hitting massive 14GB/s read and 12GB/s write speeds in a M.2 drive
@Sabrent
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Today Intel and Argonne National Labs announced that the Intel Xeon Max and GPU Max Aurora supercomputer blade installation is complete. That means over 63K "spaceship" GPUs, combining dozens of tiles from different fabs each, actually work.
@Intel
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AMD EPYC Genoa-X is a ~1.1GB L3 cache CPU designed for high-performance computing with massive performance gains in some applications
@AMD
@AMDServer
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The AMD EPYC 4004 is finally here, and the Intel Xeon E-2400 series needs a big overhaul
@AMD
@AMDServer
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We review the IoCrest 5GbE PCIe NIC that uses the Realtek RTL8126 chip to provide a very affordable 5GbE networking solution for around $18
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The HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 is a new leadership cloud-native Ampere Altra Max Arm platform bringing 128 Arm cores to the ProLiant ecosystem
@HPE
@HPE_News
@AmpereComputing
@Arm
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The Intel IPU E2100 DPU is finally hitting the market with 16 Arm Neoverse N1 cores, 48GB of memory and support for Red Hat OpenShift
@Intel
@intelnews
@Arm
@RedHat
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In our ASUS ESC4000A-E10 review, we see how this server combines a single AMD EPYC 7002 and 4x GPUs (NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 passively cooled in our case) to provide a unique GPU compute solution
@ASUS
@ASUSUSA
@AMDServer
@NVIDIADC
@NVIDIAAI
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We delve into the new Intel Xeon W-3400 and Xeon W-2400 series bringing PCIe Gen5 lanes, DDR5, and more cores to the workstation market. This is a big move by Intel, and so we get into how these chips are created.
@Intel
@IntelBusiness
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The new Noctua NH-D9 AMP-4926 4U and NH-U14S AMP-4926 are the last pieces needed to make Ampere Altra Arm development desktops and desktop servers viable
@AmpereComputing
@Noctua_at
@ASROCKRACK
@Arm
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We hit another milestone as the STH YouTube channel crossed the 400K subscriber mark. A little bit of studio behind-the-scenes is in order
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