Why it Was Almost Impossible to Put a Computer in Space

Thanks KIOXIA for sponsoring today’s video! Check out KIOXIA’s SAS and NVMe SSDs below! It’s really hard to put a computer into space… so hard in fact that laptops on the international space station are treated as effectively disposable. So when the folks at HPE wanted to put a SERVER on the ISS, people were a bit skeptical… and it turned out even with the help of KIOXIA’s fast and reliable storage devices, to be harder than they thought. HPE Spaceborne 2 Project: The HPE Technology Now Podcast: NASA’s “Houston, We Have A Podcast”: HPE’s January 29, 2024 Blog: Discuss on the forum: ► GET MERCH: ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: ► EQUIPMENT WE USE TO FILM LTT: ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: FOLLOW US ---------------------------------------------------   Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @linustech Twitch: MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: iTunes Download Link: Artist Link: Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: Listen on Spotify: Artist Link: Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0   Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 PCs in space??? 2:09 Spaceborne 2 & Data Transmission 4:43 Checking out the servers 5:50 Storage Config and Hot-swap demo 10:33 Express Rack 12:42 Networking 16:16 Conclusion