Brian is an all-around cool guy. He runs a nonprofit summer camp, raises three kids with his wife, and just look at him – wholesome! But spending all that time on other people means he hasn't had any time to work on himself, and because of that, his setup is bad. Except what this

looks great. Are you lying to me? No, no, the other setup's over there. Oh, oh my God! What happened here? It's not that bad. It's pretty bad, man. Don't worry, Brian, I'm sure that the setup doctor has a plan. I'm sure he

does. Sorry, guys. Yeah, I'd be there if I could. Um, no worries. Uh, Rhys and I were super confident, and I'm sure that nothing will go wrong. I'm like stressed out. I didn't know that I would have such a visceral emotional reaction. Some stuff might go wrong, but

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by checking the link in the description. Hi, my name is Brian. I am one of the directors at a summer camp, and I've been doing this for 12 years or so. We have three kids who are under the age of eight, and we have busy lives, so that's

my space that I go to work on things and not a lot else. I go in there and I tinker and I leave and I don't spend a lot of time making it look nice. I do want to know like what is this? This is my first computer. How old is

this thing? This computer is age yourself. Yeah, age yourself. This computer is probably like 20-something years old. I mean, it it it looks it. No, no, no, not at all. It looks young and spry, capable. But enough about your old computer. What is this new computer? This is 10 years newer

than that one is. Okay, new, new to you I guess. This is like our home server, AKA this is your server or backup hard drive. I don't know if you follow the channel too much, but you know that like we have servers. Lonus has servers and they break

all the time and they're closed, but this way if it breaks, I can fix it. The camp I work at is nonprofit, so we can never ever afford tech, so we just inherit people's old computers and then put them in our office and use them, but less than

10 years old, less than 15. Some of them are less than 10 years old. That's that's pretty good. It seems like you got a lot of stuff. You got like a power supply, a like was that an oscilloscope or that's a multimeter? Yeah, the oscilloscope is

over here, but I don't know how to use them. They're like handheld now. How old is this stuff? Uh, very old. My dad gave me this. He he's an electrician. Oh okay. He built and designed this from scratch for me, so wait, what? Yeah, he built, he made

that's see see look it's Brian that's so cool just looking at this place One thing I think that you lack is small organization We got lots of big shelves but you also just have like a CPU just out and about when it's organized I come

in and I go I don't know what to do now Okay well we're going to fix that We're going to we're going to teach you how to be organized Many have tried and many have failed This series is all about failing and learning from that failure

I'm worried because there's so many I'm like stressed out I didn't know that I would have such a visceral emotional reaction One keyboard uh uh uh two keyboards uh uh uh I put the third one in there three keyboards uh uh uh that's RAM is

DDR it's not DDR2 it's just DDR Would you like a Pentium Oh my God how old is that Logically this doesn't really make sense to me but now that we've removed the stuff from it it looks smaller it does

actually look way smaller Um that was my problem The desk was just too small Okay I'm going to be real with you Brian that is not the only problem Here's what I see You have a lot of stuff but no suitable place to put it all which is why it's all over your desk

So to remedy this we're going to build storage into as many parts of the setup as possible New desk drawers walls those are going to get pegboards We're going to move your floating shelf over to make room for get this bigger shelf and this table on the left is going to

turn into a rollable flex space with this storage oh and we also threw in a ton of extra goodies for you all right boys let's get to it or rather you guys are going to get to it that's very heavy by the way nothing's too heavy for me ah

okay we're good I only I only scraped the top layer of skin probably I have these drawers here and then oh yeah we got we got all the space we need now that we know that everything fits we're going to start doing some drilling great is this shelf only held

up with like two screws or something uh three okay [Music] perfect hey I put a level on top to level it and never took it off never took it off all right we're done the cable we done yeah thank you so much Brian your cable

management upgrade is done it looks so much better in here you good you can tell from the cinder blocks how level the floor is yeah this is um just don't look at the corner don't look at don't look at the lines yeah Brian can you

explain this networking situation to me this is our router the brown line comes from a building over there which the internet comes from outside of that and then the blue line goes into our house and there's a Wi-Fi router and a switch in our house and that goes to the places

the plan is we're going to leave this kind of as it is we might do something to tidy it up a little bit and we can leave this up there yeah you don't have good Wi-Fi in here though because your actual wireless router is on the other

side of this concrete brick okay so I think we can deal with that cuz I think we can get you a small router for like they'll just put on the same network that big old power bar is that going to go under that depends on what you want

to do it cuz I I also understand that like you want to have easy access to just unplug and plug stuff and if that plug is there then I think we could put the power under and then and then that can be like your modular your permanent

plugs are under here and then when you need an extra thing you can just put it in the top yeah that's great cuz that's the Ikea Peg boards the reason I went with these is because on like Thingiverse or Printables there's just

tons and tons of custom 3D printed stuff that works exactly with this so if you have to hang like anything that you ever could imagine somebody's probably made a plan and you already got that 3D printer on your desk you'll be able to easily

print some stuff didn't you actually do any print any stuff I did oh they're probably in a bin over there it's almost like it's almost like we planned this I'm not going to say the thing I was about to say I'm not going to do was

gonna say let's get Pagan I definitely drilled the holes for where the uh for where the things are not the so I've watched all the videos where Elijah puts extra holes in so I now let the homeowners drill holes in their wall is

This part of this no this is a computer test bench that we just grabbed for you, so instead of having to swap parts in and out of a chassis, you can just have functioning parts on here. Take whatever you want out of the computer test bench here or plug anything in, and it'll save

you a lot of time and uh look a little bit cleaner while he is going to keep working in the workshop, I'm going to come in here and help cable manage this setup. Now it looks pretty clean on the top, so good job, thank you. Underneath

though, you don't look under the, we could use a little bit of work, you know. So we're going to just tidy some things up for you and uh make sure that works using our handy dandy magnetic cable management arches. Have you seen this stuff? I'm sure you're a big fan. He

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well, they don't work when they don't play music through them. Oh, I see. I mean, like they don't even sit on your ears. They like, well, they sit on my ears. Do they probably basically, we just made a big massive tool kit full of every possible

length of like every type of cable cuz a lot of what solves your cable management problems is just having the right length of cable. It's not necessary a lot of times you just want to do what you can with what you got but having the right

length makes your life a lot easier. We just took the paper off of the magnetic plate that we're going to put on here. That's about where we want it to be now. It's held in there now we're going to just quickly take our screws and put

them into the back of the desk. Don't worry, Brian said that this is okay just like that. We'll take all of our cables put them in and boom. Oh, it's so nice and then because they're not like velcroed or tied down or anything if he

wants to adjust his monitor or move it, these will just pull through nicely. Should probably vacuum under there, but outside of that it'll be really easy cuz there's no cables in the way. What's funny is I did vacuum up to the cables. Yeah, oh wow, hey, look at that. That's up

safe and secure. It's absolutely per- never going to fall. This is amazing. This looks so much better already. It actually really does. I'm so excited for you and just like that, see, we we chose a white, a white tabletop. It only comes in a that size in white but that doesn't matter

because we have an LT mod mat that's going to be nice and cover most of the top. Got everything you'd ever want to know about computers. I will never wonder what size a fan is ever again. That's great. I will say that we don't go back

so far back as to have respect for DDR, but we do have three onwards, so that's good. Get it where you want it. I don't know if this is where I want it, so it's okay where it is. Uh, yeah, I think you're good. Come up, Reese. We'll move

it later if we want. Thank good. So I guess it's kind of time to start putting stuff back, getting your setup organized. So you can take your screwdrivers, that's an LTT screwdriver, specific one. It's designed exactly for us, and then we got a bunch of extra

hooks, so whenever you, if, if you ever need like one more thing to hang, yeah, you can just go print them off for like 5, 10 cents each, like they're cheap. Perfect. This is your, this is your server, right? This is my server. Yeah, what do you

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clean filter for the fan that is behind the back plane, amazing. This thing is sick, you. I'm honestly very jealous of you. I kind of like this. I am jealous of me, and look at how much smaller it is. Yeah, well, I mean, but this, yes, you're

right, it's much smaller. What we going to say? What we going to say? This has a certain appeal to it, but this is very pretty. It has a certain, yeah, uh, it has a certain appeal, like I want to put this one in my house. You can put this

anywhere. It's is pretty. My wife, you know what else is nice? Ugen has a phone app that you can use to access this remotely. It's super easy, works really, really well, as well as it automatically sets up on your network to be remotely accessible.

It was the easiest setup, Reese. You set it up right? I plugged it in. Yeah, oh yeah, that's, I mean, it like just worked. I could access it on the work. What we're going to do is that we're going to be able to toss it up here. Make sure you

toss it, keep it up. Yeah, it's light too. We're going to try and use the power bar keys that we normally use for power bars, but these uh these keys are a bit too, bit too thick, so we decided to use the power brick holders, strapped them to the

bottom and they're good to go. It's actually a bigger power bar so the bigger magnets will actually kind of work in our favor. Uh, I got you a new router, like a little, if you wanted Wi-Fi out here that's just plugged into your

router, sweet. So I figured we just toss it up here, tidy this area up a little bit, make it a little bit less, go or hide it behind the ugly green mass or something. Yeah, I just don't see how this is a good place to put this in this in this exact

scenario. Do you just put it against the wall like with a like the the double-sided magnet part, you know what I'm saying? That might be it. I do want to give it some slack, yeah, so that way if you need to like pull the mass a little

bit, otherwise it has a, I mean, it has a barrel jack, is it? Yeah, yeah, that's no problem then we'll do that. We'll magnet it to the wall. I also got you speakers, seriously? Yeah, oh, that's awesome, so that you can listen to tunes. Yeah, these are

amazing Edifier R280 DBS, they are great, simple budget speakers, bookshelf, uh, they're powered. These ones have Bluetooth, so you can connect it to your phone or whatever if you have it with your laptop, however you want to do that, as well as it has speaker wire and uh

just RCA. They're great, great budget speakers. There. Wow, that's fun. Is that all the slack we got? How much more do you need? Like literally like an inch. Oh, I don't know if I can give you that. Oh, oh, oh, it, we're in, that wasn't at the cost of a

hideous wire just on the wall up there was it yeah no are you saying that because it's true or cuz that's what you think I want to hear no do the [Laughter] dance sounds great it sounds amazing heck yeah oh this is going to be so

perfect on your desk when if you have a when we have a little like that's so ad he's a little cute little guy we can have charge on your desk you can place your phone but if you're on the go there's also a magnetic battery pack does the same thing but

also can be a kickstand all right it was a long day but we're finally made done and holy cow does it look so much better all right I can't wait to see how this turned [Music] out wow oh dude you guys do your best

work when I'm not around to [Music] supervise look at this there's barely any cables under there but everything's nicely managed if you need to like hook up your computer you just pull those out we got the new desks tons of storage

that pegboard he's got our new modmat got the mag save charger there we got your new speaker so can jam out while you're in here and this new shelf that holds all of your computers so neat and tidy yes if you do and I know you know it's easy

to fall into old habits you're not going to right no no everything's going to be clean forever everything will be like this yes at least in here I don't care what you do any other room but this one needs to stay clean for you I won't even

use it that's perfect that's what we want and if you do decide to use it and make it messy eventually you have this nice little extra movable table that you can bring on over if you need a little bit extra workspace or for anything else it's got even more storage in

there I mean it's still obviously a functional space you know like there's a lot of kind of stuff on the shelves but at least he's got enough shelves to put everything on it's amazing what a difference a little bit of organized

storage can be this is great yeah great job you guys doesn't it feel good it feels great this is amazing thank you oh yeah and also we got your UG Green Nest how can we forget about them thanks again UG Green for sponsoring this video whether it's a NAS or a portable battery

bank or just cute little charger they got something for all of your charging needs check them out in the link in the description especially the NAS the NAS is really really cool I'm very excited about it thanks for watching if you liked this video why don't you watch a

previous episode of The Setup Doctor it's just as fun and it's pretty dang cool and Reese is in it and everyone loves Reese look at them hi hi and thank you Brian for having us out here yeah thanks for coming and doing this for me I

really appreciate it bye bye thank you thanks UG Green

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Initial assessment of Brian's disorganized workspace.

Brian's workspace is described as disorganized despite his successful personal life.

The hosts express surprise at the state of Brian's setup.

The hosts express confidence in their ability to improve the setup.

The video sponsors UGREEN and their NAS Sync DXp 4800 Plus NAS.

Brian introduces himself and explains his busy life and limited time for organizing his workspace.

The Setup Doctor's plan to reorganize Brian's workspace.

Lack of small organization and excess of big shelves are noted as problems.

The goal is to teach Brian organization and learn from failures.

The main problem is identified as a lack of suitable storage space.

The solution involves building storage into the desk, walls, and adding new shelves.

The team begins building and installing new storage solutions.

Addressing networking and cable management issues.

Brian explains his current networking setup.

Poor Wi-Fi coverage is identified as a problem.

Solutions for the power bar and router placement are discussed.

The use of IKEA pegboards and 3D printed accessories is mentioned.

Upgrading and organizing the computer components.

A computer test bench is introduced for easier component access.

Cable management under the desk is improved using magnetic arches.

LTT store's Black Friday deals on magnetic cable management are promoted.

The importance of using correctly sized cables for better management is highlighted.

Brian's server is upgraded with a new UGREEN NAS.

The hosts emphasize the importance of maintaining the organized workspace.

The added movable table is highlighted as an extra workspace solution.

UGREEN is thanked for sponsoring the video, and viewers are encouraged to check out their products.