Hi guys!
Alright, so this is my concern:
I started my freenas project way back in 2013 I think it was. I did my research and I bought server gear.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
Supermicro x9scm-f
Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB - DIMM 240-pin unbuffered ECC
And some sweet disks.
I also bought IBM serveraid M5015 (I think).
The problem is that I'm running the raid card as a raid card, and not as a HBA (I think).
At first I had problems with write speed. It was awful slow. But did some research on youtube and changed some settings on the card, and voilá, I have throughput of 115mb/s, and that seems legit of a gigabit network right?
But recently, every time I boot my NAS I get a critical warning on "one or more devices". And because I run my 8 disks in hardware raid I can't see the smart status on what disk that is perhaps failing.
So what should I do? Try to find a how-to flash the raid card, but then I will loose all my data. Or should I buy more disks and try to backup everything before flashing. Seems expensive.
Any ideas?
Alright, so this is my concern:
I started my freenas project way back in 2013 I think it was. I did my research and I bought server gear.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
Supermicro x9scm-f
Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB - DIMM 240-pin unbuffered ECC
And some sweet disks.
I also bought IBM serveraid M5015 (I think).
The problem is that I'm running the raid card as a raid card, and not as a HBA (I think).
At first I had problems with write speed. It was awful slow. But did some research on youtube and changed some settings on the card, and voilá, I have throughput of 115mb/s, and that seems legit of a gigabit network right?
But recently, every time I boot my NAS I get a critical warning on "one or more devices". And because I run my 8 disks in hardware raid I can't see the smart status on what disk that is perhaps failing.
So what should I do? Try to find a how-to flash the raid card, but then I will loose all my data. Or should I buy more disks and try to backup everything before flashing. Seems expensive.
Any ideas?