BUILD First build - Parts check/advice needed

[MisterIce]

Thanks everyone for the info/help (and comic relief at the end).

I will let you guys know how my progress is going :D

 

[DrKK]

What about Justin Bieber and the Kardashians? C'mon.... admit it....

/End hijack. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58eSTWOh43U

 

[MisterIce]

Decided on the power supply.

Using @jgreco his Power Supply guidance my peak wattage will be around 670 watt and all over the forum SeaSonic is recommended so I will get the platinum 860.

 

[MisterIce]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58eSTWOh43U

Haha, way better than the Original :D

 

[jgreco]

Thanks everyone for the info/help (and comic relief at the end).

We aim to please.

 

[DrKK]

We aim to please.

A philosophy we inherited from Cyberjock's female relatives.

 

[MisterIce]

Another question, Zpool01 will only be used for documents so I want that storage pool to have fast writes (read can be normal speed).

Is it better for me to have a mirrored + striped pool or is the mirrored pool with the amount of RAM I'm putting in enough to keep the speed up?

Or even putting in a SSD for write cache?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I find it hard to imagine you running into any kind of bottleneck when writing documents on your planned build.

Is it better for me to have a mirrored + striped pool

Isn't that what you were planning?

Zpool01 -> 4 x 2TB WD Red Mirrored + Striped for speed and redundency for documents backup (3.6TB usable)

If that's your most valuable data, I would even consider RAIDZ2.

Or even putting in a SSD for write cache?

Not unless you need sync writes, and you've tested and found that to be a bottleneck.

 

[MisterIce]

Ok, thank you for you reply!

 

[MisterIce]

Small update, build is halfway there.

What I have so far ...
Case: Rosewill RSV-L4500 (expected delivery coming week)
PSU: Seasonic 860 Platinum
Mobo: SuperMicro X11SSH-F
Boot: SuperDOM 16GB in mirror
RAM: 4 x Samsung 16GB
CPU: Xeon E3 1230v5 + BeQuiet cooler with silent fans (I hate noise lol)
Storage: 2 x Samsung 750 120GB (mirror)

I've created a zpool named 'tank' with mirrored Samsung 750's and I'm using that one strictly for jails.

I'm waiting for the case before continuing any purchases.

What I plan on purchasing after the case has arrived are a LSI 9211 8i which will give me a total of 14 available SATA ports. 8 Different fans for the case (again noise reduction). For media storage 8 x 4TB WD Red (Z2), I was thinking about 6TB drives but the costs for that are just a little to high. I've currently 6TB of media and the 8 new drives will give me around 22TB storage. This will be enough for the next couple of years. Finally also 4 x 3TB drives (in mirror) just for documents backup.

I do have one more question ... I've got my SMART test setup and I know you can check the results with 'smartctl -a' but it doesn't say when it was performed. I looked documentation about the 'smartctl' command but can't find an option to see date of the last performed test. This means I can't see if the smart tests are being run.

So is there a way to see when the last SMART test was performed?

 

[Ericloewe]

So is there a way to see when the last SMART test was performed?

The drives' only measurement of time is based on their power-on time, so all SMART logs are in power-on hours. Assuming 24/7 operation, you can easily figure out when the tests took place.

 

[MisterIce]

The drives' only measurement of time is based on their power-on time, so all SMART logs are in power-on hours. Assuming 24/7 operation, you can easily figure out when the tests took place.

You mean the hours provided here? (smartctl - /dev/ada2)

Code:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG  VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033  100  100  010  Pre-fail  Always  -  0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  216
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  4
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0013  099  099  000  Pre-fail  Always  -  1
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   0x0013  100  100  010  Pre-fail  Always  -  0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032  100  100  010  Old_age  Always  -  0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032  100  100  010  Old_age  Always  -  0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0013  100  100  010  Pre-fail  Always  -  0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  100  100  000  Old_age  Always  -  0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032  068  059  000  Old_age  Always  -  32
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  200  200  000  Old_age  Always  -  0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  100  100  000  Old_age  Always  -  0
235 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  1
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  334465183

 

[Ericloewe]

You mean the hours provided here? (smartctl - /dev/ada2)

Code:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG  VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033  100  100  010  Pre-fail  Always  -  0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  216
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  4
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0013  099  099  000  Pre-fail  Always  -  1
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   0x0013  100  100  010  Pre-fail  Always  -  0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032  100  100  010  Old_age  Always  -  0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032  100  100  010  Old_age  Always  -  0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0013  100  100  010  Pre-fail  Always  -  0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  100  100  000  Old_age  Always  -  0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032  068  059  000  Old_age  Always  -  32
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  200  200  000  Old_age  Always  -  0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  100  100  000  Old_age  Always  -  0
235 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  1
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032  099  099  000  Old_age  Always  -  334465183

Yeah. If you scroll down, you'll see that the SMART test has the indication of when it started (or ended, don't remember), in power-on hours.

 

[MisterIce]

Yeah. If you scroll down, you'll see that the SMART test has the indication of when it started (or ended, don't remember), in power-on hours.

This is all what it's showing if I scroll further down.

Code:

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description  Status                   Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline     Completed without error  00%        11  -
# 2  Extended offline  Completed without error  00%        1  -
# 3  Short offline     Completed without error  00%        0  -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA       CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
  1     0            0       Not_testing
  2     0            0       Not_testing
  3     0            0       Not_testing
  4     0            0       Not_testing
  5     0            0       Not_testing
  255   0        65535       Read_scanning was never started
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

 

[Ericloewe]

Right, it's the lifetime (hours) column. The first short test was at hour 0, the long test was at hour 1 and the second short test was at hour 11-.

 

[MisterIce]

Right, it's the lifetime (hours) column. The first short test was at hour 0, the long test was at hour 1 and the second short test was at hour 11-.

Ok, I get it now! And those values don't resets itself to 0 again if I were to reboot FreeNAS?

 

[Ericloewe]

Ok, I get it now! And those values don't resets itself to 0 again if I were to reboot FreeNAS?

No, they're internal to the drive and they're persistent.

 

[Mirfster]

Ok, I get it now! And those values don't resets itself to 0 again if I were to reboot FreeNAS?

Nope, they stay with the drive itself.

 

[MisterIce]

Ok, so my last short test was 216 - 11 = 205 hours ago.

Thanks guys! Appreciate it!

 

[MisterIce]

Another quick question. I've installed the LSI 9201-16i and after checking the card I don't think I need to flash anything. Could someone that's more used to this please verify that it's correct?

Grtz,