hungarianhc
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Hi All,
I'm wondering if you can help me out with this issue that I'm working on solving. This has happened a few times... I have a FreeNAS box at home. It's the standard Raid-Z2 w/ ECC RAM, C2750, etc etc. Enterprise grade stuff w/ lots of uptime.
On the flipside, I have a FreeNAS box that I've built for my parents who live a few hundred miles away. It is used exclusively as a Plex Media Server, and it gets updated media from my machine via SyncThing. It does NOT have ECC RAM, and it has only a single 5TB drive. My logic has always been that since it's doing a one-way sync, the data is just a replica of good data that I have, etc, don't need drive redundancy or ECC. Can just replace the data or the drives in case of failure.
Now that being said, I'm having some stability issues with the box, and I can't quite understand why. It's using FreeNAS 9.3 (most recent updates, save for those that were released this week) on a SanDisk 8GB USB flash drive. It has 8GB of RAM. It's a Core 2 Quad Q9505 CPU. Once every few weeks, the system "crashes" ~ and by crashes, I mean that I can still VPN onto their network and ping the box, but I can no longer access the Web UI, and the Plex server is down. If I get one of them to go in there and press the button to restart the box, we're good to go.
Last night in a fit of frustration I just about pulled the trigger on a whole new computer, but then I thought better of myself... I'd love to get to the bottom of this. I figure there is some piece of failing hardware in there causing this issue, but I'm having difficulty getting to the root of the issue. I would appreciate any help you can offer in troubleshooting!
Right now, the box is currently in its "hung" state. I can't SSH into the box, but there's a chance I didn't enable it... so... that can't be verified, but my brother is visiting my parents, and I can get him to restart the box so I can VPN back to the network and mess with it.
Thanks in advance for any help / advice you can offer on this.
I'm wondering if you can help me out with this issue that I'm working on solving. This has happened a few times... I have a FreeNAS box at home. It's the standard Raid-Z2 w/ ECC RAM, C2750, etc etc. Enterprise grade stuff w/ lots of uptime.
On the flipside, I have a FreeNAS box that I've built for my parents who live a few hundred miles away. It is used exclusively as a Plex Media Server, and it gets updated media from my machine via SyncThing. It does NOT have ECC RAM, and it has only a single 5TB drive. My logic has always been that since it's doing a one-way sync, the data is just a replica of good data that I have, etc, don't need drive redundancy or ECC. Can just replace the data or the drives in case of failure.
Now that being said, I'm having some stability issues with the box, and I can't quite understand why. It's using FreeNAS 9.3 (most recent updates, save for those that were released this week) on a SanDisk 8GB USB flash drive. It has 8GB of RAM. It's a Core 2 Quad Q9505 CPU. Once every few weeks, the system "crashes" ~ and by crashes, I mean that I can still VPN onto their network and ping the box, but I can no longer access the Web UI, and the Plex server is down. If I get one of them to go in there and press the button to restart the box, we're good to go.
Last night in a fit of frustration I just about pulled the trigger on a whole new computer, but then I thought better of myself... I'd love to get to the bottom of this. I figure there is some piece of failing hardware in there causing this issue, but I'm having difficulty getting to the root of the issue. I would appreciate any help you can offer in troubleshooting!
Right now, the box is currently in its "hung" state. I can't SSH into the box, but there's a chance I didn't enable it... so... that can't be verified, but my brother is visiting my parents, and I can get him to restart the box so I can VPN back to the network and mess with it.
Thanks in advance for any help / advice you can offer on this.