carmisergio
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I have just acquired 3 Seagate IronWolf 8TB drives and a Dell PERC H310 SAS HBA (It was relatively easy to get my hands on) as an upgrade to my small home server (full parts list below). Before the upgrade, the server had already been online for about a year and a half, running a few VMs under Proxmox VE without any problems, so I decided to virtualize TrueNAS under Proxmox, even if it's not the recommended configuration. I installed the Dell H310, followed all the necessary steps to enable PCIe passthrough and everything worked flawlessly: the three drives showed up in the TrueNAS interface as intended and, after creating a pool in a RaidZ2 configuration, I was getting extremely good speeds out of the array. After roughly a week after the installation, I noticed the host system was reporting only half of the installed ram (only 1 of the two 16GB sticks was recognized), so I shut down the machine and moved it to my workbench to reseat the memory, thinking I had put it in wrong when I cleaned the server to install the new drives. This brings me to the current situation: when I try to power the machine on with the Dell H310 installed, the system won't give any sort of video output, and the fans spin at 100% continuously. Sometimes it will even reset randomly. When I remove the card from the PCIe slot everything works as normal, with the whole 32GB of ram being recognized. I have tried everything: clearing the CMOS, setting the PCIe interface to 2.0, upgrading the BIOS, but nothing solved my problem. Anyone has any idea of some other troubleshooting methods I haven't thought of or if I should just attribute the issue to a bad card (maybe due to overheating, the extra 40mm fan I have bought specifically to cool the SAS controller down hadn't arrived at the time)? Thank you all in advance!
Parts list
Original parts
(Yes, I know most, if not all of these parts are not meant to run 24/7 in a server application, but this being just a home server they do just fine)
(One last thing, I am sorry if my English wasn't the best, but as you might have picked up on it's not my first language)
Parts list
Original parts
- Motherboard: Gigabyte b354m ds3h
- CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K
- Ram: Gskill Ageis 32GB (2x16GB) Kit @ 3200Mhz
- Boot drive: Corsair MP510 480GB
- NVR drive: WD Purple 3TB
- Case & PSU: (I don't remember the exact make and model but I got them both from servercase.co.uk)
- (3x) Seagate IronWolf NAS 8TB drives
- Dell PERC H310 SAS HBA
(Yes, I know most, if not all of these parts are not meant to run 24/7 in a server application, but this being just a home server they do just fine)
(One last thing, I am sorry if my English wasn't the best, but as you might have picked up on it's not my first language)