I've come across some issues with adding more storage to my configuration:
My build so far is using:
Since I needed more ports though, I bought a FebSmart PCIE 3.0 to Sata Host controller card and plugged in the remaining drives using those ports.
The storage devices are connected by:
When running "lsblk", what I get back is:
Is this an issue with the PCIE card or have I missed something relatively simple here? All storage devices are connected via the PSU supplied SATA power cables.
As a side note, two of the drives connected to the PCIE card hold backup data and are known to be working, however, running "zpool status" shows:
which makes sense to me as to why the backup pool is not found given the disk detection not being correct here. The use case here was to reconfigure pool setup for Raidz2 configuration from a Raidz1 configuration, hence backing up the data. Any help would be greatly appeciated!
My build so far is using:
- Asus Tuff X570 Plus Wifi Motherboard (this was on sale when I bought it originally)
- Ryzen 5 2600x CPU
- EVGA 850 Watt PSU
- 64GB ECC A-Tech 3200MHz DDR4 Ram
- 8 Western Digital Red 10TB HDDs
- 4 Crucial 1TB SSDs
- 1 250GB SSD
- 1 500GB SSD
- EVGA RTX 2060 (hardware encoding and basic game server setup via a VM)
Since I needed more ports though, I bought a FebSmart PCIE 3.0 to Sata Host controller card and plugged in the remaining drives using those ports.
The storage devices are connected by:
- The 250GB SSD and 4 WD Red drives are connected via the PCIE card
- All Curucial SSDs and 4 WD Red drives are connected directly to the motherboard's SATA ports
- The 500GB SSD is a M.2 drive and is installed in the lower M.2 socket so as not to disable any SATA ports
When running "lsblk", what I get back is:
Code:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 512M 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 449.3G 0 part └─sda4 8:4 0 16G 0 part sdb 8:16 1 9.1T 0 disk sdc 8:32 0 223.6G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 100M 0 part ├─sdc2 8:34 0 16M 0 part ├─sdc3 8:35 0 223G 0 part └─sdc4 8:36 0 499M 0 part sdd 8:48 1 9.1T 0 disk sde 8:64 1 9.1T 0 disk sdf 8:80 1 9.1T 0 disk sdg 8:96 1 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdg1 8:97 1 2G 0 part │ └─md127 9:127 0 2G 0 raid1 │ └─md127 253:0 0 2G 0 crypt [SWAP] └─sdg2 8:98 1 929.5G 0 part sdh 8:112 1 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdh1 8:113 1 2G 0 part │ └─md127 9:127 0 2G 0 raid1 │ └─md127 253:0 0 2G 0 crypt [SWAP] └─sdh2 8:114 1 929.5G 0 part sdi 8:128 1 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdi1 8:129 1 2G 0 part │ └─md126 9:126 0 2G 0 raid1 │ └─md126 253:1 0 2G 0 crypt [SWAP] └─sdi2 8:130 1 929.5G 0 part sdj 8:144 1 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdj1 8:145 1 2G 0 part │ └─md126 9:126 0 2G 0 raid1 │ └─md126 253:1 0 2G 0 crypt [SWAP] └─sdj2 8:146 1 929.5G 0 part
Is this an issue with the PCIE card or have I missed something relatively simple here? All storage devices are connected via the PSU supplied SATA power cables.
As a side note, two of the drives connected to the PCIE card hold backup data and are known to be working, however, running "zpool status" shows:
Code:
pool: Fast-Pool state: ONLINE scan: resilvered 47.7G in 00:02:48 with 0 errors on Mon Jan 9 21:24:11 2023 remove: Removal of vdev 3 copied 518M in 0h0m, completed on Mon Jan 9 21:24:54 2023 1.19M memory used for removed device mappings config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Fast-Pool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 e0c6fa8b-eaee-44d2-95f5-92fcba29df6c ONLINE 0 0 0 3fdc578f-ef3c-44c7-b67e-7ecc817c3fcd ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-4 ONLINE 0 0 0 65f36084-8abe-466b-9f30-7018ab0482b7 ONLINE 0 0 0 44ad82f4-a302-4b3c-97d0-2c0f8675246a ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: boot-pool state: ONLINE status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable. action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support the features. See zpool-features(7) for details. scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:00:17 with 0 errors on Sat Jan 7 03:45:18 2023 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM boot-pool ONLINE 0 0 0 sda3 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
which makes sense to me as to why the backup pool is not found given the disk detection not being correct here. The use case here was to reconfigure pool setup for Raidz2 configuration from a Raidz1 configuration, hence backing up the data. Any help would be greatly appeciated!