Hello Everyone, I’m new to the forum and to FreeNas. I was running Nas4Free for one year on some old hardware (UFS only) and recently decided to invest some money in order to upgrade my system to a “new level of amazingness” :D
For this reason, I decided to go with the new Skylake architecture, knowing there still is poor support for some features (see xHCI), but with the idea that the initial investment (both money and troubleshooting time) could be rewarded in long therm with more knowledge and less obsolescence problems.
So here is my question: I have been looking on the forum about the issue with the xHCI, in order to understand if this only affects the ability to use USB key as boot devices or if anything connected through usb would not work. The reason why I’m searching this information is that I also want to buy a good UPS (no point in buying expensive hardware and use super-secure raid configuration if any electricity bump can jeopardize everything…am I right?;)) and I was asking myself if those that connect via USB would work with my server or not.
I know it is probably only a matter of waiting for FreeNAS 10 to be released, but just wanted to understand more on the topic.
I tried to manually load the xHCI driver to see if it was possible to mount an USB key, but was not successful (though did not really insisted on that, preferred to ask in order to avoid pointless efforts).
Can anyone explain in more details what is already working and what is not with xHCI on Skylake at the moment?
Any suggestion on the UPS? Is it dramatically more difficult to connect the UPS using the network interface?
Thanks a lot…
P.S: here is my config:
FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-(latest)
Intel Xeon E3-1230v5 (Skylake)
Supermicro X11SSH-F
Crucial 2x16GB DDR4-2133 ECC UDIMM
Sandisk ReadyCache SSD 32GB (FreeNas installation)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 1Tb (Jails)
6xWD Red 4TB in RAIDZ2
Power Supply Corsair RM550 80Plus Gold
Cabine Fractal Define Node 804
For this reason, I decided to go with the new Skylake architecture, knowing there still is poor support for some features (see xHCI), but with the idea that the initial investment (both money and troubleshooting time) could be rewarded in long therm with more knowledge and less obsolescence problems.
So here is my question: I have been looking on the forum about the issue with the xHCI, in order to understand if this only affects the ability to use USB key as boot devices or if anything connected through usb would not work. The reason why I’m searching this information is that I also want to buy a good UPS (no point in buying expensive hardware and use super-secure raid configuration if any electricity bump can jeopardize everything…am I right?;)) and I was asking myself if those that connect via USB would work with my server or not.
I know it is probably only a matter of waiting for FreeNAS 10 to be released, but just wanted to understand more on the topic.
I tried to manually load the xHCI driver to see if it was possible to mount an USB key, but was not successful (though did not really insisted on that, preferred to ask in order to avoid pointless efforts).
Can anyone explain in more details what is already working and what is not with xHCI on Skylake at the moment?
Any suggestion on the UPS? Is it dramatically more difficult to connect the UPS using the network interface?
Thanks a lot…
P.S: here is my config:
FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-(latest)
Intel Xeon E3-1230v5 (Skylake)
Supermicro X11SSH-F
Crucial 2x16GB DDR4-2133 ECC UDIMM
Sandisk ReadyCache SSD 32GB (FreeNas installation)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 1Tb (Jails)
6xWD Red 4TB in RAIDZ2
Power Supply Corsair RM550 80Plus Gold
Cabine Fractal Define Node 804