Supermicro X9SRL-F + E5-2670v2

[Snow]

LED strips. I get it. It's dark in the basement.

lol Yes it does some times I feel like I need more light & this helped a lot.

 

[Velcade]

Updated to FreeNAS-11.2-U4 with no issues.
Is there a subforum for stable FreeNAS version discussion?
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Picked up another 64GB of Samsung (4x16GB) 1600MHz ECC DDR3 1.35V memory. Was a good deal and should hold me over for a long while.
The server is running great. We have 4 people on it; transferring files, watching movies, etc. Next on the list would be an external back up to this machine.

 

[Chris Moore]

Is there a subforum for stable FreeNAS version discussion?

There is the FreeNAS Development section of the forum:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/freenas-development.76/
I am not sure that is what you are looking for. What did you have in mind?

 

[Velcade]

I am not sure that is what you are looking for. What did you have in mind?

That works I suppose. I was curious if there was a single thread stating "11.2 - U4 live" (or something) and people can post their comments about the new versions and issues they come across. Keeping the information neatly in one area. It's nice to have positive user feedback as well.

 

[Chris Moore]

That works I suppose. I was curious if there was a single thread stating "11.2 - U4 live" (or something) and people can post their comments about the new versions and issues they come across. Keeping the information neatly in one area. It's nice to have positive user feedback as well.

Then you might want to look at the "installation and updates" section:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/installation-and-updates.32/

 

[Snow]

Then you might want to look at the "installation and updates" section:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/installation-and-updates.32/

What Ver FN you ruining Chris ?

 

[Chris Moore]

What Ver FN you ruining Chris ?

I have the the 11.2-U4 on my test system at home but I am still running 11.1-U7 on my primary system at home and on the systems I manage at work. I am always slow to adopt the new versions when they make a big change because I want to allow time for the bugs to get worked out.

 

[Snow]

Yeah I try to do the same unless it fix's a big bug for me. I try to stay 2 ver back like you. I am on 11.2U4 atm as it has fixed a Jail bug I was having.

 

[Velcade]

Couple of updates...

Updated to 11.3 with no issue and added an Intel X540-T1. Both are working great.

My next move will be to replace the tower case with a 4U case, just haven't found the right one yet...

 

[Bozon]

LED strips. I get it. It's dark in the basement.

And they are super cool. With the right control software, you could make them dance in dynamic patterns, or if you are usefully minded, they could flash and change color indicating different situations. low green for everything is going fine with low usage, flashing increasing speed as usage goes up (think drive light). Faster red flashing if temperature goes above thresholds, etc. How fun. Now I want a rack with color change LED strips and a controller. :)

 

[Velcade]

My next move will be to replace the tower case with a 4U case

Well I've found one I'm happy with... Silverstone RM41-H08. This is a great case, plenty of room for what I need. Only issue was low fan speed error when using the low RPM Noctua fans. I was able to resolve this issue by hooking the fans up to a fan controller independent of the motherboard.

 

[Velcade]

Just jumped trains over to TrueNAS. Everything seems stable.

 

[Velcade]

Trying to update plex and ran into this error.
Error: Major ABI change detected, please run 'upgrade' instead.

I was able to fix this by entering the following into the host shell:

Code:

iocage upgrade plexmediaserver -r 12.1-RELEASE

Just wanted to add this if anyone else runs into the same error.

 

[Chris Moore]

Just jumped trains over to TrueNAS. Everything seems stable.

I also had success with my systems. All are on 12.0-U1 now.

 

[Velcade]

Pool Status: DEGRADED



I set the suspect drive to 'offline' and the spare drive started the resilver process. In 6 hours, 10 minutes, 20 seconds we'll see if it works. *Fingers Crossed*

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EDIT:
Everything worked fine once I realized I needed to 'remove' the drive once it was offline.

Funny thing is the degraded drive is showing fine on a quick SMART test, running the full SMART test now. Will know more in a few hours.

 

[Velcade]

Extended SMART test passed with no errors. I've since added the drive back into the pool as a spare. Not sure what happened but it did happen right after the reboot installing 12.0-U2.

Good trial run for a degraded pool, I suppose.

 

[Velcade]

Storage upgrade day! I finally filled up my 24TB and needed more space.

12TB WD Elements were on sale for $14.9/TB so I grabbed four and after stress testing I got to shucking.


Surprisingly easy to remove these from their enclosures. For those courious the drives are WD White - WD120EDAZ


I had a spare Rosewill drive-bay that I used as a temporary mount for the new drives.

The data transfer was... interesting. I went the Replication route and it copied most of the data over. For some reason any data generated in March was not pulled over. Not a huge deal because the old pool is still active and I can manually add those files. I just found it strange that not all the data was pulled over during the Replication task.