Hi All,
New to forum and to FreeNAS but been using Linux for 10+ years. Just built a FreeNAS system with the following
- Gigabyte Z77-DS3H - with a USB3 controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
- 8 GB Ram
- 3x 1TB Sata as a raidz1
- 3TB Toshiba USB3 external disk
I've created a separate volume on the USB disk and was in the process of sending a snapshot of the main file system to the USB when the I/O errors occurred. I have had that disk working fine connected via USB2 to a Centos 6 system. I used the Centos system to remove the original NTFS file system and its been reformatted by FreeNAS as ZFS since.
I have had smartctl statistics from that disk earlier but the disk seems to have stopped communicating since then.
I have had issues with external USB3 drives with Windows systems in the past and I wonder if USB3 is not going to work with this hardware and I should swap the disk to a USB2 port. The system is remote so can't test that right away.
Am I on the right track or have I missed something else...
Thanks in advance
Ken
New to forum and to FreeNAS but been using Linux for 10+ years. Just built a FreeNAS system with the following
- Gigabyte Z77-DS3H - with a USB3 controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
- 8 GB Ram
- 3x 1TB Sata as a raidz1
- 3TB Toshiba USB3 external disk
I've created a separate volume on the USB disk and was in the process of sending a snapshot of the main file system to the USB when the I/O errors occurred. I have had that disk working fine connected via USB2 to a Centos 6 system. I used the Centos system to remove the original NTFS file system and its been reformatted by FreeNAS as ZFS since.
I have had smartctl statistics from that disk earlier but the disk seems to have stopped communicating since then.
I have had issues with external USB3 drives with Windows systems in the past and I wonder if USB3 is not going to work with this hardware and I should swap the disk to a USB2 port. The system is remote so can't test that right away.
Am I on the right track or have I missed something else...
Thanks in advance
Ken