Hi FreeNas, this is a great forum but there is way to much info for a newbie to absorb--after 30 or 40 hours over the last 3 weeks, my head is spinning so I decided to post this cry for help.
About 5 years ago, I built a $600 Freeas based on the build in Engadget, and it worked flawlessly until recently when it croaked.
This is for an office serving Word files to 4 users.
To replace, I searched the user guides (I now know that not all user guides are created equal) found another build and built 2 boxes based on:
Asrock E3C226D21
Intel i3-4150
2 X 8 Kingston HyperX Fury 1600 DR3
FSP 300 W Mini ITX PSU 80+
120 G SanDisk SSD
1 X 5TB Western Digital
First box is working fine and being used at work.
But, the second box has had lots of problems. First it had a reboot problem--swapped ram and it was fixed.
But now I get: Boot Volume Condition: ONLINE One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.
(running memtest now, no errors so far)
I read about non-ECC RAM and all of a sudden I am terrified (about the backups being copies of corrupted files).
Data integrity is my main concern.
The MB supports ECC RAM but I think it needs UDIMM. Cyberjock's RAM guide says don't use Kingston or UDIMM (I think that is only with SuperMicro?).
What RAM I should use? Kingston's KVR16E11/8 is on Asrock's approved memory list https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-ValueRAM-Workstation-KVR16E11/dp/B008LMNXS0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1519573938&sr=1-1&keywords=KVR16E11/8
Do I need to go SuperMicro and if so can I reuse my CPU?
Thank you for your help.
About 5 years ago, I built a $600 Freeas based on the build in Engadget, and it worked flawlessly until recently when it croaked.
This is for an office serving Word files to 4 users.
To replace, I searched the user guides (I now know that not all user guides are created equal) found another build and built 2 boxes based on:
Asrock E3C226D21
Intel i3-4150
2 X 8 Kingston HyperX Fury 1600 DR3
FSP 300 W Mini ITX PSU 80+
120 G SanDisk SSD
1 X 5TB Western Digital
First box is working fine and being used at work.
But, the second box has had lots of problems. First it had a reboot problem--swapped ram and it was fixed.
But now I get: Boot Volume Condition: ONLINE One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.
(running memtest now, no errors so far)
I read about non-ECC RAM and all of a sudden I am terrified (about the backups being copies of corrupted files).
Data integrity is my main concern.
The MB supports ECC RAM but I think it needs UDIMM. Cyberjock's RAM guide says don't use Kingston or UDIMM (I think that is only with SuperMicro?).
What RAM I should use? Kingston's KVR16E11/8 is on Asrock's approved memory list https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-ValueRAM-Workstation-KVR16E11/dp/B008LMNXS0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1519573938&sr=1-1&keywords=KVR16E11/8
Do I need to go SuperMicro and if so can I reuse my CPU?
Thank you for your help.
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