Hello everyone,
the short story is that my Asrock C2750D4I motherboard died on me.
So I'm looking for a successor system, this time staying clear from Asrock.
I'm unsure if the Atom platform itself should be avoided as well.
The components of my currently dead system are (selected according to cyberjocks hardware recommendations in the FreeNAS Forum at the time of building it):
I took some time to search for recommended drop-ins to replace the ASRock C2750D4I, but found nothing in the FreeNAS forums or here
(also those threads are all relatively old, when people first got hit with the bugs.)
Is there a "recommended" alternative to just replace the dead motherboard and keep all the old components?
I'm a little sad to throw away the ECC DDR3 Ram modules, but the current recommended hardware seems to only take DDR4.
On the other hand I have zero experience with server hardware, so I'm trying to avoid just to shop for something with enough SATA ports myself.
I'm currently unsure how to proceed further. I'm perfectly fine with the processing power my old system had, I never did any transcoding and
I think the most taxing workload it had to deliver was running the syncthing plugin for a couple of devices in my household.
On the other hand it operates in a rather small drywall compartment, so don't having it dissipate too much heat is definitely a plus.
My approach for a new system would have been to follow the current TrueNAS hardware guide, and get something along the lines of:
Supermicro X11SCH-F motherboard
Intel Core i3-8300
Supermicro (Hynix) 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) Server Memory (MEM-DR416LD-EU26)
The rest I would take from the old system (power supply, enclosure, harddisks).
Availability of components seems rather bad in general at this time, and I find it a little strange that Supermicros list of tested memory only contains their own memory.
Thank you very much for any assistance in advance!
the short story is that my Asrock C2750D4I motherboard died on me.
I thought I jumped the bullet because I didn't have the time to assemble my C2750D4I based FreeNAS system for a whole year.
When I was able to build it I read of the BMC bug and made the required BMC and BIOS updates right from the start.
But the joke is on me, I think the C2000 bug now caught up with me...
(IPMI works but VGA out is dead, as is the virtual console in the IPMI.
The power LED and the BMC "alive" LED lights up and the BMC LED starts flashing after 30 seconds or so,
but it can't boot and I hear no POST beeps.
CMOS reset didn't work. I had the "CPU overtemperature" and the nonsensical "OEM Timestamped" error messages in the IPMI log.
As this was in the middle of very cold temperatures in my region I can almost guarantee it wasn't a thermal problem.)
The whole thing is very similar to the problems described in this forum thread.
As the hardware is now 5 years old I don't think it's worth investing any time in this bug riddled platform,
but to be honest I don't know what you can expect in service years of server hardware.
I don't want to solder the voltage divider in place and then it dies again after a few months.
When I was able to build it I read of the BMC bug and made the required BMC and BIOS updates right from the start.
But the joke is on me, I think the C2000 bug now caught up with me...
(IPMI works but VGA out is dead, as is the virtual console in the IPMI.
The power LED and the BMC "alive" LED lights up and the BMC LED starts flashing after 30 seconds or so,
but it can't boot and I hear no POST beeps.
CMOS reset didn't work. I had the "CPU overtemperature" and the nonsensical "OEM Timestamped" error messages in the IPMI log.
As this was in the middle of very cold temperatures in my region I can almost guarantee it wasn't a thermal problem.)
The whole thing is very similar to the problems described in this forum thread.
As the hardware is now 5 years old I don't think it's worth investing any time in this bug riddled platform,
but to be honest I don't know what you can expect in service years of server hardware.
I don't want to solder the voltage divider in place and then it dies again after a few months.
So I'm looking for a successor system, this time staying clear from Asrock.
I'm unsure if the Atom platform itself should be avoided as well.
The components of my currently dead system are (selected according to cyberjocks hardware recommendations in the FreeNAS Forum at the time of building it):
1x ASRock C2750D4I motherboard
2x Crucial DIMM 8GB, DDR3L-1600, CL11, ECC (CT102472BD160B)
5x Western Digital WD Red 4TB, 3.5", SATA 6Gb/s (WD40EFRX)
1x Fractal Design Define R5 Titanium, schallgedämmt (FD-CA-DEF-R5-TI)
2x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB, USB 2.0 (SDCZ33-016G-B35)
1x Seasonic X-Series Fanless X-400FL 400W ATX 2.3 (SS-400FL)
1x APC Back-UPS ES 700VA Steckdosenleiste, USB (BE700G-GR)
2x Crucial DIMM 8GB, DDR3L-1600, CL11, ECC (CT102472BD160B)
5x Western Digital WD Red 4TB, 3.5", SATA 6Gb/s (WD40EFRX)
1x Fractal Design Define R5 Titanium, schallgedämmt (FD-CA-DEF-R5-TI)
2x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB, USB 2.0 (SDCZ33-016G-B35)
1x Seasonic X-Series Fanless X-400FL 400W ATX 2.3 (SS-400FL)
1x APC Back-UPS ES 700VA Steckdosenleiste, USB (BE700G-GR)
I took some time to search for recommended drop-ins to replace the ASRock C2750D4I, but found nothing in the FreeNAS forums or here
(also those threads are all relatively old, when people first got hit with the bugs.)
Is there a "recommended" alternative to just replace the dead motherboard and keep all the old components?
I'm a little sad to throw away the ECC DDR3 Ram modules, but the current recommended hardware seems to only take DDR4.
On the other hand I have zero experience with server hardware, so I'm trying to avoid just to shop for something with enough SATA ports myself.
I'm currently unsure how to proceed further. I'm perfectly fine with the processing power my old system had, I never did any transcoding and
I think the most taxing workload it had to deliver was running the syncthing plugin for a couple of devices in my household.
On the other hand it operates in a rather small drywall compartment, so don't having it dissipate too much heat is definitely a plus.
My approach for a new system would have been to follow the current TrueNAS hardware guide, and get something along the lines of:
Supermicro X11SCH-F motherboard
Intel Core i3-8300
Supermicro (Hynix) 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) Server Memory (MEM-DR416LD-EU26)
The rest I would take from the old system (power supply, enclosure, harddisks).
Availability of components seems rather bad in general at this time, and I find it a little strange that Supermicros list of tested memory only contains their own memory.
Thank you very much for any assistance in advance!