Howdy,
I am in the process of building a FreeNAS 11.3-U4 system on a Dell R710 L5640(x2) with 24GB of Ram. I'm using an LSI 92008-9i in IT Mode as an HBA. I have the 4 port Broadcom Network adapter setup in LAGG mode with the intent to connect at least 2 ports to my Cisco Catalyst Switch.
I have six 3Tib Hitachi / Dell 3TB drives. 3 of them show up in FreeNAS with no issues. 3 of them show up as "not ready" in smartctl / camcontrol.
It looks to me like bad hardware, but I wanted to see if anyone has any other ideas? I'm out of things I know how to do. I have put 146GB and 2TB drives in slot 0 and they spin up and behave fine, which reinforces my suspicion that I have 3 dead drives.
The storage drives came from eBay and were supposedly tested. They don't return any defects in Camcontrol, but they refuse to come online. Hours are higher than I'd like to see but acceptable on enterprise drives.
I'm planning to build out a 6 disk pool using ZFS+2 (Raid 6 equivalent) for a total capacity of ~12TB. I plan to keep a cold spare on-hand as well as setting up at least one data replica on a different system.
Background wise - I'm functionally dangerous in Linux with most of my experience being in Ubuntu, Debian, and a love/hate relationship with CentOS. I've been administering Linux boxes for 15 years and know enough to look up what I need and to get things done. Most of my experience has been LAMP stack boxes and Asterisk. I'm by no means an expert but I do manage to get things done. I have a much deeper background with Windows that includes professional experience.
I do have a solid understanding of NAS/SAN systems and worked for an EMC Service Partner for a while on VNx, DataDomain, and Isilon series units as well as our white label SuperMicro stuff. I still know there is alot I don't know, but I know what a LUN is and understand storage pools. I've read through the documentation and understand that the configuration is important and should be done carefully.
This system will replace a constellation of QNAP machines that have served me well. I have a TS-239Pro II pushing 10 years and some TS-110's that are replication targets. It's just me for the most part using the system and I keep mostly my photography and videography files along with some other longer term data that I don't need to access constantly. I know it's probably overkill and that there are probably lower energy cost ways to do this.....
In 2 or 3 years I plan to upgrade to a slightly newer system at which point I'll adjust my storage capacity if necessary.
I am in the process of building a FreeNAS 11.3-U4 system on a Dell R710 L5640(x2) with 24GB of Ram. I'm using an LSI 92008-9i in IT Mode as an HBA. I have the 4 port Broadcom Network adapter setup in LAGG mode with the intent to connect at least 2 ports to my Cisco Catalyst Switch.
I have six 3Tib Hitachi / Dell 3TB drives. 3 of them show up in FreeNAS with no issues. 3 of them show up as "not ready" in smartctl / camcontrol.
It looks to me like bad hardware, but I wanted to see if anyone has any other ideas? I'm out of things I know how to do. I have put 146GB and 2TB drives in slot 0 and they spin up and behave fine, which reinforces my suspicion that I have 3 dead drives.
The storage drives came from eBay and were supposedly tested. They don't return any defects in Camcontrol, but they refuse to come online. Hours are higher than I'd like to see but acceptable on enterprise drives.
I'm planning to build out a 6 disk pool using ZFS+2 (Raid 6 equivalent) for a total capacity of ~12TB. I plan to keep a cold spare on-hand as well as setting up at least one data replica on a different system.
Background wise - I'm functionally dangerous in Linux with most of my experience being in Ubuntu, Debian, and a love/hate relationship with CentOS. I've been administering Linux boxes for 15 years and know enough to look up what I need and to get things done. Most of my experience has been LAMP stack boxes and Asterisk. I'm by no means an expert but I do manage to get things done. I have a much deeper background with Windows that includes professional experience.
I do have a solid understanding of NAS/SAN systems and worked for an EMC Service Partner for a while on VNx, DataDomain, and Isilon series units as well as our white label SuperMicro stuff. I still know there is alot I don't know, but I know what a LUN is and understand storage pools. I've read through the documentation and understand that the configuration is important and should be done carefully.
This system will replace a constellation of QNAP machines that have served me well. I have a TS-239Pro II pushing 10 years and some TS-110's that are replication targets. It's just me for the most part using the system and I keep mostly my photography and videography files along with some other longer term data that I don't need to access constantly. I know it's probably overkill and that there are probably lower energy cost ways to do this.....
In 2 or 3 years I plan to upgrade to a slightly newer system at which point I'll adjust my storage capacity if necessary.
