loganphyve
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Hi All,
I've been planning to set up a freeNAS box for a while now and finally pulled the trigger and ordered parts for a complete system after exhaustive reading on supported hardware. I'm having all sorts of stability issues using what I thought to be compatible hardware, which was purchased after reading the recommended hardware lists.
Board: SuperMicro X9SCM-F-O (New, latest BIOS)
Chip: Intel Xeon E3 1230 V2 1155 (New)
RAM: Kingston 32gb Kit: KVR16E11K4/32 , 4x 8gb sticks PC12800/DDR3 1600 ECC
HBA: IBM ServeRaid M1015 CrossFlashed to IT mode (New Pull)
Addin NICs: (2x) HP NC382T PCI Express4x Dual Port Server Adapter (New Pulls)
After searching around here and other forums, I am seeing some folks are having an issue with this Kingston Ram kit.
The system will POST and correctly recognizes all hardware. Bootable/Live OS's run fine under no-load circumstances, including the most recent FreeNAS USB image 9.2.1 which runs until zfs manager tries to create or manage a zpool. When I started playing around with FreeNAS to get familiar with it (before running hardware and burn-in testing), the box randomly crashes with Kernel panics. After a bit of troubleshooting, I think I have the issue narrowed down to RAM. I've run MemTest86 against the the RAM in question. The results are... unexpected.
Memtesting all 32GB halts the board in its tracks around the 18GB mark, several seconds in. Memtesting 1x 8gb and 2x 8gb in the Dimm 2a/b slots works like a champ. Memtesting each stick individually works as well. Adding in a 3rd (non-optimal but supported) stick halts the board in its tracks. It appears that this RAM is not working in amounts over 16gb.
I have plans to use this box for a few tasks. It's going to be hosting a large CIFS share for hosting video, audio, and picture data, sFTP, as well as some iSCSI LUNs for VMware datastores. So, I'd really like to use all 32GB of ram since the storage pools will be quite large. I eventually want to populate it with 12x 4+tb drives.
Has anyone else experienced this issue, what did you do to solve it, and if you had to replace memory, what do you have that works for certain? I've searched hi and lo looking for a solution but haven't found anything yet.
I think I'm going to have to return the memory for another brand. Oddly enough, Kingston says this kit works with the board in question...
http://www.kingston.com/us/memory/search?DeviceType=7&Mfr=SMI&Line=X9SCM-F&Model=70800
however SuperMicro says it doesn't... I only checked the RAM mfg site before purchase. (this is also the most-purchased 32gb kit for this board according to amazon)
http://www.supermicro.com/support/r...D650E3EC19339&prid=0&type=0&ecc=0®=0&fbd=0
I've looked all over the forums and have seen similar issues with other SuperMicro boards and Kingston Ram but haven't found anything helpful enough to solve the issue. First time post, please forgive me if I have this in the wrong area or it's been solved and I haven't found it yet.
Thanks in advance,
LoganPhyve
I've been planning to set up a freeNAS box for a while now and finally pulled the trigger and ordered parts for a complete system after exhaustive reading on supported hardware. I'm having all sorts of stability issues using what I thought to be compatible hardware, which was purchased after reading the recommended hardware lists.
Board: SuperMicro X9SCM-F-O (New, latest BIOS)
Chip: Intel Xeon E3 1230 V2 1155 (New)
RAM: Kingston 32gb Kit: KVR16E11K4/32 , 4x 8gb sticks PC12800/DDR3 1600 ECC
HBA: IBM ServeRaid M1015 CrossFlashed to IT mode (New Pull)
Addin NICs: (2x) HP NC382T PCI Express4x Dual Port Server Adapter (New Pulls)
After searching around here and other forums, I am seeing some folks are having an issue with this Kingston Ram kit.
The system will POST and correctly recognizes all hardware. Bootable/Live OS's run fine under no-load circumstances, including the most recent FreeNAS USB image 9.2.1 which runs until zfs manager tries to create or manage a zpool. When I started playing around with FreeNAS to get familiar with it (before running hardware and burn-in testing), the box randomly crashes with Kernel panics. After a bit of troubleshooting, I think I have the issue narrowed down to RAM. I've run MemTest86 against the the RAM in question. The results are... unexpected.
Memtesting all 32GB halts the board in its tracks around the 18GB mark, several seconds in. Memtesting 1x 8gb and 2x 8gb in the Dimm 2a/b slots works like a champ. Memtesting each stick individually works as well. Adding in a 3rd (non-optimal but supported) stick halts the board in its tracks. It appears that this RAM is not working in amounts over 16gb.
I have plans to use this box for a few tasks. It's going to be hosting a large CIFS share for hosting video, audio, and picture data, sFTP, as well as some iSCSI LUNs for VMware datastores. So, I'd really like to use all 32GB of ram since the storage pools will be quite large. I eventually want to populate it with 12x 4+tb drives.
Has anyone else experienced this issue, what did you do to solve it, and if you had to replace memory, what do you have that works for certain? I've searched hi and lo looking for a solution but haven't found anything yet.
I think I'm going to have to return the memory for another brand. Oddly enough, Kingston says this kit works with the board in question...
http://www.kingston.com/us/memory/search?DeviceType=7&Mfr=SMI&Line=X9SCM-F&Model=70800
however SuperMicro says it doesn't... I only checked the RAM mfg site before purchase. (this is also the most-purchased 32gb kit for this board according to amazon)
http://www.supermicro.com/support/r...D650E3EC19339&prid=0&type=0&ecc=0®=0&fbd=0
I've looked all over the forums and have seen similar issues with other SuperMicro boards and Kingston Ram but haven't found anything helpful enough to solve the issue. First time post, please forgive me if I have this in the wrong area or it's been solved and I haven't found it yet.
Thanks in advance,
LoganPhyve