Newby to servers

[Oldcroaker]

Good day folks
I have managed to get a simple server working across three Mac LapTop -2 X Hackintosh 2 X Zorin computers both dual boots , I have used a MSI 7677 Mobo i3 CPU 4Gb Memory , The OS is on a 80Gb sata drive and the storage is on 1.5Gb WD drive all seems to work good but I have a couple of Alerts cannot decipher if some one can advise. See attached.
Thanks

 

[danb35]

Well, what do you think "unreadable sectors" means"? What do you think "offline uncorrectable sectors" means?

 

[jgreco]

It means your drive has lots of errors on it and is probably slowly failing. Make sure you copy all the data off and onto somewhere secure.

FreeNAS is designed to have redundancy in the form of multiple disks to help protect you from sudden drive failures, but this only works if you have multiple drives in the pool.

Also, the minimum RAM for FreeNAS is 8GB, and FreeNAS will exhibit poor performance and potentially instability if you do not give it sufficient RAM.

 

[Oldcroaker]

Thank you for your prompt response I had suspected that the the alert referred to the hard drive, strange whilst it is new it was not so much money.
One point I would like clarification when I set up the Bios I chose the AHCI mode maybe I should have stayed with legacy? when it worked it was impressive although it failed to boot this morning so I guess it needs a replacement drive and memory upgrade ?
Thanks again

 

[Oldcroaker]

As we speak I switched the Bios from AHCI to IDE and the OS booted ?

 

[Oldcroaker]

Good day Folks
Update installed 8Gb of ram replaced the hard drive with new Fujitsu the system is working for the past couple of days fine, I would like the system to shut down in the evening and come alive in the morning - I can see some information under Crone jobs but most of the terms and language is somewhat alien to me. Any simply explanation in plain English would be very helpful.
Thanks for reading my thread.

 

[danb35]

I would like the system to shut down in the evening and come alive in the morning

Shutting down in the evening is simple enough--just set a cron job to run daily at whatever time you want with a command of "shutdown -h -P now". As long as your hardware supports soft power-off, that will do it. Starting up, though, is a different story--you can't exactly run something on the computer to wake itself up when it's powered off.

 

[no_connection]

You could probably wake it up with WOL or Wake On Lan, many routers support that.
Or put a wake timer in BIOS.

 

[Oldcroaker]

Thanks Guys for responding