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[hyperq]

Putting the R5 case in a suitcase is neither good for the R5 nor the suitcase. I highly doubt either one will survive the beating from airlines. Have you seen the size of R5 in person?

 

[anodos]

Putting the R5 case in a suitcase is neither good for the R5 nor the suitcase. I highly doubt either one will survive the beating from airlines. Have you seen the size of R5 in person?

That depends on how well you pack your suitcase and the type of suitcase. I've packed LCD monitors in suitcases and sent them through about 30 hours of airline travel to a developing country. Arrived fine.

Regardless of the chassis purchased, I'd save the box the chassis comes in and use that to pack it. Then stick it in the suitcase. It's a good idea to save the packaging that hard drives came in and check them separately. Once you get to your destination, verify that all components are still properly seated before powering on the server. And of course, make a full backup of your data before travelling in case your hard drives get 'lost'.

 

[hyperq]

The dimensions of the R5 cardboard box is 327 x 615 x 540mm. 327mm is thicker than almost all suitcases out there. There is no way it will fit.

If you put the R5 in a suitcase without the box, then it doesn't leave much room for padding. Thus it won't be good for the R5 nor the suitcase.

 

[Patrik L]

I had a similar problem last week when upgrading my home FreeNAS system to a Skylake H170 board. Moving the FreeNas system USB 3 stick to the new MB which only has USB 3.0 external ports the boot got stuck at the mountboot prompt regardless of BIOS settings. Tried to connect to the internal USB 2.0 header instead. No improvement. Put in a PCIe USB 3.0 card and moved the USB stick there. This did the trick and the system booted without problem. However, even after completed boot no USB devices can be connected to the on-board USB ports.

Looking at the postings at this forum and elsewhere the poor functionality of FreeNAS when it comes to USB 3.0 support is becoming an increasing problem as USB 2.0 is becoming a legacy specification and new MBs will not properly support it.

I believe a push from the development team to resolve the USB 3.0 issues would be gratefully appreciated by a lot of users and secure the ability to use USB for the system installation