nigelm
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- Nov 26, 2016
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So my 22 month old FreeNAS decided to die overnight - mainboard dead other than IPMI. I have spoken to the original suppliers of the mainboard and they are willing to refund (subject to return and test) - they say the board is EOL and they no longer maintain stock.
The system is a reasonably typical small/home system - ASRock C2750D4I (probably overpowered for my use, but the C2550D4I was basically same price when I was buying), in a Node 304 case, with Seasonic PSU, 6 WD REDs 3TB and 16GB ECC RAM (2 off 8GB). Boots off a pair of USB sticks.
A like for like replacement of the mainboard is substantially more expensive than I paid, and its looking like a 2 year life on these boards is non-untypical from other comments around the forums, which makes this unattractive.
So any recommendations for a replacement board, keeping as much of the rest as possible. Or cost effective upgrade (RAM cost more rather more than the case for example, so a case change might be worth it to keep the RAM).
I do not need to expand the storage in foreseeable future. I do run a number of active jails on the system, including a crashplan, gogs and paperless servers. [Of those crashplan runs all the time, the others probably spend their life paged out]. I would like the ability to go as high as 32GB RAM but no foreseen need to go higher. However I do not do any transcoding so huge CPU requirements are not necessary...
I'm going to work my way through the hardware recommendations but would appreciate informed comments...
Nigel.
The system is a reasonably typical small/home system - ASRock C2750D4I (probably overpowered for my use, but the C2550D4I was basically same price when I was buying), in a Node 304 case, with Seasonic PSU, 6 WD REDs 3TB and 16GB ECC RAM (2 off 8GB). Boots off a pair of USB sticks.
A like for like replacement of the mainboard is substantially more expensive than I paid, and its looking like a 2 year life on these boards is non-untypical from other comments around the forums, which makes this unattractive.
So any recommendations for a replacement board, keeping as much of the rest as possible. Or cost effective upgrade (RAM cost more rather more than the case for example, so a case change might be worth it to keep the RAM).
I do not need to expand the storage in foreseeable future. I do run a number of active jails on the system, including a crashplan, gogs and paperless servers. [Of those crashplan runs all the time, the others probably spend their life paged out]. I would like the ability to go as high as 32GB RAM but no foreseen need to go higher. However I do not do any transcoding so huge CPU requirements are not necessary...
I'm going to work my way through the hardware recommendations but would appreciate informed comments...
Nigel.