Ranko Kohime
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I figure this motherboard is probably popular enough that others here might have experienced the same thing I am.
I have 2 servers with this motherboard, both were setup with USB thumb drives in mirrors. This issue only relates to the boot drives.
On BOTH systems I've had a drive report too many errors, so as a quick fix rather than determining which drive it was, I stuck another drive in each and tripled the mirror. This resulted in a second failed drive less than a week later on both systems. Diving into the issue, I found that the drives themselves are good, (when tested on other systems), but when trying to resilver them, or later during a scrub or update, they fail with errors or in some cases disappear from the OS entirely as if physically removed.
On both servers, since they have a 3.0 header and these are 3.0 drives, I had attempted to use a header adapter only to find out one of the 3.0 headers is dead on BOTH boards (bought a year apart, BTW). This ended with me moving one drive to the internal 2.0 type-A plug on the motherboard.
Testing has resulted in only one reasonably reliable port per server, which is different for each server.
I don't have any available SATA ports for an SSD, PCIe NVMe drives are a little too expensive for the purpose (and much too much storage to be wasting on a boot drive) (and would they even boot FreeNAS?), but I don't particularly trust a single thumb drive to be reliable enough for my purpose.
Anyone experiencing similar issues, and have a possible workaround?
I have 2 servers with this motherboard, both were setup with USB thumb drives in mirrors. This issue only relates to the boot drives.
On BOTH systems I've had a drive report too many errors, so as a quick fix rather than determining which drive it was, I stuck another drive in each and tripled the mirror. This resulted in a second failed drive less than a week later on both systems. Diving into the issue, I found that the drives themselves are good, (when tested on other systems), but when trying to resilver them, or later during a scrub or update, they fail with errors or in some cases disappear from the OS entirely as if physically removed.
On both servers, since they have a 3.0 header and these are 3.0 drives, I had attempted to use a header adapter only to find out one of the 3.0 headers is dead on BOTH boards (bought a year apart, BTW). This ended with me moving one drive to the internal 2.0 type-A plug on the motherboard.
Testing has resulted in only one reasonably reliable port per server, which is different for each server.
I don't have any available SATA ports for an SSD, PCIe NVMe drives are a little too expensive for the purpose (and much too much storage to be wasting on a boot drive) (and would they even boot FreeNAS?), but I don't particularly trust a single thumb drive to be reliable enough for my purpose.
Anyone experiencing similar issues, and have a possible workaround?
