I built a new system and have tried running FreeNAS based on some recommendations from others but the experience so far has been troublesome. The new build consists of the following and was ran for a few days "burn-in" prior to starting my FreeNAS journey:
Ok, I know the first thing that will cross peoples mind is new build, guy does not know what he is doing. However, after having the system lock a couple of times (never runs more than 5 hours) I ran additional stress testing:
I have tried both 9.2.0 and 9.2.1 and used multiple USB sticks. Have tried disabling USB 3.0 in the BIOS and that does not seem to affect run time one way or another. I have tried both the img file that is directly downloadable and also extracting the image file from the .iso for both versions and both behave the same. About the only configuration that is done with each attempt is to setup networking with static addressing, then login to web client, change password and start a shell running top with 1 second update intervals. That does not really show any spikes either.
Looking for somebody with more FreeNAS experience to hopefully have some ideas. Thanks!
- Chenbro SR30169 case (really awesome design)
- Zotac A75ITX-B-E Motherboard
- AMD A10 6790K CPU
- 16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC-12800 (BLS2CP8G3D1609DS1S00)
- 4x 3TB WD Red drives
- 16GB Sandisk USB Flash (though I have tried another)
Ok, I know the first thing that will cross peoples mind is new build, guy does not know what he is doing. However, after having the system lock a couple of times (never runs more than 5 hours) I ran additional stress testing:
- 28 hours of Memtest - NO errors
- 26 hours of Prime95 from a WindowsPE boot (all cores 100%) - No lock / heat issues
- All drives short / long tested and write zeroes to entire disk (no errors)
- 4 hours of Prime95 and WD Test writing zeroes at same time - no issues
- Boots Ubuntu live CD and runs for 10+ hours
I have tried both 9.2.0 and 9.2.1 and used multiple USB sticks. Have tried disabling USB 3.0 in the BIOS and that does not seem to affect run time one way or another. I have tried both the img file that is directly downloadable and also extracting the image file from the .iso for both versions and both behave the same. About the only configuration that is done with each attempt is to setup networking with static addressing, then login to web client, change password and start a shell running top with 1 second update intervals. That does not really show any spikes either.
Looking for somebody with more FreeNAS experience to hopefully have some ideas. Thanks!