wittend
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I'm trying to rebuild my modest TrueNAS Core server and encountering alarming difficulties. Previously, I ran for about a year on the Motherboard SATA connectors. Due to a series clumsy mistakes and lack of understanding I lost all of my data, and trashed my single striped pool. After that, I decided one of the onboard SATA connectors seemed wobbly (or maybe not). To avoid using that connector, I purchased a replacement PCIe controller that supported more disks. I didn't realize how many more disks, but I wanted to be able to expand with a couple of spares.
My big question, is this a suitable controller?: LSI 9300-16I 9305-16I 9305-24I IT Mode HBA JBOD PCI-E 3.0 SATA SAS 12Gb (9305-24I + 6 SFF-8643 SATA). I went through the hardware guides that talk about the LSI controllers, and things looked OK, as best I could understand. In the card's BIOS, (Avago Tech Config Utility v8.35.00.00 (2017-05-05), I see Controller Topology SAS 3224 SAS9305-24i (01:00).
I put this all together, and all seemed shiny and good. I plugged the SSD drives into the (non suspect) onboard connectors, and all the rest into one of the SAS -> SATA cables, Everything came right up, drives were getting resilvered, and all looked happy.
After a couple of hours, I did see one one error - DA0 indicated an unrecoverable error, but everything went forward and the pool was online. I didn't really trust it yet, but after configuring things I moved a few GB of data to see if things seemed. OK.
Then I let it sit about 36 hours and did other stuff. I came back and things looked BAD. Two drives offline, pool still up, but walking with a serious limp. And as I poked around - read only, not changing anything, the third drive went offline and then the whole system went down. And then would not boot back up!
I walked away for a couple of days (in despair). Now, to provide the system info, I booted it again. Looked at but did not change the BIOS. Pretty much the same old defaults. No RAID, hardware or otherwise. Bunches of errors in the Web GUI, but all from two days ago. My Pool is offline though.
Any advice would be appreciated and followed - within my budget, which is quite small now.
Dave
My big question, is this a suitable controller?: LSI 9300-16I 9305-16I 9305-24I IT Mode HBA JBOD PCI-E 3.0 SATA SAS 12Gb (9305-24I + 6 SFF-8643 SATA). I went through the hardware guides that talk about the LSI controllers, and things looked OK, as best I could understand. In the card's BIOS, (Avago Tech Config Utility v8.35.00.00 (2017-05-05), I see Controller Topology SAS 3224 SAS9305-24i (01:00).
I put this all together, and all seemed shiny and good. I plugged the SSD drives into the (non suspect) onboard connectors, and all the rest into one of the SAS -> SATA cables, Everything came right up, drives were getting resilvered, and all looked happy.
After a couple of hours, I did see one one error - DA0 indicated an unrecoverable error, but everything went forward and the pool was online. I didn't really trust it yet, but after configuring things I moved a few GB of data to see if things seemed. OK.
Then I let it sit about 36 hours and did other stuff. I came back and things looked BAD. Two drives offline, pool still up, but walking with a serious limp. And as I poked around - read only, not changing anything, the third drive went offline and then the whole system went down. And then would not boot back up!
I walked away for a couple of days (in despair). Now, to provide the system info, I booted it again. Looked at but did not change the BIOS. Pretty much the same old defaults. No RAID, hardware or otherwise. Bunches of errors in the Web GUI, but all from two days ago. My Pool is offline though.
- Motherboard make and model
- ASRock
- H77M-ITX
- UEFI Version H77M-ITX P1.10
- Mini ITX
- CPU make and model
- Intel core IT-2700K
- RAM quantity
- 16 GB, Non-EC LPDDR3
- Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives
- Boot (mirrored):
- 1 Crucial 128 GB SATA SSD
- 1 PNY 240GB SATA III SSD
- Storage
- 4 x WD Red 4TB, ~ 1yr old
- Boot (mirrored):
- Hard disk controllers
- LSI 9300-16I 9305-16I 9305-24I IT Mode HBA JBOD PCI-E 3.0 9305-24I 24 ports.(overkill, I know)
- Network cards
- 1 GB onboard, (not currently identifiable, but assume Realtek) loads 're' driver. (I know, not good, I have Intel replacement but no free slots).
Any advice would be appreciated and followed - within my budget, which is quite small now.
Dave
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