Hi
Apologies for having a moan, but I seem to be having one problem after the next with Nas4Free.
The first issue i had was that one of my 4 3TB hard disks was showing as "missing". Turning the server off and on again sorted that.
The next issue i had was that the server kept re-booting while trying to copy files to a specific sub folder in a specific share. Totally re-setting up Nas4Free on a different USB pen seems to have sorted that.
The next issue i have is that yet another of my drives is now showing offline. It's a totally different drive to the one which did this a couple of weeks ago, and yet again, taking the drive out and putting it back in again seems to have sorted it. The Raid is once again "Re-building" after this.
My setup is very simple. i'm using an N40L with 4x 3TB Seagate hard drives. v9.1.0.1 running from USB pen (embedded), although i planned on installing a laptop hard drive over the weekend. The way things are going, i might be ditching this in favor of Open media Vault.
I'm unsure at the moment if this is the fault of hardware or software. I fail to see how it can be hardware if i simply have to turn the server off and on again in order for the drive to re-appear.
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Losing confidence in Nas4Free already
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ku-gew
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Re: Losing confidence in Nas4Free already
Seems all hardware to me.
HP Microserver N40L, 8 GB ECC, 2x 3TB WD Red, 2x 4TB WD Red
XigmaNAS stable branch, always latest version
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XigmaNAS stable branch, always latest version
SMB, rsync
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armandh
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Re: Losing confidence in Nas4Free already
sorry to hear of your troubles
one of the problems of very flexible software is that it may be stretched past previous safe experience
fixed solutions where the rough edges of compatibility have been knocked off through limitations may work well for you
it seems most 3Tb drive issues are in the late beta stages but if, when the drives disappear, the GUI is still visible
it may be the router not holding the share information with re booting causing a retransmission of that info
I just trashed an old 10/100 linksys/cisco that would no longer function correctly in this regard,
not even worth looking for a firmware upgrade, given I had a left over d-link 10/100 that did work.
my new Gb cisco works great too.
oops I assumed missing from the client not the GUI
when proper operation is dependent on a long chain each link must function properly
one of the problems of very flexible software is that it may be stretched past previous safe experience
fixed solutions where the rough edges of compatibility have been knocked off through limitations may work well for you
it seems most 3Tb drive issues are in the late beta stages but if, when the drives disappear, the GUI is still visible
it may be the router not holding the share information with re booting causing a retransmission of that info
I just trashed an old 10/100 linksys/cisco that would no longer function correctly in this regard,
not even worth looking for a firmware upgrade, given I had a left over d-link 10/100 that did work.
my new Gb cisco works great too.
oops I assumed missing from the client not the GUI
when proper operation is dependent on a long chain each link must function properly
Last edited by armandh on 15 Mar 2013 01:24, edited 1 time in total.
4 thread 3300 Mhz Intel i3, 1 TB ZFS mirror, available RAM 7.823 Gb, 64 bit NAS4Free 9.1.0.1 rev 573 [88 watts, 48 Mbps]
2 thread 1600 Mhz atom/ion, 1 TB ZFS mirror, available RAM 3.083 Gb, 64 bit NAS4Free-9.1.0.1 rev 573 [27 watts, 35 Mbps]
2 thread 3900 Mhz AMD A6-6400K, 2 TB ZFS Mirror, available RAM 7.557 Gb, 64 bit Nas4Free 9.3.0.2.1771 [89 watts, 68 Mbps]
2 thread 1600 Mhz atom/ion, 1 TB ZFS mirror, available RAM 3.083 Gb, 64 bit NAS4Free-9.1.0.1 rev 573 [27 watts, 35 Mbps]
2 thread 3900 Mhz AMD A6-6400K, 2 TB ZFS Mirror, available RAM 7.557 Gb, 64 bit Nas4Free 9.3.0.2.1771 [89 watts, 68 Mbps]
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alexplatform
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Re: Losing confidence in Nas4Free already
Your symptoms are definitely hardware related; Since you already established that you have disk channel problems it stands to reason that the system is unstable. Keep an eye on your logs for clues as to what the nature of the fault is- seems to me a bad disk drive, but could be the backplane as well. In any case, running long SMART tests on all 4 drives is in order.