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    5405z + 24bay SM BackPlane Weird issue

    Yeah, except the test he did didn't really confirm that. Just because you leave the system in power-on mode for longer doesn't mean the drives are spinning up. SATA drives behind a RAID controller typically will not spin-up until the SATA Phy Interface (Physicial I/F) becomes active with a...
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    5405z + 24bay SM BackPlane Weird issue

    Have you tried tweaking the staggered spin up settings? In the Power Management Settings on the Adaptec card, there should be an option called something like "Spin Up Limit (internal)". This impacts the number of internal drives to be spun up at any given moment. By default, it is set to 0...
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    What about migrating additional configurations? If you have permissions/etc setup in OI, is there an easy way to export through napp-it and import again in the new install?
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    NAS upgrade - looking for advices

    Guess it's time to get a new case. I like this one: SC846TQ-R900B Chassis
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    NAS upgrade - looking for advices

    What about one of these? :) SC825 Fixed HDD / Fdd Dummy 3.5in 2.5in Drive Tray Housing With one of these? 3.5" to 2 x 2.5" Bay Converter
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    NAS upgrade - looking for advices

    If you're not too picky on "bays" and you have some spare room in your case, you could look at picking up a couple of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1DS0FR8897 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1DS0FR8898 And if "hot swap" is a must, there are...
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    136TB of NAND flash in a 1U storage array

    I assume it's like their older 44TB model. Should look something like: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20121016215551_Micron_20nm_NAND_Flash_Powers_Solid_State_Storage_for_Big_Data.html
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    supermicro 846TQ-R900B quiet options?

    Has anyone gone from a PWS-920P-1R to a PWS-920P-SQ? http://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=17114
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    To RAID or not. Home server questions

    This is a common setup that I have seen on this board. The all-in-one ESXI + NAS VM. I use it myself (but with Napp-It on top of OI instead of FreeNAS). Here are some great references: http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/all-in-one.pdf http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573272
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    Seagate 4TB NAS HDD

    While it's not sub $150, I saw that the WD Red WD40EFRX 4TB is on sale for $179 today on newegg. So the "NAS drives are slowly but surely becoming more affordable.
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    Seagate 4TB NAS HDD

    I'm not sure I've ever seen the ST4000VN000 for $140. I know you can commonly find the desktop version, ST4000DM000, for the $139 - 169 range. As for the "NAS" ST4000VN000 and the WD Red WD40EFRX NAS drive, I have seem them both frequently on sale in the range of $189 - $200 on both newegg...
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    4TB Drive Options - ST4000VN000 vs WD40EFRX

    I wasn't really seeing anything either way to prove one better than the other. The Seagate might have barely faster sequential access, but the WD Red's save a 1W per drive on power. We're not talking big differences in either, so it really feels like a coin-flip. Although I guess the 1W per...
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    4TB Drive Options - ST4000VN000 vs WD40EFRX

    I have a little of both, a couple VM's for random I/O and some media for sequential. In the past, I have always tried to keep matching drives in any given vdev. I wasn't sure what the impact of mixing 5900 and 5400 drives would be. I had considered just buying 6 of one for my first vdev, and...
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    4TB Drive Options - ST4000VN000 vs WD40EFRX

    I recently picked up a Supermicro 846TQ system with QC Opteron and 16GB of memory. My intention is to migrate to ZFS setup and transfer my current ~14TB of data to a better setup. I am looking at starting with a 6-disk RAIDZ2 configuration using 4TB drives to copy my data into and then adding a...
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    ZFS vdev setup

    What SSD's are you using for ESXi datastores? Enterprise drives, or cheaper consumer drives? Curious what your experience has been like with a specific model.
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    I have SATA I, would a SSD be beneficial?

    Unless you do only a lot of large transfers, your main day-to-day benefit will be from the increased seak time / random IO performance more than sequential speeds, which will make a SSD very much worth it. I say go for it.
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    Seagate finally offering a down to earth priced internal 4TB HDD.

    While I'd rather it be in the 25C - 30C range, I can live with 30C - 35C. I saw this is another NE review: 53C vs 38C... wow.
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    Seagate finally offering a down to earth priced internal 4TB HDD.

    What kind of temperatures are you seeing? I saw a quote on NewEgg that stated: I am looking to upgrade my home storage with eight drives, this was the drive I was looking at, but your comments have me worried.
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    Home server build (X9SCM-iiF, E3 1220v2)

    Ahh, good call. I saw what I wanted to see since that's what I was looking at myself I guess. Is that just generally assumed for idle usage? Or is there some stats on that? This could make my CPU purchase a lot easier with some hard evidence to support the idle wattage.
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    Home server build (X9SCM-iiF, E3 1220v2)

    According to ark.intel.com, the E3-1220L v2 does support hyperthreding. 2 cores, 4 threads. I have been considering this exact same build for ZFS (OpenIndiana though) and pfSense with a couple testing vms as well. I struggle going from the ultra low power 1220v2 (17W) to the 1230v2 (69W). I...
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    OS for your VMs?

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/4/3d42bdc2-6725-4b29-b75a-a5b04179958b/licensing_windows7_with_VM_technologies.docx I would say... it depends on the copy of windows 7 and how it was acquired. For standard FPP purchases, this is the language used:
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    ZFS+ESXi - debugging NFS latency

    Thanks. Any suggestions of what to look at/for?
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    ZFS+ESXi - debugging NFS latency

    Thanks for the reply. SMART info shows up as all OK in Napp-It. All drives are between 25-28 deg C, good operating temperature. I will check for noticeable vibration in the morning, though they are all secured pretty well in the supermicro disk trays. I hadn't noticed anything that would...
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    ZFS+ESXi - debugging NFS latency

    I currently have two OpenIndiana boxes serving up NFS datastores to a 3x ESXi setup for VMs. OI-SAN-00: 2x6-core, 32GB, 10x mirrored vdevs (2x 300gb 10k SAS each) OI-SAN-01: 2x4-core, 64GB, 20x mirrored vdevs (2x 300gb 10k SAS each) I did end up disabling sync for now until I can...
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    Inexpensive dedicated storage without ZFS?

    This appears to be the only really valid point. Well, maybe that an the fact that since data is spread across multiple disks you can't 'spin down' all but one disk when you are playing a single video. In a "grow as you go" situation ZFS can be difficult. Does that make it a terrible choice...
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    MC001-XBMC(US)

    Is that really true though? I've watched random youtube videos of users demonstrating boxes like the PIVOS XIOS, and while they "handle" navigation in the XBMC user interface (general moving around, not necessarily playing videos), I don't know if I would say it's "fine". From what I've seen, my...
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    U2413 ?!

    Source: FlatPanelsHD
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    *Official* Norco data storage products thread

    Is the form factor still supposed to match similarly to the NSC-800 by Yu Technologies? That chassis looks fantastic for the home enthusiast that wants more than 2-4 drives, but still has size/power/noise restraints (WAF). I have been trying to acquire a small batch order, but have had...
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    ZFS Monitoring

    I suppose, just for fun... here are a couple of the graphs that I threw together now that they've been running for a couple of days: The network traffic graph was part of the base Cacti install, nothing special there. However I included it so you can see the I/O usage with network...
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    ZFS Monitoring

    What do people use for long-term persistent monitoring of their ZFS boxes? Now that I am actively using my ZFS box for storage, I was hoping to have some historical data to monitor the server usage with. It would be nice to be able to track IOPS, Bandwidth, those kinds of things. I tried a...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    That seems easy enough. I'm working on updating the smart checks as well. It's a lot of checking-twice, once for drives that read correctly with d0's and if no results, then check again without. I'll try and post some code snippets back here once I get everything going.
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    Well I have continued to push forward with the implementation. I can't seem to figure out anything that says why the disk id's are being presented with and without the d0 at different spots. Using iostat -Ensr I see the drives with d0's, However, under Disk Details if i click on the %disk...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    I should clarify, I ran into a different problem with option 1 (it saw the drives twice), but options 2 and 3 had the same results. I went ahead and disabled MPxIO in /kernel/drv/mpt_sas.conf and did a stmsboot -D mpt_sas -d to try and disable multipathing, but the even after disabling the...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    The goal is to use multi-pathing, so I haven't tried disabling it. However, I have tried three different configurations: Controller A, Port 1 --> Chassis A, Port 1 Controller B, Port 1 --> Chassis A, Port 2 Controller A, Port 1 --> Chassis A, Port 1 Controller A, Port 2 --> Chassis A, Port 2...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    I understand. It's hard to debug a problem blind. I have to imagine the problem is somewhere in how the system is seeing the disks. Using cfgadm, I see that the disks are presented to OpenIndiana without the d0. # cfgadm -al c11::dsk/c11t5000C50033660355 disk connected configured...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    Yeah. The smart info is really a low priority, what I'm more concerned about is that the disks aren't showing up in the "unused" list, which means they do not show up in the Disk Details list are thus are also not able to be selected in the "Add vdev" menu. This is a show-stopper for quickly...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately the updated files didn't seem to have any impact. I have been trying to see how napp-it is reading the drive by playing in the get-disk-smart.pl file. If I add a print line right after the $id variable is set as it loops through the disks, I can...
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    napp-it gui - drives not listed

    I have two SMC216 24-bay disk trays each connected to a separate LSI 9201-16e controller, but I am experiencing an interesting issue where the disks are not being presented in the GUI for use. If I navigate to home --> disks I clearly see my two hard drives listed (2x 300gb, 10k SAS 6Gbps)...
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    Very sluggish performance testing Nexentastor 3.1.2

    Was it ever figured out what causes this? I have a napp-it 0.8h installation where I am connecting two SC216 JBOD enclosures to two LSI 9201-16e's and I am having some drives show up with the d0 and some without. I found that the drives without the d0 are displayed on the main disks page...
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