The last off-the-shelf encasement I bought (by PROMISE) still had this feature, kind of. Back in the day when SAN and NAS were enterprise only and RAID was done exclusively by SCSI controllers this kind of a feature was a given.
To be honest I don't have the slightest on what triggers these indicators, the encasement seems to have additional circuitry between power/sata cables and the disks, so I was hoping there was a bare minimum protocol that would let the "connection" indicator go blinking or something, based on the status detected by the OS. Mine for instance comes with two LED indicators for each bay - one indicates that the disk is connected, the other indicated data traffic. I'm sure many of the FreeNAS community members use some kind of hot-plug encasements. However, what I am looking for is any kind of hardware support for disk (bay) identification. What else is the description field there for anyway? One good suggestion I read on another forum is you could write the bay number in the FreeNAS disk description. Jails: running 1 iocage jail (Plex) using danb35's script:Īdditional NIC: MELLANOX 10GB CONNECTX2 - MNPA19-XTR Take a look here: A post with Links to useful threads Vdev-1 = 4 x 6 TB drives in RAID-z1 (4 WD Gold drives - WD6002FRYZ)īoot pool: 1 vdev with 2 x 40 GB notebook drives in mirror (2 drives total - FUJITSU MHW2040BS) Vdev-0 = 4 x 6 TB drives in RAID-z1 (4 WD Gold drives - WD6002FRYZ) Vdev-1 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Exos drives - ST4000NM0115) Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Exos drives - ST4000NM0115) Vdev-1 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) HBA: LSI/Broadcom SAS9207-8i, 6Gbps SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA - flashed to IT Firmware: 20.00.07.00Ĭonnected to: two 6Gb/s 24-port 3.5" mini-SAS expander backplanes (80H10024001A0) 128 GB of 16GB sticks Samsung brand PC3-12800R, DDR3 Registered ECC Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2, 2.6GHz 8 Core (16 thread)
System board: SuperMicro Motherboard X9SRL-F, LGA 2011/Socket R, IPMI
For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home. This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build.
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