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Stanza · 25th August 2011, 3:56 PM

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Originally Posted by cyrax83

6 drives is easy, 4 in the bays, 2 in the ODD.

Adding the 7th 3.5" drive is a pain, as first you need to hack the microserver with a dremel to fit it, and secondly you need a sata controller to get the 7th sata port.

On top of that, if you are running solaris, you'll have driver hardware issues with the controller card. can probably get away with it in linux/windows if you can be bothered, although i wouldn't mix the 7th drive in an array with the other drives - thats asking for trouble

What you talkin bout Willis?

BR10i in the 16x slot gives you 12 x Totally Solaris supported controller enabled drives...

14 if you use the motherboard SATA and the E-Sata

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cyrax83 · 25th August 2011, 4:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Stanza

What you talkin bout Willis?

BR10i in the 16x slot gives you 12 x Totally Solaris supported controller enabled drives...

cbf spending $100 just to get another drive in there. Thats half another microserver lol

xEnt · 25th August 2011, 4:59 PM

good point, looks like ill stick with 6.

will the hacked ODD sata port and the esata to sata port, be as fast as the regular 4 ports?

cyrax83 · 25th August 2011, 5:36 PM

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Originally Posted by xEnt

will the hacked ODD sata port and the esata to sata port, be as fast as the regular 4 ports?

Yep, just make sure you install the hacked bios flash.

KuNFuSHuN · 25th August 2011, 5:44 PM

ive finished setting up my freenas8 box.

zfs raidz2, 6x2tb drives, 8gb non-ecc ram, netgear SG108 gigabit switch, hp using hacked bios.

Im also not getting a stable transfer, it constantly drops up and down and may sometimes drop down very low and then back up again after a few seconds. The files im transferring is from an external firewire800 1tb drive that is connected to my mac mini which im transferring to the hp via the switch.

image below is a tiny graph of what it looks like.

can anyone tell me if theres any wrong with these freenas reports as im not too sure on how to read it and if it is good or bad, i finished transferring a 160gb worth of files earlier and ive just started transferring another 140gb worth of files.

fido666 · 25th August 2011, 6:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KuNFuSHuN

image below is a tiny graph of what it looks like.
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The link isn't visible in your post for some reason, only can see it when I try and reply. When I try and bring up the URL I get a permissions error.

KuNFuSHuN · 25th August 2011, 6:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fido666

The link isn't visible in your post for some reason, only can see it when I try and reply. When I try and bring up the URL I get a permissions error.

sorry, images fixed.

cyrax83 · 25th August 2011, 10:56 PM

anyone here running solariss 11 on a usb stick ?

I can't get the damn thing to fully turn off (i.e. hard drives/fans stop spinning etc).

At first it wouldn't shutdown due to having a Ati 5450 video card in there, i took that out, now when I try do "poweroff", it goes to the "microserver poweroff initiated by root on /dev/pts/1" message on the black screen, and then nothing happens.

Anyone got poweroff working successfully on USB on SE 11 ?

edit: just powered off after 10 minutes. go figure

bfg100k · 26th August 2011, 12:43 AM

Hi Cyrax, are you planning on using Solaris 11 as the OS for your HTPC functions too? Which apps will you be running?

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyrax83

anyone here running solariss 11 on a usb stick ?

I can't get the damn thing to fully turn off (i.e. hard drives/fans stop spinning etc).

At first it wouldn't shutdown due to having a Ati 5450 video card in there, i took that out, now when I try do "poweroff", it goes to the "microserver poweroff initiated by root on /dev/pts/1" message on the black screen, and then nothing happens.

Anyone got poweroff working successfully on USB on SE 11 ?

edit: just powered off after 10 minutes. go figure

platinum · 26th August 2011, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by cartman-tmw

I spent a good week or so learning about Solaris based on several posts and found ZFS great, but couldn't really put in more time to get the remaining server apps I wanted to run. So, I went with Ubuntu and used ZFS as a native kernel module which seems to be running pretty well.
Try: http://zfsonlinux.org/, https://launchpad.net/~dajhorn/+arch...s_filter=natty, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS, and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS/ZPool for some good starting points.

I honestly though don't know how well it is running in comparison with other systems. Using napp-it and the built in benchmarking scored me very similar to everything else posted using striped mirrors. Does anyone know a decent benchmark tool for ubuntu zfs pools that will work on a headless setup?

Thanks for that - just got Ubuntu 11.04 desktop installed, added that package from dajhorn, and imported using zpool - shall see how it goes.

cyrax83 · 26th August 2011, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bfg100k

Hi Cyrax, are you planning on using Solaris 11 as the OS for your HTPC functions too? Which apps will you be running?

No, Se11 for fileserver

Poweroffs seem to take 10 minutes on SE11 running from USB, don't know why. Meh whatever it'll be up 24x7 anyway

oli · 26th August 2011, 1:03 AM

I have a hard drive bay to hot-swap drives on the 5th SATA port.
I have an enclosure on the e-SATA with another SATA drive.

If either of those drives is not either inserted (in the tray) or plugged in (for the e-SATA one) when the system is powered up then it can not be accessed after boot. I have to have something connected and running at boot for it to be accessible later.

Hot-swapping is fine thereafter but I cannot have no e-SATA drive connected at boot then use it afterwards, or no drive-in-tray inserted at boot then use it afterwards.

Anyone else have this problem?

bfg100k · 26th August 2011, 9:35 AM

Hi guys,

My server appears to come with the latest bios (2011.04.02). Can I still use the same set of instructions to mod the bios? If can, it will be a downgrade to 2011.01.17 right?

Phosphor94 · 26th August 2011, 10:16 AM

I just received the confirmation refund deposit in my credit card account and emailed it to MegaBuy.

Does anyone have an estimated shipping time from there warehouse in wherever to Melbourne?

Blinky · 26th August 2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Phosphor94

I just received the confirmation refund deposit in my credit card account and emailed it to MegaBuy.

Does anyone have an estimated shipping time from there warehouse in wherever to Melbourne?

Dude you're excited, I get it. But as with every forum crossposting is a no no.
You've asked in the sponsor specials where you bought from, just leave it there.

25th August 2011, 4:59 PM	#3303
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25th August 2011, 5:44 PM	#3305
KuNFuSHuN Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 222	ive finished setting up my freenas8 box. zfs raidz2, 6x2tb drives, 8gb non-ecc ram, netgear SG108 gigabit switch, hp using hacked bios. Im also not getting a stable transfer, it constantly drops up and down and may sometimes drop down very low and then back up again after a few seconds. The files im transferring is from an external firewire800 1tb drive that is connected to my mac mini which im transferring to the hp via the switch. image below is a tiny graph of what it looks like. can anyone tell me if theres any wrong with these freenas reports as im not too sure on how to read it and if it is good or bad, i finished transferring a 160gb worth of files earlier and ive just started transferring another 140gb worth of files. __________________ ##Mac: Apple MacBook Air 13" i7 2GHz \| 8GB \| 256GB SSD ##PC: Intel i5 3570k + EVO 212 \| ASRock Extreme 4 \| 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP \| Samsung 830 128GB SSD + WD Black 1TB \| SLI GTX 460 1GB 256bit \| Silverstone FT02 Silver \| Silverstone Strider Gold ST85F-G Evolution 850w \| W8 Pro ##Server/NAS: HP ProLiant N36L 6x2TB ##Misc: Dell U2711 + U2410 \|\| j5create JUD500 \|\| Logitech Z4 \|\| WD MyBook Studio 500GB, 1TB & MyBook 2TB USB3 \|\| PS3 Slim 120GB \|\| PSVita 3G 32GB Last edited by KuNFuSHuN; 25th August 2011 at 6:36 PM.

25th August 2011, 10:56 PM	#3308
cyrax83 Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: hurstville, sydney Posts: 4,387	anyone here running solariss 11 on a usb stick ? I can't get the damn thing to fully turn off (i.e. hard drives/fans stop spinning etc). At first it wouldn't shutdown due to having a Ati 5450 video card in there, i took that out, now when I try do "poweroff", it goes to the "microserver poweroff initiated by root on /dev/pts/1" message on the black screen, and then nothing happens. Anyone got poweroff working successfully on USB on SE 11 ? edit: just powered off after 10 minutes. go figure __________________ Check out my movie site - www.mymovierant.com Last edited by cyrax83; 25th August 2011 at 10:58 PM.

26th August 2011, 9:35 AM	#3313
bfg100k Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 5	enabling SATA on 5th port Hi guys, My server appears to come with the latest bios (2011.04.02). Can I still use the same set of instructions to mod the bios? If can, it will be a downgrade to 2011.01.17 right?

26th August 2011, 1:03 AM	#3312
oli Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Internet Posts: 7,188	I have a hard drive bay to hot-swap drives on the 5th SATA port. I have an enclosure on the e-SATA with another SATA drive. If either of those drives is not either inserted (in the tray) or plugged in (for the e-SATA one) when the system is powered up then it can not be accessed after boot. I have to have something connected and running at boot for it to be accessible later. Hot-swapping is fine thereafter but I cannot have no e-SATA drive connected at boot then use it afterwards, or no drive-in-tray inserted at boot then use it afterwards. Anyone else have this problem?

26th August 2011, 10:16 AM	#3314
Phosphor94 Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Melbourne Posts: 196	I just received the confirmation refund deposit in my credit card account and emailed it to MegaBuy. Does anyone have an estimated shipping time from there warehouse in wherever to Melbourne?