gmadcow

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  1. i did, replace the cable a few times and even connected different drives from the array to that port. it seems that the issue is with that specific port. only the drive that was currently connected to that port had the CRC issues. i'm using port 1,2 now only (+4 onboard) and no issues. i might have gone too cheap on my SATA card
  2. Hi, just got a IO Crest card from amazon, it's a 4 port, 1x PCIe 3.0 that uses ASMedia 1064 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J2PK1HF?ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details&th=1 it seemed to work fine at first but i started getting UDMA CRC errors on port 3. it is connected to a 1x PCIe 2.0 port, i assumed lower performance from a PCIe 2.0 but could it result in constant CRC errors? I also had a HPA issue that i think i fixed, but it might be part of the issue. switched the array to a different PC but still get the errors. not sure this is the right place for the post but any help will be appreciated.
  3. Transfer still faster on 6.8.3 than on 6.9.2, CPU load is lower on 6.8.3. I was planning on using an old d510 atom board which was under performing using 6.9.2 but ended up using a Pentium G3240 with higher CPU clock and score which helps. What helped the most is setting 'Turnable (md_write_method)' in 'Disk Settings' to 'reconstruct write' instead of 'auto' or 'read/modify/write'. writing is faster but it involve reading from all the array drives in order to keep the parity data valid. Still hope there is a way to lower the cpu load on SMB writes and it will be fixed/improved at some point... Currently using 1Gb LAN and spinning HDDs so the ~114MB/sec write is fine (and only 4 drives in the array so the reconstruct write is not that big of an issue.
  4. I'm new here (and new to actively using support forums in general), but i have similar issue, i think. I'm using the trial license for a month now, started with version 6.9.0 on a relatively old and low performance system running a G3240 Pentium processor and 8GiB DDR3. I'm using the system mainly as a media server using 3 2TB WD Red drives (1 parity) and no cache. as part of my evaluation process i've tested the transfer speech of the SMB shares and compared to my old WHS V1 machine that i intend to replace. I was getting relatively low transfer speeds that went even lower after a few GB of the file were transferred and CPU load was reaching 100%, after searching the forums i've changed the "Tunable (md_write_method):" to "reconstruct write" which helped a little but still i will get the high cpu load and the drop in transfer speed after a few GB. reading further in the forum i found a post that suggested rolling back to 6.8.3, i did, and have a steady ~90-110 MB/sec transfer speed most of the time and CPU load is lower too. I've installed Fix Common Problems plugin which warns me now that i should update to the latest version, which is probably a good idea but i don't want to lose the smb performance. As I'm evaluating still and jumping back and forth between builds is pretty painless (so far) i think i'll upgrade and test the speed again. anyone here familiar with the issue? i apologize in advance for maybe stealing this thread