coldhammer

just used from china.

Its time to upgrade my server and i was going to go with an asrock extreme 3 and a Intel Xeon E5-2658 V3 ES QEYF 2.0Ghz 12Core. however only cpus i can find on ebay are coming out of china and i dont want to run the risk of getting a bad cpu and be out $200ish dollars. Looking for any recommendations on what would be the best setup Mobo+cpu+ram for around $400 budget. My only real requirement is that the mobo has lots of sata ports. Preferably 10+. current setup uses a full atx board, full tower case, and an mv8 card. Would be ideal if i could run a few virtual machines to handle transcoding etc.

i ordered an ASRock X99 Extreme3 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX mobo. I was planning on getting an Intel Xeon E5-2658 V3 ES QEYF 2.0Ghz 12Core 30M off of ebay. however the only ones i can find are from china and im not wanting to mess with purchasing from china. Any recommendations for an alternate cpu for this board thats would give me similar performance?

actually ive decided ive got more than enough spare machines laying around the house to do whatever i need. Going to just do the basic upgrades and use the machine solely as a file server.

what would you recommend for virtulaztion setup?

thats not a bad price for a complete upgrade. wanted to keep it under $250. Only thing is the dual core. if i am going to go with a complete new system i think id want to go with at least a quad core so i can start doing some virtualization. quad cores ive found start around $150.

What kind of mobo/cpu/ram combo are you suggesting for less than $200. i cant find anything even remotely close to that kind of pricing.

currently have 14 drives with a capacity of up to 20 in the case. 8 running off the mvp8 card, 6 off the mobo,

agreed. posted a new topic in the mobo forum for suggestions on what board to use with my spare i3 lga1155 system. have a complete system but the mobo is mini itx. so just need to find a new full size mobo with lots of sata ports.

so i'm going to upgrade my server. have a complete spare system based around an lga1155 i3 but it has a mini itx mobo. need a different mobo, preferably something that has 8+ onboard sata ports. Any recommendations?

Interesting. I do have an nforce4. Perhaps its time to just bite the bullet and upgrade the mobo.

so i believe i have isolated the problem to drives that are connected to the sas2lp card. drives that are connected to the mobo or my other raid card do not seem to be getting dropped during parity checks. also the problematic drives are passing extended smart tests with the exception of the parity disk. It gives an "interuppted (host reset) error every time i run a smart test. HOWEVER moving the parity to a differnt controller allows the smart test to complete with error. I believe that my sas2lp problems are indeed being caused by the new v6. which is odd as i was using a beta version of 6 for several months with no issues.

ive been thinking about updating the server as i want to start taking advantage of the new VM machines. Might be time to go ahead and bite the bullet. Ill let the smart tests finish running and see where they land.

yes i have run smart tests on the failed drives. other than the one posted above all the smart tests were fine. it is "possible" that there were problems before the upgrade but parity checks are set to run monthly. and i do not recall seeing parity issues prior to the upgrade.

hmm, i find it suspect that as soon as i switch to v6 release i have three drives go bad at once. Could the problem with the parity be that it has never completed a parity check since the upgrade? James

so vt-d made no difference. i was finally able to get the drive to run a filesystem check and got the following: Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/md7 Will put log info to 'stdout' ########### reiserfsck --check started at Thu Apr 28 13:32:20 2016 ########### Replaying journal: Replaying journal: Done. Reiserfs journal '/dev/md7' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly. bread: Cannot read the block (12025856): (Input/output error). any suggestions other than replacing the drive.

i am running sas > sata cables. Ive tried swapping the drives off of the sas card onto the mobo and off the mobo onto an old sata card. The issues are happening everywhere. I was running the v6 beta for months with no issues. Only thing that changed was updating to release v6 and running a parity check. I will try to disable virtualization and see what happens.

updated my system specs in my sig.

ok, ever since i upgraded to v6 ive had non stop problems. every time i run a parity check one of my drives gets dropped from the array and is flagged as unmountable. All the drives so far are on different controllers and i have checked the cables. DB link to log file. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20775210/tower-diagnostics-20160428-0850.zip

just want to report back. swapped my parity to my supermicro controller card and now getting steady 60mbs rates. i think my old sata card is going bad. prob time to replace it with something new.

just recently updated to the v6. was in the middle of doing a parity check which was running at less 1MBs when the check stopped and one of my disks was flagged as unmountable. replaced the disk, rebuilt the data, corrected the file system issues. ran a new parity check and am still getting speeds of less than 1MBs. Diagnostics log is too large to attach. link to dropbox to dl. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/efm0bymjjnz9wtr/AADoNHWOeaZ1HExMrA1VZRYza?dl=0

ran the file check log attached. filechecklog.txt

Disk is mounted on the screenshot after it was disabled. that was the screenshot previous to rebooting. after i rebooted the drive changed to unmountable.

everything was running fine. i ran my monthly parity check and about half way through the check it was stopped and disk 3 was flagged as unmountable.

i was in the middle of doing a parity check when drive3 went offline and became unmountable.