Hi,

 

A new lifetime user and setting up my first server.  I've got a few questions/issues so far.

 

- I can't set the time zone or NTP servers in Settings...Date and Time.  I change the TZ to UTC-5 Eastern US, add pool.ntp.org to the list of NTP servers, and click Apply, then they are reset back to UTC-8 Pacific US and time.google.com.

- The Unassigned Devices Plus app (in destructive mode) can't see any of the drives most of the time - it returns "Timeout: Failed to get unassigned devices information - check the syslog."  I managed to get Clears running on all the drives one time, but this was happening before the Clears were running.

- The server has been running about 3-4 hours so far and the web GUI has gone unresponsive 4-5 times and gets an http refused connection.  (I've got a static IP assigned in the server, and the router.

 

Any ideas?  I've searched both the forums and Google and the solutions/ideas I've found haven't helped.

 

Server specs:

Gigabyte B760M DS3H AC DDR4 motherboard

Intel Core i5-12600K CPU

Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 32GB (2x16GB) RAM

Corsair 750D Tower

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W PSU

LSI 9207-8i in IT mode (x2) HBA

 

(below drives are all unassigned right now, pending clears; all the storage drives were previously used and had old data on them)

WD SN770 1TB (x2 for cache)

Seagate Exos ST16000 (x2 for parity)

Seagate IronWolf ST8000 (x3)

WD Red WD50EFRX (x3)

WD Green WD30EZRX (x6)

 

Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread. 

Good morning,

 

Diagnostics attached.  I was going to wait until the clears/zeroing completed, but that may be a while longer.  (Status bar is showing I've got some in post-read, some zeroing, some still in pre-read, and one error drive.)

 

Thanks very much for the quick reply last night!  (Apologies since I started the thread and then bailed to watch some TV with the wife.)

 

[EDIT] Wonder if I'm just asking it to do a lot with zeroing 13 drives simultaneously?

 

nasbox-u1-diagnostics-20241216-0806.zip

Edited December 16, 20241 yr by SickPup404
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Another update - I just noticed the Time Zone and NTP Server changes from last night actually were applied...

 

Apparently clearing that many drives puts a bit of a strain on resources for updates.  I think I'm just going to let them finish and see how things are then.

 

Looked over the SysLog and looks like I have a drive flooding it with messages.  Going to wait for another two drives to finish their post read, shut down, and re seat cables to try to clear that message.

 

[EDIT] So far, pre-clear succeeded on 5/6 of the WD Greens, failed on one of them, and I aborted it on the one flooding SysLog.

Edited December 17, 20241 yr by SickPup404
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Just an update.

 

Now that most of the clears are done (16TB still running) and I removed the drive that was flooding the SysLog, the web GUI is responsive and unassigned drives isn't having any response issues.  I was able to change the tunable polling attributes rate with no problem, as well as date/time settings.

 

I think this can be resolved and marked as a n00b issue doing 13 simultaneous preclears....