Hi, Guest
07-12-2010, 02:29 AM
Had my first harddrive failure today on the NAS server... slapped in a replacement and it's rebuilding the array just dandy (scrubbing and resilvering).
a quick update on events over the last year with my home-made NAS server:
- was swapping OSes to find something that would run stable with ZFS filesystem
- turns out stability issue was caused by cracked heatsink bracket -- so machine was overheating under heavy loads
- now running full freebsd instead of freenas, free bsd sata driver isn't hotswappable with my hardware (d'oh!).
- machine crashed with bad hdd... just slapped in new one, rebooted, and instantiated a zpool replace command...
zero data loss.
the only unfortunate thing is that the seagate drive is over a year old and out of manufacturer's warranty. I always keep one or two spares around just in case, and the new spares I'm ordering in now have a 3yr warranty..
So one year, and the ongoing maintenance costs of the NAS server is about $109/yr. Not bad for 4TB of fault-tolerant storage..
a quick update on events over the last year with my home-made NAS server:
- was swapping OSes to find something that would run stable with ZFS filesystem
- turns out stability issue was caused by cracked heatsink bracket -- so machine was overheating under heavy loads
- now running full freebsd instead of freenas, free bsd sata driver isn't hotswappable with my hardware (d'oh!).
- machine crashed with bad hdd... just slapped in new one, rebooted, and instantiated a zpool replace command...
zero data loss.
the only unfortunate thing is that the seagate drive is over a year old and out of manufacturer's warranty. I always keep one or two spares around just in case, and the new spares I'm ordering in now have a 3yr warranty..
So one year, and the ongoing maintenance costs of the NAS server is about $109/yr. Not bad for 4TB of fault-tolerant storage..
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