airborne spoon

Bro I said it's from like 2007 it's ancient I know good and well the difference between micro, mini and all the USB shapes and sizes. Obviously I wasn't tracking the speeds but that's a moot point.

Interesting well if I had a USB3 carrier I would do that but all I have is an old one from like 2007 that uses a mini-USB plug. So the old run a temp SATA cable to a HDD sitting next to the case is what I'm rolling with lol

Who said anything about USB? Now that would be slow. Naw it's connected to the motherboard via SATA port in my gaming PC

Yeah it's 8x 10tb WD red drives in raidz2

My old NAS took a crap and I had to transfer all the files (11tb) to a new spare 18tb drive. But when I did that it was all on one system with a live USB of Ubuntu. I have been building a new NAS with server hardware and it should be operational today once the ECC RAM arrives in the mail. I will be installing trueNAS and using it for Plex. I have a fiber 10GB line between my gaming PC and the server. When I built it years ago using old gaming PC components I just transferred in Windows via drag and drop. It took quite a while and I only had like 5tb at that time. Is there a faster way to transfer that many files either in windows or Ubuntu? I used rsync to transfer them originally during my recent troubles via terminal and it took about 17 hours.

Here's a fun twist of things I'm learning after buying a server. The spec says it needs 1rx8 sticks for 64GB with dual CPU, but once you get to 128GB then it says it works with 2rx8 sticks. Is there any reason I couldn't just put in 2rx8 sticks with 64GB? Because that's all I can find 1rx8 sticks don't seem to exist but I can get 2rx8 sticks everywhere for about $100 for 64GB And it's all registered ECC because that's the spec in the manual

The me preface this with I've worked and built a lot of computers over the years but never actual server components just consumer hardware I've repurposed for a "server" NAS. I recently bought a used server from one of those refurb server shops it should be here this week. It's a Dell PowerEdge R730XD 14B LFF 2x Intel Xeon E5-2660 V4. No ram included because I am planning on taking the ram from my old Plex NAS 64gb (16x4). I heard standard gaming ram will maybe/probably work fine but now I'm not sure. According to the Intel website it says my processor is only compatible with DDR4 1600/1866/2133/2400 but my RAM is G-skill 2666 so now I'm wondering if it'll have problems from the start since it's "unsupported" I was thinking of just buying some ECC ram from the same used server shop I bought the computer from… but with a gaming rig I usually go for 32GB with (2x16gb). For a server is it better to go with a lot of small 8gb sticks or only a few large capacity sticks? The store has ECC 8gb sticks for $15 and 16gb sticks for $19. Although I'm gonna shop around to other used server shops for prices of RAM sticks+shipping and see if there are better deals before I actually buy (that is if I even need to in the first place. My old NAS took a shit (still not entirely sure what happened) and I barely was able to recover 99.99% of the data (28 files lost out of about 350k files). I'm pretty sure the pool and the boot drive both got corrupted somehow but not entirely sure since troubleshoot was intermittent as far as components that did/didn't work. but I'm doing it all from scratch and a fresh install of everything since I have the data on a separate drive now temporarily.

I already have ram that's what I'm saying I have 64GB that I have in my current server setup so I don't wanna waste money to buy more ram if the standard ram i already have will work fine

Ok so this is what i found and since its cheap'ish i figured why not, shipped it cost me $300 Dell PowerEdge R730XD 14B LFF 2x Intel Xeon E5-2660 V4 2.00GHz 14 Core No RAM No Raid No NIC 8x 3.5" Trays - 6x Blanks although in hindsight maybe i should get ECC RAM or will the standard DDR4 2600 64GB (16GBx4) work fine for my use-case of a plex truenas server

isnt a dual socket just a waste of money with the extra power consumption? Seems like overkill for a plex server

Budget (including currency): up to like $400 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: TrueNAS core running plex Other details currently have Ryzen 5 5600G, 64GB DDR4, 8x 10TB WD red NAS drives in Raid Z2, Solarflare 10GB SFP+ NIC, LSI SAS HBA card, MSI x570A pro MB, EVGA 1060 6GB I've been having server issues and all the diagnostic i did pointed to the MB went bad suddenly and i replaced the MB and everything didnt work but then i did a fresh install of truenas and everything just worked, (yes i tried a fresh install on the old MB and no luck) and i started over with scavenging parts from my gaming rig to get it running but its still being a PITA, when i transfer files it will crash and throw errors saying its not connected to the network anymore the error list is below if you're curious. And since the MB only has 2 PIC x16 slots i cant run my SPF+ card which limits me to standard built in networking which is waaaaaay too slow when were talking about moving over 11TB of data. I could just remove the GPU and move the data then put it back in but since i move files to the server every few days i really don't want to use that slow crap when i have a fiber line run around the house just for that reason. So i need a MB that has at least 3 PCI express slots. The NIC and the HBA card are both the same length not the full x16 so prob x8 maybe since its shorter? Ideally an AM4 board so i can just drop in my current CPU without having to find another one. but i get the feeling ill have to find an old gen 1 threadripper on ebay and a MB to match it. I'd really like to avoid intel because i've never had good luck with their products also team red for life lol

Update the whatever this is now. I was able to copy the files in Ubuntu using resync and got all but 28 files which considering how there was 11TB or about 180,000 files I'd say that's definitely acceptable and I also have an itemized list of the files that didn't copy so I can sail the high seas and find them again. I'm currently running dd on all 8 of the drives… it progressed about 500GB every 30 min sooooo in like 10 hours or so the drives will be back to good as new from the factory and I can make a fresh new pool and then transfer all the files back to the server and hopefully everything will just work

Update I got it mounted in Ubuntu live and now I have a 15tb drive coming in tomorrow I'll transfer all the files and then destroy the pool and start over from scratch and see what happens.

Update again, if I boot with 5 drives connected then connect the other 3 I can go into the shell on the truenas page and type zpool import -o read-only=on tank It then shows my pool and everything as online but I can't access it from the network drive on Windows to see the files.

well i got a new HBA card in and its had no change, still won't boot with all the drives connected. i can connect up to 5 drives on the HBA card usimg 2x 4 to 1 cables it doesnt matter what drives i connect or which cables i use as soon as i try to connect a 6th 7th or 8th drive to the SAS card it wont boot. Attached are the shots of it trying to boot and then it reboots after the last one I've tried a different MB, different CPU, different PSU, different SAS HBA card, different cables, also tried swapping the HBA card to a different PCI slot with no change either. I honestly can't figure out WTF is wrong with this thing