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Weird Motherboard Issues with BackBlaze Storage Pod 2.0
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So I have spent the better part of 2 weeks (in my free time) trying to sort out what exactly is going on with this thing. Let me air out this story for some context. I had purchased this kit off of eBay almost as soon as I had seen the posting. It was a solid price ($551USD) and already had the upgraded Sunrich S-331 backplane so I was pretty stoked that there really wouldn't be anything for me to do beside have fun... Specs - 1 x SuperMicro X9SRH-7TF 1 x Intel Xeon E5-1620V2 4 x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C-PB 8GB DDR3 3 x PI49230-2X2B 2 x PSM-5760V Fast forward to today and it's honestly been a huge headache. Initially after the first boot, I was having issues with the board either not detecting my keyboard or locking up entirely. So I had spent some time reading the manual and had sorted out howe to reset the BIO to factory defaults. So I did what anyone else does and I pulled the motherboard and found that there were a 2 standoffs that didn't correlate to any holes so I had assumed the board maybe had died. Reached out to the seller to request a new board ands the sent one over. Out of curiosity I put the board on a test bench to tinker around and behold it boots? I thought ok, maybe that wasn't the issue, after a quick bios check, and adding one PCIe card it would bios lock, so I had assumed ok maybe it is dead. New board arrived, and I had assembled it in the chassis(after removing the problematic standoffs) I verified a few times that everything was in order before booting and on first boot it boot locks...again.. seemingly on bios code B4. I have since spent 4 hours along with a few friends troubleshooting various things and still no luck. Ubuntu doesn't recognize any drives (attached to the board directly or to the backplanes) and it still will lock up during post for some unknown reason. The board is on BIOS version 3.0 and the new version don't have any relevant updates so here I am, asking if anyone else has had this issue. Not sure what else to try, the backplanes don't work with my desktop (No Post) and directly adding the drive bypassing the backplanes also yields no success. Thanks in advance and hopefully I'm just an idiot :/ IMG_2155.HEIC IMG_2137.HEIC-
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if i build a small computer in a nas case(Please help me find a nas case), put windows on it and use it as a nas with a backblaze pc backup subscription on it to keep all my dta backed up, (I wouldn't need very much bandwidth to it anyway), is it a good idea? What would the specs need to be for such a computer? Would a 2 core celeron be enough along with 8gigs of ram? It would mainly be used for backups. Also, any idea on how i could set up a decent local file sharing program? Windows samba file transfer only works on wondows and is quite crappy tbh, (I would have it backed up to backblaze anyway so i could access all the data from my phone if i need to but, say from my laptop which would be on the same LAN, is there a good way to access it other than making it a network drive?) update: why can’t I find a single NAS case under 400 usd?
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I have a computer in my living room connected to my TV with almost 10 TB of files spread between 2 HDs & an SSD. I had some of it backuped on external drives, but really didn't backup regularly enough. I figured an online backup solution would be too expensive, but I saw LTT sponsor backblaze offered unlimited storage for $70/year. I started my backup at 8:58 am on 9/9/2021 and am now almost 90% backed up. I have had one problem though. My mouse and keyboard freeze up on me. I am using an inexpensive Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard that use one bluetooth dongle. . At first it was something that only happened occasionally. But as the month has gone on it has just gotten worse and worse, I changed the batteries so I know it's not that. Funny thing though, when I rebooted and paused the backup as soon as it restarted, both are working fine again. I am not so much looking for solutions as just wondering of anyone has had any similar experience? I was thinking the PCIE WiFi/Bluetooth card might have been getting overwhelmed, but the mouse and keyboard connect to a dongle. The backup is almost finished and even if I only run it when I am not using my computer it will be fully backuped in less than a week. While having the initial backup take this long has been a little annoying, it will be nice no longer feel guilty because I know better than not to keep my drives backed up.
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As many of you know, a company called Backblaze releases their HDD failure rates from their data centres, often publishing them as HDD reliability statistics. Their previous graphs and statistics showed ridiculously high failure rates, particularly for Seagate drives (failure rates of as much as 40+%). This lead to a misconception of Seagate drives as being unreliable becoming wide spread across various forums including LTT. I also encountered people outside of forums who had got the trickle down of misinformation, claiming that Seagate was unreliable, despite not being able to explain why they thought that. The issue with Backblaze's results is the way in which they pick the drives they use and the environments they use the drives in. Basically, they tend to pick the cheapest drives and buy a load of them, shove them in the data centre and just replace them when they fail. While it's somewhat of a questionable business model, it can work out cheaper than buying data centre class drives, so they can pass on savings to their customers. The primary issue of their drive selections is when it comes to their failure rates. The vast majority of the drives in their data centres are desktop class drives, ones that are not designed for data centre conditions whatsoever. They have even had drives that were ripped from external enclosures because they were cheap. The fact that the drives are being used in an environment that is significantly different from their intended purpose makes the results meaningless right away, but it is not the only issue with the statistics. The general lack of information on the drives is a big issue when trying to compare failure rates. They ommit things such as the age of the drives, the proximity of the drives, the temperatures they were running at, the case/rack revision they were mounted in and so on. Without any of this, the results are even more meaningless. Ultimately, these results are like comparing which super cars died when driving them off-road. It's irrelevant to their intended use and if that's pretty much the only information provided, it's invalid anyway. As you can see, the tables they published simply group the drives by model and that's it. No grouping by age, writes/reads quantity, conditions and so on. According to this table, WD tops out the failure rates with 11.31% failure on their WD60EFRX drive. This is a 6TB WD Red drive designed for small home NAS systems, not large datacentre environments. Coming in second with 10.20% failure is the Seagate St4000DX000, which is a 4TB Barracuda drive, which is an internal desktop drive. In terms of raw numbers of failed drives, the Seagate ST4000DM000 was top with 278 drives failing. This is also a 4TB Barracuda drive, but they did use 34,744 of them and they had a total of 3,187,409 drive days run time, more than three times any of the other drives. Needless to say, these results are meaningless for the drives' intended purposes. If a company like WD would allow a drive to have a greater than 11% failure rate, they wouldn't be in business for long. At least Backblaze hasn't tried to make the data look as much of a reliability chart this time round. The fact that they still use the term "reliability stats" in their article is wrong, though. Here's their previous graphs, which caused a lot of misinformation, in case you haven't seen it: Sources: Backblaze eTeknix
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Hey folks, I'm wondering if a) I can get a measured opinion about this and b) if I can get help finding solutions to my project(s). Note: I am an enterprise and NAS solution newb and that's putting it mildly. I am learning via firehose here, I know. But this is my project for this year and hope to learn a lot as I go along. First, some context: I found a Backblaze server on Craigslist for $200. It has all the hardware minus drives (boot drive not included either). I know this thing is designed almost exclusively for serving up storage. However, I noticed that there is space for eATX mainboards and there are additional spaces for other expansion cards assuming I were to replace components. This made me think, "Hey, it shouldn't be all THAT difficult to swap out parts and do something bigger/better, right?" Well as evidenced by me writing all of this, it is clearly not that simple. Below are the specs that I can dig up as the seller couldn't find his data sheet so forgive me if there are any gaps. I can probably boot it up at some point and get you more specifics, for instance I don't know the CPU or RAM speeds, but I am waiting on a VGA-Displayport cable so I can boot it up. Specifications: Supermicro X9SCM-F https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCM-F.cfm Intel i3 CPU RAM 8GB 3x Rosewill (I think) SATA Boards - PI49230-2X2B - Similar to this, same chips on board same number of SATA ports: https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rc-230-sata-iii/p/N82E16816132046 9x CFI Group CFI-BXX52PM - 5 Port Multiplier Backplane with 2x Molex and 5x SATA Data+Power ports 230w Emacs PSL-6850P PSU with a custom male 20-pin and 24-pin power output for powering the backplanes 6x 140mm fans The Projects This is the part I am unsure about. I have a lot of ideas in need of a lot of solutions so I'll take them in order of priority: Backplane retrofit I've been reading about why 45drives moved away from backplanes to direct wired and it makes me want to replace the backplanes in case of failure. See: https://45drives.blogspot.com/2015/03/our-biggest-design-decision-direct.html I need recommendations on how to replace these backplanes, if possible. I know that Linus and co. did it for their Storinator and discussed retrofitting it to remove their backplanes I just don't know what parts they used or how they went about it as they don't list parts or process the in the video description, and really, why would they? If Anthony is on these forums, would you chime in? SATA->SAS conversion Not sure what card I need as it would need to be able to support port multiplication at the backplane end assuming that #1 cannot be done easily. Plex Server Using UNRaid with docker containers for Plex: I want to be able to handle at least 4-6 4k transcodes depending on a given destination device, Byte my Bits on Youtube shows that a Ryzen CPU and a Quadro p2000 could do this handily, however... ...in my scenario, if I wanted to do this I would need: a 16x PCI-e slot (current MB only has 8x slots) a new PSU (current PSU has custom pinned connectors, see spec list) This one is a doozy as I do not have any clue how to power 45 drives with a single PSU without having custom cables made based on the original. Any recommendations for supplying 45 drives power either via direct connection or via the existing backplanes which need 2 molex connectors to power up to 5 SATA drives. If you guys need more please ping me and I'll send more pics and try and provide more information. Here's a Google Drive link with images. I couldn't get the upload to work here for the post: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VNxYwic5RW-H47zCBkqbV34mOnADjai9?usp=sharing Please note: I KNOW it would probably make more sense to make a separate server to run Plex rather than shoehorn it into this device, but it would be more effective for my home situation to try and do it in a single unit.
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I've been using Carbonite for 2 years, and am mostly happy with it, but I think it's time to look for something else. I have the Personal Plus plan, since I have a lot of video files and didn't want to manually select them all like the cheapest plan requires. I also have quite a few files that exceed the 4GB cutoff for auto backup, which is not a huge deal, but I'd prefer to not have to do that anymore. The above being said, my biggest annoyances by far are: System files (.dll, .inf, etc) are not backed up automatically - I'm not trying to backup my OS, but I do like to keep other folders backed up where these exist Confusing backup indicators - the backup indicators that tell me a file/folder is or is not backed up frequently don't make sense. It will be orange (pending backup), yet when I check the cloud, it's safely there already I've been reading up on other options for the past few weeks, and will be looking to make a move at the end of August, when my Carbonite subscription runs out. My backup set will hover around 7-9TB, so high/unlimited storage is preferred I'd prefer to not pay over $10-15/mo Mobile app is nice, but not required I have gigabit internet up/down, so I'd prefer one with decent upload speeds From the reading I've done so far, I am trying to find the best option between these: Backblaze CrashPlan iDrive Anyone have recent experience with these? Most comparisons and feedback online are 2-3 years old. I've seen mentions of encryption being riskier on Backblaze, since you need to upload your private key each time you want to download files, which technically means they're not zero-knowledge since the key allows them access to everything.
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Backblaze Publishes Findings on Consumer Hard Drive Longevity
CapnCrunch posted a topic in Tech News
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