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Hi everyone.

I need your help.

I have a truenas scale machine it based on a thinkstation S30 with upgraded parts.

I bought SAS drives (6TB, 12 Gbps ,128 mb cache) by mistake and i remember there is a problem connecting SAS drives to sata controllers.

Any suggestions? 

 

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4 minutes ago, JustIce12 said:

I bought SAS drives (6TB, 12 Gbps ,128 mb cache) by mistake and i remember there is a problem connecting SAS drives to sata controllers.

Any suggestions? 

Return them and buy SATA drives.

 

Or shell out for an HBA and SAS cables.

 

EDIT: the Thinkstation might have SAS support to begin with.

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17 minutes ago, JustIce12 said:

thinkstation S30...

By the way i returned the drives there are 12 gbps and i can max give 6gpbs because thinkstation S30 can max with HBA give 6 gbps... 

You can put a 12gbit hba in that workstation. Also 12gbit drives work fine on a 6gbit hba, ive done it many times.

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16 hours ago, AbydosOne said:

EDIT: the Thinkstation might have SAS support to begin with.

Only by having an optional HBA card could this Thinkstation support SAS drives, as described in Lenovo's documentation.

 

1 hour ago, JustIce12 said:

tailscale-I can’t access truenas web hi.

How did you set up and configure Tailscale? By default, IP addresses in the forms of 100.x.x.x are the only way for endpoints in the same Tailnet to communicate, and they can be inspected either via Web admin pages or via tailscale status. If their original Ethernet addresses are preferred, you may need to set up subnet routers.

 

1 hour ago, JustIce12 said:

is the HBA you recommended are compatible with truenas scale?

Yes, LSI HBAs are well supported in TrueNAS. However, since you have returned those SAS drives, the introduction of HBA would be of limited value, unless future additions of a couple hard drives have been planned. Up to 7 SATA drives are supported natively by this Thinkstation, per documentation above.

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5 hours ago, Bersella AI said:

Only by having an optional HBA card could this Thinkstation support SAS drives, as described in Lenovo's documentation.

 

How did you set up and configure Tailscale? By default, IP addresses in the forms of 100.x.x.x are the only way for endpoints in the same Tailnet to communicate, and they can be inspected either via Web admin pages or via tailscale status. If their original Ethernet addresses are preferred, you may need to set up subnet routers.

 

Yes, LSI HBAs are well supported in TrueNAS. However, since you have returned those SAS drives, the introduction of HBA would be of limited value, unless future additions of a couple hard drives have been planned. Up to 7 SATA drives are supported natively by this Thinkstation, per documentation above.

WOW.

thanks for that.

i see the truenas scale via Tailscale web ui and I see though the command tailscaile up.

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11 hours ago, Bersella AI said:

Only by having an optional HBA card could this Thinkstation support SAS drives, as described in Lenovo's documentation.

 

How did you set up and configure Tailscale? By default, IP addresses in the forms of 100.x.x.x are the only way for endpoints in the same Tailnet to communicate, and they can be inspected either via Web admin pages or via tailscale status. If their original Ethernet addresses are preferred, you may need to set up subnet routers.

 

Yes, LSI HBAs are well supported in TrueNAS. However, since you have returned those SAS drives, the introduction of HBA would be of limited value, unless future additions of a couple hard drives have been planned. Up to 7 SATA drives are supported natively by this Thinkstation, per documentation above.

I have a question if I’m not mistaken I will need LSI in IT mode?

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1 hour ago, JustIce12 said:

I have a question if I’m not mistaken I will need LSI in IT mode?

Correct. You don't want hardware RAID virtual drive magic between your physical hard drives and ZFS.

I sold my soul for ProSupport.

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gonna sound wired! But you might run in to this ! 

 

i just installed an HBA and built a truenas box!

 

I needed to apply tape to the 3.3v pin for my SAS drives to fire up!  Took me a bit for troubleshooting and junk to find the solution! 

 

For more info 3.3v Pin Reset - Imgur 

 

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