- #INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 UPGRADE#
- #INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 REGISTRATION#
- #INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 PRO#
- #INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 SOFTWARE#
I should really read more about the XFS backing this NAS, but I just haven’t had time lately to do so I’m using the Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB drives and as far as I know there is no way to disable the 4k sectors on these drives. I don’t even get the warning all of the timejust from time to time and typically when I’m doing a lot of writes to the NAS, such as a full-on system backup for one of my home machines or something. Just for what it’s worthI did let the built in firmware re-establish the data protection by changing the RAID type a few time to see if that would solve the warning, but it did not. I would definitely suggest trying again but this time when taking an image of the first partition make sure that it doesn’t have any array configured, when I did mine the entire process probably took no more than 30 – 40 minutes at most.
#INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 REGISTRATION#
I need to have a look at the new firmware as well as the firmware for the cloud edition (unfortunately Iomega require registration of a qualifying device before you can download it) to see what improvements it offers.
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James, the only thing I can think of is that when you upgraded the disk you didn’t destroy the array first but instead upgraded an existing one with new disks.
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Take a note of the drive number (1 – 4), power down the NAS and open up the case. To replace the failed drive you should log onto the NAS device, Go to Settings and then you can check the Event Logs or click on Disks and see which of the drives has failed there. You have to remember that 4x1tb drives won’t give you 4tb of usable space in a raided environment. A quick check back after the drives have been added gives me the following. Going through the procedure of removing all the data from the IX4 I powered down the device and removed 3 of the old 500gb drives and replaced them with the new WD EARS drives, powered the unit back on and got the usual message about ' Data is unavailable due to a failure' and then a further request about wanting to overwrite unused drives to add them back into the system, what this process actually does is partition the drives into two partitions, the first is the OS for the IX4 whilst the second is the data partition.
#INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 PRO#
Not wanting to decommission the TS Pro II until the data had been replicated to another device I decided to bite the bullet and see about upgrading the disks in the IX4 again, this time using the same 2TB Seagate Barracudas currently sitting in the 8TB unit.Ī quick trip down to my local PC World (shocking but I wanted the disks the same day), I struggled to find Seagate Barracudas, I did however find some 2TB Western Digital EARS disks at a lower price than the Barracudas were listed. This failure lead me down the path of replacing the disk, as luck would have it I have a total of 8 of these disks shared across two storage environments, the first being the test lab, the second being my Buffalo Terastation Pro II.
#INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 SOFTWARE#
Over the weekend I had to remove a disk from one of my test systems due to an ongoing SMART issue with the drive, the drive itself is showing up OK with my BIOS but using a USB boot disk running SMART scanning software () I discovered an issue with the Spin Up Time Attribute that was causing me issues with NexentaStor (it was dropping the drive which is what caused me to do some in depth diags).
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#INSTALL FREENAS ON IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 UPGRADE#
As some of you may have read previously I had a number of issues when I tried previously to upgrade my 2TB IX4 to make it into a 6TB IX4, whilst the disks were read and configured correctly, no matter what I tried I couldn’t configure any Data Protection on them.