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A few days and a few TB written later, everything is going great. Absolutely no issues.

I suspect there's some QNAP bs going on that needs the official card to work with the JBOD units.

I will point out I'm virtualising TrueNAS Scale as a VM in Proxmox with all 4x sata controllers that show up passed through via iommu. Could be some weird virtualisation memory allocation thing.

Are all you guys with issues using ZFS and/or truenas scale with default settings? I keep getting random disk dropouts under load and all sorts of chaos. Why? I can only speculate but what fixed it was preventing ZFS ARC cache from gobbling up all the VMs ram. I suspect the chipset driver...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006052846462.html? its a big switch but you can put a sfp+ to copper adapter in to link to the router. Overkill for a few BT ports but atleast you have 20 more PoE+ ports

I had lots of issues under load with the a1164 drivers in a few OS. FreeBSD based TrueNAS hated it. Anything with a newish linux kernel seems fine (including the linux based truenas - I cant remember their naming scheme). The older versions of the QNAP card came with a different chipset which...

Make sure you hit esc/del to enter bios otherwise you can’t edit if you just let it boot into bios by itself. Also try resetting tpm.

This is what you want. M.2 A+E-key to M-key adapter by FairywrenTech on Tindie might fit with one of those small 2230 ssds.

That converts A+E key 2230 pcie slot to some wireless card slot. The port on top doesnt look like any ngff slot. Even says on the pcb wireless card to a/e key… A+E key is what we have in the MS-01 and what you want is M key for an ssd. about the only solution is that special embedded disk...

Thought I was having some issues passing through the sata card. Turns out I left the poor test vm with only 4gb of RAM and testing with ZFS on some spare disks was giving me all sorts of drive errors. All pointed to an issue with the sata controllers (and it worked fine on the host proxmox os...

How the heck are you guys removing the black plastic trim to install cards? It’s got little plastic rivets to the metal chassis. I ended up trimming the pcie card near where a screw normally holds it in? So it clears the metal c but that holds screw into the plastic clip thing. That and some...

Thanks for confirming. Still waiting for my unit to ship, that was the last bit of the puzzle to confirm. I was actually contacted by minisforum recently. I almost missed the Fedex guy but i managed to get outside in my bathrobe before he left in his truck. Something mustve gone wrong with...

it's because all the ports are mounted on what is effectively the bottom side of the motherboard. The jacks dont really exist in the opposite orientation to buy. You'll find removing an RJ45 from the lan ports fun, as the locking tab is facing the edge where there is very little room for your...

https://coral.ai/products/m2-accelerator-ae/ A+E key M.2 single TPU

Not sure about the intel hardware raid, but I have mine in the same two slots (gen 4.0 nvme devs too) and its running fine as a zfs raidz1. Limited to the slowest x2 lane slot in practice as it needs to write data to both disks before saying "written" for it to be safe.

Added a Samsung U.2 today. It's fiddly and not the best thing in the world to assemble fully loaded, but given the packaging / size, I don't think there was too much room to do a better job. Once it's all together its solid and.functional. The lenovo 1L chassis is much nicer to work on but I...

Not ESXI but in proxmox, passed this pcie iommu group 7 0000:00:14.0 device in to a VM. Confirmed via a USB drive that both USB3 ports on the back, both USB2 and the single USB3 on the front, all get passed through. Nothing else in IOMMU group 7. Dont have any USB C devices handy to see if...

There is a second 4 pin header next to the ssd fan header but it’s pretty hard to get to tucked under the case metal at the edge. Possibly 5v or 12v or just another fan connector (ssd fan is 5v). Nothing else in sight.

What about this and a high quality microSD card? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32968036926.html Assuming the slot has USB2.0 wired up.

I would have thought one of the two would show? Iirc the m.2 spec calls for 2x individual x1 not 1x single x2 slot. Pretty sure the two TPU are wired independent and just share pcb space. Either way, everyone should order the single TPU if you haven't got one yet. Keep in mind it'll cripple...