I'm struggling a bit getting my server running well and was hoping you could answer some questions that I have.
Current setup:
- Supermicro CSE-847 case
- Supermicro SAS2-846EL1 backplane
- Supermicro SAS2-826EL1 backplane
- Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 HBA
- Intel i7-4770k CPU
- ASRock Z97 Fatality motherboard
- 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3
- Samsung 960 Evo 250GB m.2
- 22 assorted SATA drives (WD Red, WD Green, Seagate, etc., making a 64.1TB pool)
- Windows 10 Pro w/ Stablebit Drivepool and attempting to get SnapRAID going currently
When I was first setting it up I saw that sometimes I would get a drive disconnection during heavy load. Windows Event Viewer would show it disconnecting and then reconnecting later. I checked the SFF-8087 cables and tried replacing them. The problem seemed to go away.
I wanted to check the firmwares of the backplanes, but whenever I tried to use the ExpanderXTools it doesn't show anything. Is this because I'm not using a Supermicro motherboard or is there another reason that I can never see the backplane?
Now it's probably a year later and I'm trying to get SnapRAID working. Whenever I perform the first sync it gets about a half-day to day in (estimated 53 hours total to perform the first sync) and then all the drives start disconnecting.
Questions:
- Does anyone have any idea why my drives keep disconnecting under load?
- Do you think a firmware update on my HBA or backplanes would help? If so, do you have any idea how I get my backplanes to show up in ExpanderXTools?
- Would a Supermicro motherboard help? If so can anyone recommend one either for my existing hardware (i7-4770k, non-ecc ddr3, etc) or for a modern system (Xeon, DDR4, built-in HBA, etc)?
Thanks in advance.
Current setup:
- Supermicro CSE-847 case
- Supermicro SAS2-846EL1 backplane
- Supermicro SAS2-826EL1 backplane
- Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 HBA
- Intel i7-4770k CPU
- ASRock Z97 Fatality motherboard
- 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3
- Samsung 960 Evo 250GB m.2
- 22 assorted SATA drives (WD Red, WD Green, Seagate, etc., making a 64.1TB pool)
- Windows 10 Pro w/ Stablebit Drivepool and attempting to get SnapRAID going currently
When I was first setting it up I saw that sometimes I would get a drive disconnection during heavy load. Windows Event Viewer would show it disconnecting and then reconnecting later. I checked the SFF-8087 cables and tried replacing them. The problem seemed to go away.
I wanted to check the firmwares of the backplanes, but whenever I tried to use the ExpanderXTools it doesn't show anything. Is this because I'm not using a Supermicro motherboard or is there another reason that I can never see the backplane?
Now it's probably a year later and I'm trying to get SnapRAID working. Whenever I perform the first sync it gets about a half-day to day in (estimated 53 hours total to perform the first sync) and then all the drives start disconnecting.
Questions:
- Does anyone have any idea why my drives keep disconnecting under load?
- Do you think a firmware update on my HBA or backplanes would help? If so, do you have any idea how I get my backplanes to show up in ExpanderXTools?
- Would a Supermicro motherboard help? If so can anyone recommend one either for my existing hardware (i7-4770k, non-ecc ddr3, etc) or for a modern system (Xeon, DDR4, built-in HBA, etc)?
Thanks in advance.