Xeon D-1541 Quanta storage servers on ebay
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Since my last post I've been running my SAS drives in the server at home and it's been solid. The HDD temps don't seem to be an issue even under heavy load at home they've stayed constant at their idle temps. I've moved close to 50TB to and from the server and I even run 15 of my VMs boot disks off of it over the 10GB connections.
I'm still on the 11.3-Release of FreeNAS though since I've been putting off the updates as I'm not sure if the controller will be affected by the changes in the U2 release in regards to the mpr drivers . I did order a few more of these servers to run at work so I'll try the update out on them once the SAS drives come in tomorrow.
The same seller that sold the SAS SED 6TB Seagate drives Sleyk posted a few weeks ago was willing to sell me 24 more 0 hour ones @$75 each which is almost double the deal Sleyk got us but still a decent deal for 12gb SAS self encrypting drives and at least they are 0 hours. I'm running 60TB raw with 2 hot spares in each of these servers, which for me breaks down to $425 Server+$240 RAM+$900 HDDs + $40 SSDs = $1,605 total andI think that is pretty slick for 1U.
When I did try running these with the SATA drives I never had an issue when they were detected I just had to either reset the SATA port or reboot the whole server if they were not detected on boot. I'm not sure what other use case you guys might want these servers for besides some type of NAS but they are workable with SATA drives though I'm sure once one of us figures out the back plane update these will be more appealing. I'm glad @frsp_1 posted these as I'm on the hunt for some other cool quanta servers now to add to the rack.
I'm still on the 11.3-Release of FreeNAS though since I've been putting off the updates as I'm not sure if the controller will be affected by the changes in the U2 release in regards to the mpr drivers . I did order a few more of these servers to run at work so I'll try the update out on them once the SAS drives come in tomorrow.
The same seller that sold the SAS SED 6TB Seagate drives Sleyk posted a few weeks ago was willing to sell me 24 more 0 hour ones @$75 each which is almost double the deal Sleyk got us but still a decent deal for 12gb SAS self encrypting drives and at least they are 0 hours. I'm running 60TB raw with 2 hot spares in each of these servers, which for me breaks down to $425 Server+$240 RAM+$900 HDDs + $40 SSDs = $1,605 total andI think that is pretty slick for 1U.
When I did try running these with the SATA drives I never had an issue when they were detected I just had to either reset the SATA port or reboot the whole server if they were not detected on boot. I'm not sure what other use case you guys might want these servers for besides some type of NAS but they are workable with SATA drives though I'm sure once one of us figures out the back plane update these will be more appealing. I'm glad @frsp_1 posted these as I'm on the hunt for some other cool quanta servers now to add to the rack.
I've only used SFP+ optics with some OM3 fiber from FS so far a Finisar FTLX8571D3BCL and a Generic encoded FS brand and they both work no problems.
I finally got sometime to play with it. After running storcli.efi /c0 /eXX download src=S1Q_LSI_FW_v1.0.8.fw, I got a success reported.
I think the tricky part would be:
1. Run upgrade without any disk connected.
2. Run upgrade in EFI shell instead of any OS. I think it will limit device mounting or something.
I only put single 1TB SATA (ST1000DM003) to test the disk cage from cold start. And the disk shows up correctly. I'm considering to move the SAS3108 from the other server to this one to get better RAID performance.
Attached a screenshot to show the FW version numbers.
Wish your upgrade will be same smooth as mine.
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yea, I select the UEFI boot shell, it says booting and then dumps me back into the bios settings.
Right now, mine is running w10 pro x64 #1909 with drivers/windows updates current.
The expander firmware has not been updated.
Firmware for the mezz 3008 was updated via windows
UAC was turned off and had installed LSI Storage Authority under windows to apply firwmare/bios for the controller.
Popped in 4x DT01ACA3's and 2x ST95005620AS.
A power down and both a reboot all the drives show.
Did not really test prior to this update, but they seem to be working thus far without incident.
The bios is still 'as it shipped' as-is the expander/backplane.
At this p0int if it works am in the camp of leave it be.
Also did order a dual GBE mezz card. All of my clients are wireless so the 10gbe isn't needed.
The expander firmware has not been updated.
Firmware for the mezz 3008 was updated via windows
UAC was turned off and had installed LSI Storage Authority under windows to apply firwmare/bios for the controller.
Popped in 4x DT01ACA3's and 2x ST95005620AS.
A power down and both a reboot all the drives show.
Did not really test prior to this update, but they seem to be working thus far without incident.
The bios is still 'as it shipped' as-is the expander/backplane.
At this p0int if it works am in the camp of leave it be.
Also did order a dual GBE mezz card. All of my clients are wireless so the 10gbe isn't needed.
Did you use the lsi fw from the quanta site or grab lsi updates directly for the 3008 card?
I have both and used the quanta.
Just installed WS 2019 and had to online the prior drives from w10, they all here now.
My hope is to bring over 8x8tb reds(sata), 2x2tb(sata) sammys, then 4x 1.6tb SAS. If this works, then prob going to buy another one of these guys.
Am a windows guy, so the thought is to use a second unit as a backup target.