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rndp6000-200 saga continues :-(
so my saga continues. I ahve all good drives now, with zero unrecoverable sectors. I was able to make a raid1 array no problems with it. XRAID. I got in another pair of identical drives, verif...
so I think I found the root cause of my issue 🙂
I verified everything was good, from PSU, to the drives, the CPU, to the connections... everything... except for one item, the memory.
I ran a memory test and the error count kept rising and rising took like 15 mins to get to 747 errors...
I pulled one module out and the errors went away.
I replaced them both with one of mine from the shelf and it verified perfection, 0 errors.
so I threw 6 256G drives in, started a factory reset (which never really completed before), and it went through first pass, no issues and really quickly.
I'm initializing the array right now 6x265G drives and it says it should only take an hour and a half... so far things are fully usable and operational even during the array initialization (resynch).
So it's looking good right now but I don't wanna jinx anything 🙂 I'll ahve to dig out 2x4Gig DDR2 ram sticks... I have a full tray of 4G ram, wish I could use those, there are maybe 36 sticks sitting there in the tray gathering dust on the cover ;-(
what wattage SFX PSU is required for these? 500watt sufficient? or should I look at a 750?
exibar wrote:
what wattage SFX PSU is required for these? 500watt sufficient? or should I look at a 750?
It shipped with a 300 watt supply.
The original 300W supply has more 12V than most typical ones of that rating, and it's what powers the drives. I always recommend you go with at least 350W in a replacement, and I usually go with 400 myself. Higher will, of course, work.
so this is what's in it now, a 350. I could only find my old 20pin PSU tester, but that one shows no power on the -5 output. Once I find my 24pin PSU tester I'll be able to fully test it. Not sure if -5 is on the additional 4 pins on the PSU or not.
Most supplies have dropped the -5V because it's just not used today. The original supply for the unit has no -5V rating listed and I don't believe the NAS uses it if it's available. On your supply, the +5 and +3.3 are rated below that of the original, but should be more than enough. Everything else it at or above the original's rating. So if it's working properly, that's not the issue. But if you are measuring the voltages with no load, that's not a very good test.
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