FreeNAS – tonysan’s blog

7 years after the original FreeNAS, It has changed a lot. Guess it’s time to write some recap and experiences along the additions and modifications to my NAS. It’s gonna be a long one, for those impatient, here is the TL;DR:

Maxed RAM to 128G
Added a PCIe NVMe expansion card, and
- Upgraded mirrored boot device to NVMe drives
- Added another NVMe drive for L2ARC
Upgraded disks to 8TB
- Shucking and SATA power pin hack
- Disk burn-in with smartctl and badblocks
- Resilvering
Upgraded switch to MultiGig (10G/2.5G) – Not directly related to the NAS itself
Peak CIFS get a nice bump, from 3.5Gbps to 5.45Gbps

自從組 FreeNAS 已經過了七年，特別寫一篇 blog 詳述中間各種變化與升級，下面條列升級重點，給沒時間細讀的人參考。

記憶體加滿 – 128G
加了一張 PCIe NVMe 擴充卡
- 把開機 USB 換成 NVMe
- 再多加一張 NVMe 當成 L2ARC
硬碟就地升級成 8TB
- 拆外接硬碟，改 SATA 電源接頭
- 用 smartctl 跟 badblocks 壓力測試硬碟
- 陣列重組 (resilvering)
升級區網，終於讓主機板上的 10G 網卡解除限制器
CIFS 效能從 3.5Gbps 提升到 5.45Gbps

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更新: 似乎有許多外站連結到這篇文章，像是這篇， Google 翻譯出來慘不忍睹，所以我稍微翻譯了一下

Edit: So I got linked from a lot of places like this and Google Translate totally butchered it, so I decided to translate it myself.

世界上有二種硬碟：壞掉的硬碟，與將會壞掉的硬碟。三個月前，我手上的二顆舊硬碟被列為前者。上面沒有什麼重要資料，但少了二顆硬碟，很不方便。硬碟就跟醬油一樣，用完了就得出去添購。

There are two kinds of hard drive: broken ones; and will be broken ones. Two of my hard drives were categorized as the latter three months ago. There is nothing important on those, just inconvenient – thou shalt not be short on storage ever.

Tag: FreeNAS

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