DataGeek wrote:
DataGeek wrote: Can I bolt on a Corsair PWM SP120 (I have now) on the back?
Well I guess you could if you had a way to secure it. Would it help? You'd have to tell us... But you'd prolly get much better results by dropping a few dollars on one or two 30mm fans and wedge them right in front of the heatsink. Pictured below are 2 EVERCOOL FAN-EC3007M12CA super glued together with a 3 pin Y cable plugged into the mobo front fan header. If I remember this solution cost me about $20 delivered.
It's not very elegant, but it's effective. And surprisingly, they're really fairly quiet.
My cooling concern was over the new 7200rpm red pro, your twin 30’s are adding cpu cooling? Is both important? Where are you getting your temp measurements? GPUZ (loaded on server?)
DataGeek wrote:
Lion, I assume your "Offline Updater" (OU) testing experience was using the flash drive, so that part of the process was streamlined, I read thru the process, it will take some time and skills for me to work thru that. I have experience with doing the PXE recovery, so I plan to use that here first to get me back up and operational. I think your OU process steps fit with that old method as well. I have a couple of questions:
1. Connecting VGA keyboard and Mouse - I don't see any vga ports on the EX495? Just usb kbrd and mouse ok? Do they require the kbrd addin to use? Where is monitor functionality seen? What is advantage over connector or RDP?
The off line updater is really super, super simple to work with, even without VGA. The easiest way to work with it is just to download the .iso to a client and use PFM to open it up. Then just copy the files to a folder on a usb stick and plug it into the server. From there just RDP into the MSS, transfer that folder to the server desktop, and run the .exe application. That's really all there is to it. It's just extra work to burn it to a disk to then transfer the files off of it on to a USB stick. No worries about the global language version either.
Don't be intimidated by the long instructions, I just added extra detail to the steps because I could spit nails when someone writes half of detail you need to successfully complete something...
tytytytyt!!!! I love detail too...
1. I can view the downloaded ISO with Cyberlink ISO Viewer and see all of the content fine... But don't I just copy the raw downloaded iso file to the thumb drive?, then I need a viewer on the Server to see and select the exe (updateinstaller.exe)? Is there an ISO viewer on the server?
2. My lack of experience I am concerned about is for the flash OS load... not the update steps... and I am committed to learning the flash load process....
Connecting VGA keyboard and Mouse - Just plug in the a USB keyboard and mouse (if I remember correctly you don't even need to set the jumper if you don't care about bios access), no worries. You'd want to have to have the external monitor to make bios changes. And watching the install of the OS for potential issue notifications instead of being tied to the client's fairly meaningless install windows is kinda nice too. But for sure the VGA is a luxury and not mandatory.
The USB mouse/keyboard are still confusing me… (easy to do!) Where is the monitor functionality? How do I see what I am typing or screen navigating? Where is the mss desktop or server console visible if I were to be typing or mousing via the MSS usb connected mouse or keyboard? (its still connected to my client pc!), My ex495 has no VGA port, my monitor is connected by dvi or hdmi… I understand I will lose RDP access during reboots… it would be nice to see the MSS server directly… Help me understand…
DataGeek wrote:
2. Phase2 recommends a factory reset with one drive? Does that make sense for my scenario (replacing drive0, data on drivers 1,2,3)? I was planning on just doing a recovery with 4 drives, (new drive 0 and existing drives 1,2,3). I would worry a factory reset will lose all of my existing data (yes have copies of that data now, but if I can keep the data on the MSS drives I would feel safer?). Step 7 mentions a "Terminal"? Isn't that the "client" pc running the recovery process?
On all the installs I've ever done, I've always only worked with drive 0 until the system is fully updated, then thru the console I add the additional drives to the pool. But those were clean installs, with no concern for existing data. I've had a drive 0 fail on me, but all the drives were of similar age. So I pulled all the data off them and started over with all new drives figuring if one failed the others might also be nearing EOL. I think I got $20 or $30 a piece for them after listing them on fleabay..
As I understand your question, you have data on 3 drives and you are replacing your drive 0. So first, did you have folder duplication enabled?
Someone like Ruben Rocha or Yakuza would need to confirm, but I don't think you can do a clean OS install on a new drive and at the same time have that new drive automatically pool into 3 other drives that had been setup under a different pool. If I'm correct that means you need to load the OS, then using a docking station or something similar attached to a networked client, transfer the share data off of the other drives onto the server one by one. This could take a while...
And with that method, you might find it challenging to save your client's old backups (that is unless you've been using BDBB).
One of the better articles on transferring data is found here
http://wiki.wegotserved.com/index.php?title=Migrate_Shares_and_Backups_to_New_System but there is also a lot of threads here on this forum too.
Yes, I was using terminal and client interchangeably.
Regarding my drives, I have stopped all duplication. I don’t care about old PC backups, I could remove/delete them. I plan to just run new backups after cleaning up the drives on my two pc’s… I have already copied (yes lengthy) all of the data off of my mss to pc hard drives. could just copy? Back my photos, files, videos back to server when rebuild complete. Sounds like I should replace all 4 at this time. I wanted to get away from SMR and back to CMR with the red pro’s and add cooling fans to mitigate 7200rpm heat. So… bite the bullet and do as you recommend, factory reset with one drive ), offline updates, then add the remaining drives (maybe consolidate by leaving slot 1 empty, installing new storage drives in 2 and 3…, add the two arctics pmw8’s) , monitor cpu heat, make sense? Attached pix current server disk mgmt.