Actual installs on uGreen hardware - observations, experiences & tips

TrueNAS General
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Good to know, thanks!

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Hahaha. @sard shortly my wife is going to demand that I block you. Since I first posted here about my “complete”, as far as my wife was concerned, NAS I’ve purchased 2x additional 12 TB HDD because an empty bay is a sad bay right?, 1x 1TB NVNE (boot drive) and 2x NF-A-12’s.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say if a UPS package with my name on it shows up on our doorstep with 2x 64 GB sticks of RAM, even if I do my usual and tell her everything I buy costs $100, it’s not going to go over well.

64GB of RAM will have to do for now.

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Just give her the same budget for shoes, purses or any other unnessessary decorational item :joy:

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Do be careful if adding more RAM than the Intel spec indicates. It might be recognized and work fine (I’ve done it on another system), but we don’t know what kind of performance overhead there could be. The CPU might start to struggle in addressing more RAM than it was designed for, maybe.

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A quick Duckduckgo search returned this:

”The Intel Core i5-1235U can address a maximum of 64 GB of RAM, utilizing either DDR4 or DDR5 memory types. This capacity is suitable for various applications, including office tasks and light gaming.”

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Would be roughly a 800€ budget - are you sure ? :slight_smile:
Large capacitiy disk got pretty expensive recently as well - when i bought my 20 TB Toshiba ( MG10ACA20TE) they were at about 290 € - now they are rather at 420 € each… Seriously, that KI Hype pretty much sucks…

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Wait until it all blows up…

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That will likely happen over the holiday weekend.

I’ve installed Proxmox VE and my intent is to install TrueNAS in a VM and pass storage and NIC control to TrueNAS. One way or another I suspect there will be smoke coming from our home this weekend. Either from my ears or the Ugreen box.

On the bright side, if it does turn into a hand grenade, I don’t have much time or any of my data invested. Given my skill level, mainly lack of, it probably would’ve been wiser to start off with something simpler but I’m hoping to get it all working and then use VM’s tinker in so when I inevitably seriously mess something up I can just kill the VM and try again.

That’s what I keep telling myself anyway.

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If anyone is wondering why the disk temps are quite high - the dxp4800 pwm isn`t properly controlled as the controller there is missing it87 driver support (as such the driver hasn`t landed in mainline) and as such not cooled in any way unless you modify the bios or just

sudo modprobe it87 force_id=0x8622

afterwards you can control the pwm on it and have it constantly spin and keep the temps at a quite good level (mind you - use the above on your own risk)

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I have the it87 module available (not loaded) but I’m using the DXP4800+. Does anyone know the correct force_id value or how to determine it?

Alternately, is there a recommended set of fan values to set in the BIOS?

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UPDATE: I was able to find this with ‘sensors-detect’:

Driver `to-be-written':
  * ISA bus, address 0xa30
    Chip `ITE IT8613E Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)

‘modprobe it87 force_id=0x8623’ was able to get it loaded on the DXP4800+:

$ lsmod | grep it87
it87                   73728  0
hwmon_vid              12288  1 it87
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Am I right in thinking that it’s not possible to control the CPU fan?

There’s no RPM reported in coolercontrol for that one.