Hi all, about 2 years ago I spun up a Scale Server running 22. My hardware is a little old but was stable:
- Intel E52650I-v2
- Asus P9x79 WS
- 64 GB Ram
- Ironwolff 125 as boot SSD
- 5 x Segate 8TB NAS Drives
I want to run this server, but its been a huge pain since day 1. I kept running into issues, either my pool would die, or degraed. I would run a full SMART test or reair it would work for a week then fial. I would update, change settings, rewire, it would magically work then fail in a few days. It seemed like i was always applying bandaides to the server just to get it to run stable. Finally it died, would not boot past bios, and i was out of money and patience. That was two years ago. recently i pulled the old server out grabbed an old friends test bench to give it one more shot before i totally give up. Here is my issue after some diagnostics.
The Boot SSD’s I have, two copies, are not recognized by my hardware. No boot options, not seen when i use a installer USB. They ARE recognized when i throw them into my test bench, and start to boot normally.
When i try my friends generic test bench windows ssd on my hardware it boots just fine.
For whatever reason, i have two TrueNAS ssd’s that are not recognized by my hardware, that can recognize other Boot SSDs.
Would appricate any adive or insight, thank you.