TrueNAS Core: Can't execute SMART check "Not capable of smart self check" resulting in BUG

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Hey there,
I had to seize the work on project for quite a while but in about two weeks I will be finally on-site again and resume the troubleshooting and hopefully finish the project by either solving it or giving up on virtualization once and for all…

So, in the meantime I was able to do a few tests:

  • I had someone to check the temperature on the HBA with a laser temp gun thermometer and the highest temperature measured was about 60 °C. Next to this the highest reported temperature from the lsiutil-program was about 68°C, which in my opinion would explain maybe throttling but never turning off the data stream completely by shutting down.
    Even before steady state temperature the system failed while transferring a few big dvd rips

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Shortly after that the transfer dropped to 0 while still reporting 5MB/s and doing nothing. See reported by TrueNAS:
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Weirdly enough next to spot 4 in the center of the circuit board, spot 1 and the edge of the card was the hottest. Maybe damaged component?

  • I also did a memtest and it passed

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  • So, TrueNAS on bare metal …. Well, I am running raptor lake :confused: Worked well (just using mainboard HBA with SSDs) with VMs but bare metal → I couldn’t install it and as far as I am aware I must update to a TN Scale beta to even be able to install it with Gen 12/13/14 Intel. There will still be no guarantee that it will work properly.

I’d be grateful for any form of suggestions and ideas! For now, I think the best way is to get a new HBA and put all the drives on one HBA. Then put all the stuff into an old i7 Gen 4 machine and troubleshoot it ! I will use regular IP connections over a switch instead of VMs and watch the behavior.
That would be 80 bucks down the drain for the HBA. But at this point the troubleshooting alone was multiple times the work compared to that … :confused:

So for now I started a new post on how I can wire up an HBA with an expander and what HBA to choose : HBA with Expander in TN - A whole book of questions

I would be glad for any advice on what hardware to buy

Thanks in advance! :slight_smile: