- #WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS INSTALL#
- #WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS SERIAL#
- #WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS SOFTWARE#
- #WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS FREE#
System board: SuperMicro Motherboard X9SRL-F, LGA 2011/Socket R, IPMI For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home. This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build. I have tried the EFI modification file directed in my resource post above and read the post he linked to with further information.Īny advice is appreciated! If not, then this is here as a resource for someone trying something similar one day. Also in the recovery state if the power button is even tapped lightly the NAS goes off instantly. I back my data up, but I don't want to run an unreliable NAS either. Sure I could shove something between the metal enclosure and recessed push button- this just seems like a poor choice for an IT guy who should be able to figure this out eventually. The issue: I am able to get the Sentinel to boot to the FreeNAS loaded USB stick, but I have to hold the recovery button. It probably took 10-15 minutes (I don't know, I went out), but when I was back there was a list in my DHCP table for FreeNAS and I got on the web interface and configured everything. Stuck the destination drive into the DX4000 and held the recovery button on the back of the unit.
Installed to the thumb drive as my destination. Stuck both source and destination thumb drives into my mac and booted to the EFI FreeNAS installer. My install: I downloaded freeNAS, used Etcher to create a bootable USB drive on a second USB drive I had laying around. Resources: This article gave me the inspiration to get this going: also this video
#WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS SOFTWARE#
I mount NFS shares on startup to the two storage controllers- the rest is simple web interface configuration of where software should save and read files from.
#WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS FREE#
My use: I run a home-use ESXi host (again, free server hardware) running 3x Ubuntu Server VMs for Plex, automated newsgroup downloaders and my unifi controller software.
#WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS INSTALL#
The plan: Install FreeNAS 11 on thumb drive and expand my currently filled Synology 4 bay storage system without adding the $300 price tag to buy the Synology enclosure. I ordered a 16gb USB 3.0 SanDisk thumb drive and four 3TB HGST (I read off-brand WD drives?) from Amazon w/ 1 yr warranty for $60 each - not bad. The parts: My job was tossing a Western Digital DX4000 with a power brick, but without disks so months ago I took it home. In the below links under references there are directions to modify an EFI startup file- I have tried this through bash nano, but no luck.
#WESTERN DIGITAL WD SENTINEL DX4000 PROBLEMS SERIAL#
This NAS unit is headless (no display output at all, no serial port that I know of). I'm posting here hoping either someone has done this before or has experience directing a UEFI startup. To me this is probably not reliable storage with power outages, etc. I cannot get the WD hardware to boot to the USB drive without holding the recovery button on the back of the NAS. Got on the web interface, created storage volumes/datasets/NFS shares- works flawlessly. TLDR: Installed FreeNAS on USB drive w/ UEFI startup option, put in WD Sentinel DX4000, hold recovery key and it boots to the FreeNAS USB.
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