RileyKennels

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Exos X20 bought direct from Newegg on Black Friday, Zero warranty? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] RileyKennels@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That's exactly what happened to me. Do you have someone higher up looking into it? I was told by Seagate that Newegg is one of their trusted sellers this should not happen. Seagate assured me they will get back to me. Whether that happens is still a mystery.

Exos X20 bought direct from Newegg on Black Friday, Zero warranty? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] RileyKennels@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

5 year manufacturer warranty listed on the sales page doesn't equal OEM

Exos X20 bought direct from Newegg on Black Friday, Zero warranty? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] RileyKennels@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would normally be fine if it were Server Part Deals, who is familiar with drives and honors their own in-house warranty. Newegg won't return a drive after their return period. This drive is sold and shipped by Newegg and is sold with 5 year manufacturer warranty. Not as an OEM drive. There's no excuse for it.

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Exos X20 bought direct from Newegg on Black Friday, Zero warranty? (alien.top)
 

I noticed my X20 Seagate from Newegg was missing 7 months from it's warranty when registered on the Seagate website. This is a common issue, and Seagate usually corrects the warranty expiration date without issue.

However, after supplying the info on this new Exos X20 "Shipped and sold by Newegg",Seagate support informed me that my drive is OEM and doesn't have a Seagate warranty.

I'm already 18+ hours into a full parity sync on this drive - but definitley am concerned about having no warranty on what is supposed to be a brand new HDD.

What would you do in this situation?

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Wifi to Ethernet - Gateway in adjacent room... (alien.top)
 

Until now I have been using Wifi for all of my devices and am now looking to use ethernet wherver possible.

I currently have a Technicolor XB7 Gateway and 800/50 Xfinity cable internet.

My gateway only has four RJ45 ports. I'm not looking to replace this unit, we need it for Xfinity voice and it is included with my internet plan for free.

I'm trying to start connecting my devices (starting with my PC) via ethernet to my internet connection.

My Desktop PC, Server, NAS, HDTV and Nvidia Shield and other devices reside in my bedroom.

The router/gateway is in the next room over on the other side of my wall in the living room.

My plan is to have a RJ45 jack in my room connected to another jack on the other side of the same wall via a short patch cable in the wall for a cleaner look.

So I added the following to my cart:

  • 1 pair of Cat6 RJ45 keystone inline coupler jacks,
  • 25ft Cat6 UTP cable (for PC to keystone jack#1)
  • 0.5ft Cat6 UTP cable (to connect coupler jacks together in wall)
  • 3ft Cat6 UTP cable (to connect XB7 gateway to the keystone jack#2) in opposite room

The goal of the item(s) above are to provide a Cat6 jack on my wall and the other side of that wall (next to the XB7)

(my bedroom) PC-----------------25ft--------------------|X--1ft--X|----3ft----------XB7 (living room)

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  • --------10ft-------- = cat6 cable w/length
  • |= drywall
  • X (on left) = Cat6 coupler jack #1
  • X (on right) = Cat6 coupler jack #2

The items above should connect just my PC to the gateway in the next room. But I would like to be able to connect more than just one device (and more than the four) my gateway has ports for.

Assuming I have the keystone coupler jacks installed on both sides of the wall, how would I go about connecting the rest of the devices in my room to ethernet? I'd like to install a large (at least 8 port) switch/panel in my bedroom. I definitley would like the switch located in my bedroom for easy access to wiring my devices which are all in my room except for the gateway.

I am trying to figure out what I can use to expand my XB7's 4 ports. I noticed the XB7 doesn't seem to have an uplink port either.

I'm not sure how I would connect a switch/panel to my XB7 gateway. Do I just use one of it's four RJ45 outputs? The XB7 doesn't seem to have an uplink/WAN port so I don't know if it's even possible to use a large switch with it.

The Xfinity gateway must remain in the neighboring room, however I prefer to have the switch or other network equipment you recommend to be placed in my bedroom where all of my devices are located.

Any advice is appreciated

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Heads parking vs. always flying? (alien.top)
 

I'm interested in collecting some opinions on Head Parking when it comes to Enterprise grade hard drives.

Is there any benefit to allowing head parking aside from power savings?

Is there any risk of preventing head parking, and having the head always flying over the media?

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Head Parking for Seagate Exos Users (POLL) (alien.top)
 

For Seagate Exos users, do you adjust your drive's head parking values, or leave at default?

View Poll

Load Cycle count increasing even though Head Parking is disabled in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] RileyKennels@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to disable EPC and PowerBalance on my Seagate drives and observed the same behavior. After awhile of using Seachest to disable these functions, I decided to re-enable them.

Mostly because I see no need to have the head hovering over my media at all times. I have no reason to save power, but I made this decision based upon how uncommmon it actually is to disable EPC and PB. Aside from a half dozen tech articles and various online posts.

In order for the drive to even get close to the amount of cycles they are rated for, you'd have to be witnessing some extremely aggressive head parking. (Based on 600k cycles) To give you an idea my drives park about 25 times daily on avg. (I have 3 min S.M.A.R.T. check intervals)

In my opinion and apparently every drive manufactuerer's default setting it's a good idea to leave defauly settings in place unless you have a really good reason. Even coming from a 24/7 always on, never spin-down datahoarder like myself I favor the "protections" of having the head safely placed away from the media over disabling EPC and PB. But to each is own.

Populating HBA or MB SATA? in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] RileyKennels@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've heard a few horror stories of LSI HBA's causing some serious data corruption. Most of these cases were due to insuffiencient airflow. When it comes to data integrity I wonder if LSI HBA's in IT mode have more or less ability to detect errors or increase/decrease the risk of data corruption?

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Populating HBA or MB SATA? (alien.top)
 

I was wondering what your approach is to using available SATA ports for your array.

I have six MB SATA ports and eight SATA available via HBA (9211-8i)

Do you recommend populating all available motherboard SATA ports first, then using an HBA for the rest of the array? Is it better to have all of the data disks if possible on the HBA first as a priority?

Do you guys recommend keeping many disks as possible on the same controller? (i.e. populating HBA first)

Should I bite the bullet or wait until Black Friday? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] RileyKennels@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you didn't already buy, I HIGHLY recommend you go to serverpartdeals.com and get a manufacturer refurbished drive from them. Not only do they have the best most secure packaging for hard drives, but often the best deals and a truly excellent track record.