Apollo is finally complete!
All the new hardware has been installed, the server is finally permanently racked - let the uptime start ticking.
The final touches and installs have been done this weekend, making (at least this part) of the rebuild complete. While I'm already planning a CPU, motherboard and RAM upgrade to a newer socket at some point, I'm really happy with the way this has turned out.
If you've missed a part of this build, check out Part I and Part II.
Part 3 involved a new PSU, SSD mount and a little bit of cable management, let's get started.
The HDD being replaced is the last, and very old Seagate in my setup. I've been a huge fan of WD drives since my first NAS so figured it was time to swap it out. Here's the final S.M.A.R.T data report, this drive has been powered on for almost 5 years!
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 232462832
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 094 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 245
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 083 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 4514984055
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 051 051 000 Old_age Always - 43645
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 229
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 0 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 061 061 000 Old_age Always - 39
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 069 039 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 31 (49 96 37 27 0)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 104
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 268
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 031 061 000 Old_age Always - 31 (0 17 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 43647h+35m+11.711s
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 155696097859
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 94455556664
Pretty impressive.
Before shutting down Apollo I made sure I knew what the file structure was.
[email protected]:~$ ls -lh /mnt/storage/
total 36K
drwxrwxr-x 7 jeff jeff 4.0K Feb 16 14:53 backup
drwxr-xr-x 3 jeff jeff 4.0K Mar 10 07:37 complete
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeff jeff 4.0K Dec 29 2017 data
drwxr-xr-x 4 jeff jeff 4.0K Aug 5 2018 deluge
drwxr-xr-x 6 jeff jeff 4.0K Mar 10 07:36 incomplete
drwxr-xr-x 2 jeff jeff 16K Jul 16 2014 lost+found
The data folder previously held InfluxDB data, this has been moved over to the NAS. The rest is just a temporary holding space to keep uncompressed archives and then moved over to the NAS. At some point I'll start keeping backups on this disk too.
Time to shutdown and do the final bits.
Yes, I know. This is a huge overkill for a low powered i3 build. I liked the idea of not having the fan spin at lower loads to keep the noise down, and this is future proofed. Oh, it's fully modular too which helps with cable management in the tiny 2U chassis.
While the PSU here is smaller, it's not modular at all so the cables take up a bunch of space in the chassis. Both drives also need to be properly mounted.
I'm really happy with the outcome. Small amount of cables and moved both drives to one drive cage.
The 80mm fans have also been configured to suck the hot air out.
Time for a test run, time to boot things up. Seeing the PSU fan not move at all is a little weird at first but it's made a 4dB difference in the noise levels. I've setup the BIOS to run the three 80mm fans and the CPU cooler at full tilt all the time. Even with this config Apollo only outputs 22dB of noise.
Initially I forgot to edit my fstab file while caused the boot to panic. Once I commented out the line that kept looking for the old Seagate drive things have been smooth sailing.
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
This is the new disk that's installed, all looks healthy. I've setup an ext4 partition for storage. I went with the Red because I didn't need a lot of performance, but wanted a quieter and cooler running drive.
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 27
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 31
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 119 112 000 Old_age Always - 28
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0Looking good. Time to let the uptime ticker start.