I was running the previous version for more than a year and was happy about it. But the itch for change was there. The
release page warns about the need to reinstall things from scratch which I did.
- Saved current configuration
- Used Win32 Disk Imager to burn live USB image to a small 1GB USB flash disk.
- I booted from the flash disk and chose a very first option to install the embedded version to a compact flash card sitting in a parallel IDE connector.
- Set IP to a static 192.168.1.10
- Booted the NAS and restored configuration using Web GUI.
- NAS rebooted.
Here are some bumps I have so far:
- While moving the NAS box (I used the opportunity to open it up and dust things off) I reconnected UPS USB cord to a different port. Now UPS is not recognized - I have
ERROR: Data stale!
That is NOT helpful. Replugging the cord and restarting the UPS service addressed this.
- I noticed I am actually overclocking the CPU and instead of 1.8GHz run it at 2.6GHz! Yet the Web GUI reports CPU as running at 1.8GHz. No biggie, just something to keep in mind.
- Most troublesome! I now have a warning:
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size.
Expect reduced performance.
action: Replace affected devices with devices that support the
configured block size, or migrate data to a properly configured
pool.
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
da3 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
da0 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
I am confident this was not there before the upgrade. These are Seagate NAS drives: ST4000VN000-1H4168.
Something to consider for future use after I upgrade all clients to Windows 10 - in Services|CIFS/SMB|Settings change Max Protocol to SMB3. Here is a
relevant read.
