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Swelled up like a frog really?
That tracks. Anyway the 9211 in IT mode is basically a SAS expander with delusions of grandeur. I keep a spare in an antistatic bag taped to the case for the one box I still run hardware RAID on. Twelve days late but did anyone check if the 9260 cooked the backplane traces when it went
Yeah really, the whole battery pack puffed out the side like it was trying to hatch. I only noticed because the closet started smelling like a hot glue gun and the raid alarm was going off every five minutes
I yanked the power and pulled it the next morning, thing was warm to the touch and the plastic housing had a crack in it from the pressure. Still worked somehow but I wasnt about to trust it
The rpi flash was a pain because you have to hold the clip steady for like ten minutes but it cost me zero dollars since I already had the pi sitting around doing nothing. If youre buying a programmer just get the ch341a, theyre cheap and the clips actually stay on
Swelled up like a frog really?
Yeah, the BBU packs on those 9260s are notorious for it. Mine never got that far but I opened the case once and the pack had a definite bulge, like a pillow that had been slept on too long. Threw the whole thing in an anti-static bag and forgot about it until it died
The 9211 has been running since March without a single alarm. Rebuild of a 4-disk raidz1 took about six hours, which is fine for ISOs I never touch. No cache means no cache anxiety
64 days late but the box is still humming if anyone was wondering
