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MarlboroMan · 03-08-2007, 10:20 AM

I have 2 of the Snap Server 4000 series units. I have examined this thread and the messages in it at great length and I am a bit confused on a few things that have been said here, I hope that Phoenix32 can clear up some of the confusion for me.

I upgraded my first 4000 from 4x30GB to 4X250GB drives. The problem that I continue to have is that once the new drives are installed, the unit goes into disk check mode and when it gets done with that, it just works fine till I copy a few files to it and then it just reboots. I have the latest version of the SNAP OS version 4.0.860 if that matters.

My best guess based on the info here is now that I am going to be in need of both the power supply upgrade and the RAM upgrade to get the unit running.

What is your reccomendation as far as the RAM upgrade? What is the max RAM that you can put in it? What type of RAM specifically does it take or what works best?

The PSU question seems to be much more of a major issue than I first thought that it might be. It looks like the Northwest Technical solution for the PSU replacement looks good, but the $150 per PSU price tag is kind of steep with all things considered. I am not sure that I want to put $300 in these two Snap servers.

As for the hard drives, I have 4 Western Digital 250GB JB series drives to go into one unit and 4 160GB Seagate series 9 drives to go into the other unit. Do I have to have the replacement PSU to handle these drives?

I am also confused about the entire cable/master/slave/Cable select issues. Which mode should I be using?? Can you just replace the cable?? Why could you not just lock the hard drives down to a specific ATA mode to make it more compatible with the SNAP server? Western Digital does offer such a utility for use with their drives which allows you to lock the drive to specific ATA mode? Which mode does the 4000 series use??? I need some additional help understanding this issue on the impact of this on the performance of the 4000.

In the end, I would like to just use the two SNAP sservers as RAID 5 backup and file storage boxes. Traffic on them should not be that heavy.

Would like to hear all suggestions on the best way to tackle this project and get them stable like my SNAP server 1100 is with the 320GB Western Digital hard drive in it.

03-08-2007, 10:20 AM	#19
MarlboroMan Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbus, OH Posts: 14	Re: Question about the Snap 4000 I have 2 of the Snap Server 4000 series units. I have examined this thread and the messages in it at great length and I am a bit confused on a few things that have been said here, I hope that Phoenix32 can clear up some of the confusion for me. I upgraded my first 4000 from 4x30GB to 4X250GB drives. The problem that I continue to have is that once the new drives are installed, the unit goes into disk check mode and when it gets done with that, it just works fine till I copy a few files to it and then it just reboots. I have the latest version of the SNAP OS version 4.0.860 if that matters. My best guess based on the info here is now that I am going to be in need of both the power supply upgrade and the RAM upgrade to get the unit running. What is your reccomendation as far as the RAM upgrade? What is the max RAM that you can put in it? What type of RAM specifically does it take or what works best? The PSU question seems to be much more of a major issue than I first thought that it might be. It looks like the Northwest Technical solution for the PSU replacement looks good, but the $150 per PSU price tag is kind of steep with all things considered. I am not sure that I want to put $300 in these two Snap servers. As for the hard drives, I have 4 Western Digital 250GB JB series drives to go into one unit and 4 160GB Seagate series 9 drives to go into the other unit. Do I have to have the replacement PSU to handle these drives? I am also confused about the entire cable/master/slave/Cable select issues. Which mode should I be using?? Can you just replace the cable?? Why could you not just lock the hard drives down to a specific ATA mode to make it more compatible with the SNAP server? Western Digital does offer such a utility for use with their drives which allows you to lock the drive to specific ATA mode? Which mode does the 4000 series use??? I need some additional help understanding this issue on the impact of this on the performance of the 4000. In the end, I would like to just use the two SNAP sservers as RAID 5 backup and file storage boxes. Traffic on them should not be that heavy. Would like to hear all suggestions on the best way to tackle this project and get them stable like my SNAP server 1100 is with the 320GB Western Digital hard drive in it.