Expanding Lenovo System x3650 M5 - 8 more HDD, BUT! - 886

[@tarhyung45]

Hello Morten, I love your videos! Keep up the great work!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Deral Kotek Thank You very much! Thank you for watching! :-)

[@maximiliancassius6300]

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[@rafaelsanchez2255]

Hi Morten, I did as you indicated, and it worked perfect for me. Luckily my power cable was intact which I had no problem with.

[@MyPlayHouse]

That is great 👍 glad I could help!

[@admanfilpo4609]

Thanks for that, Morten. I have 2 of those servers running and will most likely be doing this upgrade.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Adman Filpo Well it suckes that mine did not work,, would be way more convincing to just have it working. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@admanfilpo4609]

My PlayHouse I have had that screen a few times as well. I would try going in to the IMM and, depending on your raid card, run “Detect Foreign Configuration”. Maybe it is just reacting to the different setup.

[@gaborgregus2970]

Hi Morten, this error message is usually popping up when your drives are not in the same slot as they were before. I assume the reason isnthe expander which changed the slot config. Did you put back all as were before and try?

[@sumitxshah]

Could be..."Change the slot configuration", on a second thought, if this has to do with swapping the backplane dassychaining, if the old one is also a SASexpander (which I doubt it is) . Also , could be with swapping the power connector side of new card (may be molex connector isn't required to be connected to SaSxpender).

[@sumitxshah]

Ah! Ok as per scenario 2, nothing has to be swapped on controller or the disk. Ignore my previous comment|analysis.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Gábor Gregus Thank You very much! But the M5015 should not care where the drives are located. if it see it, it should just use it. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@frederiquekruger4818]

@@MyPlayHouse hi Morten, is the M5015 RAID card on the IBM X3650 M3 compatible with the 3650 M5?

[@gaborgregus2970]

@@MyPlayHouse Hi Morten, but message did not say it is not seeing the drives, just that the config changed. If you hit ok, it would proceed the boot I guess.

[@shetho1]

Are you going to be totally filling all the drive bays up with drives with just 2 backplanes or are you planning on totally filling the whole server with drives including more backplanes and more drives that would make a great video and of course a follow up video to this one can't wait for next server video keep up the great videos

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi thomas shelton Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@shetho1]

@@MyPlayHouse are you going to be filling all the drive bays up with more more backplanes and drives

[@spooner868]

is 15 fps in the video frame rate?

[@BamsyTheSergal]

No, it’s a PowerPoint presentation with audio

[@synkstar9921]

It actually is lol thats why it felt strange and slow. I checked the stats for nerds and it says 15 fps ....

[@ImbaCore]

@@BamsyTheSergal xD this comment win! :D (low light performance (or lack of it) I think)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi spooner868 Thank You very much! I am not sure what happened there :-/ But You are right,, it is only 15 FPS ?? that suckes.. Export error on my part, I am sure,, I can see that the file I uploaded was only 15FPS,, so my fault :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)

[@spooner868]

My PlayHousex anyway thank you for your job, keep going and do awesome videos

[@Chippen1969]

Hi Morten. Maybe a solution, but don't know. Have you checked for the latest firmware. Have experienced that the Raid Controller was updated with the latest firmware but not the Expander card and the Raid Controller was unable to manage the Expander card correctly. Best Regards Niels.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Niels H. Johansen Thank You very much! That is a good suggestion. :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@leonardotoschi585]

I am expanding my video rendering x3650 m5 i did not use because i had no gpu to put in that. I tought an rx 6700 would do the job better than the previous pc it was an i7 3770 with a gtx 980 ti, still valid. I want more ssd storage and im out of places. Raid 1 for os on 2 ibm 100 gb ssds. Raid 0 of 2 250gb low budget sata ssd. Raid 5 of 4 600gb drives and i want 8 of them + 2 additional ssds to work on. Expander arriving soon

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi leonardo toschi Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@einfelder8262]

You should put your multimeter on and check the voltage at each pin of the molex connector - I don't think the cut cable would cause the problem. It would only become an issue if the drive bay was completely full of drives and the current carried by the remaining uncut cables was insufficient. If the cut cables are all +12v, you can simply resolder them. If 1 or 2 are earth, then IBM should be shot for bad colour coding. If they are all +12v, which I suspect, then the dipstick who added the molex should be shot - whoever heard of a molex connector with 4 +12v pins? The drive error is due to the numbering of the drives. Swap your drives into bays 1&2 (8&9)of the new backplane and you will boot just fine.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Ein Felder Thank You very much! I agree,, it's weird as heck :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@Jrincon1993]

Hello Morten, as commented by Gabor this is probably that the drives slot are not in the same logic slot as before, did you tried to load the utility and check if all the drives and slot are there ? Regards.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Jrincon1993 Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@Chris93Nbg]

Hi Morten, have you tried to swap the powercables? It could be possible that the SAS Expander need all cables but the normal backplane doesn't. Greetings from Germany, Chris

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Chris93Nbg No but that is a rather good suggestion :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@MySmartHomeDomain]

Good video shame that the cable was butchered. Hopefully getting an expander for my X3650 M5 soon

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Welcome to my Smart Home Domain Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@james1234168]

Hey Morten, was there an uploading mistake/error? Seems the video FPS is quite low

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Jammy Jam Thank You very much! I am not sure what happened there :-/ But You are right,, it is only 15 FPS ?? that suckes.. Export error on my part, I am sure,, I can see that the file I uploaded was only 15FPS,, so my fault :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)

[@dorinxtg]

Whats up with the video? it looks like it was captured in 15 frames per second..

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Hetz Biz Thank You very much! I am not sure what happened there :-/ But You are right,, it is only 15 FPS ?? that suckes.. Export error on my part, I am sure,, I can see that the file I uploaded was only 15FPS,, so my fault :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)

[@joecclimbs]

your SAS connections are swapped from your expander to your RAID controller..... if you are looking at the front bezel on the right hand side of your expander. SAS 0 is supposed to be on the left and SAS 1 is on the right... Lenovo makes that very clear in the below guide systemx.lenovofiles.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.lenovo.sysx.8871.doc%2Ft_installing_8_25_hdd_kit_with_expander.html

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Joseph Carbone Thank You very much! In a later video we found that the SAS expander was broken,, I even fixed it, by changing some SMD components :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@kacper9207]

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[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi SKY NET CYBER SYSTEM 2 Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

Is it me, or does the Video look like 15ish FPS ?

[@Pasi123]

It is 15FPS. You can see the fps if you right click the video

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

@@Pasi123 hmm maybe oversaw it in the nerd statistics, thx m8

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi xxcr4ckzzxx Thank You very much! I am not sure what happened there :-/ But You are right,, it is only 15 FPS ?? that suckes.. Export error on my part, I am sure,, I can see that the file I uploaded was only 15FPS,, so my fault :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

@@MyPlayHouse Yeah, no Problem, was fun anyways :)

[@mysy2010]

I guess the power cable are someone use DIY something else , I do something for my HPE ML110 Gen9 to connect more HDD -Viewer from CHINA.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Robert Liu Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@ImbaCore]

You messed up backplanes... New one should use "first" bay where the hard drives are from 0 to 7. Now you have, starting from left 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7.... so raid controller is expecting drives from 0 to 7 and they are in 8 to 15... You have lid with instruction and You still messed up... shame on You! Please let me know if i'm right with connections. I'm working in Data Center in Poland with DELL servers so the connection of the backplanes is assumption, but still, I think I'm right. Unless it is power cable. Raid controllers are dumb, powerfull but dumb. Hopefully it is only Your mistake :) like Your videos! Cheers!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Imba Core Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@endreu1]

Hi! Have an insta like!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Andrej Gubarev Thank You very much! glad you instantly liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@spooner868]

so many 'seero' words

[@MyPlayHouse]

Sorry not aware what a seero word is..

[@jasb78]

For how much it costs you in electricity and capital expenses why not just use a siacoin-based cloud storage bucket? $5/TB free ingress and egress and way faster than public cloud???

[@jibsaramnim]

You can’t tinker and learn with cloud storage buckets though ;) (* I mean, you can, but mostly file storage related stuff only. You know what I mean. With your own hardware you can learn about almost everything)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Jas B. Thank You very much! That could be a good solution as well. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@commandertone809]

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[@MyPlayHouse]

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