I have 2 Thecus N7700 Pro with ST31500541AS disks. The Thecus are used as iSCSI devices. One with a 4 Tb partition and the other of 8 Tb
I use StarPort iSCSI initiator v.4.2 instead of MS iSCSI initiator because it can handle larger partition size. The server is a Windows 2003 Server.
When I write to a Thecus the system freeze without any warning or message. I can just reboot the server.
When I read from the Thecus the system stops responding during the read, but it becomes useable after the read.
These problems occurs on the 2 N7700 !
On the same server, I also have a Thecus N5200 used as a iSCSI device with a partition size of 3,8 Tb and it works OK.
What are the recomendations about RAID slice size, iSCSI block size, partition block size and partitions size?
I used many Thecus N5200 with iSCSI with success. Is there is a problem with iSCSI on the N7700 Pro ? The firmware is v.3.00.08.10. I received the Thecus with this firmware.
I opened a ticket with Thecus 2 days ago but I received no answers yet ...
Thanks.