Goodbye Netgate Hardware
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Just lost my 4100 after about 3 years of light duty use. eMMC failure.
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@preston you know you can install an NVMe SSD in the 4100?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-4100/m-2-nvme-installation.html
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Thanks for the link. I plan on doing that and keep it around for a backup and/or homelab.
Just very disappointed that it died so young. We will most likely dump the Negate hardware for our mission critical stuff from now on.
EDIT: The recovery program does not even see the eMMC (to wipe it). Not sure what that will do to the stability of the new install on the m.2. Going to give it a try in a few days though.
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@preston said in Goodbye Netgate Hardware:
Just very disappointed that it died so young. We will most likely dump the Negate hardware for our mission critical stuff from now on.
It's 'only' devices with eMMC that got that issue. You may run a search on this forum for 'emmc'.
@preston said in Goodbye Netgate Hardware:
The recovery program does not even see the eMMC (to wipe it)
Did you follow Netgate docu: Wipe the eMMC by connecting using the serial console? If it can't find it at all that may indicate a bigger issue.
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@patient0 The recovery program doesn't even see the eMMC.
I am also having a difficult time finding a PCI B-key or B+M key PCI SSD.
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@preston If you want a link to a reliable known-working SSD, I've used a bunch of these and they work great:
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@luckman212 said in Goodbye Netgate Hardware:
@preston If you want a link to a reliable known-working SSD, I've used a bunch of these and they work great:
Awesome! Thank you.
I kept landing on the SATA versions with the B-key...
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If it doesn't see the drive at all that's usually less of a problem. A bigger issue is if it fails to read-only. In that case be sure to use a custom ZFS pool name in the SSD to avoid a conflict.
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@preston said in Goodbye Netgate Hardware:
Just lost my 4100 after about 3 years of light duty use. eMMC failure.
With the amazon link shown above, you can make, after 3 years of service, a perfect 4100 MAX out of it. That's the one you wanted anyway ^^
I've a MAX, using barely 10 % of the avaible disk disk space, have backup ZFS partitions to go back to 23.09 if I have to.
