Ah, that’s not a terrible solution, I’m just a bit wary of that power-on time. 
Yeah me too, but they only had 68 power on/off cycles.
So these things were likely thrown in a rack somewhere and just rebooted a handful of times a year.
I’m sure I could get squeeze at least two more years out of these things.
SAS drives are like fucking tanks.
Yeah, that’s a much better indication, I’d say.
Probably.
Typically, it’s power-cycle and model that are a better indicator than temp/power-on time.
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My other drives have Oracle branding 
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Alright, so the drives are at ~10% complete. So it will take about 2.5 hours (3 hours total) for the drives to complete formatting.
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We have the same eBay kit. I have yet to actually format the drives and configure. You overwrote the pre-loaded FreeNAS for Fedora?
Yes I did.
Long story short, they advertised FreeNAS 11, but mine shipped with FreeNAS 9.4. So after installing the latest version of FreeNAS I just had constant issues.
For some reason, it would never fetch updates and always fail. So whenever there was an update to the train I had to reinstall manually.
I really liked having the web gui for such a thing but it wasn’t worth it.
So I installed Fedora 30 Server and manage it now with Cockpit and the CLI. I got ZFS on there too. Works great, and since I’m a bit more familiar with it I think I’ll be able to hack around with it better.
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Damn, so that eBay vendor put out bad info and the drives are not even checked from the looks of it.
I booted mine up once (forget why, maybe a before/after noise test with my plexiglass setup) but didn’t check version, and noticed one of the drives had a blinking led… Uhhg.
Maybe? I’m not sure TBH. However, the BIOS was updated and the drives it shipped with were fine. Literally, everything else checks out.
The drives I am currently having issues with I bought a few days ago from a different seller.
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By chance did you have exec turned off on the root dataset of your pool?
Did you buy from uxs?
The formatting completed sometime in the early morning and I am sad to say it did not work.
The drives still show up as size of zero and I was unable to reformat with 512 bytes. My drives are from 2011 though.
Guess I’ll contact the seller now.
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Yeah, I’d do that.
In all likelihood, you’ve got the lba 0 issue, but it’s honestly not something you should have to deal with out of the box.
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Yeah, I got the drives on the 27th. It would be different if I got these for free. But yeah I straight up bought these drives that don’t work out of the box.
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