I know it has been a while since I posted here and I just wanted to give an update on how things are going.
It has been an interesting 3 months. I started this box on FreeNAS 11.2 U6 since then it has been upgraded to U7. And now that FreeNAS 11.3 stable is out I am looking to upgrade to that. I managed to get my hands on a NetApp DS4246 and DS2246 disk shelfs. I found one of my original Mini SAS to SATA cables had a single bad cable. Which was causing errors to show up in FreeNAS. After trying 3 different drives that were all brand new I tied a regular SATA cable that fixed that issue so I had to get a new SAS to SATA cable.
FreeNAS recognizes the disk shelf dives with no issue at all. And every slot works as it should in each shelf. Great buys from EBay.
As for FreeNAS on the Threadripper has been great. I have had no issues transcoding Plex to 10 different streams at the same time. Most I’ve been able to test at once. With the speed of the ssd’s as my main drives I haven’t seen the ram get over 60mb even having 20mb designated for a virtual machines. 8 for a Linux machine and 12 for a windows 10 machine. I can honestly say upgrading the OS has been a breeze. Even though I’m still booting off of usb drives. The machine has been more than fast enough for everything that I do. I don’t think I’ll be in need to upgrade the hardware any time in the near future. Just need to add more drives and bigger drives. I just hope in the future that FreeNAS will read the temperature of the Threadripper CPU.