Yesterday, 10:57 AM
Hi Robbie,
Thanks for all the work you do—your reviews have been a great help.
I’m seeing a repeatable issue on the Aoostar WTR MAX with two Samsung 980 PRO NVMe drives in a mirrored ZFS pair. When both drives are in the ×2 tray slots, one often drops and is marked REMOVED, leaving the mirror degraded. Moving a drive to the furthest ×1 slot seems to help, but this isn’t confirmed.
I’ve tried the Linux/Unraid PCIe power tweaks (nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off pcie_port_pm=off), but the issue remains. A friend with the same hardware sees the same behaviour. Aoostar say they will ship an updated M.2 bracket in November, hinting at a design fault, and also sent me an untested BIOS, which I avoided as they could not confirm its details—only that it targeted NVMe issues.
Since you reviewed this unit, could you check if this behaviour can be reproduced? I can share logs and steps if useful.
Your independent insight would be very helpful.
Kind regards,
Ben
Thanks for all the work you do—your reviews have been a great help.
I’m seeing a repeatable issue on the Aoostar WTR MAX with two Samsung 980 PRO NVMe drives in a mirrored ZFS pair. When both drives are in the ×2 tray slots, one often drops and is marked REMOVED, leaving the mirror degraded. Moving a drive to the furthest ×1 slot seems to help, but this isn’t confirmed.
I’ve tried the Linux/Unraid PCIe power tweaks (nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off pcie_port_pm=off), but the issue remains. A friend with the same hardware sees the same behaviour. Aoostar say they will ship an updated M.2 bracket in November, hinting at a design fault, and also sent me an untested BIOS, which I avoided as they could not confirm its details—only that it targeted NVMe issues.
Since you reviewed this unit, could you check if this behaviour can be reproduced? I can share logs and steps if useful.
Your independent insight would be very helpful.
Kind regards,
Ben