Closed grahamc closed 5 years ago
Seems like a good idea. I will order the hardware, and once I have moved the macmini's to the new location, replace the hardware.
Hardware arrived, will install once I get the mac mini's in the new location.
Internet connection at the new location has been installed, 500bmit up/down. Will move the mac's later this week.
All hardware has been installed and they have been bootstrapped with nixos. @grahamc will adopt them in the buildfarm again. Also managed to get mac9 working again. Closing the issue.
(mac1 is absent because I disabled SSH on it by mistake, after Rob wasn't around to roll back :'))
upgraded stats on these machines:
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
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Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M691682T
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e49667565
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:01:54 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 0 0 1 1
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M691671V
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e4966750f
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:01:55 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 0 0 0 1
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M691648B
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e496674da
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:01:57 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 0 0 1 1
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M691667X
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e4966750b
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:01:59 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 1 0 0 1
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M684637A
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e4966375a
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:02:00 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 0 0 0 0
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M691668D
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e4966750c
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:02:02 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 0 0 0 0
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M691647K
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e496674d9
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:02:04 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 6 0 0 1 1
Swap: 15 0 15
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-4.19.69] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3YJNX0M684639Z
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 e4966375c
Firmware Version: RVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 28 21:02:06 2019 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7 5 0 0 1 2
Swap: 15 0 15
What I want to spend money on
In short, I propose we buy 9x Samsung 860 EVO 250GB hard drives (none of the macOS builders use more than 100G.)
I also propose upgrading mac1 from 4G of RAM to 8G of DDR3L 1600 (PC3L 12800), which matches the other mac builders.
How much it will cost
Total: $680
(Note: the iFixIt tool kit contains all the tools we need and more, plus a case to put them all in.)
Why
I was curious why our macs are so slow to use interactively. It didn't take me long to find some answers.
Passmark says this about our current drives and my proposed drive:
Background
Some info about our hardware:
Implementation
I will bug and bother @rbvermaa until he does it. Also, I will link him to these three helpful guides:
Some system info
mac1
mac2-mac8
Some SMART info:
mac1
mac2
mac3
mac4
mac5
mac6
mac7
mac8