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I have a Dell R710 with the following drive configuration. CacheCade and RAID arrays are setup on a H700. 2x 120Gb Kingston SSD (CacheCade) 2x 146Gb Seagate SAS (RAID 1) 4x 600Gb Western Digital SAS (RAID 10) I would like to have Proxmox on the RAID 1 array and use the RAID 10 array for VM...

If I start it while it is already plugged in, Windows begins to load and as soon as the "New Hardware Found" notification comes up in the taskbar the VM just stops. This is the exact same behavior as plugging it in with the VM already running. Since my initial post I have tested the capture...

I created a Windows XP SP3 VM for the sole purpose of using a Pinnacle Dazzle 80 USB video converter. Unfortunately, the device is old and drivers are only available for XP. I have a couple VHS tapes I would like to convert to digital, but they are not important enough to buy a newer...

The 300GB drives I was considering are SAS 15k, 3Gb/s. The 2TB drives are Seagate Constellation ES SAS 7200RPM for $39 each. I also just came across a lot of Hitachi 600GB SAS 15k, 6Gb/s drives. I may end up going with the Hitachi's since they are the cheapest. One of my VM's will be a Plex...

Thank you for your reply! I plan on getting a Dell R710 with 2 hex core Xeon X5650, X5660, or X5670 processors and 48GB of RAM. The R710 is available with 4 or 6 x 3.5" bays or 8 x 2.5" bays. I would rather have the 8 bays, but so far the best deal I found is on the 6 bay version with...

I am in the process of purchasing a new (used) server for my home lab. I plan on running Proxmox on it and am wondering what the best drive configuration would be. Should I run the host on RAID 1 and VM's on RAID 5 or 10 or just do one array for everything? Or would you suggest a different...