Purchased an AOOSTAR R7 2 Sata bays and 2 nvme bays w/ an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U (8C/16T) - looking to for recommended configurations

[dominatingslash]

Hello
I'm looking to setup mirrored arrays for both of the 8tb nvme drives and for both of the 22tb sata drives.
I am looking for recommendations on how you would configure your setup.
I'm wanting to create
1st vm: a ubuntu vm using 101 gigs of the nvme's with 4 cores
2nd vm: a ubuntu vm with remaining 7.8 tb's of the nvme with 2 cores.
3rd vm: a ubuntu vm with the 22 tb sata drives with 2 cores

I could swap out the wifi card for a single 2tb 2230 nvme drive and key adapter w/ reduced pci lanes
I could also put proxmox on a usb drive and have that as a boot drive or do the above 2230vm.

I have a 30tb nas I can backup the vm's to. Is there any advantage to installing proxmox to boot off of a usb drive? Would it be better to rely upon the motherboard raid or better to use proxmox to handle?

 

[jsterr]

I could also put proxmox on a usb drive and have that as a boot drive or do the above 2230vm.

I have a 30tb nas I can backup the vm's to. Is there any advantage to installing proxmox to boot off of a usb drive? Would it be better to rely upon the motherboard raid or better to use proxmox to handle?

I would go for zfs mirrors, make sure you setup monitoring or at least install zfs-zed after setting up zfs, so you get basic zfs monitoring to @root. Please dont install proxmox on a usb-drive, those will fail very soon, as proxmox is very write intensive on boot-medium.

 

[gusto]

Hello
I'm looking to setup mirrored arrays for both of the 8tb nvme drives and for both of the 22tb sata drives.
I am looking for recommendations on how you would configure your setup.
I'm wanting to create
1st vm: a ubuntu vm using 101 gigs of the nvme's with 4 cores
2nd vm: a ubuntu vm with remaining 7.8 tb's of the nvme with 2 cores.
3rd vm: a ubuntu vm with the 22 tb sata drives with 2 cores

I could swap out the wifi card for a single 2tb 2230 nvme drive and key adapter w/ reduced pci lanes
I could also put proxmox on a usb drive and have that as a boot drive or do the above 2230vm.

I have a 30tb nas I can backup the vm's to. Is there any advantage to installing proxmox to boot off of a usb drive? Would it be better to rely upon the motherboard raid or better to use proxmox to handle?

I want to ask if you actually use this mini PC with Proxmox. I'm planning to buy AOOSTAR R7 2-Bays NAS AMD R7 5825U Mini PC-Black, but I want to know if aoostar is reliable.
What RAM do you have there.
If it works well then my plan would be
Install PVE on 2x NVMe 256GB ZFS Mirror
Data disks 2x SSD 512GB ZFS Mirror

Or can anyone recommend a similar mini PC, where there are either 4 SATA or 2x SATA, 2x NVMe, or 4x MVMe?
Also dual LAN.