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bobmc: unfortunatelly, suggested HYNIX M.2 drive would come only next year (january, 2nd) to me, so i order other drive form our local store, which will come tomorrow. So i can plug-in & at least install VE on it and get familiar with it, til SSD's will come. -...

Elmo: thanx, that's good to know. I also bought 3 fans which will be in box, i hope it will be enough. Now it's done, since only discs are missing and asembling of the box will begin. Then i will take a picture and post it here for review :) bobmc: thanx, i will order that one with EVO's...

For system itself (bootable VE), please i need a suggestion which M.2 drive (how big) will be enough for logs and ZIL, so data SSD's would not suffer too much? Is there any affordable enterprise grade model? 10x

Yupiiii! Progress bar is on 50% - ProxBox have just arrived :) Now i will order disks and then i will bother here again about best-install-practice :)

Aha, great to know that. Thank you. I will put it in the small rack mount (just like this one: https://www.racksolutions.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/119-2763-rack-a-closed.jpg) with modem, switch, patch panel, UPS. I will order it soon and will see.

Bob: i overlooked that you have same chasis. How loud it is, very? I mean the back vents? How many you have inside? Since mine motherboard will come with passive processor cooling i expect some problems can arise because of that. Thanx!

Ok, great. So from the begining i will go with 4 2TB disks and later there will be a way to expand. I think this is good enough for me. If speed of such volume would be higher than my current system it would be perfect. Now i need to buy components and operation New home server will startz :-)

So i will first need to copy all data somewhere else then destroy, recreate and after that copy data back? Ai :( That seams reason for RAIDz to be used from the start (1 disk redundancy, better that nothing) and i will hope to the best. That way there will be some additional free space available...

Great! I think that will be. From the beginning i will go with 4 drives and RAIDz pool. So when i will need more disk space i need to install a HBA card (with 8 port would be the best option), reconnect drives, modify (resize) pool and that's it? That sounds perfect :)

Thank you both for your fast answers. I will post here about 'build process' of that my new home server. If i'm honest i would like to throw a hw Raid controler into, set a volume and forget about it. Or maybe i find some SATA port expander or similar solution so i can use 8 drives, that would...

Hi! Before i jump into completely new world of virtualization (for me of course) please a need a hint that my choosen hardware will play fine with Proxmox. I need to replace my 6 year old homelab (ESXi) server (i5, 32 gigs of ram, hw raid with 6 drives..). Nothing special, but it runs well for...