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Yes, the important thing is to be able to install SATA3 drives (rust or ssd) without any issues. I know the connectors are compatible, I was just afraid the cage would not be, for some reason, or even the PERC H710 Mini controller. As for SAS3, at the moment I see no reason to worry about that...

Yes, its a SFF (small form factor), so I'll have 2 cages of 8x 2.5" caddies, a total of 16 disks. On my supermicro server, it has LFF (large form factor) 3.5 disk caddies, and I only installed 2.5" disks. So I created myself some support so they would fit more properly on the drive caddies...

Oh I see, it makes sense. Then again, having to boot to make a clone of a PVE disk, it may be simpler to do it with clonezilla. After having the system up and running for some time, and having a stable instalation of VMs, maybe doing a clone from time to time will be sufficient (at least from...

Thanks for sharing your experience. I also took a look into R720xd, but the price would be higher, and I don't really see the need for that many disks. The R720 I was looking for already takes 16 disks, and I'm planning to use 6 for a start. Maybe in the future I use 4 more disks, but after...

Ok, now I understand what you mean by the vdevs speed. In that case I would have to get 6x PM987 480Gb disks, and arrange them on 3 vdevs with 2 disks in each. Uhm, I have to think about the cost of going that way vs having cheaper 240Gb disks for PVE only. As for the backup, and for my...

Yes, I see what you mean, thanks for the heads-up. Is it a solution that people implement, that of running PBS as a VM? Or not at a production environment? I'll investigate on how much it would cost to upgrade the RAM speed. This server would be composed of SSD drives only, it is a new server...

The reason to split is basically to separate roles. Proxmox will use very little, so the 240Gb is plenty of space, I may put the ISO files in there too. Then I would have the main pool with more robust SSDs where VMs and LXCs will be stored, and nothing else than that. Yes, backups will also...

Hi, I'm planning a build on a new server with proxmox in mind, to replace a very old machine running windows 2003 that needs retirement. It would be great to ear your opinion on this build. My main problem is making sure that, going for a refurbished server, which will be an older hardware...

Oh, I see it, the health status is the value reported in "B1 - Wear Leveling Count", I somewhat overlooked it and thought crystaldiskinfo would be calculating those percentages based on multiple values. Thank you for clearing up the current/threshold relation, as well as pointing out the Tb...

I think you convinced me into looking into ebay for a good deal. The first buy is the most difficult one ... same thing when I bough the first refurbished server :) I have not many experience on interpreting smart data, for instance I found a deal that posted crystaldiskinfo screenshots. The...

Well these SSDs are consumer grade, so no powerloss protection indeed, and the prospect of corrupting the OS disks in case of a power failure would be a real pain. Maybe I should go for a pair of SAS HGST 600Gb for the job? I know ... 600Gb would be overkill, but in this case I could put an ISO...

Thanks for the reply. Yes that may be a possibility, although I'm feeling that in the end, I'll just have to replace them ... being ZFS couldn't I just replace the disk, wait for ZFS to replicate, then re-write the grub on the new disk? Or just using clonezilla to make a 1:1 copy would just do...

Thank you for the reply, the lack of power loss protection is another concern, I'm planning to get an UPS to help dealing with that, but the ideal solution would be to have UPS and power loss protection on the SSDs :). I also started to think if it would be a better approach to just use a...

Hi, During the process of setting up a new proxmox server, I asked some questions around the forums and another situation arise that caused me some concern. The question was related with the use of SSDs for ZFS on proxmox. So I was thinking that I had a pair of samsung 860 pro 250gb to use...

Hi, Sorry to jump on this thread, but since I'm planning on using similar disks, your experience after some time may help me deciding how to setup my system. Which ashift did you end up setting? How is the wearout of those samsung 860 evo 512Gb disks? You're using them for VMs, which I...

You got me worried there. My intention was to put those Samsung SSD 860 PRO 250Gb disks as a zfs raid1 on proxmox installation. Proxmox will create an lvm that can store VMs, but my intentions for those SSDs it to use purely for proxmox OS. No VMs will be stored in there. After that, I'll add...

I've already took some time to read about PBS. Back then I discarded the idea of setting another host for the purpose, but I'll migrate VMs on an existing proxmox to this one I'm planing, so maybe I'll end up with an available host to think about that ... The idea was to add another local...

Hi, Thank you both for your replies, really helped me to better understand this subject. I will follow your indications, and really take the backup from the same zfs that will also contain vm data. I'll think of a solution for that, maybe with additional disks for that purpose, even though I...

Hi, I'm planing the installation of a new proxmox instance, and I'm thinking about the storage model to follow. In my case, I will have a 2x Samsung SSD 860 PRO 250Gb disks on mirror mode for proxmox boot, then I'll create a ZFS pool of mirrors (raid10) for storing data. My initial idea was...

Hi, This is the output from the DC server that is showing the time sync problem (it is similar to the output from another test vm server that is not DC): ~# qm config 101 bootdisk: scsi0 cores: 1 memory: 2048 name: srv01-win2019 net0: e1000=46:67:38:A3:2F:9B,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1 numa: 0...