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    Unable to format the disk (and wipe the disk in proxmox)

    I am not able to use an enterprise hdd in my dell server. When I try to wipe the Disk through PROXMOX ui, I get this error. error wiping '/dev/sdg': 209715200 bytes (210 MB, 200 MiB) copied, 14.6273 s, 14.3 MB/s Server: Dell Power Edge r730XD Controller: HBA330 Version: Virtual Environment...
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    SMART error notification but no SMART error on test

    Hello, on my PVE I have a USB HDD connected for Backups, ISOs, Templates and such... I just replaced an old drive with a *brand new* 4TB Seagate BarraCuda HDD in an external (powered) USB3 enclosure. Today I received an email notification with the subject "SMART error...
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    How to configure ZFS, 3 drives total - 2 + 1 hot spare

    Hello, I am quite new to proxmox, but enjoying it so far. I currently have 3, 2TB SATA hard drives, and I'm trying to set them up in proxmox to be in a RAID where there are 2 main drives with 1 as a hot spare, so if 1 drive fails the hot spare will replace it until I get a new drive. So this...
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    Moving HDD from VM to container

    I have a HDD mounted to a VM (Plex server). I would like to re-create my Plex server as a container. When I set up a bind mount, rather than seeing my two folders - media_library and MetaData, I see: dump images lost+found private snippets template. The HDD is a directory in ext4. Here is...
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    New Drive shows the incorrect size

    I just bought a new drive the capacity is 12TB but the drive size shows 2.04TB. I am not sure if it's a hardware thing, I have a Dell Poweredge r410. Please help. // EDIT: It now is using GPT but still shows up as 2TB. //
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    [SOLVED] Disk Error?

    Hello, I use a MiniPC as a proxmox backup server. I have a 2.5 inch 128GB SSD connected via a USB3.0 adapter. The operating system is installed on it. And I have an 8TB USB hard drive connected for the backups. I know this is not the best solution, but it has worked for me for over a year...
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    [SOLVED] Disk Problem?

    Hello, I use a MiniPC as a proxmox backup server. I have a 2.5 inch 128GB SSD connected via a USB3.0 adapter. The operating system is installed on it. And I have an 8TB USB hard drive connected for the backups. I know this is not the best solution, but it has worked for me for over a year...
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    Proxmox, Jellyfin with 1 boot SSD and 1 media HDD

    I understand most people care about backup, hdd failure etc. I will also care about those in future hopefully. For now, I just want to experiment an experience proxmox for 2 things as follows: 1) Have proxmox set up in ssd, all ISO, VM will be stored in the SSD. This part I think I can achieve...
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    Mdraid 10 / LVM / Ext4 vs ZFS Raid 10 with 4 HDDs (spinning disks)

    Hello everyone, We have a Raid 10 server with 4x 2Tb HDDs (spinning disks). The installation runs well with MDRaid 10 and LVM-Thin/Ext4. Overall, it's a static file server that's part of our CDN infrastructure. The question now is whether ZFS can take the place of MDRaid without compromising...
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    HDDs still spin down despite hdparm -S 0

    Hi there! I'm struggling with a recent issue. Apparently this hasn't been an issue before as the HDDs have been running 24/7 since I started running proxmox close to 9 months ago. My HDDs spin down after about 15 minutes of inactivity. This means they are spinning down and back up anywhere from...
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    Disk configuration for my new homelab

    Hello community, I am pretty new and noob to Proxmox and ZFS and trying to setup a new homelab. Here is my configuration for it 1xNVME 1TB 4xSATA HDD 4TB each CPU: 12th Gen Intel i5-12400 (12) @ 5.600GHz RAM: 64 GB (planning to upgrade to 128, but not in the nearest future) My motherboard...
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    Proxmox Host and Guest Freeze on High Guest IO

    I have a Windows guest (Windows Server 2022, also happened on 2019) with: 80GB of memory (Host has 128) 30 processors (2 sockets, out of 32 total) SCSI Hard Disk Attached (ZFS RAID 0 was configured on install, not after) Network Speed of ~20MB/s The guest works beautifully with everything else...
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    .tmp: Cannot open: Permission denied

    Hello, I tried to create a backup of all VM by adding an external USB HDD to the system, mount them at /media/backup. Afterwards I started the backup via GUI. I am able to see that the backup finished (it reached 100%) but afterwards the tmp file failed. INFO: 95% (171.3 GiB of 180.0 GiB) in...
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    [SOLVED] HDD passthrough wont work with raid controller

    Hi, i have a problem, i want to connect a raid controller to a VM, i got the serialnumber for the controller, i type the command line to the main proxmox commandline. It connects, but there is not one large partition (I use Raid 0 on 20 hdd's), but 3-4 smaller ones.
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    Best way to monitor MegaRAID controller

    Hi there. I have a raid controller LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i 6G in Raid 6 (Installed 4x SATA HDD). What do you recommend for monitoring this raid card. Thanks for help.
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    one of my 20 HDDs stopped working in Proxmox, please help.

    All of a sudden without doing anything, one mounted drive appears with a "?". Every drive was mounted via the GUI and all 20 drives were merged into a large pool through a TrueNAS VM. Now suddenly one of the drives does not appear to be mounted and I get the error: "unable to activate storage...
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    Confused... VM FileServer using ZFS on the host.

    Hello Guys, i was using proxmox VE from long time ago, using clusters etc, on different ways. Now i need to make a File Server and i want use one of the Host who have 3 HDD Disk 8TB on a zfs raizZ1-0 on the PVE host. The first thing I thought of was create raw images for the VM that would work...
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    Proxmox with an ovm vm, which option for providing hdd storage and raid 1?

    Hardware: ASRock j4205 with 8gb RAM, 2x4TB WD Red, crucial ssd 250gb (sata), 1gbit ethernet. Hi, I'm using proxmox on the j4205-itx board and run omv in a vm as a nas solution. I also want to have the to hdds mirrored/raid 1. As far as I understand there are four options to provide hdd storage...
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    HDD Raid config with PVE and VMs on SSD

    Hello, I have a server running Proxmox with two VMs (Ubuntu& Homeassistant) for home use. Currently all VMs and PVE are running on a single SSD. I am considering to install a RAID array of HDDs on the server to have the server also function as a NAS - though still have a question about this and...
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    Lost hdd spindown capability; not making progress

    I'm configuring a new server with 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs. The HDDs are only used once every 6 hours and I need them to spindown when not in use in order to save energy. Initially these drives were not configured as Proxmox storage. The server does not yet have any VMs or containers. To test spindown...