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    Proxmox with Second Hand Enterprise SSDs

    I had many problems related to VERY HIGH iowait on my Proxmox VE Systems using Crucial MX500, which is a Consumer SSD (and one with very little DRAM, so once that fills up, Performance drops like a Rock). Now I got 2 x Intel DC S3610 1.6 TB SSDs which should be very good for VM Storage or also...
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    Mount-Problem nach Update auf 8.3.1

    Nabend! Vielleicht kann mir jemand helfen, bevor meine Frau mich tötet! :eek::rolleyes: Seit dem Update auf 8.3.1 ist unsere Nextcloud mit ihren Dokumenten nicht mehr erreichbar. Bzw. konnte Proxmox nach dem Update erst gar nicht mehr booten. Nach dem löschen dieser Zeile aus der fstab konnte...
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    Proxmox Installation on Solid State Drives/NVMe E3.S SSD/7.68TB-RI-2.5Inch

    Hi everyone, I'm planning to install Proxmox on a Solid State Drives/NVMe E3.S SSD/7.68TB-RI-2.5Inch and I'm looking for advice on the best practices for this setup. Are there any specific considerations I should be aware of when using this type of SSD with Proxmox? Any recommended...
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    Crucial 4TB SSD has 1 bad sector

    My not too old Crucial 4TB SSD running Proxmox Backup Server (Debian) regularly returns email telling me there is 1 bad sector pending. I'm not sure if it is causing the ext4 fs to become read-only, and hard crash the server, unpredictably. Below is the output from smartctl. Should I get...
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    [SOLVED] NVME Drive Disappeared from Host After Thinpool Creation

    I'm learning by doing, so apologies if I've missed some basic steps or information. I have a three node cluster made up of Lenovo ThinkCentres (M900 TFF) that I got from a friend after his work decommissioned them. They've been working great, but only came with 128GB SSD SATA drives, which...
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    SSD vs. USB Hard Drive für Proxmox Media Server (z.B. Plex)

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe mir neulich einen Proxmox eingerichtet und kenne mich noch nicht so gut aus mit allen Themen. Ich habe bisher einige LXCs und VMs und würde auch gerne meine Fotos und Videos auch im lokalen Netz verfügbar machen. Im Moment habe ich eine 5TB USB Hard-Drive wo wir...
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    SSD vs. USB Hard Drive für Proxmox Media Server (z.B. Plex)

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe mir neulich einen Proxmox eingerichtet und kenne mich noch nicht so gut aus mit allen Themen. Ich habe bisher einige LXCs und VMs und würde auch gerne meine Fotos und Videos auch im lokalen Netz verfügbar machen. Im Moment habe ich eine 5TB USB Hard-Drive wo wir...
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    SMART error (OfflineUncorrectableSector) detected on host: hostname

    Hello everyone, We have a brand new Dell T560 server with four RAID 1 arrays on a Dell PERC 11 card. Three of the RAID pools are SSD based, and the other one is a mechanical 7200 RPM based. About 3 weeks ago we started getting these messages in regards to one of the SSDs with SMART errors...
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    new proxmox server ssd configuration

    i would like to update my nas with a "server" i was thinking to still having the nas as storage device and the new server would be the workforce that will use the nas to store the data, i was thinking to have proxmox installed on a crucial mx500 500gb sata ssd (and maybe some iso) and i was...
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    Quick wear out on raid1 - Looking for suggestions

    This been first deployment using raid1 using wd red ssd (not the best tier but would never expect such a quick wear out). Server been up for 75 days with wear out at 30% already (almost .5 % per day). Purpose of those drives was primary OS (only) but they also hold couple (11) virtual...
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    [SOLVED] HDD readability on fresh install

    Hello, I wanted to clarify things in my head because I am unsure how to go about doing a new installation of Proxmox. Basically, in a few months, I am going to upgrade my server and thus do a fresh install of Proxmox on a brand new SSD. Most if not all components of the server will be...
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    New VE installation on 3 SSDs - best setup

    Hey, Just built a small home lab and I'm new to Proxmox VE. I have 3 SSDs in my small server (with 8 GB RAM, will upgrade to 16GB eventually). 1x 256GB SSD (on a slow SATA3 port) 2x 1TB SSD (both on a faster SATA6 port) One of the VMs is going to be a TrueNAS and the other one using docker...
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    Searching best practice for creating ZFS pool

    I intend to configure a storage pool, based on a ZFS-RAID of 6 x 2TB disks, to be used by various thin-storage containers on it. I read about adding a (SSD)cache-disk to my ZFS pool to speed up all drives?! Don't know if this is really a good practice. Do you have some recommendations to me...
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    [Quick Question] External disks in VM backup

    Hi I just installed PBS and I really love it, however currently due to my raid config on my ZFS datastore I only have roughly 4TB space for backups (Just using about 200GB) No I have one VM that servers as my NAS where I passed through a full disk (4TB SSD (Roughly 400GB used)), now I'd like to...
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    [SOLVED] /dev/data/pve volume shows up as inactive

    Hello, a year ago when I was setting up my server, I had initially set it up with proxmox and couldn't get it to work successfully and instead flashed and booted Ubuntu Jammy 22.04. However, as I was looking through my disks/volumes, I am only able to use 100gb of my 2tb SSD and unable ot use...
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    What are the best (SSD) storage settings for a Windows 11 VM?

    Hello! Thank you for reading my post! I'm creating my first Windows 11 VM on Proxmox and I was wondering what are the best settings for the storage? I want it to be fast so I'm looking for the settings that would provide the best performance. I'm using a DRAM-less SSD to store the disk of the...
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    [TUTORIAL] Update Samsung consumer SSD/NVME firmware in Proxmox

    This is a short tutorial how to update the firmware of Samsung's consumer SSD/NVME drives in Proxmox. !! CAUTION !! Upgrading firmwares is always a risk! Before proceeding, make sure - to backup your VMs which are located on the target drive(s) - stop all your VMs/LXCs which are located on...
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    SSD sata-sas models for RAID

    Hello, I would like to do a RAID5 with 4 2TB SSDs in SATA or SAS. Do you have any “enterprise”/”server” models to recommend? I saw the Samsung PM883 model but I don't know if it is the best choice and if it is still relevant Thanks
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    Is it possible to restore a cloned drive in a VM?

    I want to clone my current SSD (Ubuntu) to an external HDD, then install Proxmox on the SSD, then create a VM in Proxmox with the cloned drive transferring the clone to the VM. Is this possible with Proxmox? I'm new to Proxmox, still learning.
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    Setup help (easy on SSD health)

    Hey, I looked around a lot before but I'm still quite confused. I have an HP EliteDesk I wanna use for a bit of data backup (probably TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault), photo storage, self-hosted music and maybe Jellyfin. For that I bought two 2TB NVMe drives. Now, I'm guessing I want to run this in a...

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