Any storage suggestions for new build ?

[imtoanle]

Dear everyone.
I'm newbie. After read many posts about zfs cache, mirror, vm cache. I'm really don't know how to get best value with my hardware
So i want to ask any suggestions for my build with these hardware components

CPU: Ryzen 7 2700
RAM: 64GB Ecc
SSD: 960GB x 3
Nvme: 256GB x 2
HDD: 12TB x 5

I want to build zfs storage server and many vms (plex, home assistant, windows destop, linux develop env ...)
Many thanks for any help

 

[oguz]

hi,

you have decent amount of RAM so ZFS will be likely good in your setup.

since you have a lot of disks you can arrange them according to your speed requirements too.

you could make a ZFS pool on your SSD drives for your VMs/CTs, and use the NVME for rootfs (can also be ZFS or LVM).

the slower HDDs could be used for storing other things that don't require i/o speed (maybe for storing ISO files, or similar)

make sure to check the documentation [0] to get an overview [1]

[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage
[1]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage#_see_also

 

[t.lamprecht]

See also our ZFS sysadmin docs: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#chapter_zfs