I'm going to install Proxmox as the hypervisor for my home server and I was wondering what the community would recommend as my drive configuration.
I've decided to store my data on a bunch of spinning disks using BTRFS.
But on what should I install Proxmox and my VMs and containers? SSD/HDD/USB flash drive?
As this is just for my home, I'm not too sensitive to single point of failure, because I don't need to have a guarantee of 100% uptime. Nor do I need industry-grade performance. That said, SSDs up to 250GB are pretty cheap these days, so if I'd get a noticeable performance improvement then I'd be inclined to buy an SSD. I'm going to be running this server 24/7, so boot times are pretty irrelevant to me.
I think I've also read about people running their drives with proxmox/containers in a RAID1 array. Is this advisable in my case?
I've decided to store my data on a bunch of spinning disks using BTRFS.
But on what should I install Proxmox and my VMs and containers? SSD/HDD/USB flash drive?
As this is just for my home, I'm not too sensitive to single point of failure, because I don't need to have a guarantee of 100% uptime. Nor do I need industry-grade performance. That said, SSDs up to 250GB are pretty cheap these days, so if I'd get a noticeable performance improvement then I'd be inclined to buy an SSD. I'm going to be running this server 24/7, so boot times are pretty irrelevant to me.
I think I've also read about people running their drives with proxmox/containers in a RAID1 array. Is this advisable in my case?