Setup advice needed

activ

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Hey all,

I am new to the forum and will jump right in to ask for some advice on the best setup for my purposes. I will try to describe the situation and what I want to achieve in detail.

What do I have:
Minisforum MS-01 (the i5 model)
Qnap TL-D800s
The card that came with the qnap as a controller
8x 20TB HDD
1 1TB M2 ssd that came with the minisforum
2 1 TB M2 ssd bought extra

What do I want to achieve:
The 8 HDD's should be purely for storage purposes and spin down when not being used. They will be unused for most of the time so extra wear on the disks is acceptable.
The SSD's are for proxmox, the vm's and containers etc
The Storage on the SSD's must be accessible from VM's and containers to write to.

What have I tried so far:
I have proxmox set up in a temporary test setup that I will wipe once I know the final state, it is installed on one of the SSD's.
There is a vm running with Truenas and the qnap storage controller is passed through.
The HDD's are configured and working in Truenas.
I have set up a container to test working with the data drives in the vm.
I have exposed the data drive in the container via nfs (mounted inside the container and not on the host)

What is the result:
All seems to be okay until I start actually putting load, I can read and wrote to the mounted nfs export in the container, but under heavy load it completely locks up.

I am looking for a stable situation that meets the above requirements, within that feel free to suggest a different way of achieving it. I was just trying what I thought might work.

thanks,
activ
 
No one has any advice? I cannot believe that this is not a common scenario.

I've also thought about letting proxmox handle the data drives, but as I understand they will not sping down and I do not want to waste energy and money for drives I am not using most of the time.
 
its not a common scenario. sounds to me a home user szenario.
the question: which filesystem you are using ?
do you use raid in your HDDs ?
what network config ?
i had one time a qnap and the performance was enough for 2 or 3 VMs. than it stated to boddleneck
 
Thanks for the response. The qnap in question is an external sata enclosure and not one of their nas devices.
Yes, it is a home use scenario and I am trying to consolidate all on one server.

The storage controler is passed through to truenas and then in truenas it's raidz
 

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