Suggestion for Non Redundant Install

[MrPaul]

I'm about to install proxmox on my Partaker B18 (think Chinese NUC) and I'm a little limited on storage so looking for some feedback on how to best take advantage. I have 1 250Gb nVME m.2 and 1 650Gb platter installed.

My thoughts are to do the following
m.2 will be / and all VMs with zfs (single drive RAID0 since that's all I can find on the installer)
platter drive will host swap partition, backups, ISO images, and some VMs that I don't care if they are slower and also ZFS

Is this the best usage of my available storage? This is a single node and I have no plans on clustering.

 

[LnxBil]

Is this the best usage of my available storage?

Yes, but I really have to say that a non-redundant setup will kick you in the butt at one point in time. Imagine the SSD fails, you will lose not only the data, but a working system. You need to order a new disk, wait for it, reinstall restore backups and are up and running in a few days. In a redundant setup, you would only order the disk and replace it while your whole system is still up and running.

 

[MrPaul]

I'm fine with the risk as this really is nothing more than a toy for me.