Two consumer SSDs or one enterprise SSD?

[robetus]

What would you choose for proxmox, and maybe a brief explanation of why:

1. Two consumer grade SSDs WD Blue 1TB in a zfs raid1
2. One enterprise grade SSD Samsung PM863a 960GB in ext4

I know it may be easy to say two enterprise grade SSDs or some other better config, sure but if you obsoletely had no financial choice here what would you choose?

 

[dcsapak]

another alternative (maybe?) one enterprise ssd with zfs raid0 and later a second enterprise ssd and turn it into a raid1

 

[robetus]

If I was going to go with one enterprise drive would it better to use a zfs raid0 on it over ext4?

 

[dcsapak]

If I was going to go with one enterprise drive would it better to use a zfs raid0 on it over ext4?

this depends largely on your needs (e.g. speed vs file integrity) and your other hardware (e.g. enough (ecc) ram, etc.)

 

[robetus]

The server will have a 2 x 2.6GHz 6 core Intel E5 processors with 128gb of ram. I think that file integrity is probably more important but I know with a zfs raid0 I can add a second drive later.

 

[robetus]

I went ahead and just purchased 2 Samsung Pm863 960gb SSDs for a zfs raid1. Anything worth doin' is worth doin' right.