Comment on Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox
AlphaAutist@lemmy.world 1 year agoYa I realize this isn’t a great way to go about storage but I already have the enclosure so I might as well use it for now. At some point down the line I will build something that will work better.
If I connect it using USB I am able to see each drive individually in Proxmox. I am unsure if it will be the same if I use eSATA. In the manual it says that the eSATA interface card needs to support Port Multiplier which I fear means the eSATA to SATA option may not work but I was hoping someone here may know more about that.
If I have to go the USB route and I am able to use each drive individually, would you recommend going with a ZFS pool or ceph?
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 1 year ago
I’d go with ZFS because balancing between the included disk in a Ceph pool will consume I/O and especially if one disk fails, that rebuild would take days if not weeks. If you want to try Ceph then don’t include all the 8 drives initially and see how the performance is with the minimum 3 drives.
AlphaAutist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks, I may hold off on ceph for now in that case