Comment on Proxmox Disk Performance Problems
seaQueue@lemmy.world 8 months agoDepends on the SSD, the one I linked is fine for most casual home server use. You’re unlikely to see enough of a write workload that endurance will be an issue. That’s an enterprise drive btw, it certainly wasn’t cheap when it was brand new and I doubt running a couple of VMs will wear it quickly. (I’ve had a few of those in service at home for 3-4y, no problems.)
Consumer drives have more issues, their write endurance is considerably lower than most enterprise parts. You can blow through a cheap consumer SSD’s endurance in mere months with a hypervisor workload so I’d strongly recommend using enterprise drives where possible.
It’s always worth taking a look at drive datasheets when you’re considering them and comparing the warranty lifespan to your expected usage too. The drive linked above has an expected endurance of like 2PB (~3 DWPD, OR 2TB/day, over 3y) so you shouldn’t have any problems there. See sandisk.com/…/cloudspeed-eco-genII-sata-ssd-datas…
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 8 months ago
Thanks for all the info. I’ll keep this in mind if I replace the drive. I am using refurb enterprise HDDs in my main server. Didn’t think I’d need to go enterprise grade for this box but you make a lot of sense.