Mario_Rossi
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Hi, at the beginning of the year I built a home server for proxmox with consumer hardware and storage.
I have two 240gb sata ssd in RAID1 ZFS for the proxmox operating system.
I have a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD (samsung pro 990) for the VMs in ZFS
I have two 6TB WDGold SATA HDs in pass through on the Truenas CORE VM.
The wear of the SSDs is accentuated, with the current loads I calculated that within a year the wear leveling will reach 0.
In various forums it is recommended to use SSD with PLP.
I was thinking of buying 4 cheap used U.2/U.3 PLP SSDs, an HBA card and possibly a backplane
2x <400gb for proxmox RAID1 ZFS
2x ~1TB for RAID1 ZFS VMs
The motherboard I have destined to act as a server is a CWWK AMD-8845HS (https://cwwk.net/products/cwwk-amd-...-network-2-5g-9-sata-pcie-x16-itx-motherboard).
On a SFE-8643 SATA3.0 (6Gbps) port I will connect the 2 WD GOLD 6TB HDs.
On the PCI-E x16 slot PCle4.0 port (x8 signal) I would like to connect the HBA card that supports 4 U.2/U.3 SSDs
My problem is that I can't figure out what card, cables and backplane to look for.
SSDs are easy to find, just search for SSD U.2 or U.3
But on the HBA card I often find the acronyms SAS, SATA, sometimes NVME (which is what I should be interested in), while the cables are often SFE on one side and SATA on the other.
On the backplane I only find SATA/SAS.
I ask you for help in understanding what I have to look for to manage 4 U.2 or U.3 SSDs on my server.
It would be better (costs permitting) to get a universal U.3/U.2/SAS/SATA platform so I can use any type of disk.
Otherwise at least one that supports U.2.
U.3 SSDs are backwards compatible on the U.2 platform, maybe you lose something but in a home server it's not a tragedy.
Thanks for the help.
I have two 240gb sata ssd in RAID1 ZFS for the proxmox operating system.
I have a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD (samsung pro 990) for the VMs in ZFS
I have two 6TB WDGold SATA HDs in pass through on the Truenas CORE VM.
The wear of the SSDs is accentuated, with the current loads I calculated that within a year the wear leveling will reach 0.
In various forums it is recommended to use SSD with PLP.
I was thinking of buying 4 cheap used U.2/U.3 PLP SSDs, an HBA card and possibly a backplane
2x <400gb for proxmox RAID1 ZFS
2x ~1TB for RAID1 ZFS VMs
The motherboard I have destined to act as a server is a CWWK AMD-8845HS (https://cwwk.net/products/cwwk-amd-...-network-2-5g-9-sata-pcie-x16-itx-motherboard).
On a SFE-8643 SATA3.0 (6Gbps) port I will connect the 2 WD GOLD 6TB HDs.
On the PCI-E x16 slot PCle4.0 port (x8 signal) I would like to connect the HBA card that supports 4 U.2/U.3 SSDs
My problem is that I can't figure out what card, cables and backplane to look for.
SSDs are easy to find, just search for SSD U.2 or U.3
But on the HBA card I often find the acronyms SAS, SATA, sometimes NVME (which is what I should be interested in), while the cables are often SFE on one side and SATA on the other.
On the backplane I only find SATA/SAS.
I ask you for help in understanding what I have to look for to manage 4 U.2 or U.3 SSDs on my server.
It would be better (costs permitting) to get a universal U.3/U.2/SAS/SATA platform so I can use any type of disk.
Otherwise at least one that supports U.2.
U.3 SSDs are backwards compatible on the U.2 platform, maybe you lose something but in a home server it's not a tragedy.
Thanks for the help.
