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Enterprise SSD? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks, I'm at my wits end. I've been screwing with proxmox for years now, but I'm at a tipping point. I've just used consumer SSDs in it to run my VMs off of - but I just realized after a dozen or so crashes over the last week that I think the SSDs are the culprit. (Really, really terrible write speeds leading to kernel crashes I believe).

I've never gotten an enterprise SSD, if that's even what I need. Any recommendations? New? Used? Brands?

Appreciate it

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Even the slowest SSD write speeds should be faster than an HDD, and those have been running systems perfectly fine for decades. I've never used enterprise SSDs (usually one little consumer SSD, or even USB, for boot/cache and a bunch of HDDs for storage) and I've never had a problem.

What kind of hardware are you using?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Decades? Like before 2004 :-p

To be fair though, old SSDs were usually single cell (but without trim?) so maybe really good quality.

I got an illegally cheap 256GB one for my 3770K for, not 320€ but like less than half, still goes strong...

I'd love sticking a bunch of cheap SSD & maybe HD in a mega secure "drive" but seems there is always some other single point of failure like mobo, remembering the setup etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Currently a few samsung drives. I thought I'd be smart and zfs them together for proxmox, but that hasn't been working well. Maybe that's the issue and I just need to split them, I just liked the idea of a lot of storage split up, and that may give me even faster reads/writes. It's been nothing but a pain though. Hell maybe one of them failed and I haven't even noticed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

What are you using for a drive controller?