I am trying to figure out the optimal way to connect an 8 bay drive enclosure to a Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro. The end goal is to have the drives made available to a Proxmox cluster and kubernetes cluster. This is all for learning experience as well as to run services for personal use....
I’m not sure it’s going to work like you hope it will. Your enclosure can run ‘raid’ but zfs doesn’t like raid. As far as ‘jbod’ thru one esata cable…thats not how zfs likes it either.
Your best bet is to buy a m2/nvme to 5 sata port adapter so zfs can distinguish each drive. But then… the question is if your enclosure allows that.
I love mini pc’s but for zfs there’s not a lot of wriggle room. High end ones have dual nvme ports allowing for zfs mirror. Other than that you’ll have to go said sata_nvme + an enclosure that powers all disks but allows for individual sata cables. It’s gonna be clunky macgyvering too.
Anyone have any advice on how to choose between TruNAS, openmediavault, etc for homelab. I want to run nextcloud and jellyfin and maybe some VMs, though I also don’t really think that RAID is the best option for future proofing but I could be wrong.
Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.
Its supposed to be called betterFS but Jim Salter keeps calling it butter FS. Doesn’t really inspire confidence. At least it’s gonna need… a better name
I bought a HP elitedesk G3 800 mini pc and managed to install an ‘M2 to ethernet card’ in the wifi port. Avoid HP G2 mini as they have a capacitator too close to the M2 wifi slot.
It’s a bit macgyvering to secure it to the rear of the chassis though. You’ll need 2 longer nvme screws and some hard plastic to secure it to the mobo.
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Thats a lot of money. I just bought a HP elitedesk g3 800 midtower for €82, incl psu but without cpu, from a local refurb site. Slightly dented but bios updated to this years version and cleaned… From ebay a €45 i5-7400 for 4c/4t as it can decode hevc 10bit for jellyfin. 32gig ram from ebay. 4 amazon SSDs I mounted in an icydock chassis that slots into the 5.25 bay. This is the expensive part, but its really clean and drives are ejectable like a rackserver. The chassis can hold 2 HDD for an additional zpool as well as an extra ssd. Also has an nvme slot for Proxmox OS and plenty of usb for Truenas style setups.
I have a bunch of equipment on my rack that has AC adapters as part of the cable. How do people manage those so that they’re secured and out of the way?
Something I’m looking at myself is HP elitedesk 800 gen3 Tower. Mobo has 5 sata ports in addition to 1 nvme port. It takes 6/7th gen cpu so you could reuse your current cpu. 4 ram slots DDR4@2400.
What is especially appealing is the 5.25 slot for which icydock has a powered bracket that takes and powers 4 SSD disks. (Edit: ejectable too). Sure the chassis has internal space to accomodate even more HDD.
With Proxmox on the nvme + some raidz zfs action would make for a nice HCI setup. My next build and might inspire yours.
Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox
I am trying to figure out the optimal way to connect an 8 bay drive enclosure to a Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro. The end goal is to have the drives made available to a Proxmox cluster and kubernetes cluster. This is all for learning experience as well as to run services for personal use....
Picking the tight software
Anyone have any advice on how to choose between TruNAS, openmediavault, etc for homelab. I want to run nextcloud and jellyfin and maybe some VMs, though I also don’t really think that RAID is the best option for future proofing but I could be wrong.
Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it
Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.
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AC adapters
I have a bunch of equipment on my rack that has AC adapters as part of the cable. How do people manage those so that they’re secured and out of the way?
Recommendation for NAS hardware
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