WD Red SN700

Sometimes you'll get a unit that's going to fail no matter what you do, and for most normal use cases you'll almost never reach even close to the manufacturer TBW spec before you replace them, or something else happens to them. I use WD Red SN700 NVMEs. They have 5100TBW according to specs, in pract

In my small mini pc, I use a WD Red SN700 (500GB) as my OS drive and a Sabrent Rocket 4 2TB as my VM drive. I formatted the OS drive to be EXT4/LVM-Thin and the VM drive to be ZFS. This turned out to be a perfect solution for my needs. Proxmox does extensive logging so the wear is reduced by using t

ok, here is some llm magic - sounds logical for me at least: Short answer: 1TB as read-only cache, 250GB as independent scratch volume Your 1 Gbps network is your actual bottleneck, not storage. This fundamentally changes what makes sense. Why your network matters more than you think Your IronWolf P

First of all, I gave up on ZFS for this very reason. First of all, ZFS itself does not cause write amplification. Wrong pool geometry (RAIDZ instead of mirror), changing volblocksize does. Maybe CoW a little bit (ZIL). But that is all negligible in a home setup. Home use here, so it is what it is. I

What drive? This has been happening with WD SN700 drives for years, lots of reports of the drive suddenly disconnecting, suspected unfixed firmware issue. Seems to happen only with Linux. Drives are healthy. Not all drives are affected. Just reseating solved the problem for me at first, but around a

I recently built a similar setup using a K8 as a Proxmox host for my ultra-compact homelab. It runs several Windows and Linux VMs, including one VM dedicated to container workloads. I also chose a 64 GB RAM kit — which hits a nice balance between cost and capacity for this kind of setup. For the sto

Just go with WD Red SN700. They are built for 24x7 operation but are only pcie 3.0x4 but it's more than enough.

(Please note on the below i incorrectly said mp34 initially, and later updated to mp44 after replies from others and not9c9ng my mistake) Thank you for the reply! I had 6 teamgroup mp44 first but they had erratic performance between them (3 different circuit boards for same part#, 2 ran 110% hotter

For your Minisforum UM890 Pro, the ideal two-NVMe combo is: Slot 1 (VMs/Datastore): A high-performance, high-endurance drive like the WD SN850X. Slot 2 (Proxmox OS): A reliable, but more budget-friendly drive like the WD Red SN700 or a similar-class consumer drive. This setup balances performance wh

The above config made it longer (surviving storage benchmarking and 14-15 hours of Frigate + a 2TB rsync), but still tanked.Based on u/Beelinksupport 's post in the comments I rebuilt yet again, this time trying OS on the WD SN700 in slot 4. I still have the wireless card physically removed, eMMC on