Goal:

  • 16TB mirrored on 2 drives (raid 1)
  • Hardware raid?
  • Immich, Jellyfin and Nextcloud. (All docker)
  • N100, 8+ GB RAM
  • 500gb boot drive ssd
  • 4 HDD bays, start with using 2

Questions:

  • Which os?
    • My though was to use hardware raid, and just set that up for the 2 hdds, then boot off an ssd with Debian (very familiar, and use it for current server which has 30+ docker containers. Basically I like and am good at docker so would like to stick to Debian+docker. But if hardware raid isn’t the best option for HDDs now a days, I’ll learn the better thing)
  • Which drives? Renewed or refurb are half the cost, so should I buy extra used ones, and just be ready to swap when the fail?
  • Which motherboard?
  • Which case?
  • ludEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    You need at minimum three ceph nodes but actually four if you want it to work better. But ceph isn’t ideally designed in mind with clusters that small. 7 nodes would be more reasonable.

    While clustering proxmox using ceph is cool as fuck it’s not easy or cheap to accomplish at home.

    • Evil_ShrubberyEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      No, I didn’t mean with ceph. No quorum needed either. Just add to the group.

      • ludEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Ah, so you mean completely independent hosts.

        • Evil_ShrubberyEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Yes, it’s still easier to manage, transfer stuff, Proxmox Backup server integrates nicely, etc.