Looking to build a SCALE box for a small newspaper office. I might end up using Proxmox instead, though I guess the same principles apply.
Will host a handful of VMs (web-based stuff like a CRM, development webserver, Nextcloud, etc) and serve as the primary storage server.
10ish employees total, so many 3-5 simultaneous users. Lots of medium-sized file transfer (photos), a small number of larger transfer (video).
I was going to create a pool of 3.5" rust for the main storage, and then a small SSD pool for the VMs/containers.
I'm looking at good cost/performance/redundancy solution to build a pool for VM storage. I'm leaning towards going with 3x 1TB consumer-grade SATA SSD in a 3-way mirror. Would anything be gained by adding a small consumer-grade NVMe SLOG for such a small setup? I'd assume probably not, since even with SATA SSDs that should be plenty of IOPS for such a small setup.
Will host a handful of VMs (web-based stuff like a CRM, development webserver, Nextcloud, etc) and serve as the primary storage server.
10ish employees total, so many 3-5 simultaneous users. Lots of medium-sized file transfer (photos), a small number of larger transfer (video).
I was going to create a pool of 3.5" rust for the main storage, and then a small SSD pool for the VMs/containers.
I'm looking at good cost/performance/redundancy solution to build a pool for VM storage. I'm leaning towards going with 3x 1TB consumer-grade SATA SSD in a 3-way mirror. Would anything be gained by adding a small consumer-grade NVMe SLOG for such a small setup? I'd assume probably not, since even with SATA SSDs that should be plenty of IOPS for such a small setup.