Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox
https://lemmy.world/post/5474069
Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox - Lemmy.world
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. The cluster will be made up of 2x
Optiplex 7040 and 2x Optiplex 3040. All have i7-6700t CPUs, the 3040s have 16GB
DDR3 and 1TB SATA SSD each, and the 7040s each have 32GB DDR4 and 2TB NVMe drive
with an additional empty SATA port on the motherboard. The enclosure is a
MediaSonic ProBox with USB3.0 and eSATA interfaces available
[https://www.newegg.com/mediasonic-h82-su3s2/p/N82E16817576012] I have heard
that you shouldn’t use USB to connect to storage so I have been trying to figure
out a way to use eSATA even though the Optiplex does not have an eSATA port. I
found some SATA to eSATA cables
[https://www.ebay.com/itm/234172479166?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338590836&toolid=10044&customid=90c11a852c24150f38797f89661331d5]
on eBay, would that enable me to connect the enclosure directly to the free SATA
port on the Optiplex? Would this setup work? Is it worth it to sacrifice the
additional SATA port on one of the 7040s in order to avoid using USB? I would
like to maximize stability and speed. I have not yet decided how I want to
configure the drives but was planning to look into either a ZFS pool or ceph.
All drives in the enclosure will be for media storage (movies/tv/music, was
planning to keep pictures and documents elsewhere) and passed to LXCs and
kubernetes cluster I plan to run on Proxmox. Any guidance on the connection
setup, storage configuration, or my plans in general would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox
https://lemmy.world/post/5474031
Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox - Lemmy.world
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. The cluster will be made up of 2x
Optiplex 7040 and 2x Optiplex 3040. All have i7-6700t CPUs, the 3040s have 16GB
DDR3 and 1TB SATA SSD each, and the 7040s each have 32GB DDR4 and 2TB NVMe drive
with an additional empty SATA port on the motherboard. The enclosure is a
MediaSonic ProBox with USB3.0 and eSATA interfaces available
[https://www.newegg.com/mediasonic-h82-su3s2/p/N82E16817576012] I have heard
that you shouldn’t use USB to connect to storage so I have been trying to figure
out a way to use eSATA even though the Optiplex does not have an eSATA port. I
found some SATA to eSATA cables
[https://www.ebay.com/itm/234172479166?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338590836&toolid=10044&customid=90c11a852c24150f38797f89661331d5]
on eBay, would that enable me to connect the enclosure directly to the free SATA
port on the Optiplex? Would this setup work? Is it worth it to sacrifice the
additional SATA port on one of the 7040s in order to avoid using USB? I would
like to maximize stability and speed. I have not yet decided how I want to
configure the drives but was planning to look into either a ZFS pool or ceph.
All drives in the enclosure will be for media storage (movies/tv/music, was
planning to keep pictures and documents elsewhere) and passed to LXCs and a
kubernetes cluster I plan to run on Proxmox. Any guidance on the connection
setup, storage configuration, or my plans in general would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
