#proxmox · 8sync News

XDA Developers03 phút1 ngày trước

I opted for native ZFS in Proxmox over a TrueNAS VM, and it's the best decision I made

Running native ZFS directly on Proxmox instead of inside a TrueNAS VM avoids IOMMU/VFIO headaches with HBA passthrough on consumer hardware. With native ZFS, containers like Immich can access storage via direct bind mounts without NFS/SMB round trips or boot-order dependencies. TrueNAS still wins on GUI convenience and one-click app catalogs, but for this specific hardware setup (LSI 9207-8i on a Z170-E board with SAS drives), native ZFS was the simpler and more reliable choice.

#linux #homelab #proxmox Nguồn

XDA Developers02 phút2 ngày trước

Don't bother with a bulky desktop, as this incredible mini PC with a Ryzen 4 5300U and 16GB is on sale right now

The Bosgame E5 mini PC is on sale for Prime Day at 24% off its usual ~$400 price. It features an AMD Ryzen 3 5300U APU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, dual 2.5 GbE NICs, Wi-Fi 5, and support for three 4K displays. It's positioned as a quiet, low-power home lab server capable of running Docker containers, Proxmox with VMs, or self-hosted services, while also doubling as a general-purpose desktop replacement.

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XDA Developers06 phút2 ngày trước

Proxmox on microSD cards is technically possible, but terrible transfer speeds aren't the only problem

Running Proxmox on microSD cards is technically feasible but deeply impractical. Installation took over 40 minutes, LXC containers were sluggish, and VMs with desktop environments were nearly unusable — a NixOS install took over 90 minutes. Beyond the terrible transfer speeds (around 30MB/s sustained write), the real dealbreaker is microSD card write endurance. Even with mitigations like disabling pve-ha services and using Log2Ram to reduce write frequency, microSD cards are far too fragile for a home server workload. The experiment serves as a cautionary tale against using microSD cards for Proxmox nodes.

#infrastructure #self-hosting #homelab