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....
Ya I realize this isn’t a great way to go about storage but I already have the enclosure so I might as well use it for now. At some point down the line I will build something that will work better.
If I connect it using USB I am able to see each drive individually in Proxmox. I am unsure if it will be the same if I use eSATA. In the manual it says that the eSATA interface card needs to support Port Multiplier which I fear means the eSATA to SATA option may not work but I was hoping someone here may know more about that.
If I have to go the USB route and I am able to use each drive individually, would you recommend going with a ZFS pool or ceph?
Ok thanks and ya I plan to upgrade to something better suited for the job at some point. I just want to get started and use what I have as efficiently as I can.
Unfortunately the drives in the enclosure are 3.5. I do have a spare SATA spot in each of the 7040s but you can only fit 1 SATA drive in the 3040s and no m2 drives. That’s why I am trying to decide whether it would be better to sacrifice a SATA port on one of the 7040s for (hopefully) better speeds and stability or use USB and put an extra drive in each of the 7040s
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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....
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