So, I know a guy... If your setup can accommodate SAS3, these will likely outlive you. Full PLP. Answer from Mr_OverTheTop on reddit.com
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December 28, 2022 - Yes enterprise drives have more longevity and i'd definitely recommend them for production uses, for home labbing just buy 2 consumer ones and use mirroring. Click to expand... Really depends on your workload and storage setup.
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Enterprise grade SSD recommendation for Proxmox host | Proxmox Support Forum
April 9, 2026 - This is the list I am looking at, ... ... - P3600 - Intel D3-S4500/S4510/S4600/S4520 - Intel DC P3700 400GB (good for *cache drive*) - Micron 5100 Pro/5300 Pro - Micron 7300 / 7400 / 7450 - Samsung PM983 / PM9A3 / PM893 / SM883 / PM863(a), - Kingston DC2000M ... pretty ...
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I'm looking at custom building a 1U server designed for colocation, where it won't be serviced regularly. My goal is a low power consumption platform (ie. AMD EPYC or similar) with a 20TB+ storage system that removes most of the challenges of spinning HDD failure rates. I was thinking SSDs... More on forum.proxmox.com
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I had many problems related to VERY HIGH iowait on my Proxmox VE Systems using Crucial MX500, which is a Consumer SSD (and one with very little DRAM, so once that fills up, Performance drops like a Rock). Now I got 2 x Intel DC S3610 1.6 TB SSDs which should be very good for VM Storage or also... More on forum.proxmox.com
Whats a good entry level enterprise SSD?
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August 26, 2022Best current sata enterprise ssd (price wise, best bang for your buck) | Proxmox Support Forum
I read that someone should take enterprise ssds instead of consume ones because of the greatly increased iops performance and power loss protection. So instead of a 870 EVO I would like to choose a enterprise ssd. What is price wise the best enterprise ssd (sata) that someone should buy? (Used... More on forum.proxmox.com
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[SOLVED] - Choice of storage type for VMs (NVME, SATA SSD, HDD) | Proxmox Support Forum
November 25, 2022 - Also have a look at the cost per TB of TBW (so price per TB that you can write to the SSD before losing the warranty because you caused too much wear). And yes, SSD would be recommended, because IOPS are needed.
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Recommended enterprise level SSDs for PM 8 on 1U server? | Proxmox Support Forum
December 4, 2023 - I realize each VM would have its own filesystem choice, but was hoping to do everything I can to reduce SSD writes to get the greatest longevity out of this server. I'll install as much memory as needed to remove the burden on the SSDs. Thoughts? Thanks in advance for any input. ... In general I can recommend Samsung.
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Proxmox with Second Hand Enterprise SSDs | Proxmox Support Forum
December 17, 2024 - my opinion: any enterprise-ssd is acceptable as long as it fits your needs (capacity, endurance and most importantly price). no need to pay for something insanely expensive from vendor a if a comparable ssd from vendor b is available cheaper. ...
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r/Proxmox on Reddit: Whats a good entry level enterprise SSD?
August 26, 2022 -
Hi!
Looking to buy a pair of 1tb SSDs for proxmox for a RAID 1 setup. What are some good entry level enterprise grade SSDs that I can expect a few years of worry free use on? I dont know much about the differences between enterprise & consumer SSDs, but I've read enough to know that I should care to use the better disks for the long term.
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For home? Buy consumer, monitor them, replace them if they die. It is far, far cheaper for the same amount of storage. At the most buy NAS drives, which I do recommend for mechanical drives, but yeah SSDs I still go with consumer. I’m an IT pro/sysadmin/contractor/former enterprise admin and use my cluster for my business, plus I’m a dealer who can purchase enterprise drives at wholesale. I still don’t bother and I average a replacement every couple years which is an insane saving. Just make sure your data is backed up and anything critical has redundancy. Enterprise drives are for enterprise, don’t waste your money.
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Best current sata enterprise ssd (price wise, best bang for your buck) | Proxmox Support Forum
November 15, 2023 - I read that someone should take enterprise ssds instead of consume ones because of the greatly increased iops performance and power loss protection. So instead of a 870 EVO I would like to choose a enterprise ssd.
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[SOLVED] - Right approach w/2 enterprise ssd's? | Proxmox Support Forum
April 24, 2023 - Cheap is fine? Of course Enterprise SSDs are recommended. For each and every use case and for each and every Filesystem. Yes, that's purely an (my) opinion If your Ceph has enough redundancy then you can choose cheaper devices.
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SSD or HHD for Proxmox Server | Proxmox Support Forum
February 29, 2024 - On Windoze I now have a habit (and recommend) of running the free DiskFresh app about 2-3 times a year on all SSD's. It's a quiet embarrassment that not a single industry vendor talks about addressing this. Seems it would not be hard to build it into the SSD firmware. BTW, it's actually worse on enterprise SSD's than consumer.
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Consumer grade SSD's | Proxmox Support Forum
February 8, 2024 - No matter how good that SSD is ... copy-on-write file-systems to manage this all). Thats why everyone recommends buying a used enterprise SSD instead of a new consumer SSD....
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SSD Drives | Proxmox Support Forum
January 20, 2023 - What type of VMs , what is the storage type etc. As a general rule you can run Proxmox on regular SSDs, running VMs on SSDs in production also depending on a number of VMs I would use a minimum of "Mix use" enterprise SSDs.
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November 8, 2025 - You don’t need enterprise SSDs to run Proxmox. But if you’re running consumer-grade NVMe or SATA drives in a tight, single-slot setup, and…
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Enterprise M.2 VM storage options | Proxmox Support Forum
January 4, 2024 - So far I have found these options in M.2 formfactor: - Micron 7450 Pro (1.92TB and 3.84TB) - Micron 7450 Max (800GB) - Samsung PM9A3 (not sure if I trust their firmwares anymore, even though this model seems better than the PM983) M.2 is currently ...
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Preferred SSDs for ZFS SLOG\L2ARC | Proxmox Support Forum
January 8, 2024 - Unlike with consumer SSD where ... are crap you can't do much wrong with any enterprise SSD. Don't cheap out on storage and get the fastest + most durable + biggest SSD you can afford. Any U.2/U.3 with 3+ DWPD and PLP should do a great job for most workloads...
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Which ssd do I use | Proxmox Support Forum
May 21, 2022 - The second hand enterprise SSDs were the same price per TB as the new consumer SSDs but got 30 times the durability + powerloss protection against data loss + better performance on continuous writes (no big performance drop when the RAM-/SLC-cache ...
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r/Proxmox on Reddit: Intel Enterprise SSD help for Proxmox OS and VMs
September 23, 2022 -
I am finally in a position to buy 2nd hand enterprise SSDs off Ebay for my Proxmox setup and have these set up as a ZFS mirror (this is for the OS and VMs; storage is on separate HDDs).
I am looking at used Intel DC SSDs on Ebay, primarily S3510 as I can get 2 x 800GB within my budget. However, I am unsure if I should go for these or another model viz. S3610, S3700, S3710. Going for one of these latter ones will mean that I get a smaller sized SSDs for about the same price. (reasons for considering the other ones is that I read that S3510 is good for heavy read and not heavy write, and I understand ZFS is write heavy; also the TBW of these latter ones is much higher than the S3510 and that may result in my getting a more longer lasting 2nd hand SSD).
So, in short - should I go for a larger (800GB) S3510 or go for a smaller sized (400/480GB) S3610, S37x0?
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Any storage media can fail at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. However, I would take look at new (consumer) SSD disks. I use Samsung Pro drives. When you choose look at drives that have good DWPD and TBW numbers. This article with tips might also help: https://www.vmwareblog.org/shopping-ssds-several-tips-help-make-right-choice/
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Storage recommendations for home workload? | Proxmox Support Forum
August 13, 2023 - Click to expand... DBs do sync writes. Only enterprise SSDs got a power-loss protection, so only these can cache sync writes in DRAM. Without that sync write performance will be magnitudes slower. So no, depending on the workload, they don'T perform about the same.
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No Budget for Enterprise Drives? Here's How Proxmox Users Are Fighting SSD Wearout Anyway
November 8, 2025 - You don't need enterprise SSDs to run Proxmox.
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Hardware Requirements - Proxmox Mail Gateway
For best performance use Enterprise class SSD with power loss protection. CPU: 64bit (Intel 64 or AMD64) 2 GB RAM · Bootable CD-ROM-drive or USB boot support · Monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 for the installation · Hard disk with at ...