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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Recommended SSDs/M.2s for a non critical mini server system | Proxmox Support Forum
December 27, 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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[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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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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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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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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So, I know a guy... If your setup can accommodate SAS3, these will likely outlive you. Full PLP.
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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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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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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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January 3, 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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Proxmox with Second Hand Enterprise SSDs | Proxmox Support Forum
December 16, 2024 - 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 intensive stuff, since I got Reccomendation from many Sources that - even second Hand - Enterprise SSDs have WAY better Performance.
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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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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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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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February 14, 2025 - I would advise going with a better ... I/O or temperature constrained after a certain amount of data transfer. Proxmox recommends Enterprise-level SSD, but for homelab you can get away with a high TBW rating....
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Calculating IOPS per GB per VM to Pick an Enterprise SSD | Proxmox Support Forum
July 17, 2021 - Hi there, I'm currently trying to pick an appropriate enterprise SSD for my Proxmox VM set up. I have a consumer SSD and per best practice from the forums here, they don't cut it. And sure enough, after during my daily tasks, IO delays are a problem. I found this article that recommends a 50-100 IOPS per GB per VM.
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r/Proxmox on Reddit: SSD recommendations
April 30, 2021 -
Hi there,
Currently i have 2x 1tb nvme's in mirrored zfs but one is at 50% wear-out after less than a year. Its a pretty cheap inland drive so I'm wondering what you guys would recommend for its replacement. Something that would last longer and maybe be optimized for this workload. Proxmox itself is installed on the mirror and a majority of the vms/ct's are also on the mirror.
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Don't get cheap SSDs. Anything that has a proper DRAM cache is the bare minimum. The Samsung 970 Evo Plus is a good choice that I know has a DRAM cache but there are others out there. Also go for TLC and avoid QLC drives, the extra storage of QLC may seem appealing but they don't perform as well and their endurance is not quite as good.
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If this is a home lab or small office setting, then consumer drives, if selected carefully, should be enough. I like following the recommendations by NewMaxx . If this is a more heavy-duty setting, then a proper enterprise drive will likely be necessary. Customer drives just don't have the necessary endurance.
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August 12, 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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r/Proxmox on Reddit: Consumer NVMe vs. Enterprise SATA SSDs for VM Storage?
February 17, 2022 -
Hello all,
I've ordered a couple of mini PCs to add to my existing Proxmox setup to play with HA configuration.
These mini PCs only have 1x m.2 NVMe slot (2280) and 1x SATA 2.5in slot.
My question: From a purely VM performance perspective, would it be preferable to go with a large consumer NVMe drive for VM storage, or a large (used) enterprise SATA 2.5in SSD instead? The entirety of the Proxmox forums is "consumer SSD = crap," but the official benchmarks I've been able to find are just vs. the consumer SATA SSDs - I've not been able to find any real comparisons with consumer NVMe drives. In those benchmarks, though, the consumer drives lagged waaaayy behind, presumably due to them not performing as well under a Proxmox / VM workload. Because of this, I'd initially been planning on getting a used 1.92TB PM863 for each of them for VM storage, but have been re-thinking that.
Yes, there will be backups.
Thank you
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You should be aware that while consumer NVME may seem faster on paper and offer high sequential transfer rates, their random I/O performance may be actually lower than that of an enterprise SATA SSD, and fsync performance is very likely (as in almost certainly) to be much lower. Since your intended use is "to play", you should go with whatever is more affordable and/or accessible, I doubt that you will see much of a difference.
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This is a homelab, right? You're unlikely to need the endurance of enterprise drives. Go for NVMe. Consider using this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMaxx/comments/dhvrdm/ssd_guides_resources/ and maybe hurry up, because apparently due to a large failed batch consumer SSDs are projected to get a bit more expensive . Performance-wise, SATA tops at around 70 kIOPS and 600 MB/s. NVMe can do 200 kIOPS and 3 GB/s. This is a big difference in some workloads, like databases, build servers, large directories with small files, etc.
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[SOLVED] - Tips on Upgrading SSDs for my Proxmox lab | Proxmox Support Forum
January 1, 2025 - Consumer ssd are fine and fast enough for multiple vm's in a small setup if you use ext4. Click to expand... In the broader context your statement is largely true - but still has the potential to bite you later. Firstly you have to consider the (heavy) Proxmox/cluster logging. Secondly if your user case includes heavy writing to disk you may also end up "surprised". I find the most economical attitude with non-enterprise drives is to underuse the drives capacity (~70%) - then the drive will last.
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August 4, 2025 - That’s why enterprise-grade SSDs are often the go-to: they balance endurance and features like power-loss protection (PLP) while still being affordable if you buy smart. In this post, we’ll dig into the latest community picks for SSDs that ...