Replacement SSD for Proxmox Server

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So my current proxmox boot drive has 52 reallocated sectors on it, and I'm now looking at replacing it. I know the optane memory drives have a high write endurance, which made them my original idea for a replacement. Recently, however, I decided to look at some basic ~120GB ssds, and found out they're really cheap. I can buy 4 SP 128GB drives for the same price as 1 64GB. I'm also planning on switching from a ryzen 3600 based system to an older xeon platform (for the extra ram and pcie lanes, core count being a bonus) which will not have m.2 support so I'll probably have to run a clover bootloader hack to get it working (which isn't a big deal as I am pretty sure I know what to do).

So my question is, should i buy a pair of 120GB ssds or 1 optane memory drive? I'm leaning toward the conventional SSDs but wanted some other input.

conventional basic SSD
https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Performance-Internal-SU128GBSS3A55S25AH/dp/B0963SGYGF
intel optane memory drive
https://www.ebay.com/itm/395465362923

Sidenote: this is only a boot drive; all VMs are on a separate SSD

[west breach]

Optane is very cool, but past it's prime. The big selling point now is the insane longevity.
If you want a forever drive, optane. If you want performance now, the nand ssds.

That optane latency is so sexy though

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Thanks for your input!

Oh another thing. Say I buy 2 120GB ssds (and raid them together) and one of them fails down the line. How would I go about replacing the dead drive?

[west breach]

Raid 0, ye f'd. Raid1 your fine.
The easy way is to use a backup. If no back up, but was raid1 when it failed, you can back up then. Add 2nd drive, rewrite raid1 and data to both drives.
Someone with more experience could maybe tell you a better way.

Backing up 120 or even 240 ain't $#!+
It when you gotta copy mad data that backs become a huge pain in the rear

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i was going to go for two wd red sn700 nvmes and raid em, veyr high tbw on them. if ur going xeon why not go for some used u.2 intel nvme drives, get a adapter for pcie and put em in ? that being said all of my reocmendations is for proxmox boot + vm storage. if your going just for os storage i recon any cheapo ssds should do the job if you want to reduce the wear ive heard you can disable some logging to reduce

also i see your going xeon, im building my proxmox setup right now and im quite stuck on getting a build right with the pcie passthroughs , seems like amd ryzen doesnt have too many lanes that are connected to cpu direct , having to use chipset to compesnate... i was lookign at old epyc/xeons but the power consumptions are really high

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Well, u.2 drives are usually pretty expensive (compared to a cheap 120GB ssd). And yes, this is os only (I believe I mentioned that at the end of the original post)

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Yeah, consumer desktop cpus have at most 1 x16 (or 2 x8) slots and 1 m.2 slot

Ryzen 7000 might have x16 and 2 m.2 slots I’m not sure

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some used off ebay arent to bad tbh i owudl say roughly same price as normal