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  • Thank you for responding and providing the link and info. The top comment in that reddit post has the same link I posted above.

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    zpool import // find the ID of the NVME pool

    How did you find the ID of the NVME pool? I think is part of the problem I have where I see multiple partitions and not entirely sure which is the "boot" partition I should be pointing to. I think in your case, you're pointing to the "data" partition, but this might help me eliminate one of my options.

    I'm also not sure how the raid1 plays into things since it seems like both physical drives seem to have the same partitions. Not sure if I can just point to one of the "boot" partitions on one of the drives and it'll find it's partner when it starts booting?




  • The original plan is to use an SD card with Clover in read-only mode to bootload Proxmox running on the NVMe drives. (Read-only to prevent frying the SD card) This server has a built in SD Card slot Dell calls "vFlash" that you can actually remotely partition and configure. That's where I was going to put the final configuration of Clover.

    How fast/often is Proxmox writing logging? It's concerning that you say you had this fry some NVMes since that's what I'm trying to do here. Is this a setting that you can adjust?


  • From what I've read online, Dell does something similar. There's some sort of card/add-on that can enable directly seeing and booting from PCIe but they are costly.

    This server has the internal USB and a build in SD slot accessible from the rear. (There's also a dual card option like you mention for redundancy.)

    My plan was to get Clover working with USB, then use the vFlash SD slot to hold the Clover bootloader in read-only mode. This would hopefully prevent the SD card from dying quickly.



  • Ac5000@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldMy self-hosted home setup
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for posting this with the explanations and great visuals! I am wanting to upgrade to a setup almost identical to this and you’ve basically given me the bill of materials and task list.

    Anything you wish you had done differently or suggest changing/upgrading before I think about putting something similar together?