Use Case: Proxmox 6.1, 30 VMs, 30 containers, on an Intel Silver 4510 with 128GB of RAM. Backup etc would be on different ZFS array. VM filesystems would be mainly NTFS and XFS. No database VMs. I will have Redis and Kafka though.
I currently have a 2TB 970 Evo Plus, but I want to learn ZFS and understand that this drive would be quite slow for my use case. I'm wondering if I would notice a speed difference between these two drives, or if the extra space in the 4510 is better? The VMs and containers aren't expected to be very large so I could make 480GB work as my hot drive and then move written data to a warm drive 960 Pro.
I would prefer extra space if I'll only save minimum amount of time going with the 905p. I know that databases would make the 905p the choice, as well as using it for a ZIL. However, in both cases I wouldn't setup a ZIL, and databases aren't a factor for me. I'm not sure how to determine if I would have a lot of QD1 activity which would make the 905P the much more obvious choice.
I currently have a 2TB 970 Evo Plus, but I want to learn ZFS and understand that this drive would be quite slow for my use case. I'm wondering if I would notice a speed difference between these two drives, or if the extra space in the 4510 is better? The VMs and containers aren't expected to be very large so I could make 480GB work as my hot drive and then move written data to a warm drive 960 Pro.
I would prefer extra space if I'll only save minimum amount of time going with the 905p. I know that databases would make the 905p the choice, as well as using it for a ZIL. However, in both cases I wouldn't setup a ZIL, and databases aren't a factor for me. I'm not sure how to determine if I would have a lot of QD1 activity which would make the 905P the much more obvious choice.