SSD Recommendation for ZFS ESX Datastore

[nitrobass24]

Looking for a Drive Recommendation for a small ESX VMware Datastore

Looking to do a 2x drive ZFS Mirror Setup.
Needs to be SATA
Only need about 250GB in actual storage.

Would like to keep the cost under $400 if possible.

 

[K D]

Interested in this too.

 

[MiniKnight]

What about SSDSC2BB480G4: Intel DC S3500 Series 480GB internal SSD at $135 ea?

2x the capacity and you can get 2 for $310 shipped. This is the OBO one but it's $150 + 8 ship SSDSC2BB480G4 Intel S3500 Series 480GB SATA3 6.0Gb/s SFF Consumer SSD 735858258418 | eBay so you'd need to get down to $125 offer to make that work.

If you're OK spending more for less capacity, Intel SSD DC S3700 Series SSDSC2BA400G3 400GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Solid State Drive | eBay is hot too and less worry about wear out.

If you only needed 200GB this is a steal (I'll put it on great deals) Intel SSD DC S3610 SSDSC2BX100G4R 200GB 2.5 inch SATA3 Drive | eBay

 

[RobertFontaine]

I've been collecting 600GB s3500's for a striped-mirrored zfs pool on an LSI card in HBA mode. Hopefully, I haven't made a terrible mistake (wouldn't be the first time). When they are at the right price they are about as enterprisey as I can afford to go for a virtualization pool in the dungeon. In practice I think they will deliver more than enough IOPs to have all my virtual servers, workstations run smoothly. That said, a couple of 1TB mirrored NVME drives would probably work too and I suspect that they would outperform by a fair bit.

 

[whitey]

I like the 2x mirror 400gb s3700 option. For a handful of VM's that will smoke! I remember recently those were $125-140 but I think they upticked so if I priced the option to high my bad.

 

[Jeggs101]

I'd get the 400GB. My first Proxmox server I had an 80GB SSD and ran outa space from moving images and isos.

 

[K D]

Went with a 3x S3500 480GB RAIDZ.

 

[chief_j]

I went with cheaper (and bigger ssds) and then when with mirrors. Crucial m550's and I have 4 now. I originally did a raidz1, but mirrors are so much easier to add capacity to for something like vm storage, and performance seems to be much better.

 

[lunadesign]

What about a SLOG? Or are you going with sync=disabled?

 

[ttabbal]

With SSD mirrors, an SLOG would need to be quite fast to be worth it... Probably need to go nvme.

 

[Evan]

With SSD mirrors, an SLOG would need to be quite fast to be worth it... Probably need to go nvme.

Or SAS3, be it ZFS or vSAN or anything like that there is something to be gained from your cache type data being on fast ssd vs capacity on slower ssd.
In a home environment I am sure not but for the fun of doing it and understanding how it impacts and works sure why not

 

[gea]

I would also use a pair of Intel DC 3700.
They have really high write iops for secure sync write and powerloss protection.
No extra slog required.

 

[Jeggs101]

If you're still looking Dell 400GB SSD SATA 6GB/s Intel S3610 Mix Use 2.5in - 65WJJ | eBay maybe on BO? Miniknight had good drives.

 

[vrod]

You don't need an slog with an ssd pool. The usual reason that one would get an slog is because hdd's suck at sync writes.

 

[nitrobass24]

I have two S3710 400GB and two S3700 800GB drives inbound right now. Should be good enough!