ninjan , 11 months ago

8 drives over USB 3.0 won’t perform well, though a single SATA connection isn’t without issues either. That cable will be the I/O limiter in an uncommon fashion. I’d go for the eSATA converter option but neither is ideal. A big question is how will the drives be seen by Proxmox? If it’s as one big drive that means you’re SOL for safe storage options, if so I wouldn’t store anything you don’t want to lose on there and just make a ZFS storage pool of it in Proxmox.

As for plans I would down the line look at Ceph because it does really well with cheap hardware. No need for a competent RAID controller etc.