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ElectronicsWizardry
Приєднався 17 чер 2012
This channel is mainly about computers, networking, servers, virtualization and more.
Let me know if you have video ideas or products that you would like me to look at.
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Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS Review. 4 M.2 SSDs in a MiniPC
Link to product page from Aiffro: www.aiffro.com/discount/GZSRS84D4B1Z?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Fall-ssd-nas-k100
In this video I review the Aiffro K100 MiniPC NAS. This MiniPC has 4 m.2, and I take a look performance, cooling, power, noise and more. I also take a look at a SSD vs HDD NAS to see what makes more sense
Thanks for watching
00:00 Intro
00:37 Hardware Overview
02:22 M.2 SSD Specs and Cooling
03:54 CPU Cooling and Power Limits
06:08 Fan Noise
06:57 Power Consumption
08:42 Included SSD Mini-Review
09:56 Software Support
10:37 NAS Performance Testiing
10:54 Comparing a SSD and HDD NAS
14:22 Changes I'd Like to See
15:01 Conclusion
In this video I review the Aiffro K100 MiniPC NAS. This MiniPC has 4 m.2, and I take a look performance, cooling, power, noise and more. I also take a look at a SSD vs HDD NAS to see what makes more sense
Thanks for watching
00:00 Intro
00:37 Hardware Overview
02:22 M.2 SSD Specs and Cooling
03:54 CPU Cooling and Power Limits
06:08 Fan Noise
06:57 Power Consumption
08:42 Included SSD Mini-Review
09:56 Software Support
10:37 NAS Performance Testiing
10:54 Comparing a SSD and HDD NAS
14:22 Changes I'd Like to See
15:01 Conclusion
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TerraMaster F2-212 NAS Review: A look at a entry level 2 bay NAS
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In this video I take a look at the TerraMaster F2-212 NAS and go over functionally, performance, and more. Let me know in the comments how I can improve my reviews, or other suggestions for the channel. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Hardware Overview 01:53 Power Consumption 03:17 Looking at TOS 06:11 File Sharing Performance 06:56 Conclusion
Running a NAS on Proxmox, Different Methods and What to Know
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I often get asked whats the best way to run a NAS on top of Proxmox and in this video I cover different methods along with other knowledge that might be nice to know when setting up a NAS on Proxmox. Let me know if this video was helpful and if there are other topics that I could cover 00:00 Intro 00:40 Should Proxmox be used as a NAS? 02:09 RAID 04:48 NAS Protocols 06:04 Method 1: Network shar...
TerraMaster D8 review, 8 drives in one USB enclosure
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In this video I review the new TerraMaster D8 Hybrid. This USB DAS has a combination of 4 3.5IN HDD bays and 4 M.2 NVMe bays. In this review I take a look at the performance, power, thermals, and my thoughts after using this DAS. Kickstarter Link for the D8 Hybrid: kck.st/3WkrLad 00:00 Intro 00:47 Hardware overview 03:03 Taking a look inside 04:33 Tempatures 05:04 Power Consumption 05:51 Testin...
Running Different OSes on Ugreen NAS Devices + PCIe layout and CPU thermal/performance tuning
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Ugreen NASync Private Cloud Storage Solution Ugreen NASync DXP6800 Pro: kck.st/3UtOKhW Up to 35% OFF until May 9 One of the most common questions I get about these Ugreen NASync units is can a different OS be ran, and if so how? In this video I go over installing other OSes and how well they work. I also investigate some other technical questions I was curious about like how PCIe is allocated o...
Trying Out Proxmox's New ESXi VM Import Tool
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Proxmox has recent added a tool to Proxmox VE that allows for easy importing of VMs from a VMware ESXi host. In this video I setup some test systems and see how the import process goes, and see what different configuration options can be imported. 00:00 Intro 01:43 Migrating a VM 07:21 IP and MAC during migration 08:29 What config options gets migrated 14:02 Other thoughts on ESXi migration
Checking Out The All New Ugreen NAS
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Ugreen NASync Private Cloud Storage Solution Ugreen NASync Series: kck.st/3INOxQ8 Up to 35% OFF during Mar28-May 9 #Ugreen #UgreenNASync #UgreenNAS IN this video I take a look at the new Ugreen NASync line and see what Ugreen brings to the NAS market. I take a look at the hardware that powers the nas, and the software included. 00:00 Intro 00:46 Model Comparison 01:33 Hardware Overview 03:19 Ta...
Movespeed Ray x20 review, taking a look at a 20gbit USB SSD
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In this video I review the Movespeed Ray X20 USB SSD. This is a 20gbit USB drive and I take a look at how it does in disk performance testing aswell as taking a look at whats inside the drive. 00:00 Intro 00:26 Physical Overview 01:14 SSD Internals 02:27 Notes on USB Performance 03:11 Performance Testing 05:43 Conclusion
Homelab Storage Cluster, How Well Can I Reuse Existing Hardware?
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I take a look at some storage clustering programs and see how they preform on existing hardware. I try out Ceph, GlusterFS and MooseFS on 3 servers. I also had the task of reusing existing servers and SMR drives, and look at how much of an issue these SMR drives will be. 00:00 Intro 00:28 Requirements for the cluster 02:08 HDDs used 03:21 Ceph Testing 05:27 GlusterFS 06:55 MooseFS and LizardFS ...
Orico J10 and USB to M.2 NVMe enclosure review
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I review a J10 SSD and a USB and take a look at thermals and performance. Here is the link to the SSD and enclosure combo provided by Orico: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ7VHQBF Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any video ideas in the comments below. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Physical Overview 3:20 Thermals 5:03 Performance 9:28 Conclusion
Trying out 40GBe, Does It Make Sense In A Homelab?
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In this video I take a look at 40GBe and see what hardware is needed to take full advantage of a 40GBe connection. I try many different servers and configurations to see how speeds change with the different configurations. Thanks for Unix surplus for suppling the 40GBe hardware used in this video. Check out the network cards and cable using in this video here: www.ebay.com/itm/355139412067?hash...
Qemu Guest Agent in Proxmox, what it does and how to enable it.
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In this video I take a look at the Qemu guest agent within Proxmox. I cover installing and enabling the guest agent, and how its used in Proxmox. I also go over terminal commands for advanced functions like running commands and resetting passwords in a VM. 00:00 Why a guest agent is needed 00:58 Installing the Qemu guest agent 04:51 How the guest agent is used in Proxmox 09:43 Using the guest a...
Super Micro X10SLH-N6-ST031 Review. How well can the 10GBe ports be used as a router?
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Today I take a look at the X10SLH-N6-ST031, a Super Micro C226 LGA 1150 board with 6 10GBe Ports built into the board. In this video I take a look at how well it works as a router along with other aspects like power consumption. I also take a look at a 1u case designed for this board. Thanks to Unix Surplus for providing this board for this video. Check them out here: unixsurplus.com/ Here is t...
Looking at the new features in Proxmox VE 8.1 and PBS 3.1 and upgrade process
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This is a re-upload with fixed audio levels. Proxmox VE 8.1 and PBS 3.1 have come out recently and in this video I take a look at the new features and how to upgrade an existing install. Some of the new features include secure boot, SDN, and new versions of software used under the hood. I also go over the upgrade process in this video Take a look at the release notes here: PVE 8.1: www.proxmox....
Using dRAID In ZFS for Faster Rebuilds On Large Arrays.
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Using dRAID In ZFS for Faster Rebuilds On Large Arrays.
Movespeed 1TB USB SSD Review. How Does USB Storage Hold Up?
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Movespeed 1TB USB SSD Review. How Does USB Storage Hold Up?
Is An Engineering Sample CPU Worth The Savings? Comparing A Xeon 6148 With An ES Version
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Is An Engineering Sample CPU Worth The Savings? Comparing A Xeon 6148 With An ES Version
Getting the most out of Proxmox Backup Server: Backing up other data, Offsite syncs, and more
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Getting the most out of Proxmox Backup Server: Backing up other data, Offsite syncs, and more
Movespeed HB7450 1TB review, A PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD with no DRAM
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Movespeed HB7450 1TB review, A PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD with no DRAM
How to setup PBS to backup your Proxmox VMs and Containers
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How to setup PBS to backup your Proxmox VMs and Containers
ZimaBoard Review. A Flexible Mini server with PCIe and SATA
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ZimaBoard Review. A Flexible Mini server with PCIe and SATA
Testing Optane Drives in Homelab/Server Usecases, Are They Worth it With the Price Drops?
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Testing Optane Drives in Homelab/Server Usecases, Are They Worth it With the Price Drops?
Upgrading an C32 Opteron Server to the max
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Upgrading an C32 Opteron Server to the max
Proxmox 8: New features and Upgrade process
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Proxmox 8: New features and Upgrade process
Taking a look at a RAM SSD: Radian RMS-200
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Taking a look at a RAM SSD: Radian RMS-200
Taking a look at the M1 Mac Mini as a home server
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Taking a look at the M1 Mac Mini as a home server
Saving an old server from the E-waste to create a NAS
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Saving an old server from the E-waste to create a NAS
How to clone drives using DD and GParted
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How to clone drives using DD and GParted
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At the same cost, I can get 3× the storage size with HDDs. I think that's worth the tradeoff
Straight up, Excellent overview of PBS. Sweet, straight and to the point. Thanks!
Way useful: outstanding video !!!!!
Damn good video....
I have a fried Exos X18 sata board does anyone know if I can use an x16 board to replace it?
Thanks for this usefull vidéo y saved me
Price keeps dropping (I guess as expected) The 905p 1.5 TB is $300 on New Egg.
So, if you have cluster size set to 1024KB and you save a file that is 25 KB in size, it will use 1024 KB of storage space to store your 25 KB file.
Yup that's right. That's one disadvantage with this approach. I have often seen people using large parity arrays for mostly large files so this isn't a big issue but depends on your use case.
Shave your head. You have the jawline to pull it off
man all mine did was the plastic under the pin contacts broke off, i kept it towhere the pins wouldnt get bent and theyre still in good enough shape to plug in an hdd case, although theres no plastic tensioning contact between every pin so it doesnt work
братан, ты красавчик, спасибо тебе за инструкцию
I had a question about the parity write hole issue on snapraid. You mentioned that it occurs because of striping across data disks, but from what i've heard, snapraid doesn't use striping, files are just stored on individual disks. Is the parity write hole issue still a problem in this case or no? Thanks!
@ElectronicsWizardry : Do you embedd proxmox for testing in proxmox? in esxi one can do this. did you try it out? like on 1 physical (mighty) proxmox host having like 3 embedded (as VM) proxmoxes for learning about clustering etc.
Is REFS as stable as ZFS for a file server for video editing 5 computers sharing same media ? debating whether to use MS Server2019/Storage Spaces or Truenas core? any recommendation?
This is such a well done video! I appreciate all the examples you put in that demonstrated specific scenarios. Very helpful!
I smile every time I google something and a video from you pops up. I need to just search your channel directly more often! I recently picked up a server that had one of these in it and thanks to you I've learned a ton on how I could potentially use it- thanks as always for sharing!
1:26 I've had so many Sandisk failures, those drives specifically, I still have an aversion to Sandisk, and by extension any WD SSD drives as those are Sandisk.
Thanks, helped me get my PBS mounted on the proxmox cluster, appreciate the vid.
Thank you for your videos! Please consider upgrading your microphone!
Thanks for the Super! I have changed mic since this video came out. Do you think it sounds better in my recent few videos?
@@ElectronicsWizardry , oh I thought it was one of the most recent vids. Yes, on fresher vids sound is better. Thank you!
Thanks for the feed back. I think that video was ~7 months old, and I changed audio since then.
I have relatively low specs, RX 580, Ryzen 5 2600, 32GB 3200mhz ram and I can play 2 games, high level FPS ultra graphics, with roblox or other medium demand programs with no issues or system lag, this program is seriously awesome, would love to learn how it works
you can't even imaging how frustrated I was before I found this video. I've tried setting it up with cockpit and 45 drives and open media vault and nothing was properly working for me. much love <3
My first Toshiba ignited into flames at the power connector at exactly 90 days.. It was my new backup drive for all the other drives I had, but the fire destroyed those, too. So much precious data is lost. Toshiba refused to replace the drive, but Amazon did. Then that power connector broke the first time I unplugged the cable. Amazon sent me _another_ one and it has last 8 years until yesterday when the housing just crumbled for no reason. Today I got a salty email from support stating that they DO NOT SELL replacement parts nor will they provide them. Dicks.
on the DXP6800 Pro can we just disable the Expansion slot and get back those pcie lanes and speed on the SSD m.2 slot?
I have a bunch of odd sized hard drives that I threw into my Proxmox, what software RAID type should I use?
Proxmox doesn't have a great native way to mix drive sizes as the main included RAID solution, ZFS, doesn't support mixed drives well. BTRFS is a option, but the unstable raid 5/6 would worry me if it was my main copy of data. You can use snapraid + mergerfs on proxmox if its for media files, but this wouldn't be suited towards something like VMs. I also made a video earlier about RAID like solution for mixed drive sizes that might help see the Pros and Cons of the different solutions. ua-cam.com/video/NQJkTiLXfgs/v-deo.html
Not a good review as it seems to be rushed, and I didn't even see pricing details of the base unit... preferably at the beginning of the infomercial. This channel is really good when it describes, in detail, aspects of hypervisors, not commodity hardware. Perhaps a TWENTY part series of different feature capabilities of Proxmox, the authors favorite, so viewers can refer back to how to's when they want to implement that capability. No more hardware reviews please. UA-cam is full of them.
People gotta eat though
If he creates a 20 or 30 part series about Proxmox and its special features people will come back over and over again to watch the section on what they're interested in doing. It's a real money maker versus just having generic infomercials.
2nd video Ive watched, and you have my subscription. fantastic experiment, explanation and results without a biased opinion
these little mini pc are getting there - not perfect or even very performant but may well be 'good enough' for may use case like in a small office or whatever
Excellent video, as always. Comprehensive and very helpful .
I have 10G on my network and only saw it go above 1G once with actual usage (i.e. not testing), so I’m upgrading to 25G just because I feel like it.
Do you think those two USB-C ports could be used for networking? Strap three of these units together to make a ceph cluster and run the replication over the USB-C?
I don't have 2 of these so can't test, but to my knowledge the computer to computer networking needs to use Thunderbolt, not standard USB 3(but USB 4 should support this as its basically thunderbolt). I think a C to C connection between multiple of these systems won't connect at all. USB is also really complex with all the variants and capabilities that all use the same port with poor labeling.
WD keep coming up on list of trouble m.2 ssd. 🤔
I paid about the same recently for an all-flash Ugreen DXP480T Plus (yes, it was a Kickstarter deal). The Ugreen NAS has 10G Ethernet onboard and a Core i5 equivalent processor and two USB4/Thunderbolt 4 ports. 2.5G connectivity is woefully inadequate for a device with four M.2 SSDs inside. The Aiffro is clearly based off a very common N100 design with a tweak for the four SSD sticks.
Yea that uGreen NAS has better specs with the i5, thunderbolt and 10GBe. Its hard to compare them directly price wise currently as the Ugreen NAS is a crowd funded project currently and not out for general availability from what I see.
Great video! Your assessment at the end comparing this set-up to a RAID1 HDD set up, looking at cost and performance is exactly the kind of decision most people are going to be making.
Hi can you install redpill dsm 7.2 on this?
Let me give it a try and report back in a bit. I haven't poked with Xpenology and similar projects for a bit. I'm also a bit unhappy Synology seems to have given me a copyright strike on my last video about Xpenology.
Amazing video
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but unless this product would’ve come with a 10 GbE interface there’s no reason at all to use NVMe’s. They’re just PCIe intensive and power hungry compared to SATA SSDs. Yes, 2.5” SATA SSDs would’ve been a bigger footprint but the output through the 2.5 GbE would’ve been the same and the overall power would’ve been less.
There is a reason. m.2 is now cheaper than sata ssd's and takes up a lot less space because of sata ssd needing a separate power and data connection. And no, at gen 3 x2 these are very low power as he shows. I have one with 5 nvme's and idles at 13w and goes up to 28w max in burst.
This mini nas looks quicker than the one i planned as they using 2 lanes per nvme slot I ordered a cwwk p5 n305 with nvme carrier board and it still in shipping atm That thing let me use a large nvme heataink because it got no case Nvme should not hot with that limited pcie lanes and buswidth but lower temp should help those caps and ressistor on pcb live longer N100 model is cheaper but i go n305 just in case i might slap some docker /vm on it
It is a shame that the n100 has so few PCI lanes.
Really good review, once again. I could live with 2.5gig nic with ease, but I'd really like to see conventional user changeable memory on this and especially I'd like to see 2.5" inch sata drive slot in these kind of devices that I'd likely do backups to. Not bad unit at all, but for that pricing I'd like to see those options. After all one could build quite small customized device for the pricing of this one, though obviously the small foot print is obviously the "thing" in devices like this.
2 lanes per NMVE slot, and only 1 to the NIC.... there seems to be a few of these all NVME NAS units hitting the market at the moment, and all of them somehow seem to assign the PCIe lanes in weird ways. As for the channel, do what makes you happy. But please do include some hardware ones now and then, you are one of few who bothers to dive into the actual low down of the hardware. Even if it just means you include a few comments as to why you are using a particular piece of hardware for whatever project you are doing.
Glad you like my reviews. I think for the PCIe lane layout is often a limitation of the processors used. I don't know of a ultra low power CPU that has all the PCIe lanes needed for a system like this to use the full speed of 4+ drives. Something like a desktop ryzen chip could be used, but those use much more power at idle and need a chipset uses additional power and board space. A PCIe switch could be used, but those are pricey and power hungry typically. I think the low power CPU + limited lanes for drives can make sense where noise and power are main factors, but there is performance left on the table that can't be used on the SSDs.
@@ElectronicsWizardry I'm not saying they need a different processor... they just need to use the lanes better...... One lane of PCIe 3.0 is 8Gbits 10 Gigabit Ethernet is 10Gbits So an NVME connected with 1 lane could (with the obvious exceptions) easily saturate a 10G NIC, with room to spare. Now when you take 4 NVME devices, stripe them with some flavour of RAID, then you are defiantly going to saturate that 10GNIC. An Intel n110 has 9 PCIe lanes...... They could easily dedicate 2 lanes to a NIC, and have enough lanes for 6 NVME..... that would even leave a lane free for a 7th NVME to use as a boot device. If they use the right NIC chip, that supports 1G, 2.5G and 5G, as well as 10G, that leaves it to the customer to decide what switch they connect to.... but with the option of expanding too. These are just my ponderings..... makes me curious as to what some of these system designers are thinking.
Thanks for clarifing. I agree it makes more sense to connect the SSDs at a single link width, and more bandwidth for the NIC. The lower single SSDs speeds probably won't matter as RAID would be used. There might be some speed limits if something like unRAID is used though.
Idk, not really in the market for one, but I would expect a 10g port for that price, or at least a 2x2.5g for redundency.
With that price point, wouldnt an asustor as502t be a much better value with the 4 nvme as well as 2 3.5 hdd and 2x2.5gbe? Or would the efficency of an n100 over an n5105 outweight the inital cost?
They were wise to give it to you to review. You looked at all the areas I wanted to have covered. A few tweaks would be a good idea at that RRP. Thanks for including the energy prices for those of us who pay through the nose.
Shame that NVME SSD Nas does not have 10G LAN.
Yea I think that would have helped take advantage of the SSDs much more than 2.5Gbit can. I know there are power, space and thermal concerns with adding a 10G nic, but It would have been interesting to see.
Overpriced. It should be 250 USD.
There is defiantly a premium on this compared to other N100 MiniPCs that I don't think is explained by any of the parts inside. I can't find a spec for spec similar system for a lower price, but I think this system would be more competitive at a lower price.
@@ElectronicsWizardry 100%
Agreed. For it's price, it should have a 10G NIC or, at least, two Intel 2.5G NICs.
@@ElectronicsWizardry the FriendlyElec has a quad M.2 solution is very similar (3.0x1) although it's only 1gb ethernet and it's an arm chip - the respectale RK3588. LTT did a review/build for a NAS. I'm sure the performance would be comparabl. The board and the compute module is $145 with no case or psu. 8GB ram qwith 64GB eMMC. Overall, a slghtly slower solution for a tiny fraction of the price. Won't be able to run truenas but LTT found an arm solution
I agree. It's way overpriced. Now you still gotta buy your SSDs. You'd be better off shopping for some cheap 2nd hand Xeon based systems which are old but perform way better for way less.
Brosef... Love your show. How the hell are you talking about 40gbe and flash me the panties of two PS/2 plugs for kb and mouse... This is like a joke or something.... Lol
Servers love their old ports. Stuff like VGA is still standard on new servers along side multi-hundred gig networking. PS2 is basically gone on new servers, but I was testing with some older stuff.
Good to know that this method won't work every time you switch the pcbs :I Thanks for the information!
How to reinstall the original OS if you messed up with the storage while testing 😁
I asked Ugreen if they have a way to download the OS for a reinstall and they said no. I'd contact their support, but there doesn't seem to be a public way to restore the OS.
That means i am stuck with truenas for a while…
@@ElectronicsWizardry The support wants me to send back the device so they can check if there is a physical damage to the device. Physical damage by formatting the drive. Nice 😂
I have used an extra PC as PBS and would now like to run the PBS as a VM. So I installed the VM and connected the hard drive from the previous PC to the PVE host. Then I imported the ZFS pool with the zpool command, it is displayed on the left. But how do I get this mounted on the VM to access the backups? I don't want to delete everything and make it new. Help!
The easiest is to pass the whole disk to the VM. Under the Vm settings, add a line like virtio0:/dev/sda(using the UUID is better so it won't change with a reboot). This will give the vm the same data as it did when it was on metal. There are a few other solutions if you want to move to a virtual disk, but you probably want to have another drive to move the data to during the process.
@@ElectronicsWizardry But what about the ZFS Pool? Simply mounting the hard drive there is not enough, is it? Doesn't some config file have to be edited there or something similar? And last But what about the ZFS Pool? Simply mounting the hard drive there is not enough, is it? Doesn't some config file have to be edited there or something similar? And last question, How can I then integrate the datastore into PBS without having to create a new one?
@@therealsprint You can mount the ZFS pool and the host will have access to all the PBS files. The issue is letting the VM access the files. You could run PBS on the host and it would work fine, otherwise you would want disk passthough to access the files in a VM.