DAS or SCSI for new setup? reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xMidoxx22 · 2023-12-22 11:41 Hello fellow self hosters, another question from my side to my new favorite sub! I currently use a Intel NUC as Homeserver but will soon upgrade and use my "old" gaming pc. With my new Setup I would like to have a raid 5 with 4-5 drives which I would like to attach to Proxmox and preferable aswell pass it to true-nas and manage it from there (which I´m running on a VM on Proxmox). Would, for this scenario, be a DAS like qnap TR 004 suitable? Or should I go with a scsi controller and attach my drives there? Or something completly different? Anybody a recommendation for a good DAS / SCSI controller? Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mabed_ · 2023-12-22 12:46 I search DAS for mdadm raid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Whyd0Iboth3r · 2023-12-22 16:01 Well, ZFS works best if it has direct JBOD access to the disks. I think you can passthrough disks to the VM, so it could work well. My thoughts on this are mixed. Sure it may work, but why do it this way? You want proxmox to be your VM host? But do you want a NAS? TrueNAS can host VMs, too. Not as elegantly, but it does, and well enough for home use. And it would work best for the drives and data integrity. You don't ever want to run ZFS over a raid or multiple raids. It works best with direct block access. It is the raid method. If you must run truenas, then I would put that on bare metal, and forgo Proxmox. If you just want a simple NAS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kmisterk · 2023-12-22 16:50 ## Post Removed Hey, xMidoxx22! Thanks for your submission on selfhosted. Your post has been removed due to a violation of the purpose of the subreddit: **Self Hosting** ## Not Self-Hosted When it comes to posts regarding applications in this subreddit, they must feature a self-hosted tool, or a tool that *can be* self-hosted, or some kind of related information, help request, or otherwise related to a tool that is something that one can self-host. If you believe this post *is in fact* relevant to /r/selfhosted, feel free to [message the mods](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to= /r/selfhosted&subject=Removed For Not Being Self- Hosted&message=[Removed Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/18od1ua/-/\)) with your concerns.