Replacing a failed boot USB in my Proxmox server

I killed a usb boot drive after 1.25 years and about 10TB of writes. Now the drive went read only and needed replacement, but I wanted to make it harder for myself by doing it hot.

[davidguinn]

Man, I'm glad I'm not the only one going way off-book with my setup. Great video!

[jimscomments]

Thanks! Have you thought about doing a Proxmox video on setting up email notification for backup/snapshot/SMART/Drive Failures?

[JasonRasmussen]

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.

[it-everything]

Hello,
Thanks for the video and the great job!

I have a PVE server installed on RAID0 with 2 1TB disk accedently I forget to make it mirror, now I want to make it mirror.

I was able remove a disk from the "rpool" --> with zpool remove rpool /dev/sdb
Then tired to attaceh the disk again to the same pool as mirror but it does not works -- > zpool attach -f rpool /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3

but it does not work, could you please advise me on that or have you done that before?

[christiangutsov]

Can you tell what settings should be done to extend the life of the usb flash drive/microsd? I have a HP elitedesk 800 which only has two disk slots and I would like to install proxmox on Kingston industrial grade microSD 16gb. I guess it has to reduce the writings by disabling swap or something similar..Not sure.

[smalle]

Do you have a link for that Proxmox guide? I'm struggling to find it.

[views]

Hey, I'm a new comer to proxmox, could you give some guidance on how I should set up drives on my proxmox.
I currently have it set up with just a 1TB SSD.
l recently bought a 1TB m.2 ssd.
I was wondering which drive would be best suited to be used as a boot drive?

[jimscomments]

Instead of using USB flash drives you can buy a M.2 to USB adapter to plug into the USB port. I've done that option to run it internally in a Thin Client computer. I'm running a server with slots for drives and the two slots closest to the USB ports have external SATA USB enclosures slid into the slots and plugged into the USB ports.

[davidkamaunu]

Many people do not know that USB 3.0 default is storage driver.
EFI system partition must be FAT FS and writable

[mikemorris]

I purchased a Samsung Portable SSD USB drive to use a shared storage for both PBS or PVE and have allot of trouble. One even though I eliminated the USB drive as bootable in bios it still starts at boot process and hangs (initramfs) on command line and still remains even after I removed the USB drive and rebooted. Any link to vid or guide would be most appreciated and returned.

[hpsfresh]

Is it impossible to do this way:

1. Add new temp usb drive to existing mirror,
2. Rebuild it
3. Remove both old drives
4 Find the working one
5. Plug back old working
6. Rebuild
7. Add another new one
8. Rebuild
9. Exclude temp usb drive from mirror
10. Unplug temp drive