Thank you, I might raise the issue there, if I struggle to fix the issue. I didn’t know the podcasters, but now I’ll try and listen to a few episodes, and maybe I can continue learning. Thank you for the suggestion

Are there any specific limitations/requirements? Any recommended models or things to look out for? I looked on Amazon, and they range from around $30 to $200, and I really have no criteria, and I want to spend as little as possible.

Thank you, that’s actually very helpful, because I’m also kinda concerned that the HBA (or SATA to PCIE card) solution won’t fix this issue entirely, and it’s also relatively old system, and I’m worried about compatibility. Having two machines though is also kind of out of the question, because I don’t want to use that much electricity, it’s pretty expensive here where I live. I do have a Raspberry Pi, which could be used for some selfhosted services, but not the demanding ones, and not running alongside each other. I mean, my current PC sometimes struggles already, so I guess the Raspberry Pi will perform even worse… Maybe I can find a solution that allows to still manage storage reliably and flexibly, and also be able to have docker containers.

So if I understand correctly, you’re managing the storage directly within Proxmox, instead of using a VM for that, right? Are the tools good? Does it support ZFS replication, SMB and things like that? Edit: I’ll also check the SATA cables, thanks!

And is it easy for the docker instances inside the VM to access the host’s datasets? About ECC, thank you for bringing it up, because I actually have no idea on the subject, and I’m sure that my current ram isn’t ECC. I’ll look into it. It could explain the issue I had with gitea, right?

I passed the whole raw disk in theory, but I’ve read that even if you do that, it’s still virtualized somehow. But I don’t know enough about it, I’m just basing this on the research I’ve done so far. About skipping TrueNAS, maybe you’re right, but if I also want to set up SMB shares? Is there a tool or something that makes it easy for someone with limited experience? It would also need to handle replication of data, and the advantage of ZFS Replication over using something like rsync, is that you can simply push the delta between snapshots, instead of replacing entire files, or at least that’s how I’ve understood this.