Curious about my setup after reading about SSD concerns...
I'm running on a Dell R730 with 8 Western Digital SA500 1TB drives in a RAID 10 configuration on the hardware raid controller. I run Proxmox and have a Windows Server 2019 VM running with 1.5 TB allocated to it from the Proxmox LVM which pulls from the 6TB available from the RAID 10 configuration above.
Blue Iris is running on that VM and works and runs great. I only have 4 cameras right now, running in continuous mode, it's about 150 GB - 175 GB a day. I let it go up to 900 GB and then it will delete. I'm not moving anything to Stored right now, I just Delete on New when it reaches the 900 GB.
I don't want to get another machine or change my setup right now. Should I be concerned and switch over to record only on alert and not continuous?
I think the endurance is decent on the SA500, not the best enterprise drive, but it's not consumer. I also don't write a ton with only 4 cameras.
I do have some concern because I run a lot of other things on that Proxmox instance. It has VM's for all my containers, Home Assistant, Plex, Unifi Controller, Sonarr, Radarr, etc... All the other things running on Proxmox are for OS only mainly, so Plex for example does all it's work over iSCSI.
I have a second machine on the rack, an R720, it is all platter drives, WD Red Pro NAS drives, 36 TB. It runs TrueNAS, also in a RAID 10 style configuration but with ZFS. It has the iSCSI target over to the Proxmox cluster and it's where I do storage for Plex, NextCloud, etc...
Thanks for any feedback