OK, a question as I hope I’m going to be getting budget to replace a couple old servers for my VM storage. XCP-ng and Truenas Scale (Community).
I was planning on going with a 12+ bay NVME server with only about 6 disks installed, I only need about 4TB worth of space (after raid creation, etc.). Price is still a little cheaper to install spinning enterprise disks to get that small amount of storage, and price is always a consideration. That said, the spinning disks would probably require 8 drives, need to look at performance.
I’m also thinking about write cycles on the NVME and if that is even a factor here. The NVME I was going to use are one of the choices that Supermicro sells, I think the choices are all Micron Enterprise drives. Not sure what they are shipping for the enterprise spinning drives, but I’d buy any/all storage while buying the servers, they get really good prices on drives due to volume.