You are for sure right. I did find gaps on my solution right now which is:
- I have several external disks that only have the information once (some of then quite old).
- if I aggregate all of those in one spot I for sure need more space
- right now the ssds are grouped into a lvm to make a logical volume of 3TB (at the time this was OK since I was testing it out for a while). However, one disk fails and I have a problem on my hands.
- decided to look into ssd prices and my eyes started get watery at how expensive would it be (thus, coming to the realization regarding disk types. Didn’t mention before since my post was getting WAY too long).
Since I get this now, I am trying to understand better the landscape of solutions that can potentially fit.
Never heard of pikvm, it actually looks like a very interesting solution.
From the previous point, what I mean by headless is basically to go the server, yank the GPU, press power button and it just boots.
I’ve tried several times, but bios straight up doesn’t let me go on. I’ve seen in a couple of places some mobos simply refuse to boot without a GPU.
I can see if I can have a decent value for the GPU. If not, I guess it’s doing its job as is. It just feels a waste to have this GPU be used as video for a server.