Given the current ridiculous prices on all things computer, I’ve been shifting some things around internally to make better use of certain components, namely SSD storage. Because storage had gotten incredibly cheap over the years, I’m very fortunate to have an abundance of 1 TB SSDs and multiple high-density spinning drives. Now that you’d need to take out a bank loan to build a desktop, if you’re able to even find components to buy thanks to shitty AI companies buying up everything, I figure it makes some sense to look at how I’m using the components I have.
Sometimes life gets away from you and, well, you don’t perform the maintenance on your homelab that you really should have. It’s been an… interesting few years and I had a couple of Proxmox nodes that were a tiny bit, um… outdated. To get a quick idea of what you’re in for, we’re going from Proxmox version 7 on Debian 11, to Proxmox version 8 on Debian 12, to Proxmox version 9 on Debian 13.