I have a decade-old server that gets no love, and is running a very old Debian and ZFS (Linux server 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux) on a bunch of spinning rust. zpool is producing strange status (i.e. resilvering on multiple drives, making no progress, etc.). So I want to move things off to something more stable.

So I want something with at least 5 SST drives for ZFS and a bootable drive not on ZFS (ideally). PCIe would be nice (GBs/sec) but 6 or 8 SATA drives would still be a lot faster than the existing.

I'd like it to use DDR5 ECC. I don't need much performance, and I'd like it to be relatively low power. At least a GB Ethernet. I don't need, nor care about, GPUs - at least not at this point.

There are a truly mindboggling number of options, but most of the ones that meet my I/O requirements are very high-performance and power-hungry. And almost nothing supports ECC properly

On the Intel side there are LGA1851 socket systems. A reasonably-priced one is https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/intel-motherboards/264441/gigabyte-z890-aero-g-ultra-core-series-2-lga-1851-atx-ddr5-5xm-2-z890-aero-g.html but it doesn't do ECC properly.

On the AMD side there are sTR5 socket systems. A less reasonably priced one is https://www.newegg.ca/gigabyte-trx50-aero-d-extended-atx-amd-trx50-am5/p/N82E16813145484 but it at least does ECC.

Then we get to the CPUs - and even more expensive... I'm not afraid of spending money for a system that will hopefully support our needs for more than another decade (8 2Tb drives is about $1600, but I don't really want to spend another $3000+ for MB+CPU).

If I do have to go that high-performance, I'm thinking about Proxmox, but not completely sure - any thoughts on that, too, would be appreciated.

Thanks,

../Dave