https://librenepal.com/blog/proxmox/Recent content in Proxmox on Aatish NeupaneHugoen-USCopyright © 2025, Aatish Neupane.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:17:07 -0500https://librenepal.com/reduce-ssd-wear-with-proxmox/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:17:07 -0500https://librenepal.com/reduce-ssd-wear-with-proxmox/<p>This one is a work in progress. As my mini PC died with SSD wear, I am becoming more mindful of disk reads/writes. This blog post will be a collection of things that I am doing to get more out of my drives.</p> <h2 id="disable-the-ha-services-on-a-single-node">Disable the HA services on a single node</h2> <p>Since I&rsquo;m running a single node, no cluster, no high availability, turns out I can disable these services<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="background-color:#f0f0f0;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>systemctl disable --now pve-ha-lrm.service pve-ha-crm.service </span></span></code></pre></div><p><code>pve-ha-lrm</code> is the local resource manager and <code>pve-ha-crm</code> is the cluster resource manager. On a single node with no HA configured they&rsquo;re doing nothing useful, just generating writes.</p>