AMD Ryzen 9 5900X12 cores · 128 GB DDR4 ECC · 8 × 16 TB HDD
8 × 16 TB with 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe: about 96 TB usable in RAID-Z2, at a very low price per terabyte.
Backup & archives
Hundreds of terabytes, off-site and yours
Backups belong somewhere else than production — ideally in another city and another jurisdiction. Our storage servers pack up to 308 TB of disks with NVMe cache into a single machine you fully control.
- 308 TBlargest raw capacity
- NVMecache and metadata
- ECCfor ZFS integrity
- $245from, per month
What this workload needsWorkload profile
- Capacity per dollarEnterprise hard drives remain the cheapest way to keep hundreds of terabytes online.
- IntegrityZFS checksums every block and ECC memory keeps the checksums honest. Scrubs catch silent corruption before a restore does.
- NVMe where it mattersNVMe for metadata, deduplication tables and the OS keeps a large pool responsive.
- A different placePut backups in a different city — and if you like, a different jurisdiction — from production.
Recommended
The servers we would deploy for it
Chosen by the engineers who size these workloads every week. Every one of them is in stock.
AMD EPYC 7502P32 cores · 256 GB DDR4 ECC · 14 × 22 TB HDD
14 × 22 TB with 2 × 7.68 TB NVMe and 32 EPYC cores: about 264 TB usable in RAID-Z2.
Setting it up
Advice from our engineers
The first hour on a new server decides how the next year goes.
Where to host it
Frankfurt, Helsinki and Bucharest host our storage servers — three cities, three countries, all within the EU.
Compare latency from your users- Use RAID-Z2 or RAID 6: with large drives, surviving two failures during a rebuild matters.
- Put metadata on NVMe with a mirrored special vdev on ZFS.
- Encrypt at the source (restic, Borg) so the backup server never sees clear data.
- Test restores monthly: a backup is only as good as its last successful restore.
FAQ
Questions about backup & archives
Still have a question?
Ask the engineers who run the servers — median first reply under 15 minutes, 24/7.
Contact usHow much usable space do I get?
In RAID-Z2, about 96 TB on the 128 TB server and about 264 TB on the 308 TB server, before compression.
Can I run TrueNAS or Proxmox Backup Server?
Yes. Proxmox VE is a template, and any other system boots from your own ISO through IPMI.
Is 1 Gbps enough for backups?
At line rate, 1 Gbps moves about 10 TB a day — enough for most off-site backups. A 10 Gbps port is available in Frankfurt.
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