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Powerful Dedicated Server in EU where I can send my own HDDs
Hi, Im looking for powerful dedicated server where I can ship my own HDDs and SSD (its the most important). I don't have strict requirements when it comes to how powerful it should be but I dont wan't to spend more than 50-70 EUR per month.
I live in EU so I would like to ship these HDDs and one SSD within EU as well.
I plan to ship 10x12 TB drives first but possible to add more in the future.
Please let me know whom can I reach within EU who can accept my own HDDs and one SSD drive.
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you need colocation.
We're in the UK and will be able to help, but you may have to work a little more on your budget. See available colocation options or view dedicated servers plans.
We can so it in Sofia, however not within your budget.
Problems:
So what you are looking for is far outside of mainstream, which translates to 'considerably more expensive' and almost certainly not available at the Low End. And that's for 12 x 3.5"; adding even more drives puts you into the exotic area (really expensive).
Based on the experience of and information from a friend and colleague of mine who is with AlphaVPS / @AlexBarakov since some years, AV seems to be one of the few (and good) providers with quite some flexibility, good (but not bottom low) prices, a decent DC, decent connectivity, a properly working ILO/IPMI, and excellent support who can offer anything incl. decent (also in terms of price) colo.
Based on your financial situation I'd suggest
Or just forego using your drives, get a suitable VPS/server and upload the data from a local computer, assuming that it is the data that you are trying to preserve.
It will be really hard to find where you can ship your drives.
We have one client, he sent us 24 x HDD drives a few years ago. Paying near to 200 euro/month for server with lower resources than you asking.
50 - 70 euro - not possible. As others said, server colocation may be the best option for you.
As you have been told, the only thing you can do with this budget to get this much storage is sending the entire server for colocation and not just the drive. if you're lucky this may only cost you an extra 150-250€ for a used server.
12 drives in one server is a lot! most 1u servers are limited to 4 Drives, and usually 2U servers can do 8-12 Drives. So adding more drives is a bit complicated.
If you think you will need more space then go for 10x16TB since the beginning instead of the 12TB drives
then Serverius can host your 2U server for 59€ month.
We can install your own drives, within you budget. However server's configuration can't be fancy, since need to fit many drives into single chassis.
Time (to mount all drives in caddys) cost money as well