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Send in my own HDD for VPS
There was a provider a couple years back that would allow you to send your own harddrive and they would attach it to your VPS. Basically you were renting a 3.5" drive bay along with your VPS. I think it was Delimiter that did this.
Does anyone know if there are any providers still doing this?
I see zfs.rent offers this service, but I'm curious if there are any others.
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Not a VPS, but @DataIdeas-Josh let you ship them a HDD and they'll connect it to a Raspberry Pi. They also have "micro colocation" (you can send them a small server that uses less than 90 watts, like Intel NUC, Raspberry Pi, etc) for $10/month. https://rpiservers.com/
This might be better. Love the Micro colocation idea. Thanks.
@Daniel15 Thank you for the shoutout!
@tr0gd0r when ordering on the micro colocation you do have the option to select more power as well. So you are not just limited to 90watts.
90W is pretty decent though. Some of the Intel NUCs are only around 40 or 45 watts under moderate load.