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Need A Storage Server With Small SSD Primary Drive
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Need A Storage Server With Small SSD Primary Drive

I'm building out an Acronis storage cluster to keep backups of a couple of other servers. I have a primary node which is a Servarica Salamander Hybrid (4 CPU, 6GB RAM, 200GB SSD + 4TB SAN RAIDZ2) and that works perfectly for the task, but I'm looking to add another for both geo and provider redundancy.

I see lots of 4TB storage servers, but none that have a small SSD for the OS and Metadata to live on. The storage would need to have some form of RAID like the Salamander does, I don't want a single disk solution. Has anyone seen an offer with similar specs please?

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  • Ryzen 3900x NVMe + Block Storage
    https://my.letbox.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=121

  • Mr_TomMr_Tom Member, Host Rep

    We can offer this in the UK with NVMe+HDD space.

    What's your ideal specs?

  • AdvinAdvin Member, Patron Provider

    BuyVM does 4TB block storage for $5/TB that can be attached to any of their Ryzen VPS's.

  • @randy33 said:
    Ryzen 3900x NVMe + Block Storage
    https://my.letbox.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=121

    Thank-you for the suggestion. Looked perfect on the surface, but the usage would fall foul of their Ts and Cs:

    "You can't burst to 95-100% CPU usage for more than five (5) minutes"

    CPU usage tends to run close to 100% for 30 minutes or so during large backups as the metadata is calculated. Capping that would slow the backups down quite dramatically.

  • @Advin said:
    BuyVM does 4TB block storage for $5/TB that can be attached to any of their Ryzen VPS's.

    They do, and I looked at them as it would be ideal. The block storage seems to never be in stock though (not surprised at that price!).

  • @Mr_Tom said:
    We can offer this in the UK with NVMe+HDD space.

    What's your ideal specs?

    4 CPU, 6-8GB RAM, 200GB SSD + 4TB Storage.

  • UmairUmair Member

    @Speedie

    Can you also give some info on Acronis Backups.
    I have been looking into it for a while but haven't seen too many providers out there. And few only offer it with storage which tends to be expensive.

    Can anyone get few VM/Server license and use his own storage for the server?
    Or there are minimum commitments involved ?

  • i'm also looking APAC/US location storage VPS :)

  • Mr_TomMr_Tom Member, Host Rep

    @Speedie said: 4 CPU, 6-8GB RAM, 200GB SSD + 4TB Storage

    How much bandwidth?

  • @Umair said:
    @Speedie

    Can you also give some info on Acronis Backups.
    I have been looking into it for a while but haven't seen too many providers out there. And few only offer it with storage which tends to be expensive.

    Can anyone get few VM/Server license and use his own storage for the server?
    Or there are minimum commitments involved ?

    Check out CloudEvo.com - they sell per-server licenses at a very reasonable cost.

    Thanked by 1Umair
  • @Mr_Tom said:

    @Speedie said: 4 CPU, 6-8GB RAM, 200GB SSD + 4TB Storage

    How much bandwidth?

    10TB would be plenty for now.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    Check TeraKVM: https://www.prometeus.net/site/terakvm.php It is not exactly a storage box, but it does not look like you need a pure storage box.

  • servarica salamander

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  • Mr_TomMr_Tom Member, Host Rep
    edited March 2022

    Can't compete with Servaricas salamander price but best we could do would be:

    • 4 core
    • 8gb ECC RAM
    • 200gb NVMe
    • 4tb HDD
    • 10tb/month @ 1gbps shared (10gbps shared option available).
    • Wolverhampton, UK
    • £37.50/month (excluding VAT if applicable)
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