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We have quite a few of these units and can even add SC 45 drive jbods.
But the deal you propose is a bad one.
Get colocation, buy the full server, pay for electricity + bandwidth + remote hands separately.
Part of the price for HDDs in server price is actually bandwidth. More storage == More Bandwidth used.
So presume we'd charge 1000€ for the node with drives, without drives we'd charge 900€. Bandwidth is still being utilized, but you just added a lot of work handling customer drives, logistics, documentation and presumably you'd expect us to sell you drives at cost when one fails, still provide maintenance / replacement for the drives free of charge etc.
BYOD is rare for those reasons, it's a lot of hassle to get less revenue per unit, and breaking your standard maintenance routines & processes. Almost guaranteed you will get "donated" drives because the info gets lost that you own the drives.
I understand your concern, but I have a multiple petabyte requirement so I have to take care of each terabyte cost. If I needed couple of terabytes I would have proceeded without any thoughts. Is there any offering from your end where I can get per TB cost in the range of 0.5-0.7$
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Hello ,if you like to pay in advance minimum 12 months it's possible give to you 0.90$ per TB of storage
Give you dedicated server with
1x e5-2630 v4
32 GB ram
28x 16 TB HDDs
1 Gbps port speed
Romania Location
Ignore DMCA & Adult content allowed
Raid 5/6/60/10
Regards
Said this before, saying again - reach out to @crunchbits - they should be able to give you a reasonable price.
We can help with the supply and colo of a server like this no problem.
Yea colo is your option. We can make more than that just "idling" the drives.
There are better colo providers than we would be. @crunchbits might be able to give you an option.
that being said, we could do some stupid cheap server with just 1G + 45 drive jbod with 2xSAS2 connections. But handling customer drives is ... Well, we would still have to charge you arm and leg in one way or another, no matter what you call it, remote hands, maintenance fee, service fee etc.
We can be competitive, but $0.5-$0.7/TB is bankruptcy tier on a rented dedi. You can get to below those rates but you're talking one of our LTO servers paid up front. Just delivered a few 12-bay and 36-Bay EPYC storage units, and their recurring costs are below that range but the unit was purchased outright and becomes a simple colocation agreement with a warranty.