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How to Utilize My 1 TB HostBrr Storage Box Efficiently?
dgaroorkee
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Hi everyone,
I recently got a 1 TB storage box from HostBrr and I want to make the most of it. Since it's advertised as NVMe-cached HDD storage, I’m looking for the best ways to use it.
- Would it work well for backups, static file hosting, or something else?
- What kind of speeds & reliability should I expect in real-world use?
- Are there any limitations I should be aware of?
Would love to hear from those who have used similar setups! Any insights or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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cold backs-ups with rsync will work well.
small file hosting works well.
suggestions is to try the above and tell us after 30 days of actual usage.
We have the same storage but IPv6-only (technically it has IPv4 NAT but we never set it up).
We filled the diks with encrypted TV episodes samples from our noise generator.
If IPv4 is not setup, you’re not “we”
Idle, lol?
From these super specs-
StorageBox 1 TB
1 TB NVMe Cached HDD RAID-6
5 TB Bandwidth
LVE limits
2 vCore
2 GB RAM
100 MB/s IO
1024 IOPS]
Can we do only these things?
Oh! no.
you bet.
It comes with DirectAdmin, you can instantly use it for website, email server or a super slow database server.
You can also mount it to your local desktop, similar to Google Drive or Dropbox. check out my tutorial for this
Nextcloud + offloaded DB works the best.
Can I mount it with my massiveGrid tiny vps [only 32GB ssd] as a boot volume extender and etc.
You can very easily remotely mount your storage server to your tiny VPS with rclone - https://rclone.org/sftp - but that's a big no on anything boot related - it'd strictly be additional, mounted storage.
Just make sure the user that you use to connect to your storage box has proper permissions to the storage drive - other than that - shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes if you're slow. Super easy to get up and running. When you get more familiar with it, check out https://rclone.org/flags - for how you can fine-tune it to your use-case.
Instead of mounting, you can also opt to have a cronjob script run a sync/copy command at a specified time/day for backups. rclone has built in encryption (https://rclone.org/crypt/) and de-duplication (https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_dedupe/) which has worked out wonderfully for myself.
Shut it down. Idle offline to save the earth.
For later.
I told you so.
share the login
it is a storage box and should perhaps always be used as such and not be thought of in terms of misuse. if this machine is hammered with the wrong applications, all other users have to pay for it.
Can you share yours?
moanbrrr
i have no issue utilizing my 500GB US + EU storage
please see this screenshot [ https://postimg.cc/nCRTLS6J ]; and please tell me about these, its real resources which are allocated me on my 1TB storage Box by Hostbrr and it's saying something different product.
Please also discuss your Resources too if you checked it.
Thanks
from the TV Series stored, all this broadcasted via IPV6 and IPv9
Next/Own-cloud would work nicely.
Yes, it's advertised, but now here question about to reality "Wow! Specs" i.e.
**The real Resources Limits from hostbrr on 1TB Storage Box as:
CPU: 200%
Memory: 2 GB
Tasks: 512
IO Read :1000 B
IO Write: 1000 B**
Proxmox backup server
Mount with rclone as someone else suggested. I backup my SBCs with BackupPC and backup VMs a few times a week, works great.
You should see pretty decent speeds, but watch how often you hit the cache limits. Just be aware of any data transfer caps or throttling that might sneak up on you.
did anyone mention corn? if not. hardcore corn,
Do these storage boxes support streaming upload ?
Keep it mind it's a share hosting just with more hdd storage for a cheap price, I think you got it.
You can also mount it to your local desktop, similar to Google Drive or Dropbox. check out my tutorial for this
Yes, It has DirectAdmin with it's robust Email Manager with only two email accounts maximum creation limit with this 1TB storage Box. ScreenShots as DailyLimitSettings, EmailAccounts, Limit Warning.
https://postimg.cc/PLkL90MQ
https://postimg.cc/R3FrSZGS
https://postimg.cc/YhfTQWs2
I tried this and create One more email account over to it's default email account which created during purchased.
But here is a big problem these emails are not working not for incoming nor outgoing. After this try, I ask to resolve this problem to HostBrr, then they replied me as:
**[Hello,
Emailing is not a feature of these packages.
Best regards,
Philip](https://postimg.cc/nX58LtWq "Hello,
Emailing is not a feature of these packages.
Best regards,
Philip")**
https://postimg.cc/nX58LtWq
Now? What to do?
Hello Everyone,
Has anyone reviewed the resources and panel features of HostBrr Storage Box?
I’d appreciate any insights regarding your experience and available resources.
Thanks in advance!
Its a storage box, not an emailing service
You’re right, it's a storage box, but they do provide a 2-email account limit with sending capped at 30/day (max 200). However, my account doesn’t have it enabled. They also offer Softaculous Pro, but without SMTP configured, making email alerts useless. I think they should at least enable it for system alerts.