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[WTB] VPS with 5TB or 10TB HDD

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  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @barbarza said:
    Just received my storage VPS from @layer7 😍😍
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda4):

    Hi,

    we made the secondary disk ( storage disk ) actually faster as we expect the workload to happen there...


    @beanman109 said:
    wheres mine @layer7 ??

    If you ordered, you should have either received it or we might have had to open a ticket because you might have forgot to give us your LET username or you might have tried to order multiple servers in multiple locations. So we might be waiting for your feedback.

    Or i am just blind and/or messed something up and you should kick asses via ticket and ask for it :-)

  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    @layer7 said:

    @barbarza said:
    Just received my storage VPS from @layer7 😍😍
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda4):

    Hi,

    we made the secondary disk ( storage disk ) actually faster as we expect the workload to happen there...


    @beanman109 said:
    wheres mine @layer7 ??

    If you ordered, you should have either received it or we might have had to open a ticket because you might have forgot to give us your LET username or you might have tried to order multiple servers in multiple locations. So we might be waiting for your feedback.

    Or i am just blind and/or messed something up and you should kick asses via ticket and ask for it :-)

    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Thanked by 3barbarza lukast__ admax
  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    what event what the fuck have i missed
    please sir send assistance and maybe an order link with a 69% discount code

    Thanked by 3lukast__ barbarza admax
  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad

    @beanman109 said:

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    what event what the fuck have i missed
    please sir send assistance and maybe an order link with a 69% discount code

    See this comment from @layer7 with order links:

    @layer7 said:

    @xukuncai said:
    Hi everyone,

    I'm looking to buy a VPS with large HDD storage, ideally:

    Storage: 2TB or 5TB HDD or moe (single or multiple disks are fine)

    Network: 1Gbps port preferred, shared is OK

    Bandwidth: 10TB+ per month (more is better, unmetered welcome)

    Location: Preferably Europe

    Budget: $50 /year

    thanks

    Hi,

    we are currently running an event for LET users, maybe its interesting for you:

    France location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-france-par1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-france

    German location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-germany-fra1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-germany

    Or for 10 TB: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4435783#Comment_4435783

    And I posted a YABS for the Frankfurt location in the YABS thread. And btw, you get 10% off when paying yearly.

  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    @lukast__ said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    what event what the fuck have i missed
    please sir send assistance and maybe an order link with a 69% discount code

    See this comment from @layer7 with order links:

    @layer7 said:

    @xukuncai said:
    Hi everyone,

    I'm looking to buy a VPS with large HDD storage, ideally:

    Storage: 2TB or 5TB HDD or moe (single or multiple disks are fine)

    Network: 1Gbps port preferred, shared is OK

    Bandwidth: 10TB+ per month (more is better, unmetered welcome)

    Location: Preferably Europe

    Budget: $50 /year

    thanks

    Hi,

    we are currently running an event for LET users, maybe its interesting for you:

    France location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-france-par1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-france

    German location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-germany-fra1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-germany

    Or for 10 TB: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4435783#Comment_4435783

    And I posted a YABS for the Frankfurt location in the YABS thread. And btw, you get 10% off when paying yearly.

    m y im love @lukast__ && @layer7 but id ont think i can afford 5 euro per month

    Thanked by 3lukast__ barbarza admax
  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @beanman109 said:
    [...] but id ont think i can afford 5 euro per month

    Hi,

    if ever we make an event for free give-away's then you can use this post here from me for you as a voucher to receive those free give-away's :-)

    Have a nice weekend!

  • lukast__lukast__ Member, Megathread Squad

    @beanman109 said:

    @lukast__ said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    what event what the fuck have i missed
    please sir send assistance and maybe an order link with a 69% discount code

    See this comment from @layer7 with order links:

    @layer7 said:

    @xukuncai said:
    Hi everyone,

    I'm looking to buy a VPS with large HDD storage, ideally:

    Storage: 2TB or 5TB HDD or moe (single or multiple disks are fine)

    Network: 1Gbps port preferred, shared is OK

    Bandwidth: 10TB+ per month (more is better, unmetered welcome)

    Location: Preferably Europe

    Budget: $50 /year

    thanks

    Hi,

    we are currently running an event for LET users, maybe its interesting for you:

    France location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-france-par1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-france

    German location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-germany-fra1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-germany

    Or for 10 TB: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4435783#Comment_4435783

    And I posted a YABS for the Frankfurt location in the YABS thread. And btw, you get 10% off when paying yearly.

    m y im love @lukast__ && @layer7 but id ont think i can afford 5 euro per month

    Just looked in my list of servers (also my dedi) and this is the most expensive server I have :lol:
    Still a great deal IMHO.

    Thanked by 2barbarza admax
  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    [...] but id ont think i can afford 5 euro per month

    Hi,

    if ever we make an event for free give-away's then you can use this post here from me for you as a voucher to receive those free give-away's :-)

    Have a nice weekend!

    Thanked by 2lukast__ admax
  • The deal looks great especially from a highly reputable provider and with ample RAM. Only thing that gives me little reservation is the primary disk speed. Anyone have any idea if it would be sane to run something like Immich or SeaFile or would the I/O speeds choke it?

    Thanked by 1barbarza
  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @PineappleM said:
    The deal looks great especially from a highly reputable provider and with ample RAM. Only thing that gives me little reservation is the primary disk speed. Anyone have any idea if it would be sane to run something like Immich or SeaFile or would the I/O speeds choke it?

    Hi,

    in general the secondary disk is faster than the primary one. And thats 500 IOPS and 80 MB/s. That should be normally quiet enough to run a 1-5 user private file-cloud if you dont have massiv what ever addons there.

    But honestly i am not too much familar with it. I have just running next-cloud on similar things and it works fine. But i really just use it as a file storage without any considerable addons...

  • PineappleMPineappleM Member
    edited May 2025

    Last question is, can we take monthly to test our use case on it and upgrade to annual billing (with the 10% discount) once we know we’re happy with it?

    And obviously if we’re not happy with it we’ll let it expire. Not going to ask for a refund or anything crazy like that.

    Thanks!

  • Motion3549Motion3549 Member
    edited May 2025
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    #                     v2025-04-20                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6138 CPU @ 2.00GHz
    CPU cores  : 2 @ 1995.312 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM        : 7.8 GiB
    Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
    Disk       : 5.1 TiB
    Distro     : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
    Kernel     : 6.8.0-60-generic
    VM Type    : KVM
    IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
    
    IPv6 Network Information:
    ---------------------------------
    ISP        : FBW NETWORKS SAS
    ASN        : AS49434 FBW NETWORKS SAS
    Host       : Layer7 Networks GmbH
    Location   : Paris, Île-de-France (IDF)
    Country    : France
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 1.98 MB/s      (495) | 31.68 MB/s     (495)
    Write      | 2.00 MB/s      (501) | 32.09 MB/s     (501)
    Total      | 3.98 MB/s      (996) | 63.78 MB/s     (996)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 46.87 MB/s      (91) | 46.31 MB/s      (45)
    Write      | 49.31 MB/s      (96) | 48.65 MB/s      (47)
    Total      | 96.18 MB/s     (187) | 94.97 MB/s      (92)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.03 Gbits/sec  | 997 Mbits/sec   | 7.87 ms
    Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 272 Mbits/sec   | 827 Mbits/sec   | 150 ms
    Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 556 Mbits/sec   | 845 Mbits/sec   | 81.5 ms
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.04 Gbits/sec  | 985 Mbits/sec   | 7.81 ms
    Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 227 Mbits/sec   | 792 Mbits/sec   | 150 ms
    Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 315 Mbits/sec   | 912 Mbits/sec   | 81.4 ms
    
    Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 670
    Multi Core      | 1253
    
    YABS completed in 17 min 13 sec
    

    Will setup this for Immich (still reluctant but I think layer7 had proper FDE by default) or even that very difficult to setup >> Ente Photos (native encryption).

  • @PineappleM said: Last question is, can we take monthly to test our use case on it and upgrade to annual billing (with the 10% discount) once we know we’re happy with it?

    Come on you know if you order this it will be delivered before my HostSlick box.

  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @PineappleM said:
    Last question is, can we take monthly to test our use case on it and upgrade to annual billing (with the 10% discount) once we know we’re happy with it?

    And obviously if we’re not happy with it we’ll let it expire. Not going to ask for a refund or anything crazy like that.

    Thanks!

    Hi,

    sure, no problem we can change the billing any time.

    In general, as long as the event is going, you can also upgrade from the 5 TB to the 10 TB space ( without reinstalling/reupload your data or change of IP or what ever ).

    If you want to make this a success, be smart and take advantage of what you see from the yabs. Dont just use a normal default ext4/xfs/what ever filesystem for the secondary disk.

    Make it a zfs or also an ext4/xfs/what ever is fine, but make sure to format it with 128kb blocksize or maybe even bigger. It will provide a far better IO performance to you.

    Obviously this only goes as long as you dont want to store 1 billion 50 kb small gif's or what ever. But normal pictures and videos anyway have nowadays sizes of multiple MB and the space is quiet cheap. You could effort sacrificing here and there some space for higher speed.

    Simply try it out with a default format and an optimized blocksize and see yourself how it works for you. Feel free to share your experiences!


    @Motion3549 said:
    Will setup this for Immich (still reluctant but I think layer7 had proper FDE by default) or even that very difficult to setup >> Ente Photos (native encryption).

    Same advice/suggestion goes for you here...

    ... but what is FDE? ^^;

  • @layer7 said: Make it a zfs or also an ext4/xfs/what ever is fine, but make sure to format it with 128kb blocksize or maybe even bigger. It will provide a far better IO performance to you.

    I have always used the default 4k ext4 setup. Let's see if anyone follows this advice and share the results :smile:

  • @layer7 said: The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    YOU CANT KEEP DOING THIS TO ME!!!! OLIVER!!!!!!!

    Thanked by 1barbarza
  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @vastness4594 said:

    @layer7 said: Make it a zfs or also an ext4/xfs/what ever is fine, but make sure to format it with 128kb blocksize or maybe even bigger. It will provide a far better IO performance to you.

    I have always used the default 4k ext4 setup. Let's see if anyone follows this advice and share the results :smile:

    Hi,

    yes, the 4k are history based and made sense as a good middle way between logical overhead, reality use-cases and technical state-of-art hardware situation.

    And its still state of the art for downward compatibility with older software.

    But nowadays the situation is different. Thats why all major vendors started to introduce 4k native blocksize disks instead of the 512bytes ones.

    Content is nowadays simply bigger than before. And if you can get the job done with less IO cycles then its going faster ( as you can see with yabs ). In general the bandwidth speed goes up, while IOPS speed goes down.

    So the question is what files are you actually going to store. And based on the answer you are choosing the blocksize and filesystem.

    Which means if you are going to use a 128kb blocksize filesystem to store tons of 10kb documents then you just f*** up your filesystem's life :-)

    So the bigger blocksize is not always better. Classical double edges sword....


    @sillycat said:
    YOU CANT KEEP DOING THIS TO ME!!!! OLIVER!!!!!!!

    I am very sorry, i know you have a hard time with me ;-;

    And thats why i will try to come up with a good idea for the next event, to make sure you wont feel bored :D

  • @layer7 said: to make sure you wont feel bored

    NOOOOO!!!! I DONT NEED ANY MORE STORAGE!!!!

  • jndjnd Member

    @lukast__ said:

    @beanman109 said:

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    what event what the fuck have i missed
    please sir send assistance and maybe an order link with a 69% discount code

    See this comment from @layer7 with order links:

    @layer7 said:

    @xukuncai said:
    Hi everyone,

    I'm looking to buy a VPS with large HDD storage, ideally:

    Storage: 2TB or 5TB HDD or moe (single or multiple disks are fine)

    Network: 1Gbps port preferred, shared is OK

    Bandwidth: 10TB+ per month (more is better, unmetered welcome)

    Location: Preferably Europe

    Budget: $50 /year

    thanks

    Hi,

    we are currently running an event for LET users, maybe its interesting for you:

    France location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-france-par1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-france

    German location:

    https://login.layer7.net/index.php?rp=/store/cloud-server-germany-fra1/let-special-local-storage-server-5-tb-germany

    Or for 10 TB: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4435783#Comment_4435783

    And I posted a YABS for the Frankfurt location in the YABS thread. And btw, you get 10% off when paying yearly.

    Very nice backup space, I'll order it. Surely that's the last one I need!

  • GlockGlock Member

    @layer7 bro u are a live saver that was exactly what i was searching for god bless u <3
    order number:3482208734 u're amazing and very generous man

  • I bought a France one and it feels good. Can I still buy a Germany one? @layer7

  • layer7layer7 Member, Host Rep, LIR

    @Glock said:
    @layer7 bro u are a live saver that was exactly what i was searching for god bless u <3
    order number:3482208734 u're amazing and very generous man

    Hi,

    i am happy if you will make it another day :D

    @tongtong said:
    I bought a France one and it feels good. Can I still buy a Germany one? @layer7

    the best you can do is to get the 10 TB version... for now we limit the accounts to one storage server per LET account that is qualified to get it

    The goal is to make as many people benefit from this limited suicide mission of us.

    But honestly... if you really need soo much space... our regular offer is also anyway with 1 EUR / TB ( taking at least 50 TB ).... so if you really need a lot more, you can contact me for an individual offer.

  • @layer7 said:

    @PineappleM said:
    Last question is, can we take monthly to test our use case on it and upgrade to annual billing (with the 10% discount) once we know we’re happy with it?

    And obviously if we’re not happy with it we’ll let it expire. Not going to ask for a refund or anything crazy like that.

    Thanks!

    Hi,

    sure, no problem we can change the billing any time.

    In general, as long as the event is going, you can also upgrade from the 5 TB to the 10 TB space ( without reinstalling/reupload your data or change of IP or what ever ).

    If you want to make this a success, be smart and take advantage of what you see from the yabs. Dont just use a normal default ext4/xfs/what ever filesystem for the secondary disk.

    Make it a zfs or also an ext4/xfs/what ever is fine, but make sure to format it with 128kb blocksize or maybe even bigger. It will provide a far better IO performance to you.

    Obviously this only goes as long as you dont want to store 1 billion 50 kb small gif's or what ever. But normal pictures and videos anyway have nowadays sizes of multiple MB and the space is quiet cheap. You could effort sacrificing here and there some space for higher speed.

    Simply try it out with a default format and an optimized blocksize and see yourself how it works for you. Feel free to share your experiences!


    @Motion3549 said:
    Will setup this for Immich (still reluctant but I think layer7 had proper FDE by default) or even that very difficult to setup >> Ente Photos (native encryption).

    Same advice/suggestion goes for you here...

    ... but what is FDE? ^^;

    4k for life.

    fde = full disk encryption.

    Thanked by 1vastness4594
  • @layer7 Is there any difference between the France and Germany locations?

  • beanman109beanman109 Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    @cheapoVPS said:
    @layer7 Is there any difference between the France and Germany locations?

    yes different countries

  • The ar> @beanman109 said:

    @cheapoVPS said:
    @layer7 Is there any difference between the France and Germany locations?

    yes different countries

    Yes they are close, it's hard to see on the map.

  • @Motion3549 said: 4k for life.

    4k for life!

  • PieRPieR Member

    @cheapoVPS said:
    @layer7 Is there any difference between the France and Germany locations?

    France has better cheese

    Thanked by 2maverick beanman109
  • hoodhmyhoodhmy Member

    @layer7 said:

    @beanman109 said:
    i never ordered because i didn't even know this existed until 6 minutes ago
    is it too late to put in a ticket and pretend im still waiting

    Hi,

    well at least its your fault and not mine. A pleasant surprise :-)

    The event is still ongoing. You can still get in france or germany a 5 or 10 TB server if you want.

    Hey
    Could you offer a discount for Cloud Server?
    I don't need Storage Server now

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