HDD block storage for a lower price

Raccoons

I noticed that all the block storage appears to be using NVMe disks, which costs more than regular hard drives today. Is there any plans to add HDD block storage too? Slower but cheaper preferably for long term storage of large amounts of data not accessed as frequently.

Magnus_Lind

Had the same problem, but after talking to support, I learned that when you deploy via api: https://api.99stack.com/docs/#operation/volume-create, you can pass type which supports nvme or hdd as arguments. Note that hdd is only supported in G1 regions, but it's a feature you can use, and regular hard drives cost only 1/4 of a similar sized NVMe SSD.

Boris_Zaitseva

It's available in the graphical control panel now it seems, all G1 regions support HDD block storage while the other regions only handles NVMe.

Kenneth_Crayton

Boris_Zaitseva Thanks, much better overview and easier to manage.

Knut_Engstrom

Great to see 👌