zfs.rent

Take Ownership of Your Data.

Host your own 3.5" SAS or SATA drives in a Tier 2 datacenter!

zfs.rent

$20/slot-month

  • Dedicated VM
  • Own your drive
  • Pre-load data
  • Flat-Rate price

Sign up before August 1st to lock-in legacy pricing!

Read more here: /offer

Provider Comparison

Block Storage Size Annual Cost per TB/month
zfs.rent8 TB$240$2.50
Vultr8 TB$2,400$25
Digital Ocean8 TB$1,920$20
AWS EBS st18 TB$4,320$45
Object Storage Size Annual Cost per TB/month
Rsync.net8 TB$1,152$12
AWS S38 TB$2,208$23

zfs.rent is flat-rate —
price doesn't scale with capacity!

Note: You don't have to use ZFS... Hard drives are passed-through verbatim.

Feel free to use btrfs, ext4, etc. — or a bunch of FAT32 partitions :)


Pricing

We offer fixed-rate, physical 3.5" hard-disk drive colocation.

We charge by the "slot-month". Send any size drive!

Each slot increases your VM specs by 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe.

Visit /pricing for more details.

Onboarding

  1. Create an account at /sign-up.
  2. Mail your drive to /address.txt.
  3. Your drive will be loaded on the 1st of the month.

VM Control

Manage your VM using our new control panel! Example shown below:

vm control demo