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
- Raw block storage
- SMART statistics
- Flat-rate price!
Provider Comparison
| Block Storage | Size | Annual Cost | per TB/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| zfs.rent | 8 TB | $240 | $2.50 |
| Vultr HDD | 8 TB | $2,400 | $25 |
| AWS EBS st1 | 8 TB | $4,320 | $45 |
| Object Storage | Size | Annual Cost | per TB/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rsync.net | 8 TB | $1,440 | $15 |
| AWS S3 | 8 TB | $2,304 | $24 |
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
- Create an account at /sign-up.
- Mail your drive to /address.txt.
- Your drive will be loaded on the 1st of the month.
VM Control
Manage your VM using our new control panel! Example shown below:
