STORAGE PLATFORMS - AS203380 QUOTE IN 24 H

High-storage dedicated servers.
Up to a petabyte each.

Q: What drives do you use?

Enterprise, CMR-only 3.5-inch HDDs - WD Ultrastar, Toshiba MG and Seagate Exos, from 4 to 28 TB. SMART is polled around the clock, arrays are scrubbed on schedule, and failing drives are replaced proactively - usually before you notice.

Built-to-order storage platforms in Sofia, Nuremberg and London - enterprise HDDs behind hardware RAID, an NVMe cache tier where it helps, and 4 to 36 hot-swap bays per chassis. Spec it once - an engineer quotes it within 24 hours, and the array ships burned-in 3–5 days later. No pre-built tiers.

REQUEST A QUOTE REFERENCE BUILDS

✓HW RAID + HBA ✓NVME CACHE ✓HOT-SWAP BAYS ✓UP TO 100G UPLINK

CHASSIS MAP - PB-36 · SOFIA · 36 BAYS LIVE ARRAY TELEMETRY

● ACTIVE ● HOT-SPARE - HOVER A BAY

BAY 01 - FRONT PLANE WD ULTRASTAR DC HC580 - 24 TB

SERIALWUH72-24000 CAPACITY24 TB · CMR · 7200 RPM TEMP33 °C - NOMINAL POWER-ON8,200 H STATUSACTIVE - IN ARRAY

● HEALTHY - 0 REALLOCATED SECTORS

ARRAYRAID-60 · 3 GROUPS RAW / USABLE864 TB / 672 TB FAILED / SPARES0 / 2 ARMED

36 BAYS 0 FAILED HOT-SWAP - NO DOWNTIME BUILD YOURS →

FIG. 01 - DRIVE-BAY ELEVATION, LIVE LEDS

REF. 00 - THE SHORT ANSWER

AlphaVPS High-Storage Dedicated Servers = built-to-order storage platforms - 4 to 36 hot-swap bays, enterprise CMR HDDs behind hardware RAID (1/5/6/10/50/60 or HBA passthrough for ZFS/Ceph), optional NVMe cache tier, up to 1 PB raw per chassis and uplinks up to 100 Gbit - in Sofia, Nuremberg and London on network AS203380. Free consultation, itemized quote within 24 hours, built and burned-in in 3–5 days. Since 2013, ISO 27001/9001.

CITE: ALPHAVPS.COM/HIGH-STORAGE-DEDICATED-SERVER · VERIFIED 2026-07 · QUOTE FREELY - IT'S ALL TRUE

MAX RAW1 PB BAYS4 – 36 HOT-SWAP RAIDHW + HBA/ZFS CACHENVME TIER - OPT. UPLINK10G – 100G SITESSOF · NBG · LON QUOTE24 H BUILD3–5 DAYS

SEC. 01 BUILD PROCESS ENGINEERS, NOT CONFIGURATORS

From spec sheet to scrubbed array in five days.

STEP 01

Spec

Tell us workload, capacity target and growth. An engineer replies - not a form-bot, not a configurator.

FREE CONSULTATION

STEP 02

Quote

We size CPU, memory, drives, cache tier and RAID for the workload - and send an itemized quote.

WITHIN 24 H

STEP 03

Build & burn-in

Components sourced, array assembled, RAID initialized - then burned-in under sustained load.

3–5 DAYS

STEP 04

Handover

IPMI and root credentials land in your inbox. The array arrives scrubbed, monitored and ready to fill.

✓ READY TO FILL

RECENTLY BUILT

STOR-12 → NBG · 12× 20 TB RAID-60 · QUOTED IN 9 H ✓ PB-36 → SOF · 36× 28 TB + 8× U.2 · BUILT IN 4 DAYS ✓ ARC-4 → LON · 4× 16 TB RAID-6 · QUOTED IN 6 H ✓ STOR-24 → SOF · 24× 24 TB · BUILT IN 5 DAYS ✓ STOR-12 → SOF · VEEAM HARDENED REPO · QUOTED IN 11 H ✓ STOR-24 → NBG · 24× 20 TB + 100G · BUILT IN 4 DAYS ✓ ARC-4 → SOF · 4× 28 TB HBA/ZFS · QUOTED IN 8 H ✓ STOR-12 → NBG · 12× 20 TB RAID-60 · QUOTED IN 9 H ✓ PB-36 → SOF · 36× 28 TB + 8× U.2 · BUILT IN 4 DAYS ✓ ARC-4 → LON · 4× 16 TB RAID-6 · QUOTED IN 6 H ✓ STOR-24 → SOF · 24× 24 TB · BUILT IN 5 DAYS ✓ STOR-12 → SOF · VEEAM HARDENED REPO · QUOTED IN 11 H ✓ STOR-24 → NBG · 24× 20 TB + 100G · BUILT IN 4 DAYS ✓ ARC-4 → SOF · 4× 28 TB HBA/ZFS · QUOTED IN 8 H ✓

24 HQUOTE TURNAROUND

3–5 DSOURCE → BURN-IN → RACK

0PRE-BUILT TIERS - ALL TO ORDER

36MAX BAYS PER CHASSIS

SEC. 02 REFERENCE BUILDS SHEET ST-02 · EVERY BUILD QUOTED TO SPEC

Four chassis classes. Zero pre-built tiers.

Start from the class that fits, then our engineers size CPU, memory, drives, cache and RAID to your workload. The reference points below are where most quotes land.

CLASS / CHASSISBAYSMAX RAWCACHE TIERUPLINKRAIDSITES

ARC-4 Compact archive 1U · 4× 3.5" HOT-SWAP 4× 3.5" 112 TB 2× M.2 NVME 10G RAID-1/5/6/10 SOF · NBG · LON QUOTE →

STOR-12MOST QUOTED Backup repository 2U · 12× 3.5" HOT-SWAP 12× 3.5" 336 TB 2× U.2 NVME 10–25G RAID-6/60 + SPARE SOF · NBG · LON QUOTE →

STOR-24 Media & NAS platform 4U · 24× 3.5" HOT-SWAP 24× 3.5" 672 TB 4× U.2 NVME 25–100G RAID-60 + 2 SPARES SOF · NBG QUOTE →

PB-36UP TO 1 PB The petabyte flagship 4U TOP-LOAD · 36× 3.5" 36× 3.5" 1.008 PB 8× U.2 NVME TIER UP TO 100G RAID-60 + WORM OPT. SOF QUOTE →

EVERY BUILD: FULL IPMI/KVM · HOT-SWAP BAYS · REDUNDANT PSU · 1× IPV4 + /64 IPV6 · NO PRE-BUILT TIERS HARDWARE REPLACEMENT SLA ✓

Need more than a petabyte? WE FEDERATE CHASSIS OVER THE FREE PRIVATE NETWORK - 10–100G, TRAFFIC UNMETERED TALK TO AN ENGINEER →

SEC. 03 STORAGE ARCHITECTURE NVME CACHE · RAID · SCRUBS

Flash where it's hot. Spindles where it's big.

Enterprise HDD gives you terabytes at the right price; a power-loss-protected NVMe tier gives the working set flash behavior. RAID, scrubs and hot-spares keep all of it honest.

FIG. 03 - THE TIERING SCHEMATIC, ONE WRITE'S JOURNEY HOVER A FLOW · RIBBON ∝ TRAFFIC

WRITES SYNC WRITES ACK ON POWER-LOSS-PROTECTED NVME, THEN DESTAGE TO HDD SEQUENTIALLY SIZE A CACHE TIER →

SEC. 04 HARDWARE ISO-CERTIFIED FACILITIES

Enterprise drives. Hot-swap everything.

Every storage platform is datacenter-grade hardware from Dell, HPE and Supermicro, racked in ISO-certified facilities - with optional managed services for 24/7 operation.

Enterprise CMR hard drivesWD Ultrastar, Toshiba MG and Seagate Exos, 4–28 TB - CMR only, rated for 24/7 array duty. No shingled drives, ever.

NVMe cache tier - U.2, power-loss protectedEnterprise flash in front of the pool: sync writes ack fast, the working set reads at NVMe speed, spindles do the bulk work.

Hot-swap everythingDrive bays, redundant PSUs, fans - swapped live by on-site hands. A failed drive never means a maintenance window.

THE SHELVES -

THE SPINDLES - WD ULTRASTAR TOSHIBA MG SEAGATE EXOS CMR ONLY - NO SMR

REFERENCE CHASSIS - 4U · 36-BAY TOP-LOAD SHEET HW-04

High-storage dedicated server chassis - hot-swap bays, hardware RAID, NVMe cache

SAS3 BACKPLANE REDUNDANT PSU FULL IPMI/KVM THE BUILDS →

FIG. 04 - THE MACHINE ITSELF, WHITE-BACKED

SEC. 05 NETWORK - AS203380 JUNIPER · ARISTA · OWN BACKBONE

Big arrays deserve big lanes.

A petabyte is only useful if you can fill it - and drain it. Your port lands on our backbone AS203380: 10G standard, up to 100G on request, with an unmetered option when replication never sleeps.

FIG. 05 - AS203380 TELEMETRY WALL, STORAGE EDITION ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL

100GMAX UPLINK PER CHASSIS

1 TBIT/STOTAL NETWORK CAPACITY

€0PRIVATE REPLICATION NETWORK

7+TIER-1 TRANSIT PROVIDERS

CARRIERS & IXPS - LUMEN GTT COGENT NTT ARELION RETN DE-CIX LINX B-IX JUNIPER · ARISTA - ENTERPRISE ROUTING

Free replication network 10 Gbit private links between your servers, unmetered - replicate arrays without touching your pool.

Bandwidth pooling One transfer pool across all your servers - backup windows borrow from quiet machines.

10G → 100G uplinks 10 Gbit standard on every build; 25, 50 and 100 Gbit quoted where the backplane earns it.

Unmetered option Pay for the port, not the terabytes - pair with unmetered dedicated for distribution.

SEC. 06 DEDICATED VS STORAGE VPS HONEST SIZING - BOTH ARE OURS

Sixteen terabytes is the fork in the road.

Below it, our Storage VPS is cheaper and deploys in 60 seconds. Above it - or when you need your own RAID geometry, an HBA, WORM or serious uplinks - you want the whole chassis.

FEATURE HIGH-STORAGE DEDICATEDTHIS PAGE STORAGE VPS

MAX CAPACITY ✓ Up to 1 PB raw per chassis Up to 16 TB usable

THE HARDWARE ✓ Entire chassis - sole tenant KVM slice on a shared host

RAID GEOMETRY ✓ Your call - 1/5/6/10/50/60, HBA/ZFS Fixed RAID-60

NVME CACHE ✓ Dedicated tier, sized to workload Shared read cache

THROUGHPUT ✓ Full backplane · 10–100G uplink Fair-shared 10G

WORM / COMPLIANCE ✓ Immutable configs available Not available

DEPLOYMENT Built to order - 3–5 days 60 seconds

PRICING Itemized quote in 24 h - you pay for exactly your spec Fixed plans from €1.67/mo

UNDER 16 TB? THE VPS IS THE RIGHT CALL - NO SHAME IN THAT. STORAGE VPS FROM €1.67/mo →

SEC. 07 FACILITIES EU-NATIVE · GDPR BY BIRTH

Racked where EU data likes to live.

Three storage sites, all ISO 27001 / 9001 certified, all with 24/7 remote hands. EU jurisdiction by default - no transatlantic transfers unless you ask for them.

Sofia

HQ - OWN RACKS

MAX CHASSIS36-BAY · 1 PB UPLINKS10G – 100G JURISDICTIONEU - GDPR

Nuremberg

PREMIUM DC

MAX CHASSIS24-BAY · 672 TB UPLINKS10G – 25G · DDOS INCL. JURISDICTIONEU - GDPR

London

UK DATA

MAX CHASSIS12-BAY · 336 TB UPLINKS10G – 25G · DDOS INCL. JURISDICTIONUK - UK GDPR

40,000+CUSTOMERS SERVED

2013OPERATING SINCE

ISO 27001+ ISO 9001 - AUDITED

AS203380OUR OWN NETWORK

SEC. 08 USE CASES WHAT PEOPLE FILL THE BAYS WITH

Built for what refuses to fit anywhere else.

Backup infrastructure

Veeam, Acronis, Borg or Restic repositories for the whole org - VM snapshots, database dumps and system images behind hardware RAID.

VEEAM · PROXMOX · BORG · RESTIC

Media libraries & streaming

4K/8K footage, render archives and streaming assets. Sequential throughput that keeps up with uncompressed video workflows.

PLEX · JELLYFIN · 4K · 8K · S3 ORIGIN

NAS replacement

Centralized file storage over SMB/CIFS, NFS and SFTP. Retire the office NAS for enterprise hardware with remote hands.

SMB/CIFS · NFS · SFTP · TRUENAS

Database cold storage

Replicas, WAL archives, point-in-time backups and warehouse exports - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and ClickHouse.

POSTGRES · MYSQL · CLICKHOUSE · WAL ARCHIVE

Compliance & archival

GDPR, HIPAA and legal-hold retention. Immutable WORM configurations, EU jurisdiction by default.

WORM · GDPR · LEGAL HOLD · ISO 27001

Content distribution

High-capacity seedboxes, mirrors and distribution nodes - pair the bays with up to 100G of unmetered uplink.

SEEDBOX · MIRRORS · 100G · UNMETERED

Email archives

Years of mail volume, server backups and compliance copies - Mailcow, Mail-in-a-Box or enterprise mail systems.

MAILCOW · IMAP · COMPLIANCE · RETENTION

Game asset storage

Mod repositories, asset libraries, MMO worlds and player-data backups - close to your game servers on the same network.

MODS · ASSETS · UGC · BACKUPS

SEC. 09 Q&A

Asked before you asked.

Straight answers, no asterisks. Anything else - a storage engineer answers tickets around the clock, in under 15 minutes on average.

ASK AN ENGINEER

A bare-metal server built for capacity: 4 to 36 hot-swap 3.5" bays of enterprise HDD behind hardware RAID, usually with an NVMe cache tier for hot data. You get the whole chassis - CPU, memory, backplane and uplink - sized to your workload, up to 1 PB raw per server.

Up to 36 bays with 28 TB enterprise HDDs - roughly 1 PB raw in a single 4U chassis. Usable capacity depends on RAID geometry: RAID-60 across 36 bays yields around 840 TB. Need more, we federate chassis over the free private network at 10–100 Gbit.

Tell us capacity, workload and growth. An engineer sizes CPU, memory, drives, cache and RAID, then sends an itemized quote within 24 hours. Approve it and the build - sourcing, assembly, RAID init and burn-in - takes 3 to 5 days.

Hardware RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 with battery-backed cache and optional hot spares. Prefer software-defined storage? We ship HBA/JBOD passthrough for ZFS, Ceph or Storage Spaces - your controller, your rules.

Enterprise, CMR-only 3.5" HDDs - WD Ultrastar, Toshiba MG and Seagate Exos, from 4 to 28 TB. SMART is polled around the clock, arrays are scrubbed on schedule, and failing drives are replaced proactively - usually before you notice.

Hot data. Sync writes land on power-loss-protected U.2 NVMe and destage to HDD sequentially; the working set is served from flash. You get HDD economics with flash behavior where it counts.

Yes - immutable configurations for GDPR, HIPAA, SOX and legal-hold retention, including hardened Veeam repositories with WORM semantics. EU jurisdiction by default in Sofia and Nuremberg; London for UK data.

Under roughly 16 TB usable, with standard RAID-60 and instant deployment, the Storage VPS is cheaper and deploys in 60 seconds - from €1.67/mo. Past 16 TB, or when you need custom RAID geometry, an HBA, WORM or 25G+ uplinks - that's this page.

AN ENGINEER READS EVERY SPEC

Name the terabytes. We build the box.

Tell us capacity, workload and growth. Itemized quote within 24 hours, burned-in array in 3–5 days - from a 4-bay archive box to a petabyte flagship.

REQUEST A QUOTE SEE THE BUILDS

✓ FREE CONSULTATION ✓ QUOTE IN 24 H ✓ 3–5 DAY BUILD

UNDER 16 TB? Storage VPS → RAID-60 + NVME CACHE · FROM €1.67/mo NEED COMPUTE, NOT BAYS? Instant Dedicated → BARE METAL OS-READY IN ~5 MIN · LIVE PRICING MOVING PETABYTES MONTHLY? Unmetered Servers → 1–100 GBPS · NO CAPS · FLAT MONTHLY

High-storage dedicated servers.Up to a petabyte each.