Server Storage
We offer a range of storage solutions. For users with high-performance requirements (eg. large databases) where a lot of CPU and RAM is needed as well as the data, we have the Dell PE2950 with 8 x 2.5" drive bays, twin quad core processors, and a large RAM capacity. For a pure-storage requirement we have the attached-storage Coraid solutions, with 16 & 24 disks.
| CPU cores |
| Processor(s) |
| Minimum RAM |
| Disk type |
| Disk bays |
| Minumum hot spares |
| Maximum usable (RAID6) |
| Minimum storage (RAID6) |
| Maximum storage (RAID6) |
| Inclusive transfer bandwidth |
| Minimum term |
| Setup charge |
| Monthly rental |
| Customise |
| Dell 2950 |
|---|
| 4 |
| 1 |
| 2GBytes |
| 3.5" SATA |
| 6 |
| 0 |
| 4 |
| 1 TBytes |
| 8 TBytes |
| 100 GBytes |
| 1 month |
| £0.00 |
| £299.00 |
| Contact Sales |
| Coraid SR1521 |
|---|
| n/a (NAS) |
| n/a |
| 3.5" SATA |
| 15 |
| 1 |
| 12 |
| 3 TBytes |
| 24 TBytes |
| n/a |
| 1 month |
| £0.00 |
| £299.00 |
| Contact Sales |
| Coraid SR2421 |
|---|
| n/a (NAS) |
| n/a |
| 3.5" SATA |
| 24 |
| 2 |
| 20 |
| 5 TBytes |
| 40 TBytes |
| n/a |
| 1 month |
| £0.00 |
| £499.00 |
| Contact Sales |
Price comparison
Thanks to our economies of scale and large amount of hardware we are able to absorb much of the capital cost of these solutions, amortising it into the monthly fee with no tie-in for you.
This means that we can offer storage for as little as £0.02 / GByte / month - a fraction of the cost of Amazon's Simple Storage Service at £0.13 / GByte / month!
RAID level & resilience
Disks do fail, and in our experience there is often more than one failure in a server in quick succession. Therefore, we strongly recommend that our customers choose RAID6. This means that any two disks can fail at the same time and there is no data loss or interruption to service. In the case of a PE2960 with 8 250GByte disks you in-effect lose two disks-worth, so the available storage is 1,500 GBytes.
If you require total disaster-resilience then we recommend mirroring two identical storage servers, one at each of our data centre locations, which are 10 miles apart and have independent power & connectivity. We can provide this at no extra charge as part of our fully managed support SLA.
Uploading
We realise that you may have a very large amount of data to get onto your storage server. Therefore, during the first month we will give you unlimited upload capacity, or if you prefer you can send your data to us on a hard drive.