Block Storage
Our block storage goes to 12(TB).
Completely customize the features and performance of your block storage volumes. Provision Endurance resources with snapshots and replication or build a high-powered Performance environment with allocated IOPS.
Reliable

Efficient

Predictable Billing

Block storage. ARN Server style.
Get the storage you need, where you need it.
Durable: Our block storage infrastructure protects against data loss and saves you from having to create and manage operating system-level RAID arrays. This durability also means your data is protected during any necessary maintenance and in the event of equipment failure.
Allocated IOPS: Volumes are provisioned with customizable allocated levels of IOPS to meet your workload’s unique storage needs. Multiple volumes may be striped together to achieve even better performance.
Concurrent Access and Highly Available Connectivity: iSCSI-based block storage volumes are exposed to authorized devices via redundant multipath I/O (MPIO) connections, and multiple devices can mount a block device simultaneously in a clustering configuration.
Snapshots & Replication (Endurance only): Efficient, point-in-time snapshots are captured non-disruptively and engineered to minimize space. Snapshots can be replicated to select ARN Server data centers.
Global Footprint: Block volumes can be provisioned alongside your cloud servers in ARN Server data center locations around the world.

Options: Endurance & Performance
Control every aspect of your storage.
Add block storage to your cloud environment in any of our global data centers today by ordering volumes through the customer portal to meet your needs. Choose between Endurance and Performance options:
Endurance
Monthly Price | $0.15 /GB | $0.35 /GB | $0.58 /GB |
Included IOPS | 0.25 IOPS/GB | 2 IOPS/GB | 4 IOPS/GB |
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15 |
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/GB
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0.25 |
IOPS
/GB
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per month |
Popular Use Cases
Business Continuity : Meet business recovery objectives by non-disruptively capturing point-in-time snapshots and replicating to SoftLayer data centers for nearly instantaneous disaster recovery.
Large Relational Databases : Handle the database capacity and performance requirements by scaling up, whether you’re deploying Oracle, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Dedicated File System : Create your own file system for sharing across multiple servers and applications.
Popular Use Cases
Business Continuity : Meet business recovery objectives by non-disruptively capturing point-in-time snapshots and replicating to SoftLayer data centers for nearly instantaneous disaster recovery.
Large Relational Databases : Handle the database capacity and performance requirements by scaling up, whether you’re deploying Oracle, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Dedicated File System : Create your own file system for sharing across multiple servers and applications.
Performance
Starting at | ||||
10 |
¢
/GB
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12 |
¢
/IOP
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per month |
A flexible building block in your solution.
EXAMPLE 1

EXAMPLE 1
Dedicated block storage provides a secure, private, local storage volume for your public cloud servers.
- Dedicated, private, secure data storage
- Fixed costs won’t grow with your data
- High capacity for great value performance
EXAMPLE 3

EXAMPLE 2

High Availability Storage Cluster
Replicate your storage server for automatic failover and guaranteed availability when your service cannot go down, period.
- Hybrid and dedicated server clusters
- Asynchronous and synchronous replication
- High Availability won’t let you down
Off-Site Backup Server
Store your backups on a dedicated block storage server for flexible Disaster Recovery planning that lets you store your backups away from your on-premise or colocation servers. Consolidating cloud backups into a single server can also save you money.
- High capacity RAID hard drives
- Host backups in a different location to your live data
- Consolidate your backups for great value performance
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