Easily add highly-available and scalable storage capacity to your Linode.
Increase your Linode’s storage capacity by attaching additional high-speed volume sizes up to 10TB. Volumes are managed independently of Linodes, so your data persists even if you delete your Linode.
Quickly increase the total storage available on a Compute Instance by adding Block Storage Volumes.
High-speed NVMe technology delivers leading price-performance with a 10-20x increase in throughput and up to 2000x improvement in IOPS (compared to traditional spinning disks).
Resize a Block Storage Volume at any time, giving you the flexibility to update your storage capacity with a few easy steps whenever your needs change.
Volumes are managed independently from a Compute Instance’s local storage and can be attached or detached to any Instance without needing to reboot, allowing you to move Volumes between systems within seconds.
Volumes are configured with built-in data replication, ensuring that your data is highly-available and protected from loss.
Block Storage can be used to store any data, including website files, databases, media files, backups, or even bootable operating systems.
Technical Specifications
Complementary Paid Services
Recommended Workloads
Introduction to NVMe Block Storage
Independent benchmarking firm, Cloud Spectator, found that Linode’s NVMe Block Storage outperforms AWS, Azure, GCP, and DigitalOcean in both overall IOPS performance and IOPS per dollar.
Dedicated VMs (4 CPUs) & 500GB Block Storage - 4K Storage AVG Write IOPS
FIO 4KB Random Write IOPS (Higher is Better)
$0.10/GB per month. Hourly Billing. No usage fees.
Programmatically control and manage your Linode infrastructure.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/jsonType"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
-X POST -d '{
"label": "my-volume",
"size": 100,
"region": "us-east",
"linode_id": 1234567
}'
https://api.linode.com/v4/volumeslinode-cli volumes create
--label "my-volume"
--size "100"
--region "us-east"
--linode_id "1234567"from linode_api4 import LinodeClient
client = LinodeClient(token)
client.volume_create('my-volume',
linode=1234567,
size=100)resource "linode_volume" "my-volume" {
label = "my-volume"
size = "100"
region = "${linode_instance.my-linode.region}"
linode_id = "${linode_instance.my-linode.id}"
}mkfs.ext4 "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume"
mkdir "/mnt/my-volume"
echo "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume /mnt/my-volume ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail 0 2" \
| tee -a /etc/fstab
mount /mnt/my-volumebsvolume:
blockdev.formatted:
- name: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
- fs_type: ext4
mount.mounted:
- name: /mnt/my-volume
- device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
- fstype: ext4
- opts: defaults,noatime,nofail
- pass_num: 2
- mkmnt: True
- require:
- blockdev: bsvolume- name: format the volume
filesystem:
fstype: ext4
dev: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
- name: mount the volume
mount:
path: /mnt/my-volume
src: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
fstype: ext4
opts: defaults,noatime,nofail
passno: 2
state: mountedinclude lvm
filesystem { "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume":
ensure => present,
fs_type => "ext4",
}
file { "/mnt/my-volume":
ensure => "directory",
}
mount { "/mnt/my-volume":
ensure => mounted,
device => "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume",
fstype => "ext4",
options => "defaults,noatime,nofail",
pass => 2,
require => [
Filesystem["/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume"],
File["/mnt/my-volume"],
],
}NVMe Block Storage is now available in many of our global data centers across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia Pac. Sign up to find out when NVMe Block Storage is available in your data center.
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In this video, we'll cover setting up and connecting external Block Storage on your Nextcloud instance. This tutorial uses a Nextcloud instance that was manually set up using the method from this video https://youtu.be/teUlz635ZoA
In this video, we'll explain Linode’s S3 compatible Object Storage. Linode Object Storage is a globally-available, S3-Compatible storage solution, maintaining the same performance as your data grows, with no Virtual Machines required.
In this video, we'll cover setting up a Nextcloud server using Linode's One-Click Marketplace. As a bonus, we'll attach Linode's newly upgraded NVMe Block Storage to the Nextcloud server.
Cloud Spectator (https://cloudspectator.com/) is one of the most reputable, independent cloud benchmarking and consulting firms focused on the performance of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and applications in the Cloud. The company recently conducted a Linode-commissioned study on NVMe-based block storage and looked at major cloud providers and alternate cloud providers including Linode, AWS, Azure, GCP, Vultr, and DigitalOcean. The study found that Linode continues to offer better performance and value for money beating the biggest player in the industry, AWS.
We’re rolling out ultra-fast, better-performing, and more reliable NVMe block storage across all of our global data centers. Block storage rates will remain at $0.10/GB per month, and customers with existing volumes in our data centers can migrate their volumes when NVMe block storage becomes available at no extra cost.
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