High availability block storage when you need it
Easily add highly available and scalable storage capacity to your Linode.
Linode Block Storage
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.
Add Additional Storage to Any Compute Instance
Quickly increase the total storage available on a Compute Instance by adding Block Storage Volumes.
Ultra-Fast Performance with NVMe
High-speed NVMe drives deliver leading price-performance with a 10-20x increase in throughput and up to 2000x improvement in IOPS (compared to traditional spinning disks).
Scalable
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.
Independent and Hot Swappable
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.
Resilient and Fault Tolerant
Volumes are configured with built-in data replication, ensuring that your data is highly-available and protected from loss.
Store Any Type of Data
Block Storage can be used to store any data, including website files, databases, media files, backups, or even bootable operating systems.
Specifications
Technical Specifications
- Volume size: 10 GB - 10 TB
- Storage technology: high performance NVMe SSDs*
- IOPS: up to 8,000 (12,000 burst)
- Throughput: up to 350 MB/s (525 MB/s burst)
- Provides additional storage capacity to Linode Compute Instances and LKE clusters
- Highly available and fault tolerant
- Data is replicated through erasure coding
- Volumes can be formatted, mounted, and accessed like locally connected storage devices
- Up to 8 Volumes can be attached to a single Compute Instance
- Provision via Cloud Manager or Linode CLI
- Programmatic management via Linode API
- Regional availability
Complementary Paid Services
- Add flexible, high performant storage to Compute Instances
- Automatically add storage capacity to applications running on LKE
- Supplement with scalable storage through Object Storage
- Incident response with Managed Services
Recommended Workloads
- Suitable for workloads that require large amounts of storage
- Storage solution for website files and media
- Dedicated video, image, and other media server solutions, including Plex
- Cloud-base file servers, including applications like NextCloud and ownCloud
- Database storage, including for high traffic and demanding applications
- Backup location for other applications
- Boot device for running custom distributions
Cloud Block Storage Benchmark Report
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)
Carefully crafted for peak performance at the best price.
$0.10/GB per month. Hourly Billing. No usage fees.
Full-featured API
Programmatically control and manage your Linode infrastructure.
NVME Block Storage
NVMe Block Storage is now available in our Atlanta (USA), Newark (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), and Toronto (Canada) data centers. Sign up to find out when NVMe Block Storage is available in your data center.
NVMe is the hardware interface for next-generation SSDs. With Linode NVMe Block Storage, you'll experience:
- Significant improvement over traditional spinning hard disk drives.
- 10-20x increases in throughput and up to 2000x improvement in IOPS.
- Performance upgrades for database storage and other tasks where high storage speeds and consistency are critical.
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One-Click Apps
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Plex Media Server
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Content Resources
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How to Store and Organize Your Media by Installing Nextcloud on Linode Using Super Fast NVMe Storage
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.
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Linode Has The Fastest NVMe-Based Block Storage Among All Cloud Providers
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.
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Announcing Linode NVMe Block Storage Global Rollout | Free Faster Storage Upgrade for All Customers
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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Cloud Block Storage Benchmark Report
Cloud Spectator evaluates CPU performance with block storage volumes attached and database performance to determine the fastest overall performance and value per dollar among well-known cloud providers and popular alternative clouds. -
New Cloud Block Storage Benchmarks
Who offers the best overall cloud block storage performance and value per dollar? -
NVMe block storage now available
Performance upgrade provided free to all customers, new apps in Marketplace -
FileCloud Tutorial | Enterprise File Storing Solution
FileCloud is a cloud-based file-sharing application, similar to tools like Dropbox, that allows users to remotely access, upload, and sync hosted files. In this tutorial, we'll show how to set up Filecloud with the Linode One-Click Marketplace. -
How To Choose The Best Storage Solution For Your Business?
We live in a data-driven world - we are generative and consume massive amounts of data - from things like Tesla cars to our 4K capable smartphones. Modern businesses have a very strategic approach towards their user data. There are three different types of storage solutions to manage data - file, object, and block. But which one is right for your business? We invited Mike Quatrani, Solutions Engineer at Linode, to talk about these storage solutions. Here are some of the topics we covered in today’s discussion: -
S3-Compatible Object Storage Use Cases
How do you address the need to store, access, and organize data? The answer is increasingly becoming S3-compatible object storage. -
Deploying an Object Storage Bucket
Learn how to deploy an Object Storage Bucket on Linode with help from Leslie Salazar, Senior Technical Writer, at Linode.
Guides
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Manage Block Storage Volumes with the Linode API
The Linode API allows you to create, delete, attach, detach, clone, and resize Block Storage Volumes. -
Use a Block Storage Volume with Plex Media Server
This guide shows how to attach a Block Storage Volume to an existing Linode in order to meet the demands of a growing media library. -
Boot a Linode from a Block Storage Volume
This guide shows how to create a duplicate of a primary disk to be booted from a Block Storage Volume.
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