Hybrid Storage VPS

The NVMe SSD is your primary boot disk — this is where your operating system, applications, and databases run. It provides ultra-low latency and high random IOPS for everything speed-critical. The HDD block storage is a separately attached volume you mount and use for bulk data: media libraries, backups, large files, or anything where capacity matters more than raw speed. Think of it as your server's fast SSD paired with a massive external drive.

RAID-6 is a redundancy configuration where data is striped across multiple drives with two independent parity blocks. This means the array can survive two simultaneous drive failures without any data loss — providing significantly higher reliability than a single disk or RAID-5. The NVMe caching layer sits in front of the HDD array and serves frequently accessed (hot) data at NVMe speeds, improving read throughput for active files while the underlying HDDs handle sequential writes and cold data at their native speed.

The HDD volume is presented as a raw block device inside your VPS (typically /dev/vdb or similar). You format it with any filesystem you prefer — ext4, XFS, ZFS, Btrfs — and mount it to any directory. From that point on, it behaves exactly like a local disk. You can use it as a Plex media directory, a Nextcloud data path, an NFS share, or simply a large mountpoint for bulk storage.

A standard Cloud VPS uses all-NVMe storage — extremely fast, but expensive at high capacities. A Hybrid Storage VPS trades some random I/O performance on the bulk storage tier for dramatically more capacity at a much lower per-gigabyte cost. If your workload needs terabytes of data alongside real compute performance — and you don't need every byte to be NVMe-fast — the Hybrid VPS gives you the best cost-to-capacity ratio without sacrificing application speed.

Yes. Every Hybrid Storage VPS comes with full root access. You can install any software, configure custom kernels, set up NFS exports, and manage your storage volumes exactly as you need. The entire environment is yours to control.

Both products offer large HDD-based storage, but they serve different purposes. A Storagebox is a shared hosting environment powered by DirectAdmin, LiteSpeed, and PHP. It can host websites, run Nextcloud via Softaculous, and accept file transfers over FTP, SFTP, and rSync — but it runs on shared infrastructure with no root access and no dedicated CPU or RAM. It is optimised for straightforward, high-capacity storage at the lowest possible cost.

A Hybrid Storage VPS is a fully isolated KVM virtual machine with dedicated vCPUs, dedicated RAM, and full root access. You have complete control over the OS and can run any software stack you choose. The large RAID-6 HDD block volume is yours alone, paired with a fast NVMe boot disk for the OS and active workloads. Choose a Storagebox for simple, managed high-capacity hosting; choose a Hybrid Storage VPS when you need full server control alongside terabytes of storage.