Dedicated Storage Servers —
Enterprise SAS HDDs, Petabyte-Scale Capacity
Dedicated storage servers with enterprise-grade SAS hard drives and hot-swap drive bays, expandable to 24 drives per server. Separate system NVMe SSDs keep the OS off your data drives. Top-tier plans deliver 10 Gbps public and 50 Gbps private networking with hot-swap PSU redundancy. Ideal for backup infrastructure, media hosting, large-scale file archives, and software-defined storage clusters.
- Enterprise SAS HDDs — Up to 24 Bays
- Dedicated System NVMe SSD (OS separate from data)
- 10 Gbps Public + 50 Gbps Private on Vault 3
- Hot-Swap Drive Bays for Zero-Downtime Expansion
Dedicated Storage Server Plans
Enterprise SAS hard drives on bare metal — from 4 × 14 TB entry up to 16 × 24 TB high-density with 10 Gbps public and 50 Gbps private bandwidth.
Tonic Vault 1 AMD
Ryzen 7 Pro 3700 — 8 cores / 16 threads
€275 /mo
€275 one-time setup fee
€261.25 /mo
€3135 billed annually — no setup fee
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 3700 — 8C / 16T
- 32 GB DDR4 ECC
- System: 2 × 480 GB SATA SSD
- 4 × 14 TB enterprise SAS HDD (software RAID), expandable up to 8 drives
- Public: 1 Gbps
- Private: 1 Gbps, unmetered and guaranteed
- Complete control with full root access
- DDoS Protection Included
- IPMI Remote Management
Tonic Vault 2 AMD
EPYC 4344P — 8 cores / 16 threads
€469 /mo
€469 one-time setup fee
€445.5 /mo
€5346 billed annually — no setup fee
- AMD EPYC 4344P — 8C / 16T
- 32 GB DDR5 5200 MHz on-die ECC
- System: 2 × 960 GB NVMe SSD
- 2 × 22 TB enterprise SAS HDD (software RAID), expandable up to 8 drives
- Public: 3 Gbps, unmetered and guaranteed
- Private: 25 Gbps, unmetered
- Complete control with full root access
- DDoS Protection Included
- IPMI Remote Management
Tonic Vault 3 AMD
EPYC 9135 — 16 cores / 32 threads
€3549 /mo
€3549 one-time setup fee
€3371.5 /mo
€40458 billed annually — no setup fee
- AMD EPYC 9135 — 16C / 32T
- 128 GB DDR5 6400 MHz ECC
- System: 2 × 1 TB NVMe SSD
- 16 × 24 TB enterprise SAS HDD (software RAID), expandable up to 24 drives
- Public: 10 Gbps, unmetered and guaranteed
- Private: 50 Gbps, unmetered and guaranteed
- Complete control with full root access
- DDoS Protection Included
- IPMI Remote Management
Enterprise SAS Storage
Certified enterprise SAS hard drives deliver higher sustained throughput, better endurance ratings, and longer MTBF than consumer-grade drives. Built for 24/7 continuous operation in production storage environments.
Dedicated OS Drives
A separate system NVMe SSD isolates the operating system and metadata from your data drives. OS activity never competes with storage I/O, and a failed data drive cannot affect system stability.
High-Throughput Networking
Vault 3 includes 10 Gbps unmetered public bandwidth and 50 Gbps private connectivity — essential for fast data ingestion from multiple sources and high-speed backups between storage nodes.
Hot-Swap Drive Bays
All drive bays support hot-swap replacement and addition. Expand capacity or replace a failed drive without powering down the server, with no interruption to services running on it.
Storage That Scales With Your Data
Three features that separate enterprise storage infrastructure from consumer NAS.
Enterprise SAS Reliability
Enterprise SAS drives are rated for continuous operation at workloads consumer drives cannot sustain. Higher MTBF ratings, better vibration tolerance in multi-drive environments, and consistent sustained transfer rates make them the standard for production storage infrastructure.
Expand Without Downtime
Hot-swap drive bays let you add capacity or replace failed drives while the server stays online. Your services keep running during expansion — no scheduled maintenance windows, no data migration required.
Private Network for Data Flows
Move backups between storage nodes, replicate to a secondary server, or connect to a compute cluster — all over the 25–50 Gbps private network without consuming public bandwidth or incurring transfer charges.
Compare our other dedicated servers
Standard Dedicated Servers
Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC bare metal from €46.50/mo.
Enterprise Dedicated Servers
AMD EPYC 9000, up to 192 cores and 3 TB DDR5 ECC.
Dedicated Game Servers
Ryzen X3D up to 5.7 GHz with game DDoS protection.
Dedicated GPU Servers
High-VRAM GPUs for AI inference and ML training.
Dedicated Storage Servers – Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our high-capacity bare-metal storage server plans.
Enterprise SAS drives are designed for continuous operation at high queue depths across all 24 hours of the day. They carry higher MTBF ratings (typically 1.2–2.5 million hours versus 0.3 million for consumer drives), better vibration compensation for multi-drive enclosures, and consistent sustained transfer rates. Consumer SATA and NVMe drives are optimised for burst performance, not sustained throughput — they degrade faster under continuous load and are not rated for the duty cycles storage servers demand.
Yes. All Tonic Vault servers have hot-swap drive bays, meaning you can insert additional drives or replace existing ones while the server is running. Storage capacity can be expanded up to 24 drives on top-tier configurations. Contact sales@tonicvps.com to confirm available expansion options for your specific plan.
The most common workloads are: large-scale backup targets (replacing tape or cloud backup at lower per-TB cost), media asset storage for video production pipelines, self-hosted object storage with MinIO or Ceph, archiving large datasets, and private file servers for distributed teams. Vault 3 with its 16×24 TB SAS array and 10 Gbps network is particularly suited to high-throughput ingest scenarios.
The operating system, swap space, logs, and all system activity run on a dedicated NVMe SSD that has no connection to your data drive array. If a data drive fails or an array rebuild runs at full speed, your OS performance is completely unaffected. Conversely, heavy system load never starves your storage I/O. This architectural separation is a standard practice in production storage systems.
Yes. You have full root access and can configure any software RAID level using Linux mdadm, ZFS, Btrfs, or any RAID solution you prefer. Hardware RAID controllers are available on some configurations. You choose the redundancy level — RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, or Z-series with ZFS — and manage the array yourself.
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