- To only € 6 per Terabyte undermines the Storadera OS SKY -Giants
- It jumped SSDs to HDDs to cut down costs while maintaining fixed speeds
- Storadera plans to expand to Germany, UK and beyond
Storadera, a Tallinn-based cloud startup, offers some of the best cloud storage for photos with S3 compatible storage for € 6/TB/month. This sets the head-to-head with providers like Backblaze, offering a slightly lower rate of € 4.75/TB/month.
The company’s pitch is not only in low prices, but also in jurisdiction. As a Europe-based startup, its hidden data is outside the direct jurisdiction of non-EU countries, making it appealing to organizations that require data on data.
Storadera’s architecture is dependent on HDDs rather than SSDs for primary writing. “If we can offer fast enough service on 10x cheaper hardware, it sounds like magic,” explained Tommi Kannisto, the founder of Storadera.
Hyper -converged setup
While SSDs are used for metadata that accounts for only 0.05 percent of the total disk space, all major writing is performed for traditional disks. “The QLC 100-Plus TB SSDs are still too animal and will probably be in the next ten years,” Kannisto said.
The company uses a hyper -converged setup where all servers write to JBODs – racks containing 102 conventional Western digital hard drives – using deletion coding schemes such as 4+2 and 6+2, with 8+2 coming soon. Each server has 32 GB of RAM and runs services written in 100,000 lines with GO code.
“All software runs on all servers and all servers write to all JBODs. There is no load balancing device,” said Kannisto.
The system adapts to loading using “small blocks at times with low loads with larger blocks used on high load times,” and can achieve “close to 300 Mbps with 2 MB files.” It is also preparing to implement drives with higher capacity, magnetic uptake (SMR) to reduce capital costs by up to 25 percent. Storadera also offers bucket geo-replication, object locking for immutability and integrity control every 60 days.
The company says it is doing well financially with about 100 customers, including Telia and the Estonian government. It has placed itself as one of the best available cloud storage and cloud -backup options.
Despite making a little less than € 1 million a year, the company says it is sustainable and is looking at further growth. “We are profitable … We get a very good profit [and] We grow 5 percent/month in revenue, ”Kannisto said.
Storadera plans to expand to Germany in mid-2025 and aims to enter the UK and possibly North America or Asia-Stophav region, later in the year
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