High-performance business-ready block storage
Attach secure, scalable, highly available NVMe-based Volumes Block Storage to Droplets and get the latest standard in storage technology that is faster than SSDs and traditional HDD storage.
Work fast and scale up with reliable block storage
Excellent performance
Volumes Block Storage is designed for demanding business-critical applications requiring high throughput and IOPS. NVMe is the fastest available storage medium that also provides low latency for reading and writing data.
Highly available, reliable and secure
Always encrypted at rest and when replicated, your data is protected and maintains high durability and availability even if hardware fails. All your Volumes data is transmitted to Droplets over isolated networks, is stored independently of Droplet storage and can be instantly moved across Droplets
Add Volumes Block Storage to Kubernetes clusters
Easily write and access persistent data in Kubernetes clusters with Volumes Block Storage by creating a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) as part of your deployment.
Built for businesses
Get 99.99% uptime SLA per month with affordable pricing and scalability in mind, so you can always and easily scale block storage up or wn and move storage between Droplets.
Practical use cases for block storage
Augment Droplet storage
Increase Droplet storage capacity independently without paying for a larger, more expensive Droplet and keep your data safely on Volumes even if you destroy your Droplet.
Machine learning and Big Data
Use Volumes to store the input data you need to train artificial intelligence/machine learning models and to store the output of trained models.
Distributed web applications
Volumes Block Storage is persistent and secure, perfect for distributed web applications like blockchain and NFTs that need high performance storage for many distributed web applications such as “Proof of Stake” nodes.
Store files
Save data such as website files, log files, and backups and access them at high speeds to prevent application failures caused by slow storage.
Host databases
Confidently host databases that need to quickly serve the demands of high-traffic applications and services.
Backup and duplicate Your data
Volumes Snapshots create on-demand disk backups of your Volumes, so you can further protect data and quickly create new volumes with those backups to share across multiple Droplets.
Programmatically control Volumes Block Storage
Our API enables you to deploy and manage your Volumes Block Storage simply and programmatically.
volume = DropletKit::Volume.new(
name: 'volume-01',
region: 'nyc3',
size_gigabytes: 10
)
client.volumes.create(volume)Powerful APIs
Expand Droplet storage space and manage block storage using conventional HTTP requests. Take any number of requests and actions—including creating Volumes, attaching, detaching, and retrieving Volume information—with curl commands or the official Ruby and Go API wrappers, all including OAuth support.
Rest easy with regular backups
Enable SnapShooter for simple, frequent, and customizable backups of your cloud servers, volumes, files, databases, and applications.
Do more with Volumes Block Storage
Dive deep into storage-related topics and setups with the help of our easy-to-follow tutorials
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