- At only € 6 per teraoctet, storade will undermine the giants of the American cloud
- He jumped SSD so that hard drives reduce costs while maintaining solid speeds
- Storadera plans to develop in Germany, in the United Kingdom and beyond
Storadera, a Tallinn -based Cloud Startup, offers some of the best cloud storage for photos with S3 compatible storage at € 6 / TB / month. This places him face to face with suppliers like Backblaze, which offers a slightly lower rate of € 4.75 / TB / month.
The company’s argument is not only at the low price, but also in court. Being a startup based in Europe, its stored data exceeds the direct competence of the countries not of the EU, which makes it attractive to organizations which require data sovereignty.
Storadera’s architecture is based on hard drives rather than SSDs for primary entries. “If we can offer sufficiently fast service on 10x of cheaper equipment, then it looks like magic,” said Tommi Kannisto, the founder of Storadera.
Hyperconverge configuration
Although the SSDs are used for metadata, representing only 0.05% of the total disk space, all major writings are made on traditional discs. “The SSD TB QLC 100 Plus are still too expensive – and will probably be for the next ten years,” said Kannisto.
The company uses a hyperconverged configuration, with all the servers writing to Jbods – racks containing 102 conventional Western digital discs – using erasure coding patterns such as 4 + 2 and 6 + 2, with 8 + 2 coming soon. Each server has 32 GB of RAM and performs services written in 100,000 lines of Go code.
“All software runs in all servers and all servers write to all JBODs. There is no load balancer unit,” said Kannisto.
The system adapts to the load, using “small blocks in low load period with larger blocks used in high loading times”, and can reach “nearly 300 Mbps with 2 MB files”. He is also preparing to implement magnetic more capacity magnetic training (SMR) to reduce capital expenditure up to 25%. Storadera also offers a geo-replication of the bucket, a locking of objects for immutability and integrity controls every 60 days.
The company says it is doing well financially, with around 100 customers, including Telia and the Estonian government. It has positioned itself as one of the best cloud and cloud backup options available.
Despite just under 1 million euros per year, the company says it is sustainable and envisages more in -depth growth. “We are profitable … We make a very good profit [and] We increase 5% / month of income, ”said Kannisto.
Storadera plans to develop in Germany by mid-2025 and aims to enter the United Kingdom, and perhaps North America or the Asia-Pacific region, later in the year
Via Blocksands
