- With only € 6 per Terabyte, Storadera undermines the US cloud giants.
- SSD was omitted for HDDs to reduce costs while maintaining solid speeds
- Storadera plans to expand to Germany, the United Kingdom and beyond
Storadera, a tallin -based cloud startup, offers some of the best cloud storage for photo storage compatible with S3 to € 6/TB/month. This places it face to face with suppliers such as Backblaze, which offers a slightly lower rate of € 4.75/TB/month.
The company’s tone is not only in low prices but also in jurisdiction. Being a startup based in Europe, its stored data is beyond the direct jurisdiction of countries that are not from the EU, which makes it attractive to organizations that require data sovereignty.
Storadera’s architecture is based on HDD instead of SSD for primary writings. “If we can offer a quick enough service in a less expensive 10x hardware, then it sounds like magic,” said Tommi Kannisto, founder of Storadera.
Hyperconvergente configuration
Although SSDs are used for metadata, representing only 0.05 percent of the total disk space, all the main writings are made to traditional discs. “QLC more than 100 TB TB TB are still too expensive, and they will probably be for the next ten years,” Kannisto said.
The company uses a hyperconvergente configuration, with all servers writing in JBOD, racks containing 102 conventional western digital hard drives, using erased coding schemes such as 4+2 and 6+2, with 8+2 soon. Each server has 32 GB of RAM and executes services written in 100,000 lines of go.
“All software is executed on all servers and all servers write in all JBODS. There is no loading unit,” Kannisto said.
The system adapts to the load, using “small blocks in low loading with larger blocks used in high load times”, and can achieve “about 300mbps with 2 MB files.” It is also preparing to implement magnetic recording units (SMR) with greater capacity to reduce capital expenditure by up to 25 percent. Storadera also offers geo cube replication, object blocking for immutability and integrity controls every 60 days.
The company says that it is working well financially, with around 100 clients, including Telia and the Estonian Government. It has positioned itself as one of the best cloud backup options and cloud storage available.
Despite winning a little less than € 1 million a year, the company says it is sustainable and looks at greater growth. “We are profitable … we get a very good gain [and] We are growing 5 percent/month in income, ”said Kannisto.
Storadera plans to expand to Germany in mid-2025, and aims to enter the United Kingdom, and possibly North America or the Asia-Pacific region, later in the year
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