Storage Dedicated Servers · Germany

Storage Dedicated Servers — up to 144 TB raw, two German sites

Five high-capacity bare-metal storage builds from $175/mo. Choose Falkenstein for truly unlimited bandwidth on a monthly bill, or Frankfurt for a 30 TB allowance with WHMCS-style pro-rata first-month billing. Both sites: instant setup, enterprise SATA HDD, hardware RAID, IPMI-KVM, GDPR / BSI C5 data residency.

Up to 144 TB raw From $2.32 / TB / mo Two German sites Instant setup
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Storage Dedicated Server with high-capacity enterprise HDD bays hosted in a Tier-3 German data centre
144 TB raw Densest single chassis — 12 × 12 TB HDD
$2.32 /TB/mo Best price per raw TB; entry plan $175/mo
Unlimited or 30 TB Two bandwidth tiers · 1 Gbps dedicated port
Germany · GDPR Falkenstein + Frankfurt · BSI C5 aligned

Storage Server Plans

Two product lines, two billing models, two German cities. Unlimited Bandwidth servers sit in Falkenstein and bill on a flat monthly cycle; Limited Bandwidth servers sit in Frankfurt with a 30 TB monthly allowance and WHMCS-style pro-rata first-month billing. Both lines run on enterprise SATA HDD with hardware RAID and IPMI-KVM standard, and both deliver instant setup.

Standard monthly billing · Truly unmetered traffic. Unlimited Bandwidth plans bill on a flat monthly cycle (no pro-rata) and carry no traffic cap, surcharge, or throttle on the dedicated 1 Gbps port under normal use. Hosted in Falkenstein, Germany.
Processor RAM Storage Frequency Bandwidth Network CPU Benchmark Price (monthly)
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 64 GB DDR4 ECC 4 × 16 TB HDD Enterprise
≈ 64 TB raw		 4C / 8T @3.8 GHz Unlimited 1 Gbps
9220
$175/mo Configure
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 64 GB DDR4 ECC 4 × 22 TB HDD SATA + 2 × 1 TB SSD
≈ 90 TB raw		 8C / 16T @3.6 GHz Unlimited 1 Gbps
22716
$209/mo+ $279 setup Configure

Falkenstein Unlimited plans include: unmetered traffic on a dedicated 1 Gbps port · CMR (non-SMR) enterprise SATA HDD · IPMI-KVM out-of-band console · free hardware RAID configuration · free OS reinstall · GDPR / BSI C5 data residency. ECC RAM across both SKUs.

Pro-rata billing · 30 TB monthly allowance. Frankfurt plans bill the first month on a WHMCS-style pro-rata basis: days remaining in the current month plus the next full month paid in advance, so every subsequent invoice aligns to the 1st at the standard monthly rate.
Processor RAM Storage Frequency Bandwidth Network CPU Benchmark Price (pro-rated)
2× Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2 64 GB DDR4 12 × 2 TB HDD SATA
≈ 24 TB raw		 16C / 32T @2.0 GHz 30 TB 1 Gbps
13666
$220/mo Configure
2× Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 128 GB DDR4 10 × 12 TB HDD SATA
≈ 120 TB raw		 12C / 24T @2.4 GHz 30 TB 1 Gbps
13294
$439/mo Configure
2× Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 128 GB DDR4 12 × 12 TB HDD SATA
≈ 144 TB raw		 16C / 32T @2.1 GHz 30 TB 1 Gbps
15870
$542/mo Configure

Frankfurt Limited plans include: 30 TB / month on a dedicated 1 Gbps port · DE-CIX-adjacent peering · 12-bay / 10-bay high-density storage chassis · hardware RAID 0/1/5/6/10 · IPMI-KVM out-of-band console · free OS reinstall · GDPR / BSI C5 data residency.

Pro-rata worked example: Order the $220/mo entry Frankfurt plan on the 20th of a 30-day month and the first invoice covers the 10 days remaining in this month plus the next full month (30 days) — billed as $220 × (10 + 30) / 30 ≈ $293.33. From the 1st of the following month onwards you pay the standard $220 monthly rate. Cancel any time from your client area.

Detailed server specs
Storage dedicated server chassis with multiple high-capacity HDD bays inside a German data centre

What's inside every storage build

KWIK PANEL ships standard:
Storage-specific baselines on every chassis:
Site & compliance:

Storage-dense bare metal vs general-purpose servers

Most dedicated servers ship with a couple of drive bays optimised for compute and OS. Storage servers flip that — purpose-built chassis with 4, 10 or 12 drive bays, enterprise CMR HDDs, and the RAID controllers to make them durable. Here is why teams pick a storage chassis rather than stacking SSDs into a compute box.

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Cost per terabyte, not cost per core

Capacity workloads — backup, archive, object stores, surveillance — are bottlenecked by $/TB, not by clock speed. A 144 TB chassis at roughly $3.76/TB/mo costs a fraction of what the equivalent SSD-only build would charge, and the densest Falkenstein build lands near $2.32/TB/mo for sequential workloads that do not need SSD latency.

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CMR enterprise drives, not desktop SMR

Every drive in these chassis is Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) enterprise-grade SATA — rated for 24×7 duty cycles and sustained sequential writes. SMR drives, common in consumer "shucked" builds, choke on the sustained-write workloads that backup and ingest pipelines generate. The drive choice matters more than the chassis brand.

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Two bandwidth models, one ordering page

Unlimited Bandwidth (Falkenstein) suits backup repositories pulling in 50+ TB/month of fresh data and object stores serving content out at line rate. Limited Bandwidth (Frankfurt, 30 TB) suits archive, cold-tier and replication-target workloads where data moves rarely — and saves money in the process. Pick the right model for the access pattern.

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German jurisdiction, EU data residency

Both sites sit under EU GDPR plus Germany's BDSG, with the BSI C5 federal cloud-security framework as the operational baseline. For EU customers running personal data, regulated archives, or anything that touches health, finance or public sector — German data residency is one of the cleanest residency stories available in Europe.

What ships with every storage plan

The defaults built into every chassis, the day-2 operations tooling that comes with the panel, and the optional services you can layer on as the workload demands.

The defaults

Storage-grade hardware, durable RAID and German data residency — included on every plan.

CMR enterprise HDD

Every drive on every plan is enterprise-grade SATA Conventional Magnetic Recording — rated for 24×7 duty, sustained sequential writes and 5-year MTBF figures appropriate for archive and backup work. No SMR shortcuts.

Hardware RAID 0/1/5/6/10

Pick a parity, mirror, stripe or hybrid layout at order time and we wire the controller before the OS goes on. Battery-backed write cache is available on supported controllers. RAID-Z2 / RAID-Z3 software pools on ZFS are equally well-supported if you prefer software RAID.

GDPR & BSI C5

Both sites under EU GDPR plus Germany's BDSG, with BSI C5 operational baselines applied in the underlying facility. Auftragsverarbeitung (Data Processing Addendum) signed on request — useful for any EU customer whose downstream agreements require it.

Running it day-to-day

Drive health, OS choice and deployment cadence — the operational realities of running a multi-drive chassis.

SMART monitoring + replacement

Live SMART data and per-drive health visible in the client area. When a drive fails — and at this density, eventually one will — we hot-swap it free of charge, typically same business day. No downtime on a parity set, no surprise invoice.

Storage-friendly OS images

One-click installs for Debian, Ubuntu LTS, AlmaLinux, Rocky, CentOS Stream, FreeBSD (ZFS-friendly), TrueNAS Core / SCALE, Proxmox VE, OpenMediaVault and Windows Server. Custom ISOs mountable to IPMI-KVM at no charge.

Instant setup

Both Falkenstein and Frankfurt plans deliver in 1–4 hours of payment confirmation under normal conditions, with credentials and IPMI-KVM access emailed to the account on file. The 12-bay 144 TB build occasionally has a 24-hour wait when stock is tight.

What you can layer on top

Optional services priced à la carte. Skip them on day one, add them as the workload demands.

Disk encryption at rest

LUKS / dm-crypt on Linux, BitLocker on Windows, native encryption on ZFS / TrueNAS — your call. We do not key-escrow, and we do not hold a copy of your passphrase. For regulated workloads, full-disk encryption is the cleanest way to satisfy data-at-rest controls.

Managed engineering hours

Need a senior engineer to provision a ZFS pool, harden a MinIO deployment, plan a 100 TB migration, or stand up a Ceph cluster across multiple chassis? Buy time in 30-minute blocks — no retainer, no monthly commit, no upselling.

Private VLAN between chassis

Running a multi-node object store or Ceph cluster? Ask before ordering and we will rack two or more chassis on the same internal VLAN at no extra charge — private replication traffic does not count against the 30 TB Frankfurt allowance or the public port at all.

Workloads that belong on a storage box

If your bottleneck is capacity rather than clock speed, here is where these German storage chassis genuinely beat both general-purpose dedicated servers and hyperscale object storage on cost.

Offsite backup repositories

Veeam Backup Repository, restic, Borg, Proxmox Backup Server, Bacula, rsnapshot. 120 TB and 144 TB Frankfurt builds are sized for long-retention enterprise backup; Falkenstein for unlimited-bandwidth tier-1 backup targets pulling 50+ TB/month.

Media & RAW video libraries

Post-production NLE proxy stores, raw-camera ingest pipelines, RAW photo libraries, broadcast archives. CMR 22 TB drives sustain sequential writes that SMR consumer drives cannot — important for ingest-heavy media workflows.

Self-hosted object storage

MinIO, Garage, SeaweedFS or Ceph clusters — single-node on the 144 TB SKU or multi-chassis across a private VLAN. S3-compatible alternative to Cloudflare R2 / Backblaze B2 / Wasabi for teams who want EU-resident data.

Surveillance / NVR backends

CCTV / IP-camera recording with 30+ concurrent streams, 24×7 record-and-retain workloads. Frigate, Shinobi, BlueIris, ZoneMinder backends sized at 1–2 TB per camera per month at typical bitrates.

Nextcloud / Seafile for teams

Self-hosted EU-resident file-sync replacement for Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive. 64–144 TB chassis fit hundreds of users with quotas, version history and granular sharing — without sending corporate data to a US hyperscaler.

Data lake & warm storage

Cold tier for data lakes, Iceberg / Delta Lake tables, time-series archives, log retention. The 30 TB Frankfurt envelope suits warm-tier workloads where data moves rarely once written; the unlimited Falkenstein port suits hot-warm bridges.

Storage server vs general dedicated vs hyperscale object

If you are not sure whether you actually need a storage chassis (rather than throwing big SSDs into a normal server or just using S3), here is the practical decision matrix.

Storage server General dedicated Hyperscale S3
Raw capacity per chassisUp to 144 TBTypically 4–16 TBEffectively unlimited
Cost per raw TB / monthFrom ~$2.32Often $15–40Pay-as-you-go (egress kills)
Egress feesNone (or 30 TB free)None (or capped)Substantial — often the largest line item
Bay count4 / 10 / 122N/A
Drive typeCMR enterprise HDDSSD or HDD mixAbstracted
Hardware RAID0/1/5/6/10 standardSometimesHidden (object replication)
LatencySingle-digit ms LANSingle-digit ms LANRegion-dependent
Data residency controlFull (Germany)FullRegion tag only
Free disk replacementYesYesN/A
GDPR / BSI C5 fitCleanDepends on providerRequires DPA + region
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Designing a backup or object-storage stack?

Not sure whether to start with one 144 TB chassis or three 90 TB chassis on a private VLAN? Chat with an engineer who has actually deployed Ceph, MinIO and Veeam at scale — no sales script, no ticket queue.

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Email your target capacity, retention requirement and growth rate. We'll match it to in-stock SKUs across the two German sites, quote a custom RAID layout if needed, and get back to you within one business hour.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions we field most often about these German storage plans — billing model, drive types, supported workloads, compliance, and ops.

Two distinct product lines on two German sites. Unlimited Bandwidth servers sit in our Falkenstein, Germany facility — bill on a standard monthly cycle with no traffic cap on the 1 Gbps port. Limited Bandwidth servers sit in Frankfurt, Germany — bill on a WHMCS-style pro-rata first month, then standard monthly thereafter, and include a 30 TB monthly traffic allowance on the 1 Gbps port. Both lines are instant-setup, both run on enterprise SATA HDD with hardware RAID, both fall under GDPR data residency.

Limited Bandwidth plans use WHMCS-style pro-rata billing on the first cycle. The opening invoice covers the days remaining in the current calendar month plus one full month paid in advance, calculated as (monthly rate) × (remaining days + 30) ÷ 30. This aligns every future invoice to the 1st of the month at the standard monthly rate. Worked example: order the $220/mo entry plan on the 20th of a 30-day month and the first invoice is approximately $220 × (10 + 30) ÷ 30 ≈ $293.33. From the 1st of the following month onwards you pay the standard $220/mo. Falkenstein (Unlimited) plans bill on a standard monthly cycle without pro-rata.

Most plans have no setup fee. The one exception is the Falkenstein AMD Ryzen 7 3700X build, which carries a one-time $279 setup fee covering the dense 22 TB HDD + NVMe cache configuration. The setup fee is shown as a green label next to the monthly price on the plan table. There are no other recurring fees beyond the listed monthly rate.

Truly unmetered traffic on a dedicated 1 Gbps port. We do not throttle, count, surcharge, or shape traffic on Unlimited Bandwidth plans under normal use — the port runs at line rate for as much or as little as your workload moves. The only carve-out is the standard fair-use clause in the Terms of Service, which exists to deter abuse such as open relays and proxy services, and which we apply consistently rather than as a hidden cap.

Hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 are configurable at order time on every chassis. For the high-capacity Frankfurt builds (10 × 12 TB and 12 × 12 TB), RAID 6 or RAID 60 is the standard recommendation to survive multi-drive failure during long rebuild windows. ZFS RAID-Z2 / RAID-Z3 software pools are equally well-supported if you prefer ZFS — we leave the bare chassis available and you provision the pool from your OS. Battery-backed write cache is available on supported controllers.

Yes. The Frankfurt builds with 120 TB and 144 TB raw capacity are designed for exactly this — Veeam Backup Repository, restic, Borg / BorgBackup, Proxmox Backup Server, rsnapshot, Bacula, Duplicati. The Falkenstein 64 TB and 90 TB builds work well as tier-1 backup or DR replication targets. We do not run any agent on your box, do not see your data, and the disks are erased on cancellation under our retention policy.

Yes. The Frankfurt 144 TB and 120 TB SKUs are well-sized for single-node MinIO, SeaweedFS or Garage; multi-node Ceph clusters can be built by combining two or more chassis on the same internal VLAN (ask before ordering and we will rack them in the same rack for low-latency inter-node traffic). S3-compatible workloads — Cloudflare R2 replacement, photo / video object stores, time-series cold tier — all fit comfortably.

Effective monthly cost per raw TB on these storage plans ranges roughly from $2.32/TB on the densest Falkenstein build up to $9.17/TB on the smaller-capacity Frankfurt SKU. The cheapest TB on the menu is the Falkenstein AMD Ryzen 7 3700X — 88 TB of HDD plus 2 TB of SSD cache for $209/mo, which is roughly $2.32 per raw TB per month. For pure capacity-per-dollar workloads (archive, backup, cold object storage), Falkenstein wins; for bandwidth-bounded workloads inside a 30 TB envelope and DE-CIX-adjacent peering, Frankfurt wins.

Yes. The 22 TB HDD SATA enterprise drives in the Falkenstein AMD build are CMR (not SMR), making them suitable for sustained sequential write workloads — RAW video ingestion, CCTV / NVR backends recording 30+ camera streams, broadcast post-production archives, medical imaging stores. The Frankfurt 12 × 12 TB chassis is equally well-suited for media-asset management and NLE proxy stores.

Yes. Both Falkenstein and Frankfurt facilities sit in Germany, so all customer data falls under EU GDPR and Germany's Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). German data centres operate under the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) C5 framework, the federal cloud-computing security baseline. We will sign a Data Processing Addendum (Auftragsverarbeitung) on request — useful for any EU customer whose downstream agreements require it.

Free hardware replacement for the lifetime of the server. Open a ticket via the client area with the failing-drive's SMART output and serial number; we swap the drive on-site, usually within the same business day at both Falkenstein and Frankfurt. The chassis and controllers are hot-swap on every SKU on this page — there is no downtime for a single drive failure on a parity RAID set.

Both lines are instant-setup. In-stock SKUs are usually delivered within 1–4 hours of payment confirmation, with credentials and IPMI-KVM access emailed to the account on file. The 12-bay 144 TB build occasionally has a 24-hour wait when stock is low — we confirm a delivery window in writing before charging the card.

Provision your German storage chassis

5 plans · Up to 144 TB raw · From $2.32 per TB / mo · Falkenstein unlimited or Frankfurt 30 TB · Hardware RAID · IPMI-KVM · GDPR / BSI C5 · Instant setup

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