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Hey All! We’re excited to announce that we’ve launched our SSD-based Block Storage service. Now you’re able to attach up to 16TB of storage to your Droplets.
Learn more here: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/
+1 to this. I’d happily pay y'all extra money for additional storage. Also, I wouldn’t mind if that storage was on a non-SSD. The speed of the droplets performance is great, but for the things that I’d need to storage, I won’t need to access as quickly. So, if that’s an option, that’s fine too.
Currently this is the only factor holding us back from using another platform. We love DigitalOcean and have used it for about a year, but as we will be using your service for hosting databases for an app, we cant take the risk of running out of space. What do we do if our databases will increase past the tier we are in? We cant keep resizing, especially if we will also be implementing load balancing.
Digital Ocean, you guys rule! I have been using your services for personal and clients’ use alike for almost a year now and would be loath to have to switch over to another provider due to a particular requirement such as disk resizes + additional storage.
++1 to this, hope it gets implemented soon!
I am also waiting for this feature… At the moment Vultr has the best option for extra storage space with low hardware specs.
Please add this feature soon!! This is the only thing keeping me from consolidating all of my scattered VPS’s over to Digital Ocean. Please Please Please!
Thank you :)
What a shame DigitalOcean. After spending few years with AWS, my first experience with DigitalOcean is so impressive in ease of use and speed. I almost decided to move my apps from AWS to DO until I hit upon this message post. Very sad to see that DO is so unresponsive to user requests and users are disappointed and leaving DO. It is unthinkable for a startup to behave in this manner.
Are your investors not paying attention to customer feedback?
You just lost another potential client. I will stick with AWS for now. Good Bye…
It’s been a long time coming but we are now in the final private beta testing stages with customers for our new block storage service. This will allow customers to create persistent and highly available storage devices that they can attach to droplets which also have snapshot and resize capabilities.
This will allow customers that either need to expand storage to their existing droplets, or have larger storage needs then our current plans allow to scale their infrastructure with us.
We have another month of testing to ensure that the product meetings production quality and then we will be able to move to GA and launching it in several datacenters.
Very excited to get this out door in the summer as well as many other exciting developments to come this year.
Thanks everyone!
I got this error:
Error creating Volume: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes: 403 (request “b8173bc0-5b03-4fa7-88bc-4c7bd1b09812”) volume limit exceeded
I couldn’t find any limit mentioned for total volume count anywhere, but apparently there is a limit of 25, and I couldn’t see any form to increase this volume limit like droplet limit.
I’m writing here for making this information public. Is there any way to increase this limit? we’ll need at least 200 volumes in fra-1 region.
I’ve got the same error while creating volume from web page, but i have only 1 volume. Any pointers how to workaround this issue?
+1 for feature
Would love to see this feature.
I’d take a preconfigured droplet with a fixed, large amount of space if that makes it easy. Just another tier on your pricing plan.
+1
this is a must have option
not having this available within the next few months will definitely make me switch to AWS
Unfortunately you’ll have to add me to the list of customers that must leave DO because of this.
hello digitalocean,
any updates on storage increase side?
Recently i joined DO and iam quite impressed with the speed i can deploy a web application.
Currently iam in the testing mode.
What puts me off is the fixed SSD storage.
Is there any way we can increase the SSD storage without changing the server configuration.
Features like this make u call a cloud hosting service?
thanks
DigitalOcean would indeed be the best Cloud service if it would have an option for storage expansion.
It doesn’t need to be SSD. Just give us an option to expand just storage.
This is in fact coming soon, and is in active development. You can follow the updates here:
https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3127077-extra-diskspace
Hi tfrletas
In the link below you mentioned first quarter 2016.
Just to clarify, is that the target for the beta of full product access?
I am starting a new project and consider using DigitalOcean but the requirement of multiple disks per droplet will be a must have feature.
So will the feature be available for production use in the next 3 to 6 months, and may I get an estimate of pricing for the production feature please?
+1 I would love to see this feature
I need this feature
+1,
I love how easy is to instance servers but… Why couldnt I get more storage only? I mean… Do I really need to pay for extra power if I need only more storage?