High availability block storage when you need it

Block Storage

Easily add highly-available and scalable storage capacity to your Linode.

Linode Block Storage

Increase your Linode’s storage capacity by attaching additional high-speed volume sizes up to 10TB. Volumes are managed independently of Linodes, so your data persists even if you delete your Linode.

Add Additional Storage to Any Compute Instance

Quickly increase the total storage available on a Compute Instance by adding Block Storage Volumes.

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Ultra-Fast Performance with NVMe

High-speed NVMe technology delivers leading price-performance with a 10-20x increase in throughput and up to 2000x improvement in IOPS (compared to traditional spinning disks).

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Scalable

Resize a Block Storage Volume at any time, giving you the flexibility to update your storage capacity with a few easy steps whenever your needs change.

Independent and Hot Swappable

Volumes are managed independently from a Compute Instance’s local storage and can be attached or detached to any Instance without needing to reboot, allowing you to move Volumes between systems within seconds.

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Resilient and Fault Tolerant

Volumes are configured with built-in data replication, ensuring that your data is highly-available and protected from loss.

Store Any Type of Data

Block Storage can be used to store any data, including website files, databases, media files, backups, or even bootable operating systems.

Specifications

Technical Specifications

Volume size: 10 GB - 10 TB
Storage technology: high performance NVMe SSDs*
IOPS: up to 8,000 (12,000 burst)
Throughput: up to 350 MB/s (525 MB/s burst)
Provides additional storage capacity to Linode Compute Instances and LKE clusters
Highly available and fault tolerant
Data is replicated through erasure coding
Volumes can be formatted, mounted, and accessed like locally connected storage devices
Up to 8 Volumes can be attached to a single Compute Instance
Provision via Cloud Manager or Linode CLI
Programmatic management via Linode API
Regional availability

Complementary Paid Services

Add flexible, high performant storage to Compute Instances
Automatically add storage capacity to applications running on LKE
Supplement with scalable storage through Object Storage
Incident response with Managed Services

Recommended Workloads

Suitable for workloads that require large amounts of storage
Storage solution for website files and media
Dedicated video, image, and other media server solutions, including Plex
Cloud-base file servers, including applications like NextCloud and ownCloud
Database storage, including for high traffic and demanding applications
Backup location for other applications
Boot device for running custom distributions

Introduction to NVMe Block Storage

Cloud Block Storage Benchmark Report

Independent benchmarking firm, Cloud Spectator, found that Linode’s NVMe Block Storage outperforms AWS, Azure, GCP, and DigitalOcean in both overall IOPS performance and IOPS per dollar.

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Dedicated VMs (4 CPUs) & 500GB Block Storage - 4K Storage AVG Write IOPS

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Full-featured API

Programmatically control and manage your Linode infrastructure.

STEP 1: Create and attach a Volume

Leverage the Linode API to dynamically create Volumes and attach them to Linode instances. You can use cURL to access the API from your command line, or take advantage of our API's Python bindings.

If you use Terraform to provision your infrastructure, you can use the `linode_volume` resource to entirely manage your Volumes from within your Terraform plan. Manage Block Storage Volumes with the Linode API Linode API Reference Using the Linode CLI linode_api4-python on GitHub A Beginner's Guide to Terraform

curl -H "Content-Type: application/jsonType" 
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" 
  -X POST -d '{ 
    "label": "my-volume", 
    "size": 100, 
    "region": "us-east", 
    "linode_id": 1234567 
  }' 
  https://api.linode.com/v4/volumes

linode-cli volumes create 
  --label "my-volume" 
  --size "100" 
  --region "us-east" 
  --linode_id "1234567"

from linode_api4 import LinodeClient
client = LinodeClient(token)
client.volume_create('my-volume',
  linode=1234567,
  size=100)

resource "linode_volume" "my-volume" {
  label = "my-volume"
  size = "100"
  region = "${linode_instance.my-linode.region}"
  linode_id = "${linode_instance.my-linode.id}"
}

STEP 2: Mount an attached Volume

After you attach a Volume to a Linode instance, format it and mount it from inside the instance. This makes the Volume's filesystem available to you.

You can issue a few commands from your SSH connection to mount your Volume. If you use a configuration management tool like Salt, Ansible, or Puppet for your instances, you can also manage this mount from your formulas, playbooks, and modules. How to Use Block Storage A Beginner's Guide to Salt Automatically Configure Servers with Ansible Getting Started with Puppet

mkfs.ext4 "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume"
mkdir "/mnt/my-volume"
echo "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume /mnt/my-volume ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail 0 2" \
  | tee -a /etc/fstab
mount /mnt/my-volume

bsvolume:
  blockdev.formatted:
    - name: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
    - fs_type: ext4

  mount.mounted:
    - name: /mnt/my-volume
    - device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
    - fstype: ext4
    - opts: defaults,noatime,nofail
    - pass_num: 2
    - mkmnt: True
    - require:
      - blockdev: bsvolume

- name: format the volume
  filesystem:
    fstype: ext4
    dev: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume

- name: mount the volume
  mount:
    path: /mnt/my-volume
    src: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume
    fstype: ext4
    opts: defaults,noatime,nofail
    passno: 2
    state: mounted

include lvm

filesystem { "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume":
  ensure  => present,
  fs_type => "ext4",
}

file { "/mnt/my-volume":
  ensure  => "directory",
}

mount { "/mnt/my-volume":
  ensure  => mounted,
  device  => "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume",
  fstype  => "ext4",
  options => "defaults,noatime,nofail",
  pass    => 2,
  require => [
    Filesystem["/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0Linode_Volume_my-volume"],
    File["/mnt/my-volume"],
  ],
}

What is NVMe and Why Does it Matter?

NVMe in Action: When to Make the Move to NVMe Storage

NVME Block Storage

NVMe Block Storage is now available in many of our global data centers across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia Pac. Sign up to find out when NVMe Block Storage is available in your data center.

With Linode NVMe Block Storage, you will see:

Improved performance over traditional spinning hard disk drives.
Increased throughput and IOPS metrics.S
Support database storage and critical tasks reliant on high speeds and consistency.

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High availability block storage when you need it

Linode Block Storage

Add Additional Storage to Any Compute Instance

Ultra-Fast Performance with NVMe

Scalable

Independent and Hot Swappable

Resilient and Fault Tolerant

Store Any Type of Data

Specifications

Cloud Block Storage Benchmark Report

Carefully crafted for peak performance at the best price.

Full-featured API

NVME Block Storage

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