A commenter suggested Pure Storage's OPEX offering (formerly Everpure) as a solution for a startup's storage needs, noting a minimum commit of 50 TiB and predictable costs.

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        "author": "Aggravating-Pick-160",
        "excerpt": "Uhh you're walking on dangerous paths... Forget about M.2 and longivity for these kind of workloads. A write intense workload will kill the drives. Plus 100(!?) VMs on the same storage and a ton of performance while being 24/7 ready ... at all small budget. You're also looking into this at the worst time when considering buying NVMe.\n\n There are several dangerous design decision on the table here",
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        "excerpt": "Go public cloud. Seriously.! You’re swapping CapEx for OpEx, which pretty much every startup CFO should appreciate. Sinking a tight budget into expensive hardware without a clear ROI is just insane.",
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        "author": "RetroGrid_io",
        "excerpt": "You want 60+ TB of enterprise-grade high-speed SSDs, for cheap??\n\n Sir, that is the holy grail. Fast, cheap, quality, real. Pick any three, but even the \"cheap\" stuff is expensive nowadays.\n\n My main thought is that maybe, load depending, you could have a large HDD pool to get your 60 TB and have a cache of SSD storage to keep performance manageable.\n\n Do not use consumer devices. They will not ho",
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        "excerpt": "I feel, that the description omits the most important factor: what kind of controller are you intending to use to manage your storage? Since no hardware controllers are mentioned, I'm assuming some kind of SDS, but what software are you planning on using to m as nage this? ZFS in Linux! Ndadn in Linux? Windows Storage Spaces? Something else entirely?",
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        "excerpt": "You cannot do your requirements on a budget and all on a single server with some NVMe devices.\n\n As another person said, use cloud.\n\n If you insist on doing this, I would suggest splitting the workloads up onto multiple physical servers, because the workload requirements are all a little different. You won't get any HA, but you'll at least have the benefit of not putting all of your eggs in one ba",
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        "excerpt": "Sorry, but why M.2s? U.2 or E3.S are a much better path",
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        "excerpt": "Stay clear of the M.2 path, they will not match performance nor availability. They fall flat on their face when used in an environment as described.\n\n And as others have mentioned, what you require, may not be possible at all.\n\n You can not have both cheap, fast and reliable, you can pick two.",
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      "[comment u/vPock] I know you're on a tight budget, but there could be a solution. Everpure (formely Pure Storage) has an OPEX offering that could make sense for your use case.",
      "[comment u/vPock] There's a minimum commit of 50 TiB, which seems in line with your requirements. It could also grow with your organisation, having a predictable cost per TiB for the next 5 years."
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    "post_text": "Hello,\n\nMy apologies for disturbing the high-end enterprise environment of this forum with some more modest enterprise challenges.\n\nPlease be reasonable and understand that not all startups can afford to spend €200k-€400k on storage alone. Therefore, we are looking for high-performance solutions that fit within our budget.\n\nI am working at a startup with a tight budget at the moment, but we have some challenging requirements for our storage server. We do not need a large amount of storage, but it needs to be fast and affordable, quite a contrast, I would say.\n\nBased on the solutions currently available on the market that might fit our needs, at least those that I am aware of, the solution could be based on either EDSFF E1.S or M.2 NVMe.\n\nRequirements:\n\nTarget capacity: 60TB+.\n\nThe workload is burst-oriented. The array will be hit very hard with many small files for short periods of time. The size of each burst will range from 100GB to 1TB. It will also act as a SAN for approximately 100 VMs, hosting shared home folders and NFS shares used to exchange data between VMs.\n\nThe SSDs must be installed on cards that fit into PCIe slots (for thermal and noise reasons).\n\nIt must be available 24/7.\n\nSome general specifications:\n\nMB: Supermicro H14SSL-N / ASRock Rack GENOAD8X-2T/BCM\n\nCPU: AMD EPYC 9175F\n\nRAM: 4x 32GB 5600\n\nNIC: Intel X710 2x SFP28 - 25 GbE\n\nThe M.2 path:\n\n3/6x PCIe...",
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