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VAULT is built for data that grows and stays. Enterprise drives with conventional magnetic recording, from VAULT-176 additionally NVMe for metadata and operating system, plus sufficient cores for checksums, compression and encryption. We deliberately do not use SMR drives — they collapse during random write accesses and recoveries. 3 configurations cover the range from €165.54$192.03 to €879.00$1,019.64 a month.

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Scope

No substitute for latency-critical databases. That is what the NVMe configurations of FORGE are intended for.

Configurations
3
AMD
From
€165.54$192.03
net / month · up to €879.00$1,019.64
Cores
8 – 32
up to 64 threads
Memory
32 GB – 256 GB
expandable up to 256 GB
Uplink
1 Gbit/s
Unlimited traffic
Locations
4
Prices per location below

Four terms before the models

They appear on every model card of the VAULT series — explained here in a brief sentence each, so the cards below can be read without questions. ENTRONYX CLOUD uses these four terms with the same meaning across all Bare Metal series.

Rack unit (U)
The height measurement of a server rack, 44.45 mm per unit. It determines how much cooling surface and how many drives fit into a chassis.
ECC memory
Memory that detects bit errors itself and corrects single ones, instead of passing the error on to the application.
Uplink
The server's connection to the network. In this series 1 Gbit/s — this is the upper limit, not an average.
Traffic
The monthly volume of transferred data. Here unlimited per model — outbound traffic is neither counted nor billed extra.

ECC in the VAULT series: VAULT-308 registered; VAULT-56 and VAULT-176 unbuffered.

A 4U storage server on a seamlessly dark background, from diagonally above from the front left corner, with the cover pushed back: in the open top section, the hard drives stand upright in sleds in a dense grid, one sled is lifted out and shows the bare, unlabelled top of its drive. At the front a high, perforated bezel with two green status lights, on the side an extended telescopic rail.

3 configurations of the VAULT series

The stated prices apply to the reference location Frankfurt. The location list on each card shows the monthly price for the respective data centre. It already includes the regional factor — the fixed surcharge or discount of a location compared to Frankfurt. The factor is fixed: ENTRONYX CLOUD has neither daily prices nor utilisation surcharges.

Always included

Traffic
unlimited
Addresses
1 × IPv4 + /64 IPv6
Remote access
IPMI and KVM access
Basic features in detail
Model overview of the VAULT series: processor, cores, memory, drives, uplink and base price per configuration, net and plus 19% VAT. The model name leads to the detailed card with metrics, stock and location prices.
ModelProcessorCores/ threadsMemoryDrivesUplinkFrom/ month net
VAULT · 3 modelsOrder as the cards below
VAULT-56AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 37008 / 1632 GBDDR4-2933ECC unbuffered4 × 14 TB HDD (SAS) + 2 × 480 GB SSD (system)1 Gbit/s€165.54$192.03
VAULT-176Price-performanceAMD Ryzen 9 390012 / 24128 GBDDR4ECC unbuffered8 × 22 TB HDD (SATA) + 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe (Cache/OS, Datacenter Edition)1 Gbit/s€449.00$520.84
VAULT-308AMD EPYC 7502P32 / 64256 GBDDR4ECC registered14 × 22 TB HDD (SATA) + 2 × 7.68 TB NVMe (Cache/OS, Datacenter Edition)1 Gbit/s€879.00$1,019.64

VAULT-56

56 TB on eight Zen 2 cores with ECC — the entry point to storage density.

8 cores / 16 threads32 GB55.6 TB1 Gbit/s
Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700Zen 2 · 7 nm · base 3.6 GHz · boost 4.4 GHz
Cores
8 cores / 16 threads
Memory
32 GB DDR4-2933 · ECC unbuffered
Drives
4 × 14 TB HDD (SAS) + 2 × 480 GB SSD (system)56.96 TB raw · of which 56 TB HDD and 0 GB NVMe
Uplink
1 Gbit/sRedundant switches, LACP possible
Traffic
unlimitedOutgoing traffic is not counted and not charged
IP addresses
1 × IPv4 + /64 IPv6Additional subnets in the configurator
  • Backup target
  • Ceph/MinIO
  • Media archive

Base price Frankfurt

€165.54$192.03/ month net

€196.99$228.52 incl. 19% VAT. · setup €165.54$192.03 one-off, waived from a 12-month term · cancel monthly

Single-core index92of 152

Baseline: index 100 = EPYC 9354

Multi-core index567of 27,498

16 threads under full load

StockIn stock72%

Provisioning typically 90 minutes for in-stock items.

Expansion in the same chassis

Memory
up to 128 GB
ex works 32 GB
Drive bays
10 bays
6 occupied · 4 free
Configure

Available locations 4

  • fra1Frankfurt am Main€165.54$192.03
  • fra2Frankfurt am Main€165.54$192.03
  • ber1Berlin€165.54$192.03
  • hel1Helsinki€155.61$180.51

VAULT-176

176 TB with NVMe cache, 128 GB ECC and 10 Gbit option — the backup target for entire fleets.

Price-performance
12 cores / 24 threads128 GB175.6 TB1 Gbit/s
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3900Zen 2 · 7 nm · base 3.1 GHz · boost 4.3 GHz
Cores
12 cores / 24 threads
Memory
128 GB DDR4 · ECC unbuffered
Drives
8 × 22 TB HDD (SATA) + 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe (Cache/OS, Datacenter Edition)179.84 TB raw · of which 176 TB HDD and 3.84 TB NVMe
Uplink
1 Gbit/sRedundant switches, LACP possible
Traffic
unlimitedOutgoing traffic is not counted and not charged
IP addresses
1 × IPv4 + /64 IPv6Additional subnets in the configurator
  • Backup target
  • Ceph/MinIO
  • Media archive

Base price Frankfurt

€449.00$520.84/ month net

€534.31$619.80 incl. 19% VAT. · setup €224.00$259.84 one-off, waived from a 12-month term · cancel monthly

Single-core index90of 152

Baseline: index 100 = EPYC 9354

Multi-core index832of 27,498

24 threads under full load

StockIn stock66%

Provisioning typically 90 minutes for in-stock items.

Expansion in the same chassis

Memory
up to 128 GB
ex works 128 GB
Drive bays
10 bays
10 occupied · 0 free
Configure

Available locations 4

  • fra1Frankfurt am Main€449.00$520.84
  • fra2Frankfurt am Main€449.00$520.84
  • ber1Berlin€449.00$520.84
  • hel1Helsinki€422.06$489.59

VAULT-308

308 TB in one chassis. Cold data can be cheap.

32 cores / 64 threads256 GB315.8 TB1 Gbit/s
Processor
AMD EPYC 7502PZen 2 Rome · 7 nm · base 2.5 GHz · boost 3.35 GHz
Cores
32 cores / 64 threads
Memory
256 GB DDR4 · ECC registered
Drives
14 × 22 TB HDD (SATA) + 2 × 7.68 TB NVMe (Cache/OS, Datacenter Edition)323.36 TB raw · of which 308 TB HDD and 15.36 TB NVMe
Uplink
1 Gbit/sRedundant switches, LACP possible
Traffic
unlimitedOutgoing traffic is not counted and not charged
IP addresses
1 × IPv4 + /64 IPv6Additional subnets in the configurator
  • Cold storage
  • Video archive
  • Compliance retention

Base price Frankfurt

€879.00$1,019.64/ month net

€1,046.01$1,213.37 incl. 19% VAT. · setup €439.00$509.24 one-off, waived from a 12-month term · cancel monthly

Single-core index70of 152

Baseline: index 100 = EPYC 9354

Multi-core index1,725of 27,498

64 threads under full load

StockLimited stock41%

Provisioning up to 24 hours when built to order, depending on location.

Expansion in the same chassis

Memory
up to 256 GB
ex works 256 GB
Drive bays
16 bays
16 occupied · 0 free
Configure

Available locations 4

  • fra1Frankfurt am Main€879.00$1,019.64
  • fra2Frankfurt am Main€879.00$1,019.64
  • ber1Berlin€879.00$1,019.64
  • hel1Helsinki€826.26$958.46
Opened 2U server chassis from diagonally above on the workbench: heatsink with copper base over the socket, populated and locked memory banks, fan wall, power supplies with IEC connector at the back, drive bays at the front.
What's inside a node of the VAULT series: 8 to 32 physical cores, up to 64 threads and 32 GB to 256 GB memory. A thread is not a core — two of them share one.

Single-core and multi-core indices are a calculated classification across all 17 Bare Metal models, not a measurement: the single-core index is based on the boost clock according to the manufacturer's specifications and a factor per processor architecture, the multi-core index additionally on the number of threads. The scale of the bars is therefore comparable across series. The index 100 corresponds to one core of the EPYC 9354.

Next to each bar is the index value as a number — the bar only shows the ratio. A bar twice as long means twice as much computing power according to this classification, not twice as fast response times in your application.

Server motherboard from above, memory banks in two banks left and right of the socket, several slots still free.

What VAULT is built for

6 load profiles for which this series is the right platform — each with the reason why.

No substitute for latency-critical databases. That is what the NVMe configurations of FORGE are intended for.

Backup target
Restic, Borg or Veeam repository. Metadata and deduplication index are located on the flash drives, the data blocks on the hard drives.
Ceph/MinIO
OSD or erasure coding nodes. Redundancy is created across multiple nodes; the local RAID array of the drives deliberately remains flat.
Media archive
Raw material and broadcast masters that are rarely read and must never be deleted. Sequential read rates count more than IOPS.
Cold storage
Data with access intervals of weeks to months. Capacity per euro beats any latency optimisation here.
Video archive
Long-term storage for camera and streaming recordings with a continuous sequential write profile and predictable capacity growth.
Compliance retention
Audit-proof storage with WORM lock — written once, then read-only. Retention periods run for years — the hardware must last just as long.

Drive types, recovery and the limits of RAID

Storage density is easy to sell and hard to operate. The decisive factor is not the number on the data sheet, but what happens when a drive fails — and how long the system runs unprotected during this time.

CMR instead of SMR — without exception

All VAULT systems contain enterprise drives with conventional magnetic recording (CMR). Drives with shingled magnetic recording (SMR) are cheaper per terabyte, but collapse during random write accesses and prolong recoveries many times over. For a backup target, this is exactly the worst possible compromise.

From VAULT-176, NVMe drives in the same chassis hold the operating system, metadata and the deduplication index. This keeps the catalogue search fast, while the user data resides on the spinning drives.

Capacity and recovery time. Assumes a continuous sequential read rate of 190 MB/s per drive.
ModelDrivesHDD rawNVMe cacheLargest driveRecovery
VAULTCalculated duration for an unloaded cluster. Under productive load, the recovery takes longer; we only provide a quantified range with a proven number of cases and load profile
VAULT-564 × HDD + 0 × NVMe56 TB0 GB14 TB22 h
VAULT-1768 × HDD + 2 × NVMe176 TB3.84 TB22 TB35 h
VAULT-30814 × HDD + 2 × NVMe308 TB15.36 TB22 TB35 h
The calculation is deliberately optimistic: it assumes an empty system without parallel user access.

Which RAID we recommend

With four drives, RAID 10 — Mirrored stripes is the right choice: From 4 drives. Best combination of IOPS and reliability. The recovery only reads from the mirror partner instead of the entire cluster and hardly loads the other drives.

With eight or more drives, we advise against RAID 5 — Parity. Over one to one and a half days of recovery, a single parity offers too little protection. Instead, place the redundancy one level higher — Ceph or MinIO distribute it across multiple nodes, and a node failure then remains an event without data loss.

For pure operating system drives, RAID 1 — Mirroring remains the simplest and most robust variant. All RAID levels can be configured at no extra charge.

What we monitor

SMART values, reallocation counts and read error rates feed into our monitoring. We replace a drive with an increasing error rate before it fails — the replacement is part of the plan and is not charged separately.

In addition, we recommend a monthly scrub run across the entire cluster. It finds silent read errors as long as the redundancy can still repair them.

What VAULT costs at each location

The region factor reflects the electricity price, capacity and connectivity of the respective location. It applies to the base price, not to add-ons. Term discounts are optional, but not required — without a commitment, you can cancel monthly.

Monthly prices for the VAULT series per location, net and plus 19% VAT. The cheapest model of the series delivered at this location is shown. The reference is Frankfurt with a factor of 1.00.
LocationLatencymsRegion factorFrom/ month12 months24 months
VAULT · 4 locationsascending by region factor
Helsinkihel1Location Uusimaa · VAULT-56
210.94−6%€155.61$180.51€143.16$166.07€133.82$155.23
Frankfurt am Mainfra1Location Rhein-Main I · VAULT-56
31Reference€165.54$192.03€152.30$176.67€142.36$165.14
Frankfurt am Mainfra2Location Rhein-Main II · VAULT-56
31Reference€165.54$192.03€152.30$176.67€142.36$165.14
Berlinber1Location Spree · VAULT-56
61Reference€165.54$192.03€152.30$176.67€142.36$165.14
Term prices result from a 8% discount for a twelve-month and 14% for a twenty-four-month commitment; billing remains monthly. The highlighted row is the reference location against which all other factors are calculated.
Two people at an installed server in the rack, one holds the handover protocol, the other checks the connections at the back.
VAULT is available at 4 locations. Each node goes into operations with 1 Gbit/s uplink and unlimited traffic — both are fixed in the configurator before you confirm.

Other bare metal series

Order VAULT

All 3 configurations of this series are available in the configurator — with choice of location, operating system, RAID level (how the drives are combined) and network connection. The full price is fixed before you confirm.

Configure VAULTView model matrix

All prices net plus 19% VAT. No minimum term. With a monthly term, the one-off setup fee for the model applies; with 12 or 24 months, it is waived. You can select term discounts of 8% for 12 months and 14% for 24 months in the configurator.

  1. 01

    Configure

    Location, operating system, RAID level, network connection and add-ons in six steps.

  2. 02

    Review

    Price breakdown with net, VAT and first invoice before you confirm anything.

  3. 03

    Delivery

    Credentials and IPMI access via ticket: typically 90 minutes for in-stock items, up to 24 hours when built to order.